Luke MacInnis is a doctoral candidate in Columbia University's Department of Political Science, where he concentrates on political theory. He has a pre-doctoral teaching appointment in Columbia's Contemporary Civilization undergraduate program, and he instructs an undergraduate course in anglophone legal philosophy. He has been a teaching assistant for courses that examine theories of justice, free speech, and the politics of America's judiciary. His dissertation develops a theory of political legitimacy based on Immanuel Kant's moral and political philosophy.