David McGrogan

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David McGrogan is a legal scholar and writer. He is an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School. He has been teaching and researching international law since 2012. Previously, he was a Japanese-English legal translator.

His main research interest is the political philosophy and sociology of human rights law. Central to his research is the central problem of modernity, namely how the existence of the state is to be justified in the absence of divine right. ย 

David runs the International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought with an interdisciplinary group of scholars.

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    Paper Tigers

    13 September 2025

    For the West, China is a cultural and political entity made up entirely of our projections. How can we think about it besides the materiality in which it steeps us?

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