Aakash Singh

Visiting Professor

Biography

Professor Aakash Singh (also known as Aakash Singh Rathore) received a PhD in Political Philosophy (KU Leuven) and an LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law (Central European University, Budapest). He was Research Professor—in international and comparative political thought—at the Faculty of Political Science, LUISS University of Rome, where he remains International Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Global Politics. Prof. Singh was previously Reader in legal, political and continental philosophy at the University of Delhi, and also Visiting Fellow at the Developing Countries Research Centre there. He has taught comparative law at Humboldt University (Berlin) and political philosophy at Leuven. His books include: Indian Political Thought (Routledge); B.R. Ambedkar’s The Buddha & His Dhamma—A Critical Edition (Oxford University Press); Global Justice: Deparochializing the Debate (Routledge); The Future of Political Theology (Ashgate); From Political Theory to Political Theology (Continuum); and, Hegel’s India (forthcoming). Prof. Singh is Series Editor of Ethics, Human Rights & Global Political Thought (Routledge), and Religion and Democracy: Reconceptualising Religion, Culture & Politics through Comparative Contexts (Oxford University Press). He is Director and co-founder of the International Research Network on Religion & Democracy (http://irnrd.blogspot.com).