Daniel Lee

Graduate Prize Fellow, University Center for Human Values

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Daniel Lee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and holds a Prize Fellowship at the University Center for Human Values. His principal areas of research concern the history of medieval and modern political thought, civil law, the political theory and legal historiography of the modern state, and the intellectual origins of absolutism and constitutionalism. His other interests include democratic theory, jurisprudence, and the philosophy of social science.

Lee's dissertation, "Civil Law and Civil Sovereignty," investigated the juristic origins of popular sovereignty doctrine in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, focusing particularly on the use of legal doctrines derived from the Roman private law in the work of such writers as Bodin, Althusius, Gentili, and Grotius to articulate a conception of the people as the source of civil power within the state. His most recent research in this area is published in The Review of Politics and History of Political Thought.

He held the Harold W. Dodds University Honorific Fellowship from 2008-9 and was a Graduate Prize Fellow of the University Center for Human Values from 2007-8. He is a member of the research network, Freedom and the Construction of Europe, at the European University Institute in Florence.

Daniel Lee holds degrees from Oxford and Columbia.

Publications

"Private Law Models for Public Law Concepts" The Review of Politics

"The Legacy of Medieval Constitutionalism in the Philosophy of Right"History of Political Thought