
Lea Ypi, PhD
Professor in Political Theory
London School of Economics and Political Science
Australian National University, Canberra
Born in 1979 in Tirana
Laurea in Philosophy and Laurea Specialistica in Literature, University of Rome La Sapienza, Master of Research in Political Science and PhD in Political Theory, European University Institute
Project
A Cosmopollitan Theory of Territorial Justice
Ypi will complete a book provisionally entitled “Territorial Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account” that answers the following questions: what justifies the territorial rights of states? What implications does the defence of territorial rights have for the analysis of historical injustice and the control of resources, as well as migration and the right to exclude? Situated in a Kantian tradition that explores external freedom in relation to domestic and cosmopolitan justice, her analysis emphasises the provisional and conditional nature of states’ claim to territorial jurisdiction. The result is a novel theory of territorial rights that tries to avoid the status-quo bias of existing liberal theories whilst developing new insights on how to think about the state in new global circumstances.Recommended Reading
White, Jonathan, and Lea Ypi. The Meaning of Partisanship. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Ypi, Lea. The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Oxford University Press, 2021. German: Die Architektonik der Vernunft: Zweckmäßigkeit und systematische Einheit in Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Translated by Antonia Grunert. Suhrkamp, 2024.
–. Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. Penguin Press, 2021. German: Frei: Erwachsenwerden am Ende der Geschichte. Translated by Eva Bonné. Suhrkamp, 2022.
Publications from the Fellow Library
Ypi, Lea (2019)
Structural injustice, epistemic opacity, and the responsibilities of the oppressed
Ypi, Lea (2017)
Ypi, Lea (2016)
Ypi, Lea (New York, NY, 2016)
Political commitment and the value of partisanship
Ypi, Lea (Oxford [u.a.], 2014)
Kant and colonialism : historical and critical perspectives
Ypi, Lea (2012)
Ypi, Lea (2012)
Ypi, Lea (2012)
Activist political theory and avant-garde agency
Ypi, Lea (2012)
Ypi, Lea (Oxford [u.a.], 2012)
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