#  Jennifer Pitts 

Member of the Advisory Council

 

 

 



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 Jennifer Pitts is Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her new book, [*Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire*](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980815) (HUP 2018) explores European debates over legal relations with extra-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also author of *[A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7967.html)* (Princeton 2005); co-editor of *[The Law of Nations in Global History](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-law-of-nations-in-global-history-9780198766070?q=Alexandrowicz&lang=en&cc=us)* (Oxford 2017); and editor and translator of *[Alexis de Tocqueville: writings on empire and slavery](http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801877568&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y)* (Johns Hopkins 2001). Her research interests lie in the fields of modern political and international thought, particularly British and French thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; empire; the history of international law; and global justice. She co-edits the Cambridge University Press series [Ideas in Context](http://www.cambridge.org/us/series/sSeries.asp?code=IC&srt=P).

 At the University of Chicago, she has taught seminars on wide-ranging topics in political theory and intellectual history, such as **Liberalism and Empire**, **History of International Thought**, **Burke in an Age of Empire and Revolution**, **Approaches to the History of Political Thought**, **Global Justice**, **Liberalism confronts Democracy: Tocqueville and Mill**. She is a member of the faculty boards for the [Human Rights Program](http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/) and the [Stevanovich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge](http://sifk.uchicago.edu/).



 

 

 





 

 

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