Catherine Lu is Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds, as well as Research Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice of the Lin Centre. Her research interests intersect political theory and international relations, focusing on critical and normative theoretical studies of colonial international order, structural injustice, and global justice; alienation and reconciliation;  and cosmopolitanism and the world state. In addition to writing articles on these themes, she is the author of two books: Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which won four book prizes, and Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). As of August 2023, she is a Co-Editor of the journal, International Theory.