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SUMMARY:Daniel Lee (Berkeley)  - Contracts of Beneficence: Grotius on Regu
 lating Generosity
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Justice was classically defined as the duty of givin
 g unto each his due.  What counted as ‘due’ [debitum]\, however\, has 
 been a source of a venerable disagreement in the history of ideas.  Cicero
  once suggested that we not only owe each other what is ‘strictly due’
  [stricté debitum] – epitomized by debt obligations – but also ‘ben
 eficences’ – acts of generosity and liberality.  While these were not 
 strictly due\, neither were beneficences optional nor supererogatory.  Nat
 ural law required dutiful beneficence from all of us - but only just enoug
 h beneficence.\n \nSpeaker: Daniel Lee (F.R.Hist.S.) is Professor of Polit
 ical Science and\, by courtesy\, of Law at the University of California\, 
 Berkeley.  He is a political theorist with interests in the history of pol
 itical thought and jurisprudence.  His research concerns the legal science
  of Roman law in modern political thought and its influence on modern doct
 rines of sovereignty\, rights\, and international law\, especially in rela
 tion to Jean Bodin and Hugo Grotius.  \nDan’s books include Popular Sove
 reignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought (Oxford\, 2016)\, The Right
  of Sovereignty (Oxford\, 2021)\, and Divisions of Law (Oxford\, 2026).  H
 e was also the co-editor (with Cornel Zwierlein) of Sovereignty: European 
 and Global Histories\, 1400-1800 (Brill\, 2025). He is currently working o
 n two new projects: Sacrosanct (under contract with Harvard University Pre
 ss) and The Science of Right\, a new history of modern natural law and leg
 al science\, c.1600-1900.
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LOCATION:All Souls College - Hovenden Room\, Hovenden Room All Souls Colle
 ge High Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 4AL United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Daniel Lee (University of California\, Berkeley)
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