Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, and journalist writing on the relation between inequality and the law, and the possible institutional solutions to systemic corruption. Beyond her position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, she is also the Editor of Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Associate Editor of Critical Sociology, and organiser of the Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism.
Camila is the author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic She is also a leading public intellectual —with her articles and interviews featured in outlets such as New Left Review, Jacobin, Politico, Revista Plebeya, and Il Manifesto Inret— and an activist advising and collaborating with grassroots organisations on rights, deliberative democracy, and community-based forms of governance.
"Vergara beautifully draws from ancient and modern republican traditions to retrieve critical resources and institutional possibilities for the present."" — Aziz Rana, Boston College"