DANIEL LEE
CURRICULUM VITAE
Specializations
History of Political Thought
Later Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought (c.1200 – c.1700);
Reception of Classical Law and Political Philosophy; Bodin; Grotius; Hobbes
Political Theory
Theory of Sovereignty; Theory of Rights; Theory of the State; Democratic
Theory; Constitutionalism; Republicanism
Jurisprudence
Roman Law (Property, Obligations, Delict); Philosophy of Law; Public Law;
Medieval and Renaissance Legal History; History of International Law
Academic Appointments
Principal Appointments
2015 – present
University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty: Renaissance & Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis
Affiliated Faculty: Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies
2011 – 15
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor of Political Science: University of Toronto Scarborough
Assistant Professor (Status-Only: 2016-2019): Department of Political Science
Associate Professor (Status-Only: 2016-2018): Centre for Medieval Studies
2010 – 11
Columbia University
The Society of Fellows (elected for 2010-13 Term)
Short Term Appointments
2012
Trinity College, Cambridge (Easter Term)
Visiting Scholarship
2009 – 10
Princeton University
Prize Fellowship and Lecturer, University Center for Human Values
2002 – 03
Hertford College, Oxford
College Lecturer in Political Theory
Education
2010
Ph.D.
Princeton University
Dissertation:
Popular Sovereignty, Roman Law, and
the Civilian Foundations of the Constitutional State in
Early Modern Political Thought *
Advisor: Philip Pettit
* Winner of the 2011 APSA Leo Strauss Award for the
Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy
2006
2003
2001
M.A.
M.Phil.
B.A.
Princeton University
New College, Oxford
Columbia University, magna cum laude
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Research
Publications: Books
Daniel Lee (Ed).
Under contract. A Division of the Whole Law: The Juris Universi Distributio of Jean Bodin.
Trans. Jason Aaron Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford Theory and History of International Law.
Daniel Lee. Under contract. The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on Sovereignty, Law, and the Foundations of
International Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford Theory and History of International Law.
Daniel Lee. 2016. Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. Oxford Constitutional Theory. *
* Reviews: Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming 2017); Modern Law Review (forthcoming 2017)
Publications: Articles and Chapters
Daniel Lee. Commissioned. ‘Jean Bodin.’ In Great Christian Jurists in French History. Ed. Olivier Descamps and
Rafael Domingo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Law and Christianity Series.
Daniel Lee. Under contract. ‘Sovereignty as Dominium: Hobbes on the Bonds of Obligation in De Cive VIII and IX.’
In Hobbes’s ‘On the Citizen’: A Critical Guide. Ed. Robin Douglass and Johan Olsthoorn. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Cambridge Critical Guides.
Daniel Lee. Under contract. ‘The State is a Minor: The Tutorial Theory of Government and the Roman Law of
Guardianship from Azo to Hobbes.’ In Fiduciary Government. Ed. Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent, Andrew S.
Gold, Sung Hui Kim, Paul B. Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Daniel Lee. Forthcoming. ‘Unmaking Law: Jean Bodin on Law, Equity, and Legal Change.’ In History of Political
Thought.
Daniel Lee. Forthcoming. ‘Historical Perspectives on the Ethics of Consent.’ In The Ethics of Consent. Ed. Peter
Schaber. London: Routledge. Routledge Handbooks Series.
Daniel Lee. 2017. ‘Natural Rights Theories.’ In Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory. Ed.
Jacob Levy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Daniel Lee. 2016. ‘Citizenship, Subjection, and the Civil Law: Jean Bodin on Roman Citizenship and the Theory of
Consensual Subjection.’ In Citizenship and Empire in Europe 200-1900: The Antonine Constitution after 1800 Years.
Ed. Clifford Ando. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Daniel Lee. 2013. ‘Office is a Thing Borrowed: Jean Bodin on the Right of Offices and Seigneurial Government.’ In
Political Theory 41.3: 409-441.
Daniel Lee. 2013. ‘Roman Law, German Liberties, and the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire.’ In Freedom and
the Construction of Europe. Vol. I. Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty. Ed. Quentin Skinner and Martin Van
Gelderen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Daniel Lee. 2012. ‘Sources of Sovereignty: Roman Imperium and Dominium in Civilian Theories of Sovereignty.’ In
Politica Antica 2: 79-94.
