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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lukas H. Meyer has been Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Section Moral and Political Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Graz since March 2009.

He studied philosophy, political science, history and public international law at the University of Tübingen, the Free University of Berlin, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow at the Ethics Center at Harvard University and a Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow at Columbia University in NYC. He was also Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2018, CAPES Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2020, Visiting Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany (2022) and since 2021 Affiliated Professor at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italian: SSSA, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna).

His fields of work are philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law and social philosophy. His research focuses on justice in time and space. Ongoing research projects on intergenerational justice, ethics of climate change and historical justice. As one of the first philosophers, he was one of the main authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Meyer was also a member of the ERC 2021 Consolidator Grant Evaluation - SH5 - Cultures and Cultural Production panel.

Lukas Meyer is spokesperson (project leader) of the interfaculty FWF Doctoral Program Climate Change - Uncertainties, Thresholds and Strategies, approved in 2013. This short film offers an insight into the doctoral program. The doctoral program was extended for another four years in 2017. His book publications include Rectifying Historical Injustice: Debating the Supersession Thesis, co-edited, Routledge 2022; Climate Change and Historical Emissions, co-edited, Cambridge UP 2017; Intergenerational Justice, co-edited Oxford UP, 2012; Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law, edited, Cambridge UP, 2009; Historical Justice, de Gruyter 2005. Meyer is one of the founding editors of the international journal Moral Philosophy and Politics (de Gruyter). Texts by Lukas Meyer have been published in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Hungarian translation.

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