Teaching
Current modules in 2024/25
Honours modules:
IR3022 – International Law and International Relations
IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power
Postgraduate Modules:
LC5022 - Aspects of International Law
Dr Miles contributes to team teaching at Sub-Honours level:
IR1005, IR1006, IR2005, and IR2006
Past modules
Dr Miles has taught on, 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 58³Ô¹Ï and an MA (Hons) in German with International Relations – also from 58³Ô¹Ï. 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 58³Ô¹Ï 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 was published by Routledge in October 2020 under the Routledge Innovations in Political Theory series. He is Editor-in-Chief of .
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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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
Miles, D., 3 Nov 2020, In: Global Politics Magazine.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Miles, D., 17 Aug 2015, In: Carnegie Ethics Online.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Miles, D., 16 Sept 2014, In: Huff Post.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Open access
Miles, D., 7 Jul 2012, In: Daily Beast.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Open access
Miles, D., 6 Apr 2012, In: Huff Post.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article