Michael Buckley

Michael Buckley (B.B.A., Baruch College, CUNY; B.A., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., Emory University) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Lehman’s Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies.  He also serves on the steering committee of  CUNY’s Human Rights Hub. His fields of interest are political philosophy, business ethics, and human rights.

E-mail: michael.buckley@lehman.cuny.edu
Office: Carman 371

Recent Publications

• “Constructivism in Times of Political Crisis” in Disaster Construction and Reconstruction: Lessons from Covid-19 for Ethics, Politics and Law, eds., Dónal O’Mathúna and Veselin Mitrović, Institute of Social Sciences Belgrad, Goran Bašić Publishing, (2024).
• “Constructivim” The Encyclopedia of Sociology, eds. Maria Grasso and Marco Guigni, Edward Elgar Publishing, (2023)
• “Liberal Democracy and the Search for Political Stability,” in Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 3, St. Petersburg: St Petersburg University Press, ed. Anton A. Ivanenko, (2022). 
• “The Practice of Pharmaceutics and the Moral Responsibility to Expand Access to Investigational Drugs” (with Collin O’Neil), Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 45: 193-211, (2020). 
• Review: Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice (by Carol Gould), Philosophical Quarterly 66(264) (2016)
• "Political Constructivism", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015
• "The Priority of Legitimacy in Times of Political Transition”, Human Rights Review 14 (2013)
• “A Constructivist Approach to Business Ethics”, Journal of Business Ethics 117 (2013)
• “On the Essential Nature of Business”, Business Ethics Journal Review 1 (2013)
• “Justice in Context: Assessing Contextualism as an Approach to Justice”, Ethics and Global Politics 5 (2012)
• “A Just Peacemaking Process: The UN’s Integration of Transitional Justice with DD" (co-authored with Nick Tomb), in Transitional Justice: Between Criminal Justice, Atonement and Democracy, ed. Anja Mihr (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights – SIM, 2012)
• “John Stuart Mill and the Idea of a Stationary State Economy”, in Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality, eds. Heiko Spitzeck et. al. (Macmillan Palgrave, 2011)
• “Constructivism”, Encyclopedia of Global Justice, eds. Deen Chatterjee and Reece Newman (Springer, 2011)
• “The Structure of Justification in Political Constructivism”, Metaphilosophy 41 (2010)