Hansong Li Assistant Professor Global Inquiry
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- Degrees
- B.A. University of Chicago
M.Phil. University of Cambridge
Ph.D. Harvard University - Bio
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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 Universität Berlin.
Selected Publications:
Li, Hansong (2022). “Locating Mobile Sovereignty: Carthage in Natural Jurisprudence.” History of Political Thought, 43(2): 246-272.
Li, Hansong (2022) “Timing the Laws: Rousseau’s Theory of Development in Corsica.” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 29(4): 648-679.
Li, Hansong (2022). The “Indo-Pacific”: 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): 421–442.
Li, Hansong (2019). "Time, Right and the Justice of War and Peace in Hugo Grotius’s 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
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SISU-206 Intro to Int'l Studies Rsrch
Spring 2025
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SISU-419 Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies: World Justice: Phil Traditions