Rate My Professor Matthew Clayton

Clayton has authored several influential monographs, including Independence for Children (Oxford University Press, 2025), How to Think about Religious Schools: Principles and Policies with Andrew Mason, Adam Swift, and Ruth Wareham (Oxford University Press, 2024), and Justice and Legitimacy in Upbringing (Oxford University Press, 2006). He has co-edited key volumes such as Social Justice (Blackwell, 2004) and The Ideal of Equality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in prestigious journals including the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Res Publica, Journal of Moral Education, and Political Studies. Notable publications include 'The Political Morality of School Composition: The Case of Religious Selection' (with Andrew Mason, Adam Swift, and Ruth Wareham, 2021), 'The Poverty of Contractarian Moral Education' (with David Stevens, 2019), 'What is the Point of Religious Education?' (with David Stevens, 2018), 'Liberal Equality: Political not Erinaceous' (2016), and 'Should the Voting Age be Lowered to Sixteen? Normative and Empirical Considerations' (with Tak Wing Chan, 2006). Additionally, Clayton has contributed chapters to major handbooks, such as 'Education' in The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice (2018) and 'Children and Political Neutrality' in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children (2018), as well as pamphlets like How to Regulate Faith Schools (with Andrew Mason, Adam Swift, and Ruth Wareham, 2018). His scholarship addresses critical debates in political philosophy, liberal principles, and public policy on education.