CHRISTOPHER HEATH WELLMAN

Education:

University of Arizona (Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1994)

University of North Carolina (B.A. in Philosophy and Economics, 1989)

Appointments:

Washington University in St. Louis, Professor of Philosophy, 2008-present

Washington University in St. Louis, Associate Professor, 2004-2008
Georgia State University, Director of the Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, 1998-2004
Guilford College, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1994-1998

Fields of Specialization:

Political and Legal Philosophy; Ethics; Applied Ethics

Books:

A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination (Cambridge

University Press, 2005).

Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? coauthored with John Simmons (Cambridge
University Press, 2005).

A Liberal Theory of International Justice coauthored with Andrew Altman (Oxford

University Press, 2009).

Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? coauthored with Phillip
Cole (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty (Oxford

University Press, 2014).

Rights Forfeiture and Punishment (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Rights and Resistance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Edited Books:

A Companion to Applied Ethics, edited with R.G. Frey (Blackwell, 2003).

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, edited with Andrew I. Cohen (Blackwell,

2005); second edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).
Sample Papers:

“A Defense of Secession and Political Self-Determination,” Philosophy & Public

Affairs 24: 142-71, 1995.

“On Conflicts Between Rights,” Law and Philosophy 14: 271-295, 1995.

“Liberalism, Political Legitimacy, and Samaritanism,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 25:
211-37, 1996.

“Divided We Stand; United We Fall? An Essay on Size, Citizenship, and Secession,”

The Good Society 6: 21-3, 1996.

“Associative Allegiances and Political Obligations,” Social Theory and Practice 23: 181-
204, 1997.

“Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Group Rights,” Law and Philosophy 18: 13-40,
1999.

“Gratitude as a Virtue,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80: 284-300, 1999.

“Gratitude and Political Obligation,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on

Philosophy and Law 99: 71-77, 1999.

“Relational Facts in Liberal Political Theory: Is There Magic in the Pronoun ‘My’?”
Ethics 110: 537-562, 2000.

“On Liberalism’s Ambivalence Regarding Nationalism,” Nationalism and Ethnic

Conflict, ed. Nenad Miscevic (Open Court, 2000), 115-131.

“Toward a Liberal Theory of Political Obligation,” Ethics 111:735-759, 2001.

“Friends, Compatriots, and Special Political Obligations,” Political Theory 29: 217-236,
2001.

“Justice,” Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Simon
(Blackwell, 2002), 60-84.

“Recent Work on Virtue Ethics,” (with Karen Stohr) American Philosophical Quarterly
39: 49-72, 2002.

“Nationalism and Secession,” A Companion to Applied Ethics, eds. R.G. Frey and C.H.
Wellman (Blackwell, 2003), 267-278.

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“Do Celebrated Athletes Have a Special Responsibility to be Good Role Models?” Sports
Ethics: An Anthology, ed. Jan Boxill (Blackwell, 2003), 333-36.

“Lincoln on Secession,” (with P. Lindsay) Social Theory and Practice 29: 113-135, 2003.

“The Paradox of Group Autonomy,” Social Philosophy & Policy 20: 265-285, 2003.

“The Truth in the Nationalist Principle,” American Philosophical Quarterly 40: 251-268,
2004.

“Political Obligation and the Particularity Requirement,” Legal Theory 10: 97-115, 2004.

“A Defense of International Criminal Law,” (with A. Altman) Ethics 115: 35-67, 2004.

“Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others,” Contemporary Debates in Applied

Ethics, eds. A.I. Cohen and C.H. Wellman (Blackwell, 2005), 313-25.

“Feinberg’s Two Concepts of Rights,” Legal Theory 11: 213-26, 2005.

“A Defense of Stiffer Penalties for Hate Crimes,” Hypatia 21: 62-80, 2006

“Responsibility: Personal, Collective, Corporate,” A Companion to Contemporary

Political Philosophy, 2nd ed., eds. R. Goodin, P. Petitt, and T. Pogge (Blackwell,
2007), 736-744.

“Humanitarian Intervention and Political Assassination,” (with A. Altman) Ethics

118: 228-257, 2008.

“Amnesties and International Law,” in War: Essays in Political Philosophy, ed. L.

May (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 249-265.

“The Deontological Defense of Democracy: An Argument from Group Rights,”

(with A. Altman) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 89: 279-293, 2008.