Daniel Lee. 2012. ‘Hobbes and the Civil Law: The Use of Roman Law in Hobbes’ Civil Science.’ In Hobbes and the
Law. Ed. David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Daniel Lee. 2011. ‘Popular Liberty, Princely Government and the Roman Law in Hugo Grotius’ De Jure Belli ac
Pacis.’ In Journal of the History of Ideas 72.3: 371-392. *
* Winner of the 2013 Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the Best Article in the Journal of the History of Ideas 72.
* Reprinted in Grotius and Law, ed. Larry May and Emily McGill, Ashgate Series in Philosophers and Law
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014)
Daniel Lee. 2008. ‘The Legacy of Medieval Constitutionalism in the Philosophy of Right: Hegel and the Prussian
Reform Movement.’ In History of Political Thought 29.4: 601-634.
Daniel Lee. 2008. ‘Private Law Models for Public Law Concepts: The Roman Law Theory of Dominium in the
Monarchomach Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty.’ In The Review of Politics 70.3: 370-399.
Publications: Short Articles, Entries, and Reviews
Daniel Lee.
Commissioned: In preparation.
Review: Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of
Western Liberalism. In The Critical Review.
Daniel Lee. Forthcoming.
Book Review: Richard Tuck, The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern
Democracy. In History of Political Thought.
Daniel Lee. 2017. Book Review: Benjamin Straumann, Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations
of Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law. In History of Political Thought 38.1: 191-94.
Daniel Lee. 2014. ‘Corpus Iuris Civilis,’ In Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Ed. Michael Gibbons. WileyBlackwell.
Daniel Lee. 2014. ‘John of Salisbury,’ In Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Ed. Michael Gibbons. WileyBlackwell.
Works in Progress
Daniel Lee. The Science of Right.
Daniel Lee. Roman Democracy
Daniel Lee. Harmonic Justice: The Science of Harmonics in Bodin’s Theory of Justice
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Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
History of Political Thought: Ancient and Medieval
History of Political Thought: Early Modern
Junior Seminar: Tyranny and Tyrannicide
Constitutionalism
Contemporary Political Thought
Modern Political Thought
Classic Texts in Political Theory
Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern
Contemporary Civilization (Core Curriculum of the College)
Classical Political Thought (PPE Tutorial Paper 215)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Columbia University
Columbia University
Hertford College, Oxford
Graduate Courses
History of Political Thought: Ancient and Medieval
History of Political Thought: Early Modern
The Civil Law
Roman Law and Political Thought (Reading Course)
Sovereignty
Republicanism
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Graduate Research Supervision
External Examiner: Andrew Cecchinato (Ph.D., 2016):
The Legal Education of Thomas Jefferson
Advisor: Shterna Friedman (Ph.D., 2016-)
Dissertation Committee: Vittorio de Medici-Rodrigues (J.S.D., 2016-)
From an Executive Body into a Global Leviathan:
Assessing the Legality and Normative Propriety of
the Direct Applicability of Security Council
Resolutions to Individuals
Qualifying Examination Committee: James Tate (Ph.D., 2015)
Dissertation Committee: Jason Aaron Brown (Ph.D., 2015-)
The Economic Thought of the Medieval Canonists
Dissertation Committee: Nathaniel Gilmore (Ph.D., 2015-)
Montesquieu’s Roman Legacies
Dissertation Committee: Mauricio Suchowlansky (Ph.D., 2012-15)
Society, Discord, and the Politics of Equilibrium
in Machiavelli’s Historie Fiorentine (defended 2015)
Undergraduate Research Supervision
Senior Thesis (2016-17): Nicholas Ryan Fletcher
Independent Study (2015): Christopher Spiro Kalafatis
Senior Thesis (2014): Abdus Samad
Senior Thesis (2012-13): Christopher Greenaway
Senior Thesis (2012-13): Michelle Xin
Assistantships & Other Teaching
Graduate Methods Course: Approaches to Political Theory
Contributing Faculty Member for Graduate Research
Methods Course in Political Theory
Ethics and Public Policy: Woodrow Wilson School
Assisting Philip Pettit & Stephen Macedo
Political Theory
Assisting Maurizio Viroli; Rahul Sagar
Politics Senior Thesis Writing Group Leader
University of Trento, Italy: Jurisprudence
University of California, Berkeley: Political Science
University of California, Berkeley: Law
University of California, Berkeley: Political Science
University of Toronto: Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto: Political Science
University of Toronto: Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University
