Daniel Lee
Prize Fellow, University Center for Human Values (Reappointed for second term, 2009-10)
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E-mail: dltwo@princeton.edu
Specialization: Political theory; history of medieval and modern political thought; civil law; constitutional and legal historiography
Daniel Lee was reappointed to a second term of the Prize Fellowship at the University Center for Human Values for 2009-10. 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 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 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.
M.A. Princeton; M.Phil. Oxon.; B.A. Columbia (Ph.D. Princeton expected 2009)
Thesis Title: Civil Law and Civil Sovereignty: Popular Sovereignty, Roman Law, and the Civilian Foundations of the Constitutional State in Early Modern Political Thought
Committee: Philip Pettit; Alan Patten; Stephen Macedo; Anthony Grafton; Quentin Skinner (External Reader)
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