Tadhg Ó Laoghaire is an Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Leeds, where his dissertation developed an original theory of international trade justice, focused on dependence and the wrongs of interstate domination.

The unifying focus of his research is on how responsibilities for realising international justice should be distributed under challenging contemporary conditions. These conditions include deep economic interdependence, increasingly fractious interstate relations, and persistent poverty in the world’s least-developed countries (LDCs). These concerns have shaped his work on international trade justice, corporate responsibility, global governance, and, most recently, China’s role in the world. 

He has published on such issues in venues including Philosophy and Public Affairs, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Journal of Ethics, has won a number of prizes for his work, including the Res Publica Postgraduate Essay Prize and the Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Prize for contributions to the political theory of global justice. 

Tadhg is currently working on a book project which develops the first comprehensive philosophical account of China’s responsibilities for realising international justice.