People
Alessio Sardo
Alessio Sardo (B.A., M.A. in Law Trieste; PhD in Law, Genoa, 2015) is currently Senior Researcher at the University of Genova (Italy) – Law Department. Previously, he was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Department of Public Law, Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law. In 2014-2019, he served as a Researcher with Grant and Lecturer at Bocconi University (Milano). His research interests include legal theory, comparative constitutional law, general jurisprudence, and economic analysis of law. Dr. Sardo is also a course convenor and tutor on the Master in Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy, LLM co-run by the Universities of Genoa and Girona, where he teaches Social Media Law. Dr. Sardo was invited as visiting scholar in Kiel, Taiwan, and Paris. He has recently been awarded a Nawa Ulam Grant from the Polish National Agency and a Research Distinction (Honorary Professorship) from the University of Ica (Perù).
Paul Billingham
He is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. Most of his research focuses on debates within political liberalism and concerning the place of religion in public life. Alongside this, he works on public shaming (writing about it, not practising it). His research has been published in various journals in moral, political, and legal philosophy, and he is currently writing one side of a book entitled Does Faith Belong in Politics?: A Debate (under contract with Routledge).
Francesco Ferraro
Francesco Ferraro is associate professor of Legal Philosophy at the "Cesare Beccaria" Department of the University of Milan. He has published books, articles, and chapters on Jeremy Bentham's thought, on utilitarianism and rights, on legislative rationality and argumentation, on nudging, and on the analysis of fundamental rights. His publications in English include the chapters 'Legislation and nudging. Towards a suitable definition' (with S. Zorzetto, Springer, 2019), 'The Social Dimension of Fundamental Rights in Times of Crisis" (Routledge, 2018), and 'Deception and Expression. The Puzzling Rationality of Symbolic Legislation' (Springer, 2022). He recently co-edited (with S. Zorzetto) the book 'Exploring the Province of Legislation: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives in Legisprudence' (Springer, 2022).
Tom Parr
He is an Associate Professor in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and Editor-in-Chief of Law, Ethics and Philosophy. His research interests are in contemporary political philosophy, specifically normative questions that fall at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics. His first book, Introducing Political Philosophy: A Policy-Driven Approach, was published with Oxford University Press in 2021.
Katarzyna Eliasz
She holds a PhD in law and is currently finalizing her PhD in philosophy on the concept of freedom in Hannah Arendt’s thought. Her research interests include political philosophy in particular theory of democracy, democratic innovations, and theories of peace.
Seana Shiffrin
Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA (School of Law). Her research addresses issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy, as well as matters of legal doctrine, that concern equality, autonomy, and the social conditions for their realization. She published a monograph, 'Speech Matters' (2014), exploring the ethics of communication and the connection between the prohibition of lying, freedom of speech, and moral progress. She also published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, or Philosophy of Law.
Frederick Schauer
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia (School of Law). Previously, he was a Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University and a professor of law at the University of Michigan. His research interests cover jurisprudence and legal philosophy, in particular, legal reasoning, constitutional law, and evidence in law. His published works include monographs such as ‘The Force of Law’ (2015), ‘Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning’ (2009) and ‘The Law of Obscenity’ (1976), and articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Jurisprudence, or Harvard Law Review
Matthew Kramer
He is a Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at Cambridge University and the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. His research interests include legal philosophy, political philosophy and moral philosophy, in particular deontological ethics, moral realism, and legal positivism. He is an author of 17 books, including ‘Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint’ (2021), ‘Liberalism with Excellence’ (2017), and ‘Objectivity and the Rule of Law’ (2007). He published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
Wojciech Ciszewski
He is an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Legal Theory). His research interests include contemporary political philosophy, legal theory, and ethics, especially theories of justice, conceptions of democracy, as well as relations between law and religion. He published monographs on state neutrality principle (2019) and Rawlsian theory of public reason (2020). He also published in peer-reviewed journals, including American Journal of Bioethics and Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.