He is an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and is editor-in-chief of Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory.
Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government and Dean of Durham Law School at Durham University called it a “tour de force examination of key ideas championed by Amartya Sen … well written and insightful, it’s a perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest minds”.
John Olushola Magbedelo from African Studies Quarterly describes Hamilton’s work in Freedom is Power as intellectually stimulating with arguments that are lucid and persuasively convincing.
In his review of Are South Africans Free?, Historian and Professor Saul Dubow says that Hamilton argues that post-apartheid freedom implies more than liberation from political oppression: it requires effective power.
Professor Lawrence Hamilton was awarded the SA-UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory in March 2016.
The chair is held between the School of Social Science at Wits and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge.
Hamilton, through the chair, has initiated the Witwatersrand-Cambridge Exchange Programme [17] and the Wits Seminar Series in Political Theory.