Jean L. Cohen (PhD, Sociology, The New School) is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Civil Society and Political Theory (MIT, 1992); Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (Massachusetts, 1982); Regulating Intimacy: a New Legal Paradigm (Princeton, 2002); and Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality (Cambridge, 2012).LabordeCécile:

Cé ile Laborde (PhD, Politics, Oxford) is Professor of Political Theory at University College London. She is the author of Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy (Oxford, 2008), Français, encore un effort pour être républicains (Seuil, 2010), Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900-1925 (Macmillan, 2000), and Liberalism's Religion (Harvard, forthcoming). I chose her as a reader because of her expertise in secularism, republicanism and multiculturalism, theories of law and the state, and global justice.Jean L. Cohen is the Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the coauthor ofCivil Society and Political Theoryand the author of Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory;Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm; andGlobalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality.
Cécile Laborde is a professor of political theory at University College London and a fellow of the British Academy. She is the author ofPluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France and Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy.