Gah-Kai Leung

My name is pronounced ‘GAR-kay’. I work in the field of normative political theory. Specifically, I focus on the ethical and political challenges facing societies threatened by the prospect of catastrophic tsunami-generating earthquakes.

I'm interested in most areas of social, legal and political philosophy. Aside from my doctoral work, I have written on consent in medical ethics and I have an ongoing project on the morality of discrimination (especially in LGBT contexts). I have an emerging interest in bringing the resources of analytic philosophy to bear on issues in criminology, criminal justice and transitional justice.

At Warwick, I'm affiliated with the Centre for Ethics, Law & Public Affairs and the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group. I'm also a member of the Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction at UCL.

I run a podcast called /The Provocateur/, which features interviews with leading emerging scholars and thinkers.

In 2020/21, I will be teaching introductory courses in philosophy and politics as well as an upper-level course in the history of social and political thought.
Supervisors: Simon Caney, Keith Hyams, Rebecca Bell (Imperial College London), and Douglas Toomey (University of Oregon)