Lea Ypi is a associate professor of political theory at the London School of Economics in Great Britan. She studied philosophy and literature at the University of La Sapienca in Rome and got her PhD at the European University in Florence. She was a visiting lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher at the universities in Oxford, Frankfurt, Berlin, Australian National University and the Italian Institute for European Studies. Her research subject encompass normative political theory (including theories of democracy, theories of justice and questions of migration and theritorical rights), enlightenment political thought (especially Kants), Marxism and critical theory as well as nationalism and the intellectual history of the Balkans (especially Albania). She has published numerous works among which the following stand out: The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White, Oxford University Press, 2016), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (edited Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, Oxford University Pres, 2016), Kant and Colonialism (edited Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi. Oxford University Press, 2014) i Global Justice & Avant-Garde Political Agency (Oxford University Press, 2012).
