Edward Anderson is a senior lecturer at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. His research interests lie in the areas of globalization, income inequality, foreign aid, and human rights, and he has published widely, including in World Development, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Economics Letters, and Review of World Economics. He has also carried out consultancy work for a range of organizations, including the Center for Economic and Social Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Edward.Anderson@uea.ac.uk
Jacqueline Best is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where she coordinates the International Political Economy Network. Her research is at the intersection of international relations, political economy, and social theory. She has recently published Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance (2014) and co-edited (with Alexandra Gheciu) The Return of the Public in Global Governance (2013). Best is editor of the Routledge RIPE book series. jbest@uottawa.ca
Meghan Campbell is the Weston Junior Research Fellow, New College, Oxford University and deputy-director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Her DPhil from Oxford University explored the potential for the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women to address gender-based poverty. Her current work investigates the nature of the legal obligation to cooperate to realize human rights. She has lectured at Oxford University on human rights, labor, and administrative and constitutional law. meghan.campbell@law.ox.ac.uk
Elizabeth F. Cohen is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and the Wagner School, New York University. Cohen is the author of Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics (2009), and her scholarship has appeared in, among other journals, Citizenship Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Polity, and the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy. She has also published op-eds in newspapers including the Washington Post and Newsday, and her research has been cited by the New York Times. Currently, she is completing a book about the political value of time and a monograph about the rise of short-term immigration in the United States. efcohen@maxwell.syr.edu
Kate Donald is director of the Human Rights in Development program at the Center for Economic and Social Rights in New York. Previously, Donald worked as an adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and has also held positions at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. kdonald@cesr.org
John R. Emery is a PhD candidate in the department of political science at the University of California, Irvine. His area of interest lies at the intersection between international relations, ethics, and the just war tradition. His current research agenda focuses on the ethics of technology in warfare and humanitarianism, U.S. foreign policy, and issues surrounding terrorism/counterterrorism. www.EmeryJohnR.com
Sandra Fredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford. She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law, and labor law, including Human Rights Transformed (2008), Discrimination Law (2nd ed., 2011), and Women and the Law (1997), as well as two co-authored books: The State as Employer (with Gillian Morris, 1988) and Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain (with Bob Hepple, 2nd ed., 1992). She has also edited several books, and was awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2004 to further her research into socioeconomic rights and substantive equality. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labor legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the U.K., India, South Africa, Canada, and the UN, and is a barrister practicing at Old Square Chambers. She founded the Oxford Human Rights Hub in 2012, of which she is director. sandra.fredman@law.ox.ac.uk
Ben Herzog is a lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2012–2013 he served as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow at the Canada Program of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. His primary teaching and research interests are sociology of law, immigration, and citizenship; qualitative and comparative historical methods; political sociology; and North American and Middle Eastern history and politics. He has also served as the Pierre Keller Post–Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations with the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University and as a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Dartmouth College. His articles on refugees and citizenship have been published in numerous journals, including Nations and Nationalism, Israel Studies Forum, Research in Political Sociology, European Journal of Sociology, and Eastern European Politics and Society. He is the author of Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror (2015). herzogb@bgu.ac.il
Jaakko Kuosmanen is coordinator of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations and a research fellow at the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford. Kuosmanen, who holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, has lectured in various universities on human rights law, global justice, institutionalism, and just war theory, and has also worked for the Council of Europe. jaakko.kuosmanen@law.ox.ac.uk
Cristina Lafont is professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of Global Governance and Human Rights (Spinoza Lecture Series, 2012), Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (2000), and The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (1999), and is co-editor of The Habermas Handbuch (2012). Some of her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Philosophy and Constellations. clafont@u.northwestern.edu
Malcolm Langford is associate professor, Faculty Law, University of Oslo, and co-director of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute. He has published widely on questions of human rights, international development, investment arbitration, and legal politics, including Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future (with A. Sumner and A. Yamin, 2013). He is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Book Series on Human Rights and Globalization and advises several UN agencies, governments, and NGOs on development and rights issues. malcolm.langford@jus.uio.no
David Miller is professor of political theory in the University of Oxford, and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College. He has written widely on questions of political theory and philosophy, including social justice, nationality and citizenship, and democracy. His books include On Nationality (1995), Principles of Social Justice (1999), National Responsibility and Global Justice (2007), and Justice for Earthlings (2013). In 2016 he will publish Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration with Harvard University Press. Alongside his work on immigration, he is currently working on territorial boundaries and on how to do political philosophy. david.miller@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Sally-Anne Way teaches and researches in the field of international human rights law with a particular focus on economic, social, and cultural rights. Most recently, she has worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and as a lecturer in international human rights law at the University of Essex. Way has also served as a senior adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and as research director at the Center for Economic and Social Rights. The views expressed in this essay are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization.
