Mary Dowell-Jones is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, specializing in global finance and socioeconomic rights. She has a background in both international human rights law and international finance. Prof. Dowell-Jones has extensive research experience in the areas of systemic risk, financial stability and crises, and socioeconomic rights, and her current work centers on applying human rights principles to the global financial system. She has also worked in commercial and investment banking risk management in London and South Africa. mdowelljones@valorefinance.org.
John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Political Science in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Australian National University. His recent books include Theories of the Democratic State (2009, with Patrick Dunleavy), Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance (2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2011, co-edited with David Schlosberg and Richard Norgaard). John.Dryzek@anu.edu.au.
David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at Sydney University and is an Academic Panel Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London. He is author or editor of eight books, including Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy (2009). He has previously held teaching and visiting positions in universities in Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, South Africa, and the South Pacific, as well as Australia. Prof. Kinley has also worked for many years on human rights matters with governments throughout Southeast Asia as well as with the United Nations, World Bank, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and several transnational corporations. david.kinley@sydney.edu.au.
George R. Lucas, Jr., is Professor of Philosophy and Class of 1984. Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland), and Professor of Ethics and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California). His most recent book is Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology (2009). grlucas@usna.edu.
Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (2002) and Killing in War (2009). He has several other books forthcoming from Oxford University Press, including The Values of Lives and The Right Way to Fight. jmcmahan@princeton.edu.
Richard W. Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. His writings in political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of social science include Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power (2010), Moral Differences: Truth, Justice and Conscience in a World of Conflict (1992), Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences (1987), and Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History (1984). Much of his current work concerns the ethics of war and the role of economic equality in justice. rwm5@cornell.edu
Darrel Moellendorf is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002) and Global Inequality Matters (2009), and is coeditor (with Thomas Pogge) of Global Justice: Seminal Essays (2008). His book Dangerous Climate Change will appear in 2012, and he is currently co-editing (with Heather Widdows) The Handbook of Global Ethics, also to be published in 2012. dmoellen@mail.sdsu.edu
Fernando Tesón, a native of Buenos Aires, is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He is known for his scholarship relating political philosophy to international law (in particular his defense of humanitarian intervention) and his work on political rhetoric. He has authored Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality (3rd edition, 2005); Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation (2006, with Guido Pincione); A Philosophy of International Law (1998); many articles in law, philosophy, and international relations journals; and collections of essays. Before joining Florida State in 2003, he taught for seventeen years at Arizona State University. He has also served as visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Indiana University School of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law, the Oxford–George Washington International Human Rights Program, and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. fteson@gmail.com