Janina Dill is the Hedley Bull Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford. She is a Junior Fellow of Merton College and an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. She holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. from the Technical University Dresden in Germany. Her research focuses on international law in war, specifically its philosophical foundations and normative scope. She is currently working on turning her thesis about the role of international law in U.S. air warfare into a book. janina.dill@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Ned Dobos is Lecturer in Ethics at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (2012), and coeditor (with Christian Barry and Thomas Pogge) of Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues (2011). N.Dobos@adfa.edu.au
Tom Farer is University Professor at the University of Denver, and prior to that was Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies from 1996 to 2010. He has served as President of the University of New Mexico and was a two-term member and two-term President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. Within the U.S. Government he has served in the Departments of State and Defense, and within the United Nations he has served as legal advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for UN Operations in Somalia II. He is coeditor of the journal Global Governance and a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and Human Rights Quarterly. His latest book is Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy (2008), and he is currently at work on a memoir/micro-history tentatively titled Collateral Damage: Latin Americans and the United States in the Era of State Terrorism. tom.farer@du.edu
Ann Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on new approaches to global governance, including the roles of civil society and the private sector in addressing global issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy sector. She is the author most recently (with Hairong Lai and Yeling Tan) of China Experiments: From Local Innovation to National Reform (forthcoming) and of The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (2003), and is the editor of The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (2007) and The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (2000). She is also the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and policy briefs. annflorini@smu.edu.sg
Oliver Jütersonke is Head of Research for the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Research Associate at the Zurich University Centre for Ethics. His current research interests include the history of ideas in international relations; conceptualizations of sovereignty; and the social and spatial dynamics of violence, particularly in urban settings. Recent publications include (with Robert Muggah) “Rethinking Stabilization and Humanitarian Action in ‘Fragile Cities,’” in Ben Perrin, ed., Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law (2012); (with Moncef Kartas), “Ethos of Exploitation: Insecurity and Predation in Madagascar,” in Small Arms Survey 2011: States of Security (2011); and Morgenthau, Law and Realism (2010). oliver.jutersonke@graduateinstitute.ch
Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at Merton College, Oxford. Well known for his book Basic Rights (1980) and his research on the role of human rights in international affairs, he is currently concentrating on the conduct of war, especially the bombing of “dual-use” infrastructure, such as electricity-generating facilities, and on the international terms for mitigating climate change. Most recently, he is the author (with David Luban) of “Mental Torture: A Critique of Erasures in U.S. Law,” Georgetown Law Journal (2012). henry.shue@politics.ox.ac.uk