Public Presentations
2017
2017
Book Manuscript Workshop: The Right of Sovereignty
University of California, Berkeley
‘The State Is A Minor’: Tutorial Theory of Government and the Roman Law of Guardianship
The Idea of Fiduciary Government
University of California, Los Angeles: School of Law
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2016
2016
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2005
2005
2003
2003
Was Bodin a Pluralist? Bodin’s Pluralist Theory of the State
Tufts University
Unmaking Law: Jean Bodin on Law, Equity, and Legal Change
Bay Area Forum for Legal Ethics: Kadish Center for Law, Morality, and Public Affairs
Legal Theory in the Margins
Legal Texts and the New Philology
University of Toronto: Faculty of Law
The Historical Institutionalism of Jean Bodin
Community, Economy, and Territoriality in the Thought of Jean Bodin
St. Anne’s College, Oxford
Legal Science and Legal Reform in the Juridical Thought of Sir Francis Bacon
University of California, Berkeley
The Historical Institutionalism of Jean Bodin
Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Victoria University, Toronto
The Background of Medieval Legal Thought in Bodin’s Doctrine of Sovereignty
American Political Science Association: Annual Meeting
The Historical Institutionalism of Jean Bodin
Renaissance Society of America: Annual Meeting
Delegating Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on Imperium, Iurisdictio, and the Rights of Magistracy
London School of Economics
Sovereignty and Dominium: Recalibrating the Roman Law Thesis
Toronto International Relations Seminar: Munk School of Global Affairs
Delegating Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on Imperium, Iurisdictio, and the Rights of Magistracy
Columbia University: Society of Fellows
Jean Bodin on Citizenship, Subjection, and Status
The Origins and Legacies of Universal Citizenship: The Antonine Constitution after 1800 Years
American Academy, British School, & Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut, Rome
The Rights of Sovereignty and the Exercise Thereof: The Civil Law Origins of a Public Law Distinction
Cambridge University: Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar
The Rights of Sovereignty and the Exercise Thereof: The Civil Law Origins of a Public Law Distinction
University of Toronto: Faculty of Law
The Rights of Sovereignty and the Exercise Thereof: The Civil Law Origins of a Public Law Distinction
University of Chicago
‘Office is a Thing Borrowed’: Jean Bodin between Sovereignty and Legality
University of Toronto: Centre for Ethics
‘Office is a Thing Borrowed’: Jean Bodin on the Rights of Office
Northeastern Political Science Association
Panelist for Roundtable on Eric Nelson, The Hebrew Republic
Northeastern Political Science Association
The Rights of Sovereignty
Columbia University: Society of Fellows
Roman Law, German Liberties, and the Constitution of the Early Modern Empire
Freedom and the Construction of Europe Balzan Research Project
European University Institute
Jean Bodin, Civil Science and Civil Sovereignty
Princeton University Center for Human Values: Prize Fellows’ Seminar
Liberty, Popular Sovereignty and the Roman Law of Persons in Grotius’ De Jure Belli ac Pacis
Northeastern Political Science Association
Discussant on panel for Medieval Political Thought
Northeastern Political Science Association: Annual Meeting
Private Law Models for Public Law Concepts: The Juridical Origins of Monarchomach Theories of Popular
Sovereignty in the Roman Law of Property
Midwest Political Science Association: Annual Meeting
French Legal Humanism and the Development of Jean Bodin’s Civil Science
Princeton University: Political Theory Graduate Research Seminar
The Legacy of Medieval Constitutionalism in the Philosophy of Right
Princeton University: Political Theory Graduate Research Seminar
The Constitution of the Consociational Populus in the Political Thought of Johannes Althusius
University of California, Berkeley: Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Hegel’s Doctrine of Concrete Freedom and the Organic State
All Souls College, Oxford
Transcending Difference through Deliberative Democracy
Political Studies Association: Annual Meeting
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Fellowships & Awards
2017
Book Manuscript Mini-Conference Grant
2014-16 SSHRC Standard Institutional Grant
2013
(2012)
Selma V. Forkosch Prize
Tutorial Fellowship in Politics *
2012
Visiting Scholarship
2012-14 SSHRC Standard Institutional Grant
2011
Leo Strauss Award for the Best
Dissertation in Political Philosophy
2010-13 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the
