Contributors
- Contributors
Benjamin P. Davis is Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics at the University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics. His current research brings together human rights and decolonial thinking. It includes, in addition to this article in Humanity, the articles "What Could Human Rights Do? A Decolonial Inquiry" (Transmodernity, 2020) and "Human Rights and Caribbean Philosophy: Implications for Teaching" (Journal of Human Rights Practice, forthcoming). Outside of this project on human rights, his research considers the concepts of Édouard Glissant and Simone Weil with a view toward political belonging in the present.
Yakov Feygin is Associate Director of the Future of Captialism Program at the Berggruen Institute. He holds a Ph.D in history from the University of Pennsylvania and has held fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His book, Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform, is under contract with Harvard University Press.
Ben Golder is associate professor of law in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He works at the intersection of legal and political theory, serving on the editorial committee of Law & Critique and as a general editor of Contemporary Political Theory. His last book was Foucault and the Politics of Rights (Stanford, 2015) and he is currently at work on a manuscript about post-foundational approaches to human rights. Recent writings have investigated legal performativity, human rights and metaphor, and the intellectual legacy of the legal theorist Peter Fitzpatrick.
Anna Grimaldi is lecturer in Modern Latin American History at the Department of History at King's College London. She holds a joint PhD in Global Affairs from King's Brazil Institute and the University of Sao Paulo's Institute of International Relations. A book based on her thesis, entitled Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, is shortly due for publication with Brill's New Scholarship in Political Economy series. Her current research seeks to identify and historically situate Global South contributions to human rights and development paradigms.
Karin Loevy is an Emile Noël Fellow at NYU School of Law where she leads the IILJ History & Theory of International Law workshop series and manages the JSD Program. Her first book, Emergencies in Public Law: The Legal Politics of Containment (Cambridge, 2016) examines emergencies as an area of legal and institutional mobilization and normalization. Her current project, in history of international law in the Middle East, unravels layers of non-sovereign territorial imagination in legal and diplomatic instruments on the way to the mandate system (1915–1923). An overview of this project won an ILR Prize for unsolicited articles.
Sharif Youssef is assistant professor of English and Legal Studies at Ashoka University. He is writing his first book, Actuarial Form: Moral Hazard in the Early Novel, about how novels responded to mass casualty statistics in early political economy and the connected problem of information asymmetry. He recently co-edited an anthology titled Human Rights after Corporate Personhood: An Uneasy Merger? (Toronto, 2020), which explores the naturalization of the corporation under public law.
