Notes on Contributors
Daniel S. Allemann
is a Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-editor of Conceptions of Space in Intellectual History (Routledge, 2020) and specializes in the history of early modern political ideas in a global context. His current book project focuses on visions of slavery and empire in the wider Iberian world.
Pamela Edwards
is the author of The Statesman’s Science: History, Nature and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. As well as having contributed chapters to The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Blackwell’s Companion to eighteenth-century British Political Thought, and The Oxford Handbook of Coleridge, she has written extensively on the Atlantic Enlightenment. She has formerly held a joint appointment in History and Political Science at Yale University, and been a visiting scholar at St Katherine’s College Oxford.
Ioannis D. Evrigenis
is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Relations Program at Tufts University. He is the author of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action and Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes’s State of Nature, co-editor of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Another Philosophy of History & Selected Political Writings, as well as the author of a number of articles on the concept of the state of nature in the history of political thought.
Mary C. Fuller
is Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at mit, where she has served as department head and Associate Chair of the Institute faculty. Her research focuses on early modern English geography and exploration, and the related histories of practices, narratives, and material texts as these extend across space and time. She is currently completing a book about Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1600), and editing materials on the Northwest Passage for the projected Oxford edition of Hakluyt’s compilation. Her publications include Voyages in Print: English Travel to America 1576–1624 (Cambridge, 1995) and Remembering the Early Modern Voyage (Palgrave, 2008) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
is a Professor of Law at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, and a member of its Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. He was a Professor at Yale Law School before moving to Berkeley and a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows before that. His first book, Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. His second book, The Invention of the Economy, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He holds B.A. (Economics) and Ph.D. (Political Science) degrees from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Francesca Iurlaro
is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg). She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute (Florence, 2018). Her book The Invention of Custom: Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550–1750 is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Edward J. Kolla
is the author of Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution (Cambridge, 2017). He teaches history at Georgetown University’s campus in Qatar and is currently writing a book on the history of passports.
László Kontler
is Professor of History at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna). His research and publications focus on intellectual history, the history of political thought, translation and reception, and the production and circulation of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe, mainly the Enlightenment. His books include Translations, Histories, Enlightenments: William Robertson in Germany, 1760–1795 (Palgrave, 2014) and (with Per Pippin Aspaas) Maximilian Hell (1720–1792) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe (Brill, 2020).
Grant S. McCall
is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and the Executive Director of the Center for Human-Environmental Research, a New Orleans-based nonprofit research institute aimed at exploring and improving human responses to environmental change. McCall received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Iowa. He is also the author of Before Modern Humans: New Perspectives on the African Stone Age, Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (with Karl Widerquist), the Prehistory
Anne Peters
is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany), and a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Basel (Switzerland), and L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and an associate member of the Institut de Droit International. She was a member (substitute) of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-2015) and a legal expert for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (2009). She is currently President of the German Society of International Law (DGIR). She was the President of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012) and has served on the governance board of various learned societies, such as the German Association of Constitutional Law (VDStRL) and the Society of International Constitutional Law (I CON-S). Among her books (authored, co-authored, or (co-)edited) are: Animals in International Law (Brill, 2021); Remedies against Immunity? (Springer, 2021); Völkerrecht (Schulthess, 5th ed. 2020); Due Diligence in the International Legal Order (Oxford University Press, 2020); Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War (co-ed. with C. Marxsen): Self-Defence against Non-State Actors (vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2019), Law Applicable to Armed Conflict (vol. 2, 2020), Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflicts (vol. 3, 2020); The Legal Framework of the OSCE (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2018); Beyond Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2016); The Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (Nomos, 2016); and Immunities in the Age of Global Constitutionalism (Brill, 2015)
Emile Simpson
holds a Ph.D. in the history of international law from King’s College London. He was formerly a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He is currently a barrister practising in London. His academic research is focused on the history of legal and political thought, and in particular, the history of international legal order. He is the author of War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012) and various articles.
holds the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s Heisenberg position at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He studied history, political science and law at Cambridge, Harvard, Sussex and Leiden, and taught law and political science at Harvard, Yale, Tufts and Sussex universities. He is the author of Secularisation and the Leiden Circle (Leiden: Brill, 2011), American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761–1775 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) and over 50 scholarly papers; co-author, with Dániel Margócsy and Stephen Joffe, of The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (Leiden: Brill, 2018); and co-edited Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden: Brill, 2017) with László Kontler. Mark is co-editor-in-chief of Grotiana and edits the book series, History of European Political and Constitutional Thought.
Tom Sparks
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. His research interests include international environmental law, statehood and sovereignty, international adjudication, and legal theory. He completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Durham in 2018.
Benjamin Straumann
is erc Professor of History at the University of Zurich and Research Professor of Classics at New York University. He is also Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law. Benjamin is the author of Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius’s Natural Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), and of Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Karl Widerquist
is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar. He specializes in distributive justice – the ethics of who has what. He holds two doctorates – one in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He published eight books including, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (coauthored by Grant S. McCall, Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and author of Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He was one of
Sarah Winter
is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA and Co-Director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the UConn Human Rights Institute. An interdisciplinary scholar of British literature of the long nineteenth century, human rights, and the history of law and the modern disciplines, she has published most recently a co-edited collection, From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reclaiming the Social (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics, 2019). Her current book project focuses on habeas corpus, empire, and human rights narratives.
Simone Zurbuchen
is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Lausanne. She has published widely on the history of early modern moral and political philosophy, with a focus on Samuel Pufendorf and the reception of his work in the eighteenth century. Among her areas of expertise is also early modern theories of the law of nations. She was the director of the snf research project, ‘Natural law in Switzerland and beyond: sociability, natural equality, social inequality’ (2014–2018), and she is the editor of The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800 (Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2019).