Ambrose Lee

Research Officer

Ambrose Lee is a political philosopher, working with Professors Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner on the AHRC-funded project ‘Preventive Justice’, which looks at what principles and values should guide and limit preventive action taken by states, and in particular when and in what ways states can and should use the criminal law and criminal law-like instruments as a preventive measure. He is a Research Associate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also a guest lecturer for the Division of Law and Philosophy at University of Stirling in Spring 2012 semester lecturing undergraduate jurisprudence.

After completing his BA (Philosophy) at University of Hong Kong in 2006, Ambrose went all the way to Scotland to study for his MLitt in Philosophy with the St Andrews / Stirling Graduate Programme (SASP). Upon completion, he joined the Department of Philosophy at University of Stirling to read for his PhD, which he obtained in 2011 with a doctoral thesis titled "Duties of Minimal Wellbeing and Their Role in Global Justice". Before he joined the law faculty, Ambrose was a lecturer in the Division of Law and Philosophy at University of Stirling lecturing undergraduate metaethics.

Ambrose’s research interests mainly lie in theories of distributive justice, in particular global distributive justice. His doctoral thesis argued for two sets of duties of global justice. On the one hand, there are associative duties of fairness and equality, which are derived from the conception of cooperation at hand. On the other hand, there are universal duties of minimal wellbeing, whose function is to secure a human life for all individuals. The objects of this latter set of duties are developed from a Razian conception of wellbeing.

Besides political philosophy, Ambrose also has a keen interest in metaethics, legal philosophy and moral philosophy. In particular, he is interested in the following issues: value incommensurability, the nature of goodness, the nature of respect, justification of legal punishment, the nature of law, criteria for criminalization, the nature of wellbeing, and its relationship with morality.

When not doing Philosophy, Ambrose likes to scale up rock faces and driving around visiting places.