Hon-Lam Li

Hon-Lam Li

Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Smiling Asian man in front of a yellow wall
Hon-Lam Li is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his BA in philosophy from Princeton University and MA (jurisprudence) from Oxford University, and he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1987. Before starting his career as a philosopher, he had practiced law as a barrister-at-law in Hong Kong. Hon was Fulbright Senior Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University during 2010-11. His research interests are practical ethics (including bioethics), ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. His publications have appeared in The American Journal of Bioethics, Public Affairs Quarterly, Criminal Justice Ethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, World Policy Journal, and Asian Bioethics Review. His articles, “Contractualism and the Death Penalty” and “Contractualism and Punishment,” are the 4th and 5th “most read” articles published in Criminal Justice Ethics respectively. Hon’s most recent publication is “Rawlsian Political Liberalism, Public Reason, and Bioethics” in Hon-Lam Li and Michael Campbell, eds., Public Reason and Bioethics: Three Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). His current project focuses on contractualism and aggregation.

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