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Dr. Lachlan Umbers is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Philosophy within the School of Humanities at The University of Western Australia. He serves as Chair of Philosophical Studies, Fellow of the UWA Public Policy Institute, and Coordinator of both the Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and the Bachelor of Human Rights. Umbers holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University, awarded in 2018 for his thesis titled 'The Institutions of Democracy.' His principal research specializations are in democracy and climate justice, with additional interests in workplace justice, egalitarianism, the history of political thought, collective action, global justice, ethics, and meta-ethics. He is the co-creator and co-host, with Nin Kirkham, of the Human Rights in Global Perspective Podcast. Umbers teaches and co-teaches several undergraduate units, including HUMR1001: Human Rights in Global Perspective, PPHE1001: Equality, Liberty, and the Market, HUMR2001: Global and Environmental Justice, PPHE2211: The History of Political Ideas, PHIL3008: Rationality and Society, PPHE3001: Rational Choice Theory, and PPHE3327: Contemporary Political Theory. He is open to supervising honours, masters, and PhD students in moral or political philosophy in the analytic tradition.