Giorgia Brucato

Teaching Fellow

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Room: E1.25

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Wednesdays 13:30-14:30
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Profile

I joined PAIS in 2025 as Teaching Fellow in Political Theory. Prior to that, I was Visiting Faculty at Central European University, where I also completed my PhD.

Research:

My research lies at the intersection of war and peace, childhood, and justice from a philosophical, normative perspective. My work mainly concerns questions of justice for children who experienced war, children’s roles and responsibilities in the ethics of peace and war, and a fair distribution of the burdens of war, peace, and justice in society. These interests further inspired a critical side-exploration of justifications of punishment.

Teaching:

In AY 2025/26, I am teaching seminars in: PO2E2 Topics in Political Theory, PO301 Issues in Political Theory, PO2E3 Foundations of Political Theory.

Publications:

• (2025) ‘On punishing juvenile offenders: where does retributivism go wrong?’, with Perica Jovchevski, in Crime, Violence, Justice: Philosophical Perspectives edited by M. Blake Wilson; Trivent Publishing. Volume available at: https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/206-389-crime-violence-justice-philosophical-perspectives.html

• (2024) ‘A fairness-based defense of non-punitive responses to crime’, with Perica Jovchevski, Diametros – A Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue: THE ABOLITION OF PUNISHMENT: IS A NON-PUNITIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ETHICALLY JUSTIFIED?; available at: https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1889

• (2023) ‘Children After War: From Moral Development Claims to Welfare and Agency Rights’, Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies - Acta Juridica Hungarica, Thematic Issue: Challenges of children’s rights; available at: https://doi.org/10.1556/2052.2023.00437

• (2019) ‘Children of societies transitioning to peace: an instance for moral recognition’, Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 15 I. 3: Special Issue: Global Justice and Childhood; available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449626.2019.1695650