Christian Schemmel Editor & Author

Dr Ayelet Banai, Dr Miriam Ronzoni, and Dr Chistian Schemmel are research fellows and permanent members of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice - Applied and Global", at the Department of Political Science of the University of Frankfurt. They are also founding members of The Global Justice Network and founding editors of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric. Dr Ayelet Banai has just completed her D.Phil. in Political Theory at the University of Oxford with the thesis "Drawing Boundaries: Nations, States and Self-Determination". She was recently a post-doctoral fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" at the University of Frankfurt. Her fields of research are theories of self-determination, nationalism and diversity, theories of freedom, and the history of European liberalism. She currently works on the relationship between self-determination and territoriality. Dr Miriam Ronzoni has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a lecturer in political theory at St. Peter's College, Oxford and at University College London. Her research interests are in constructivism as a method for normative political theory and in global justice, with special emphasis on the interdependence between domestic and supranational just institutional arrangements. She is also interested in property-owning democracy, understood as a socio-economic regime alternative to both capitalism and socialism. She has published in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Res Publica. Dr Christian Schemmel: Christian Schemmel has just earned his D.Phil. in Political Theory at the University of Oxford with the thesis "Social Justice as Relational Equality". He is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and has worked as a Tutor in Politics at St. Anne's College. His research interests are social justice and equality, global justice and its connection to social justice, self-respect in philosophical and empirical research, and the relationship between theories of justice and different models of welfare state.