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Hansong Li Assistant Professor Global Inquiry

Contact
Hansong Li
SIS | Global Inquiry
Main Campus
SIS 200F
https://calendly.com/hansong-american
Additional Positions at 麻豆视频
Degrees
B.A. University of Chicago
M.Phil. University of Cambridge
Ph.D. Harvard University

Bio
Hansong Li is a humanist and social scientist who writes on international law and politics, ethics and economics, and the history of political, economic, and legal thought.

Li has written on the normative forces of time and space in early-modern European intellectual history. His book, to be published by Harvard University Press, examines philosophical debates over world justice in Western, Indian, and Chinese traditions.

Before joining the School of International Service, Hansong Li lived in Beijing, Chicago, Paris, Cambridges of Old and New England, as well as Germany, where he was recently a research fellow at the Law School of Freie Universit盲t Berlin.

Selected Publications:

Li, Hansong (2022). 鈥淟ocating Mobile Sovereignty: Carthage in Natural Jurisprudence.鈥 History of Political Thought, 43(2): 246-272.

Li, Hansong (2022) 鈥淭iming the Laws: Rousseau鈥檚 Theory of Development in Corsica.鈥 European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 29(4): 648-679.

Li, Hansong (2022). The 鈥淚ndo-Pacific鈥: Intellectual Origins and International Visions in Global Contexts. Modern Intellectual History 19(3): 807-833.

Li, Hansong (2021). "The Space of the Sea in Montesquieu's Political Thought" Global Intellectual History 6(4): 421鈥442.

Li, Hansong (2019). "Time, Right and the Justice of War and Peace in Hugo Grotius鈥檚 Political Thought" History of European Ideas 45(4): 536-552.
Areas of Specialization
Comparative Law
Ethics
International Relations
International/Comparative Law
Jurisprudence
Law and the Social Sciences
Legal History
Space Law
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • SISU-206 Intro to Int'l Studies Rsrch

Spring 2025

  • SISU-419 Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies: World Justice: Phil Traditions