Billy Christmas is a Lecturer in Political Theory at King’s College London in the department of Political Economy. He earned his PhD in Politics at the University of Manchester, after which he was a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute. His work occupies the intersection of philosophy, politics, economics, and law, and engages specifically with the topics of rights, property, and justice. He has written articles published in journals such as The Philosophical Quarterly, Economics and Philosophy, and Environmental Politics. He is currently working on a book manuscript and a number of papers on the conceptual structure of rights, and the theory of property in early modern natural law theorists such as Grotius, Locke, and Kant. He is particularly interested in how such approaches can be informed by Elinor Ostrom’s work on common pool resources, and how that might change the overall shape of their theories for justice.