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 (titles redacted)

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 theory of why conversion therapy is wrongful [under review]

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

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

8. An argument that heterosexist schools are discriminatory

9. A justification for political liberalism based on antisubordination

10. A viewpoint-neutral defence of conversion therapy regulation

11. A conceptual analysis of conversion therapy, using Dworkin and Haslanger

12. A self-respect theory of shame