F. M. Kamm is Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. She is the author of the books Creation and Abortion (1992), Morality, Mortality: Volume I (1993) and Morality, Mortality: Volume II (1996), Intricate Ethics (2007), Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War (2011), The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (2012), and Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (2013). She serves on the Faculty Committee in the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, as well as on the editorial boards of Philosophy and Public Affairs and other journals. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Eric Mack is Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University and a faculty member at the University’s Murphy Institute of Political Economy. His many scholarly essays focus on the moral foundations of rights, the nature of natural and acquired rights, property rights and economic justice, and the legitimate scope of coercive institutions. His work is published widely in prominent edited volumes, and in journals such as Social Philosophy and Policy and Criminal Law and Philosophy. He is also author of the book John Locke (2009).
Jason Brennan is Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Term Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in political economy and ethics. He is the author of Markets without Limits (2015; with Peter Jaworski), Why Not Capitalism? (2014), Compulsory Voting: For and Against (2014; with Lisa Hill), Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (2012), The Ethics of Voting (2011), and A Brief History of Liberty (2010; with David Schmidtz). He is currently writing the manuscript Against Politics and is also coediting the Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (with Bas van der Vossen and David Schmidtz). His work focuses on the moral foundations of market society, the pathologies of democracy, and the ethics and political theory of voting.
Matt Zwolinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, where he is also Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles focusing on various theoretical and applied aspects of exploitation, the editor of Arguing About Political Philosophy, 1st and 2nd editions (2009 and 2014), and the author (with John Tomasi) of A Brief History of Libertarianism (forthcoming).
Horacio Spector is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina. He is the author of Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (2008) and editor (with Brian Bix) of Rights: Concepts and Contexts (2012). His publications also include numerous chapters in edited collections, articles in law reviews, and papers in journals such as Political Theory, International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, and Rationality, Markets, and Morals. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of legal theory and law and economics.
Bas van der Vossen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has published articles on political and legal philosophy in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Studies, Law and Philosophy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Philosophy Compass, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and Res Publica, and is currently working on a book on humanitarian intervention (coauthored with Fernando R. Tesón). He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, and a faculty fellow at Tulane University’s Murphy Institute.
Erik W. Thulin is a Ph.D. candidate in Psychology and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research utilizes game theory, behavioral economics, and psychology to explain both why people comply with social norms and how they respond when others do not comply.
Cristina Bicchieri is S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. Her publications are extensive, and appear in journals including Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Economics and Philosophy. She is also author of the books Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms (2015), The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms (2006), and Rationality and Coordination (1993), as well as the editor of several volumes. Her work focuses on decision making, and utilizes the resources of philosophy, game theory, and psychology.
Heidi M. Hurd is David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, and Co-Director of the University’s Program in Law and Philosophy. She is the author of Moral Combat (1999) and two forthcoming books: Debts and the Demands of Conscience (coauthored with Ralph Brubaker) and Essays in Criminal Law Theory (coauthored with Michael Moore). Her publications also include many articles in prominent law and philosophy journals, including Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, and Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. Her research interests are in criminal law, environmental ethics, jurisprudence, tort law, and political theory.
Michael S. Moore is Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair, and Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois, where he holds a joint appointment as Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of the books Placing Blame: A General Theory of the Criminal Law (1997), Act and Crime: The Philosophy of Action and its Implications for Criminal Law (1993), and Law and Psychiatry: Rethinking the Relationship (1984). Moore has also published prolifically in law reviews, as well as in psychiatry and philosophy journals, and has written on topics ranging from jurisprudence and political philosophy to psychology and psychiatry. His broad research interests are in constitutional law, criminal law, and jurisprudence.
Claire Finkelstein is Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and has held fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin, the Princeton Institute for Human Values, and the Research School for the Social Sciences at Australian National University. She writes at the intersection of philosophy and law, and has published extensively in the areas of criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and rational choice theory. She is currently finishing a book entitled Contractarian Legal Theory, and is the editor (with Jens Ohlin and Andrew Altman) of Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (2012), and of Hobbes on Law (2005). Her recent writings are on the law of war and war crimes, moral theory, and the theory of rationality.
Steven Wall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he is also a faculty member of both the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom and the Politics, Philosophy, Economics, and Law Program. In addition to authoring a number of chapters in edited collections, he has published articles in journals such as Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Political Theory. He is the author of Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint (1998) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism (2015). He is also an editor (with David Sobel and Peter Vallentyne) of the newly established series Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.
Fabian Wendt is Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona and has published articles in Social Theory and Practice, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Res Publica, and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. He is also the author of Compromise, Peace and Public Justification: Political Morality beyond Justice (forthcoming). His current research interests include the political morality of compromise, libertarianism and political authority, and the Lockean proviso.
