Hansong Li (李漢松)
Hansong Li is a political theorist and historian of political, economic, and legal thought, currently a professor at the School of International Service, American University, and a faculty associate at the Mittal Institute for South Asia and the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Law School of Freie Universität Berlin.
Li's previous works range from legal philosophy, political theory of time and space, and Tangutology, to geopolitics and political economy. His current book Common Justice, to be published by Harvard University Press, explores the languages and practices of interstate justice in the West, South Asia, and East Asia.
Selected Papers:
Li, Hansong (2022). “The Indo-Pacific: Intellectual Origins and International Visions in Global Contexts” Modern Intellectual History 19(3): 807-833.
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 (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.
Li, Hansong & Wu, Yifei (2022). “Signalling Security: An Observational and Game Theory Approach to Inter-pedestrian Psychology” Transportation Research (Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour) 86: 238-251.
Li, Hansong & Wu, Yifei (2021). “Ethics and Economics of Medical Supplies in the COVID-19 Pandemic” European Scientific Journal, 17(31): 87-138.
Selected Books
Li, Hansong. Common Justice: Interpolitical Thought in Western, Indian, and Chinese Traditions (under contract): Harvard University Press.
Li, Hansong (2022). 政治思想史對話錄. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2022.
Li, Hansong (ed. & transl. 2021). Shi, Jinbo. The Economy of Western Xia. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
Li, Hansong (ed & transl. 2021). Shi, Jinbo. Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction. Leiden: Brill, 2020.