Paul E. Nahme is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Under the supervision of Professors David Novak and Robert Gibbs, he is completing his dissertation entitled, “The Theological Conditions of the Political: Legitimacy and Justification as Categories of Legal and Religious Reason,” focusing on the relationship between Christian, Jewish, and Islamic political theology and the modern liberal constitutional state. He is a recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship for this project, as well as having been named the 2009-2010 Tikvah fellow in the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He is also a researcher and founder of the interdisciplinary working group at the University of Toronto, entitled, “The Force of Laws: Legal Subjects and the Power of Commandment”. Since 2009 Paul has served as associate editor, as well as being a co-founder of the University of Toronto Journal for Jewish Thought.
His research interests include legal and political theory, 19th century German idealism, continental philosophy, Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Philosophy and Scholasticism, and political theology.