eric cavallero

Eric Cavallero is an assistant professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 2002. He has taught at Yale and the University of Arizona and has held a faculty fellowship at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University. He has also been a fellow in the Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard University Medical School.

Dr. Cavallero's research has focused on the structure and moral limits of political sovereignty, moral implications of the international property regime, the ethics of immigration policy, and population-level bioethics. Recent publications include "An Immigration Pressure Model of Global Distributive Justice" (Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 2006) and "Popular Sovereignty and the Law of Peoples" (Legal Theory, 2003). Dr. Cavallero has taught courses on ancient philosophy, Nietzsche, the history of moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of law, international ethics, and contemporary political theory.

Dr. Cavallero is associate editor of the journal, Metaphilosophy.

Office: Engleman D223
Phone: (203) 392-6789
E-mail: cavalerroe3@southernct.edu