Rate My Professor Bruno Leipold

Leipold's research centres on the thought of Karl Marx, the republican political tradition, democratic theory, socialism, and nineteenth-century political thought. He is the author of the monograph Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Radical Republicanism: Recovering the Tradition’s Popular Heritage (Oxford University Press, 2020). His peer-reviewed articles include ‘Constituency Juries: Holding Elected Representatives Accountable through Sortition’ in Perspectives on Politics (2025), ‘Aux Ouvrières!: Socialist Feminism in the Paris Commune’ with Mirjam Müller and James Muldoon in Intellectual History Review (2023), ‘The Meaning of Class Struggle: Marx and the 1848 June Days’ in History of Political Thought (2021), and ‘Political Anarchism and Raz’s Theory of Authority’ in Res Publica (2015). Notable book chapters are ‘Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx’s Account of Wage-Slavery’ in Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and ‘Marx’s Social Republic: Radical Republicanism and the Political Institutions of Socialism’ in Radical Republicanism (2020). Leipold is a principal investigator on the ERC Synergy Grant project Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV), a €9.2 million initiative from 2026 to 2032. He has received the ECPR Political Theory Prize and the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for Citizen Marx. At LSE, he teaches Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers (GV4F5) and Marx and Marxism (GV4G7), and is a member of the Political Theory research group. He has refereed for journals including American Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Theory, and Political Theory, and co-organized events such as Phillips Fest celebrating Anne Phillips.