Notes on Contributors
Paolo Amorosa
University Lecturer in International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. He is the author of Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations: How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de Vitoria the Founder of International Law (oup, 2019).
André Azevedo Alves
Associate Professor in Political Science, Institute for Political Studies at Catholic University of Portugal and Honorary Professor of Political Science and Catholic Social Thought, St. Mary’s University, London. His works include Catholic Social Thought, the Market and Public Policy: Twenty-First-Century Challenges (ed. with P. M. Booth, St Mary’s University Press, 2024), De Salamanca a Coimbra y Évora: Caminos cruzados de una Escuela Singular (with J. M. Moreira, Editorial ufv, 2018), and The Salamanca School (with J. M. Moreira, Bloomsbury, 2013).
Joseph W. Bendersky
Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich (Princeton, 1983); a translation and scholarly edition of Schmitt’s On the Three Types of Juristic Thought (Praeger, 2004); A Concise History of Nazi Germany (5th expanded ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2021); and The ‘Jewish Threat’: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army (Basic Books, 2000; Finalist for National Jewish Book Award). His works have been translated into six languages. Recent publications include: ‘Ausnahmezustand, Staatsnotstandsplan, Ermächtigungsgesetz: Reappraising Carl Schmitt’s Political Constitutionalism and the Demise of Weimar’ and ‘Schmitt a Berlino: 1933–1934’.
José María Beneyto
Jean Monnet Chair and University Professor in International Law, European Law and International Relations at the University San Pablo ceu, Madrid; Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School; and Director of the Royal Institute for European Studies. He is also President of the Institute for Governance and Society and of the Spanish Foreign Policy Association. Among his recent books as author or editor,
Ignacio de la Rasilla
Han Depei Chair in International Law and ‘One Thousand Talents Plan’ Professor, Wuhan University Institute of International Law and Wuhan Academy of International Law and Global Governance. Recent books, as sole author or co-editor, include The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (cup, 2024); International Law and History. Modern Interfaces (cup, 2021; Chinese edition, The Commercial Press, 2026); Experiments in International Adjudication: Historical Accounts (cup, 2019); and In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770–1953) (Bril-Nijhoff, 2018).
Lauren Benton
Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law, Yale University. Benton’s recent books include They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton up, 2024); Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850 (co-authored with Lisa Ford, Harvard up, 2016); and A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900 (cup, 2010). Benton received the 2019 Toynbee Prize for significant contributions to global history.
Leonor Durão Barroso
Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Institute for Political Studies of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Studies of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a researcher at the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies. Her research is mainly on political thought, with a focus on the School of Salamanca and its intersection with international law, modern political philosophy, and the Social Doctrine of the Church. Her works include: ‘Limited from the Outside: Francisco Suárez and the External Limits of Political Power’, in Religions, 15: 259, 2024.
Maximiliano Hernández Marcos
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Salamanca. Authors of numerous books in his field of specialization, including Conceptos en disputa, Disputas sobre conceptos (Dykinson, 2022).
Ryan Martinez Mitchell
Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law (cup, 2022).
David Pan
Professor of European Language and Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and editor of the journal Telos. He has also served on the Commission on Unalienable Rights at the U.S. State Department. His publications include Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism and Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth. He has published essays on Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, J. W. von Goethe, J. G. Hamann, J. G. Herder, Ernst Jünger, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Carl Schmitt.
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
Hauser/Remarque Global Fellow, New York University; Postdoctoral Researcher (habilitand), University of Vienna (Austria). His research is currently being supported by an Ernst Mach fellowship from the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation and a postdoc. Mobility grant from the Swiss National Research Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in International Law, with a minor in International History and Politics, from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and serves as the managing editor for the Journal of the History of International Law.
Juan Pablo Scarfi
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He is the author of The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks (oup, 2017) and El imperio de la ley: James Brown Scott y la construcción de un orden jurídico interamericano (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014); and co-editor (with D. Sheinin) of The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022) and Cooperation and Hegemony in US–Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea (with Andrew Tillman) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Ville Suuronen
Postdoctoral Research fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science, University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include twentieth-century intellectual history and political theory as well as contemporary forms of far-right politics in Europe. He has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Political Theory, Government & Opposition, New German Critique, History of European Ideas, Global Intellectual History, Alternatives, The European Legacy, and Contemporary Political Theory. He is currently finishing a monograph on the political theory of Carl Schmitt and working on a broader research project that analyzes contemporary forms of anti-liberal politics in Europe.
Christopher Rossi
Professor of International Relations and International Law, The Arctic University of Norway. He is the author of Remoteness Reconsidered: The Atacama Desert and International Law (University of Michigan Press, 2021); Whiggish International Law: Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas (Brill/Nijhoff, 2019), Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation (cup, 2017); and Broken Chain of Being, James Brown Scott and the Origins of International Law (Kluwer Law International, 1998).
David Roth-Isigkeit
University Professor of Public Law with specialization on the Law of Digitalization, University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He is the author of The Plurality Trilemma: A Geometry of Global Legal Thought (Palgrave, 2018).
Johannes Thumfart
Researcher at the research group Law, Science, Technology, and Society (lsts) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels; Ph.D., Humboldt Universität Berlin. He is author of the book The Liberal Internet in the Postliberal Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) and a book on Francisco de Vitoria, titled Die Begründung der globalpolitischen Philosophie (Kadmos, 2012). His research has been published in the Journal of Global Security Studies, Global Studies Quarterly, Grotiana, and ai and Ethics. He holds/held teaching positions at Hochschule for Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and University of Cincinnati.
Jochen Von Bernstorff
Chair for Constitutional law, International Law and Human Rights at the University of Tubingen. He is the author The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen (cup, 2010) and L’essor et la Chute du Droit International Humanitaire: Une brève Histoire de la Codification de la Protection des Civils en Temps de Guerre (Pédone Paris, 2023). Recent edited volumes include The Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era (oup, 2019, together with P. Dann).
Valentina Vadi
Adjunct Professor in International Law at the School of Political Sciences at the University of Florence and Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schumann Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She is the author of several monographs and more than a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals on international law. Her recent monographs include: Proportionality, Reasonableness, and Standards of Review in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Edward Elgar, 2018); War and Peace: Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations (Brill, 2020); and Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law (Brill, 2023).
Miguel Vatter
Professor in Political Science School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University. His most recent books are The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society (Fordham University Press, 2014); Divine Democracy. Political Theology after Carl Schmitt (oup, 2020); and Living Law. Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt (oup, 2021).