Even Y. Chao
evenychao.bsky.social
Even Y. Chao
@evenychao.bsky.social
PhD student, history of legal and political thought, public law, jurisprudence.
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Look what just arrived in the post! Essays on Sidney in French & English, edited by the wonderful @tomaashby.bsky.social and Christopher Hamel. #earlymodern #republicanism
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Just published! My latest article on John Pocock and how history 'inhabits' us aeon.co/essays/histo...
History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life
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December 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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One year ago today I submitted my Ph.D.
December 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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We are pleased to announce the first King’s College London (KCL) Political Theory Graduate Conference on April 25, 2025! The call for abstracts is now open.
December 17, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Of interest to intellectual historians? Parliamentary historians?

My essay on Jean Bodin's changing conception of representative assemblies is now out online and in print. It looks at the successive editions of the 'République'/'Republica' and his diary of the Estates General at Blois.
December 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Professor @fernandapirie.bsky.social has written super interesting review essay of The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (2024). Open access: academic.oup.com/ojls/article...
Global Comparative Law?†
Abstract. The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law, edited by Matthias Siems and Po Jen Yap, continues recent calls to expand the field of comparative law
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November 18, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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As of January 2025, the Cambridge University Press journal @globcon.bsky.social (Global Constitutionalism) will be based at the University of Edinburgh, supported by a fruitful partnership between University of Edinburgh Law School & University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science.
November 20, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Announcements: TwoLaw Laws of War Lecture Series; CfP Legitimacy of International Governance Workshop; CfP Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; CfP Politics of International Dispute Settlement [...] | by Mary Guest
Announcements: TwoLaw Laws of War Lecture Series; CfP Legitimacy of International Governance Workshop; CfP Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; CfP Politics of International Dispute Settlem...
1. TwoLaw – Lecture Series on the Laws of War. On 28 November 2024, from 6-7 pm CET, Claire Vergerio (independent scholar) will give the next lecture of the TwoLaw – Lecture Series on the Laws of w…
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November 24, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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Forthcoming article:

Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire," History of Political Thought (2025)

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John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire
This article explores John Stuart Mill’s career-long interest in federal models of politics. Demonstrating how Mill’s multi-faceted account was shaped by his understanding of civilization and of empir...
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November 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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The book Pluralizing Political Philosophy has a cover!
With essays from Simon Caney, @jowolff.bsky.social Krushil Watene, Lisa Herzog, Tongdong Bai, Eva Kittay, Motsamai Molefe, Avner de-Shalit, Facunda Garcia Valverde Thad Metz, and Constanze Binder.
November 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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📣 Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025

Eric Nelson (Harvard): For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism | Hilary Term, 5pm, Tuesdays Weeks 3-8 | more details coming soon...
November 22, 2024 at 9:32 AM