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Thomas Bailey is a moral, legal, and political theorist researching as a Lecturer in Legal Theory at the University of Glasgow. His research draws on Immanuel Kant’s moral, legal, and political philosophy to reexamine the relationships between morality, law, and politics. He combines historical interpretive and contemporary philosophy to sharpen the interpretation of Kant and to bring Kant’s distinct contribution to bear on contemporary debates regarding the perennial question of how to judge the entangled domains of morality, law, and politics. His wide research and teaching interests include contemporary moral, legal, and political theory as well as the history of political thought. Previously, he was a Fellow in Political Theory at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also completed his PhD in Political Theory in 2023. He is currently working on a monograph project with the tentative title ‘Kant, Judging Politically: The Bounds of Law and Morality,’ which focuses on Kant’s Doctrine of Right (1797) to offer a philosophically distinctive and powerful articulation of the concept of political judgment and its implications for core issues in legal and political theory.