“Immigration and Freedom of Association,” Ethics 119: 109-141, 2008.

“Rights and State Punishment,” The Journal of Philosophy 106: 419-439, 2009.

“Immigration,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published May 10,

2010.

“The Morality of Secession,” in Secession as an International Phenomenon,” ed. D.

Doyle (University of Georgia Press, 2010), 19-36.

“Piercing Sovereignty: A Rationale for International Jurisdiction Over Crimes That

Do Not Cross International Borders,” in Philosophical Foundations of
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 Criminal Law, eds. R.A. Duff and S. Green (Oxford University Press, 2011),
461-480.

“Choice Theories of Secession,” (with D. Speetzen) in The Ashgate Research

Companion to Secession, S. Pavkovic and P. Radan, eds. (Ashgate
Publishing, 2011), 413-426.

“Reinterpreting Rawls’s The Law of Peoples,” Philosophy & Social Policy 29: 213-
232, 2012.

“Taking Human Rights Seriously,” Journal of Political Philosophy 20: 119-130,

2012.

“The Rights Forfeiture Theory of Punishment,” Ethics 122: 371-393, 2012.

“Rights Forfeiture and Mala Prohibita,” in The Constitution of Criminal Law, eds.
R.A. Duff et al (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 77-96.

“Does the Existing International Legal Human Rights Regime Have Political
Authority?” University of San Diego Law Review 50: 931-954, 2013.

“Immigration Restrictions in the Real World,” Philosophical Studies 169: 119-122,

2014.

“Procedural Rights,” Legal Theory 20: 286-306, 2014.

“Freedom of Movement and the Rights to Enter and Exit,” in Migration

in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, eds. S. Fine
and L. Ypi (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 80-101.

“Cosmopolitanism, Occupancy and Political Self-Determination, Journal of Applied

Philosophy 36: 375-381, 2019.

“Clarifying Forfeiture Theory in Response to Dempsey and Lang,” Criminal Law and
Philosophy 14: 215-222, 2020.

“Political Legitimacy and Territorial Rights,” in The Oxford Handbook of Global

Justice, ed. T. Brooks (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 411-428.

“Refugees and the Right to Control Immigration,” in Ethics in Practice: An

Anthology, 5th edition, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Wiley, 2020), pp. 640-647.

“An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation,” coauthored with Ezekiel J.
Emanuel, et. al., Science 369 (6509): 1309-1312, 2020.

“What are the Obligations of Pharmaceutical Companies in a Global Health

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 Emergency?” coauthored with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, et al, The Lancet, 398:
1015-1020, 2021.

“On the Ethics of Vaccine Nationalism,” coauthored with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, et al,
Ethics & International Affair, 35 (4): 543-562, 2021.

“Do Legitimate States Have a Right to Do Wrong?” Ethics & International Affairs,
35 (4): 515-525, 2021.

“Community, Democracy and Immigration,” in Political Philosophy, Here and Now:

Essays in Honor of David Miller, eds. Daniel Butt, Sarah Fine, and Zofia
Stemplowska (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 80-95.

“The Space Between Justice and Legitimacy,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 31 (1):
3-23, 2023.

“Tadros on Non-Responsible Threats,” Mind, 132: 959-964, 2023.

“The Rights Forfeiture Theory of Punishment,” co-authored with William Bell

forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment, ed. J.
Ryberg (Oxford University Press, 2024).

“Natural Duty Theories,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Political

Obligation, ed. George Klosko (Oxford University Press).

“Hate Crime Legislation as an Antidote to Hate Ideology,” forthcoming in Social

Philosophy and Policy.

“Intelligence and Immigration,” forthcoming in Journal of Controversial Ideas.

“The Right to Resist” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance (Oxford University

Press).

“When May We Stand Our Ground?” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance

(Oxford University Press).

“Thomson on Agent-Relative Prerogatives” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance

(Oxford University Press).

“The Right to Exclude” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance (Oxford University

Press).
“May We Recruit Prisoners?” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance (Oxford
University Press).

“Occupancy Rights and the Right of Return” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance
(Oxford University Press).
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“American Nullification and Secession” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance
(Oxford University Press).

“Toward a Permissive Theory of Revolution” forthcoming in Rights and Resistance

(Oxford University Press).