In 1996, he won a landmark case against a student who was stalking him, the first time anyone had won damages for being stalked and the first civil action in which a judge had defined stalking.[3][4][5] The case was the topic of his memoir Being Stalked (1997), described by The Daily Telegraph as candid and troubling.[6]
Publications
Books
Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question (with Philip Spencer, Manchester UP 2017)
Cosmopolitanism (Routledge Key Ideas 2007)
Democracy and the Rule of Law: Marx's Critique of the Legal Form (Blackburn Press 2002; Pluto 1984 and 1985)
Political Investigations: Hegel, Marx, Arendt (
Routledge 2001)
Beyond Apartheid: Labour and Liberation in South Africa (with Dennis Davis, Pluto 1990)
Edited collections include: Social Theory after the Holocaust (with Charles Turner, Liverpool University Press 2000); People, Nation and State (with Edward Mortimer, IB Tauris 1999); Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives (with
Shirin M. Rai, Frank Cass 1997); Policing the Miners' Strike (with Robert Millar,
Lawrence and Wishart, Cobden Press 1985); Capitalism and the Rule of Law (with Richard Kinsey, John Lea and
Jock Young, Hutchinson).
Articles
Prof Robert D Fine(2010) 'Dehumanising the dehumanisers: reversal in human rights discourse?' Journal of Global Ethics 6 (2), 179 - 190 (1744-9626)
Fine, R.(2010) 'Political argument and the legitimacy of international law' in Legality and legitimacy: normative and sociological approaches, Editors: Thornhill, C. and Ashenden, S. (9783832953546), Baden-Baden: Nomos
Fine R (2009) 'Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: Radicalism in a Global Age' Metaphilosophy 40 (1), 8 - 23
Prof Robert D Fine(2009) 'Fighting with Phantoms: A Contribution to the Debate on Anti-semitism in Europe' Patterns Of Prejudice 43 (5), 459 - 479 (0031-322X)
Fine, R.(2009) 'An unfinished project: Marx's critique of Hegel's philosophy of right' in Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy, 105 - 120, Editors: Chitty, A. and McIvor, M. (9780230222373), Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave MacMillan
Harriet Swain "
Escape from a Baleful Gaze" Times Higher Education Supplement - interview on what it is like to be stalked by a student and how writing about it has helped him cope