Dr David Miles
Associate Lecturer (Education Focused)
Teaching
Current modules
Honours modules:
IR3022 – International Law and International Relations
IR3073 Dilemmas of International Order
Dr Miles contributes to team teaching at Sub-Honours level:
IR1005 and IR1006
Postgraduate modules:
IR5408 – Global Constitutionalism
Past modules
Dr Miles has taught or contributed to the following modules:
IR1005, IR1006, IR2005, IR2006, IR3023, IR4099, IR5408, LC5023.
Research areas
David Miles has a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MA (Hons) in German with International Relations – also from St Andrews. His research interests encompass political and legal theory, institutions, and identity. He is particularly interested in how political and legal authority, and liberal values, can be sustained across different sub-state and supra-state identities and communities, one of the areas looked at in his recent book. His interest in political theory and law is centred on issues and questions arising at the intersection between domestic and global politics, and on how political communities fragment and cohere domestically and globally in response to particular ethical, practical, and legal challenges.
David has taught in the School of International Relations at St Andrews since 2015 and has also taught in The Open University Law School. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
His PhD research was funded by a full Carnegie Scholarship from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. His book Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State: A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism was published by Routledge in October 2020 under the Routledge Innovations in Political Theory series. He is Editor-in-Chief of Global Politics Magazine.
A further research focus of his book is the role of international institutions in supporting liberal democratic institutions within states after World War Two, and the tensions between constitutional courts such as Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court and the EU’s increasingly powerful institutions. His book also assesses the relationship between the development of constitutionalism after 1945 and developments in international law and international institutions (seen in the work of Hersch Lauterpacht and the various conventions on human rights).
Selected publications
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Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State: A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism
Miles, D., 27 Oct 2020, New York; London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 222 p. (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Undoing the GOP Manipulation of the Courts: What the US Can Learn From Germany
Miles, D., 3 Nov 2020, In: Global Politics Magazine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Solidarity or Self-interest? European Integration and the German Question
Miles, D., 17 Aug 2015, In: Carnegie Ethics Online.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Scottish Independence and Our Political Natures
Miles, D., 16 Sept 2014, In: Huff Post.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Open access
Chief Justice Roberts’ Obamacare Switch: Historical Roots
Miles, D., 7 Jul 2012, In: Daily Beast.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Love Thy Enemy
Miles, D., 6 Apr 2012, In: Huff Post.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article