Society of Fellows
(2010) Political Theory Project
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2008-09 Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship
2007-08 Graduate Prize Fellowship
2006-08 Political Philosophy Research Grants
2004-09 Princeton University Fellowship
2002-03
2002-03
2003
2001
Western Civilization Fellowship
Humane Studies Fellowship
Graduate Research Grant
Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
2000
1999
Arthur Rose Prize
George William Curtis Prize
Institute of International Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada & University of Toronto
Journal of the History of Ideas
Worcester College, Oxford (declined)
* Attached to Associate Professorship of
Political Theory, Oxford University
Trinity College, Cambridge (Easter Term)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada & University of Toronto
American Political Science Association
Columbia University
Brown University (declined)
Princeton University
The Graduate School
Princeton University
University Center for Human Values
Princeton University
University Center for Human Values
Princeton University
Department of Politics & Graduate School
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Institute for Humane Studies
New College, Oxford
Columbia University *
* Awarded for B.A. honors thesis in Political Philosophy:
‘Hegel, Freedom, and the Organic State’
(Advisors: David Johnston and Thomas Pogge)
Columbia University
Columbia University
Service
2015present
Advisory Board
2017-18 Political Theory Subfield Coordinator
2017
Junior Faculty Lunch Research Workshops
Coordinator
2017
Judge: Philo Sherman Bennett Prize
in Political Science
2016-17 Committee on Personnel: Search Committee
2016-17 Faculty Mentor
2016
Committee on Department Citations
2015-16 Committee on Graduate Admissions
2015-16 Faculty Reviewer: Undergraduate Admissions
2015-16 Faculty Interviewer: Undergraduate
Scholarships
2014-15 SSHRC Institutional Grants Committee
University of California, Berkeley
The Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs
School of Law, Boalt Hall
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate Scholarship, Prizes, and Honors Office
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Senate Committee on Admissions, Enrollment, and
Preparatory Education
University of California, Berkeley
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships, Honors,
and Financial Aid
University of Toronto
Scarborough: Department of Political Science
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2012-15 Delegated Ethics Review Committee
2014 -15 Research Committee (ex officio)
2011-14 Director
2012-14 PTR Committee
2013-14 External Assessor in Political Theory
2007-08 Founder & Chair of Organizing Committee
2006-07 Committee on Graduate Studies
University of Toronto
Scarborough: Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
Scarborough: Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
Political Theory Research Workshop
Department of Political Science and Centre for Ethics
University of Toronto
Department of Political Science
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada
Princeton University
Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Princeton University
Department of Politics
Other Professional Experience
2016
Moderator
2014
Conferee
2009-10 Research Collaborator
2008-09 Core Member
2002-03 Research Assistant to G.A.Cohen
2000-01 Research Assistant to Christia Mercer
University of California, Berkeley
‘Mentoring the Next Generation Conference’
Korea Law Center: School of Law, Boalt Hall
Liberty Fund
‘Liberty, Violence, and Social Orders’
Harvard University
Harvard Law School: Ames Foundation digitization
of the Vulgate Corpus Juris Civilis with Charles Donahue
European University Institute
‘Freedom and the Construction of Europe’ Balzan research
network collaboration organized by Quentin Skinner
All Souls College, Oxford
Research assistance: ‘Facts and Principles’
Columbia University
Manuscript Referee
Oxford University Press, History of Political Thought, Journal of the History of Ideas, European Journal of Political
Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, American Journal of Political Science, Canadian Political Science Review,
The Review of Politics, Polity, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Contributions to the History of Concepts,
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Comparative Education Review
Contact
Prof. Daniel Lee
Charles & Louise Travers Department of Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-1950
<[email protected]>
(510) 642-4682
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