David McGrogan is an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School. After obtaining his first degree in English Literature and History, David became a legal translator in English-Japanese whilst living in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, where he settled between 2003 and 2011. He began working in academia after being awarded his PhD in Law, by the University of Liverpool, in 2012. He is primarily interested in the role that law plays in shaping the relationship between the individual and the State, and in particular how it creates or undermines the conditions of freedom within that context. David’s most recent work has focused on understanding international human rights law as a discourse which produces its subject, the human individual, as ‘vulnerable’ and in need of the state’s protection and largesse. He is now developing a critique of human rights as a technocracy which seeks to reduce the human subject to a manipulable dataset. David also runs the International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought.
In 2021 David’s first monograph, Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion, was published by Manchester University Press. He has produced numerous articles for academic journals on human rights law and public international law, and in 2019 won the ICON Prize for Best Paper in the International Journal of Constitutional Law. David also writes for various magazines and periodicals, including Law & Liberty, The Freethinker, and The Critic.
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