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. An analysis of conversion therapy's expressive wrong, and what liberal states can do about it [under review]

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

7. A self-respect theory of shame

8. A political liberal concept of self-respect

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

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