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.