Anna Stilz is Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University and Director of the University Center for Human Values Undergraduate Certificate in Values and Public Life. She is the author of the book Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (2009). Her journal publications include a number of articles on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism, territorial rights, and collective agency, and appear in journals such as Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Law and Philosophy. She is currently working on a new book on self-determination and states' rights to territory.
Fernando R. Tesón is 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 Justice at a Distance: Extending Global Freedom (2015) [with Loren Lomasky], Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality (2005), Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation (2006) [with Guido Pincione], A Philosophy of International Law (1998), and many articles published in law, philosophy, and international relations journals and collections of essays. Before joining the faculty at Florida State University in 2003, he taught for seventeen years at Arizona State University, and has served as a 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 the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Simon Caney is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College. He works on issues in contemporary political philosophy, and focuses in particular on issues of environmental, global, and intergenerational justice. He is the author of Justice Beyond Borders (2005) and is co-editor (with Stephen Gardiner, Dale Jamieson, and Henry Shue) of Climate Ethics (2010). Recent articles by him have been published in Philosophy and Public Affairs and Journal of Political Philosophy. He is currently completing two books: Global Justice and Climate Change (with Derek Bell), and On Cosmopolitanism, both of which are under contract with Oxford University Press.
Adam Martin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Political Economy Research Fellow of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. His research has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Methodology, and Public Choice among other scholarly outlets. He is the recipient of the 2013 Gordon Tullock Prize for Best Paper in Public Choice by a Junior Scholar, awarded for his paper (co-authored with Diana W. Thomas) "Two-Tiered Political Entrepreneurship and the Congressional Committee System." His research interests focus on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics and include market process theory, economic methodology, economic development, and public choice.
Jennifer C. Rubenstein is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, specializing in political theory. Before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia, she was the Cotsen-Link postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. She is the author of a recent book, Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs (2015), and her published or forthcoming articles appear in journals such as Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, and British Journal of Political Science. Professor Rubenstein is also currently at work on a book-length project about emergency claims.
Massimo Renzo is Reader at King’s College London School of Law. He works primarily in legal theory and political philosophy, with primary research interests in the problems of political authority, international justice, and the philosophical foundations of criminal law. Professor Renzo is the co-editor (with Rowan Cruft and Matthew Liao) of The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015). His articles appear in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Analysis, Philosophical Quarterly, Law and Philosophy, and Legal Theory. He is also one of the editors of the journal Criminal Law and Philosophy.
Cara Nine is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork. She is the author of Global Justice and Territory (2012), winner of the American Philosophical Association 2013 Book Prize and the PSAI Brian Farrell Book Prize 2013. She has also authored several articles on territorial rights, global justice and resource rights that appear or are forthcoming in journals such Political Studies, Reason in Practice, Philosophical Forum, and Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Leif Wenar is Chair of Ethics at King’s College London School of Law. He is the author of the book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World (2016), and has written numerous articles that appear in journals including Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Mind. In addition to his interests in international issues such as inequality across borders and the accountability of transnational institutions, his central research interests are in justice, the philosophy of John Rawls, and in rights theory.
James Pattison is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. His research interests are currently in humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect (R2P), the use of private military and security companies, Just War Theory, and the alternatives to war. His published books include Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene? (2010), which was awarded a “Notable Book Award” in 2011 by the International Studies Association, and The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (2014). He has published various articles on the ethics of force, including in the British Journal of Political Science, Ethics and International Affairs, International Theory, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Review of International Studies. He is currently working on a project on the ethics of the alternatives to war and the relationship of these alternatives to Just War Theory.
Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University. He has written widely on humanitarian action, including the book Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism (2011) and articles in International Organization and Global Governance. His forthcoming book is The Star and Stripes: The Foreign Policies of American Jews (2015).
Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Co-Director of the European Law Institute of the Universities of Bern, Fribourg, and Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Zurich, Lausanne, Duke, Lisbon, and Harvard. Her publications and research interests lie in European law, public international law, legal and political philosophy, and, in particular, in human rights law and theory. In addition to numerous publications in French, she is the author of the book The Morality of Conflict: Reasonable Disagreement and Law (2005). She co-edited the collections of essays Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents (2006) and Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives (2009) [with José Luis Marti]; The Philosophy of International Law (2010) [with John Tasioulas]; and The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (forthcoming) [with Jean d’Aspremont]. She is currently working on a book on human rights legal theory.
