Christopher J. Finlay is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, Department of Political Science and International Studies. His current research is in the fields of just war theory, terrorism and the ethics of political violence, and the history of political thought. His recent publications include Hume's Social Philosophy (2007) and articles in the Journal of Political Philosophy, the Review of International Studies, Thesis Eleven, the European Journal of International Relations, History of Political Thought, the European Journal of Political Theory, and the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
Eugene P. Deess is Director of Institutional Research and Planning at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has coauthored a wide range of publications on juries and citizenship, including The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation (forthcoming).
John Gastil is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He is the author most recently of Political Communication and Deliberation (2008), and is cofounder of the Jury and Democracy Project (http:\\www.jurydemocracy.org).
Colin J. Lingle is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington.
Kate Macdonald is Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her previous positions include Fellow of Government (Global Politics) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and Research Officer at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University.
Terry Macdonald is Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. Previously she has served as Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and as Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at Merton College, Oxford University. Her publications on global democracy include Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States (2008).
Anthony F. Lang, Jr., is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. His research focuses on international political theory, specifically humanitarian intervention, political responsibility, the just war tradition, punishment, and international rules. He is the author of Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (2002) and Punishment, Justice, and International Relations: Ethics and Order after the Cold War (2008), and has edited or coedited several other volumes. His current work focuses on global constitutionalism, the role of judges in the Middle East, and the ethics of military force.
Raffaele Marchetti is Lecturer in International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli University and University of Naples L'Orientale. His research interests include international political theory and global politics, especially global democracy and civil society. He is the author of Global Democracy: For and Against: Ethical Theory, Institutional Design, and Social Struggles (2008), and coeditor of European Union and Global Democracy (2009), Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (forthcoming), and Civil Society, Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (forthcoming).
Jens Steffek is Professor of Transnational Governance at Technische Universität Darmstadt and is Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” hosted by the University of Frankfurt am Main. Before coming to Darmstadt he held appointments at the University of Bremen, Jacobs University Bremen, and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence. He is the author of Embedded Liberalism and Its Critics (2006), and coeditor of Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance (2007) and Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics (2007).
