Mark Pennington has research interests in the field of classical liberal political theory with a particular focus on the Scottish Enlightenment of Smith, Hume and Ferguson and their contemporary manifestation in the work of Hayek. His current research examines the similarities between the conception of ‘the self' evident in these writers' works and contemporary developments in post-modern political theory. Building on previous work which has used Hayekian ideas to develop a critique of Habermas, Dr Pennington is now working on a synthesis between Hayek's epistemology and that of the later Foucault to outline the contours of a postmodern liberalism.

Jeremy Jennings also shares interests in the history of classical liberalism. He has written extensively on the history of liberalism in France from the eighteenth century to the present day. He has two chapters forthcoming on Benjamin Constant and on Constitutional Liberalism in France (both for Cambridge University Press), has completed a volume on Alexis de Tocqueville, and is presently writing a further essay on Tocqueville and a general essay on nineteenth-century liberalism (for Oxford University Press). In addition, he has been working extensively on the history of political economy in nineteenth century France and is presently editing Destutt de Tracy's Principles of Political Economy .