Brookes Brown is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on ethics and applied ethics, public law, democratic theory, business ethics, moral epistemology, and administrative legal theory.
Brookes received her PhD in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in January 2016, has a JD from Yale University, and a BA from Brown University. She spent 2014-15 as a DeOlazarra fellow in Political Philosophy, Law, and Policy at the University of Virginia. Prior to Toronto, she was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Law, Liberty and Justice at Clemson University, and a visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
At the moment Brookes focuses on civic ethics in the context of market economies, considering the ways in which complex institutional analysis changes our thinking about political ethics, and methodology in political philosophy. She also drinks altogether too much coffee.