Lecture by Daniel Lee (Professor of Political Science, Berkeley): “Excessive Beneficence: Regulating Generosity in the Modern Natural Law School of Hugo Grotius”

Thursday, November 20th, 2025, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thomson House ballroom. Open to all, a reception will follow.

Registration is appreciated, by e-mail at the following address or via Facebook. One McGill student, chosen at random from among those registered for the event and who are currently students at McGill, will receive a copy of Daniel Lee’s book entitled The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations, Oxford University Press (2021).

Organized by the Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series (RGCS), a unit of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds.