Rate My Professor Paul Billingham

Billingham’s research centres on political theory, with a focus on public justification and public reason, the relationship between liberalism and religion, state legitimacy amid pluralism, religious freedom for individuals and groups, and the morality of online public shaming. His publications appear in leading journals, including ‘Can Civic Friendship Ground Public Reason?’ (with Anthony Taylor) in The Philosophical Quarterly (2024), ‘Religious Political Arguments, Accessibility, and Democratic Deliberation’ in Notre Dame Law Review (2023), ‘A Framework for Analyzing Public Reason Theories’ (with Anthony Taylor) in European Journal of Political Theory (2022), ‘Enforcing Social Norms: The Morality of Public Shaming’ (with Tom Parr) in European Journal of Philosophy (2020), and ‘The Scope of Religious Group Autonomy: Varieties of Judicial Examination of Church Employment Decisions’ in Legal Theory (2019). He has a book under contract with Routledge: Does Faith Belong in Politics?: A Debate (with Marilie Coetsee). Billingham received Arts and Humanities Research Council studentships for his MPhil and DPhil, University of Oxford funding grants, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Oxford University Student Union Outstanding Tutor award and the 2014 Res Publica postgraduate essay prize. He serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Harassment Officer in DPIR, teaches political theory courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervises DPhil students.