Hon-Lam Li, PhD, PCLL
Hon-Lam Li is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Advisor to the Centre for Bioethics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his BA in philosophy from Princeton University, and his MA from Oxford University, where he read jurisprudence. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University. Before starting his career as a philosopher, he had practiced law as a barrister-at-law in Hong Kong.
Dr. Li was an academic visitor at All Souls College, Oxford, a Visiting Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, and a Fulbright Senior Visiting Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He will be a Visiting Fellow at Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University for the Fall Semester of 2022. 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. Dr. Li'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, December 2021). His current project focuses on contractualism and aggregation. Webpage: http://www.phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/web/academic/li-hon-lam/
