The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law (CISRUL) studies the life in the world of political concepts. The interdisciplinary Centre examines how political principles function within and beyond the contemporary West. Concepts such as citizenship, civil society, and the rule of law are used as often by policy makers as by scholars. Core to CISRUL’s mission is informing academic and public debate on how they are used, and to what effect.
CISRUL brings together an extraordinary range of researchers, including PhD students, to study these and other political principles, including democracy, human rights and pluralism. We consider how they have been fostered historically, debated philosophically and in politics, fought over by social movements, codified in law, transmitted through education and the media, and lived out in everyday life.
CISRUL News
Dr Elise Boyle Espinosa, a former PhD candidate in CISRUL’s Political Concepts in the World (POLITICO) project, has…
Dr Valentin Clavé-Mercier, a former PhD candidate in CISRUL’s Political Concepts in the World (POLITICO) project, is in…
2025 Wrap-Up from the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law
As we begin another year, we’re taking a moment to look back on everything the Centre for Citizenship,…
One of our first PhD students to graduate from the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of…