Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, and Investigator, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Buchanan works mainly in political philosophy, the philosophy of international law, and bioethics. He is the author of eleven books, including Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (2003) and Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force (2010).
Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (1983) and The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (2001), as well as the editor or coeditor of Traditions of International Ethics (1992), The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (1996), International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (2002), and Humanitarian Intervention (2006), among other works.
Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (third edition 2001), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry (1994). He has served as the editor of the journal International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 1989, and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2005.
Henry Shue is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and an SRF Emeritus at Merton College, University of Oxford. Best known for “Torture” (1978) and Basic Rights (1980; 2nd ed., 1996), he has written more than a dozen articles about climate change since 1992, including “Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions” (1993) and “Global Environment and International Inequality” (1999). Shue recently coedited Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (2010), which contains his most recent piece on climate, “Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?” His next essay, “Human Rights, Climate Change, and the Trillionth Ton,” will appear in Denis Arnold, ed., The Ethics of Global Climate Change (forthcoming).
Steve Vanderheiden is Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is the author of Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (2008), and the editor of Political Theory and Global Climate Change (2008). He is currently working on a book project titled Doing Our Bit: Individual Responsibility for Climate Change.
Leif Wenar is Chair of Ethics at the School of Law, King's College London. He holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and for 2010–11 is a visiting professor at Stanford and Princeton. His work on international trade in natural resources can be found at wenar.info/CleanTrade.html.
