Notes on Contributors

Anna Becker is Professor in History of Ideas, Aarhus University. She is the author of Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth (2020). Her current project aims to turn upside down the focus of history of political thought by examining the rich thinking on the material foundations of a healthy body politic in the early modern world.

Armin von Bogdandy is director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, and Professor of Public Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He has published widely on public international law, comparative public law, legal theory, and European law.

Annabel Brett is Professor of Political Thought and History, University of Cambridge. Her works include Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (1997), a translation of Marsilius of Padua's Defender of the Peace (2005), and Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law (2011).

Megan Donaldson is Lecturer in Public International Law, University College London. Her publications include ‘The Survival of the Secret Treaty: Publicity, Secrecy and Legality in the International Order', American Journal of International Law 111 (2017); and ‘The League of Nations, Ethiopia and the Making of States', Humanity 11 (2020).

Emma Hunter is Professor of Global and African History, University of Edinburgh. Her works include Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization (2015) and the edited collection Citizenship, Belonging and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present (2016).

Adeel Hussain is Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory, Leiden University, and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.

Joel Isaac is Associate Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago. He is the author of Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (2012). His current work concerns how modern economics has shaped - whether by attraction or repulsion - the development of social theory and political thought.

Duncan Kelly is Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions and Judgement in Modern Political Thought (2011) and Politics and the Anthropocene (2019). His current work is focused on the intellectual history of the First World War.

David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Faculty Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy. His works include The Dark Sides of Virtue (2004), Of Law and War (2006), The Rights of Spring. A Memoir of Innocence Abroad (2009), and A World of Struggle: How Power, Law and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy (2016).

Karen Knop is Professor of Law, University of Toronto. Her works include Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law (2002) and the edited collection Gender and Human Rights (2004). She has published widely on questions of diversity, interpretation and participation as perspectives from which to re-theorise core concepts of international law, and the relationship between international and domestic law.

Martti Koskenniemi is Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki. He is the author of From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2002), and ‘To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth': Legal Imagination and International Power 1300-1870 (2020).

Julia McClure is Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History, University of Glasgow.

Jennifer Pitts is Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. Her works include A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (2005) and Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire (2018). She is also co-editor of The Law of Nations in Global History (2017), and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: Writings on Empire and Slavery (2001).

Surabhi Ranganathan is University Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Cambridge. Her publications include Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law (2014); ‘Ocean Floor Grab: International Law and the Making of an Extractive Imaginary', European Journal of International Law 30 (2019); and ‘Decolonization and International Law: Putting the Ocean on the Map', Journal of the History of International Law (2020).

Gerry Simpson is Professor of Public International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. His works include Great Powers and Outlaw States (2004), Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (2007), and the edited collection (with Kevin Jon Heller), The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (2014).

Joshua Smeltzer recently completed his doctorate in the history of political thought at the University of Cambridge. His publications include ‘Hans Wehberg and the jus belli ac pacis in interwar international law', Global Intellectual History (2018); and ‘Technology, Law, and Annihilation: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Utopianism', Journal of the History of Ideas 81 (2020).