Articles in peer-reviewed journals

1. Samuel Cole. (2025). When Does Balancing Justify Religious Exemptions? The Case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Res Publica. [Shortlisted for Res Publica's Postgraduate Essay Prize.]

PhD thesis

2. Political Liberalism and LGBTQ+ Citizens. PhD thesis, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Passed viva on 30 September 2025 with no corrections.
   Supervisor: Professor Clare Chambers.
   Advisor: Dr. Sarah Fine.
   Examiners: Professor Christie Hartley (Georgia State) and Dr. Paul Billingham (Oxford).

Working papers 

3. A theory of parental duties based on children's self-respect [revised and resubmitted]

4. A critique of parental anti-perfectionism [under review]

5. A political liberal theory of wrongful discrimination and antidiscrimination law

6. A self-respect theory of shame

7. A political liberal concept of self-respect

8. A critique of self-respect justifications for antidiscrimination law

9. An analysis of conversion therapy's expressive wrong, and what liberal states can do about it

10. An argument that the convergence model of public reason is not biased against redistribution 

Please get in touch if you would like a draft of any of my working papers: samuel [hyphen] cole [at] live [dot] co [dot] uk