- Niraja Jayal
- Visiting Fellow
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Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 1999); and editor/co-editor of, among others, Democracy in India (2nd ed. 2007), Local Governance in India: Decentralisation and Beyond (2005) and The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (forthcoming). At Princeton, Jayal will be working on a book on the Indian idea of citizenship in the twentieth century.
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- Jeff McMahan
- Research Collaborator
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Jeff McMahan, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, is working on a two-volume study of the ethics of killing. The first volume, which covers such issues as abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and the killing of nonhuman animals, was published in 2002. He is currently working on the sequel, which will explore the ethics of killing in self-defense, in war, and as a mode of punishment. He is also writing two shorter, more accessible books on war. One, based on the Uehiro lectures presented in Oxford in spring 2006, addresses issues of responsibility and liability in war. The other, based on the Hourani lectures at the University of Buffalo in fall 2006, deals with broader issues in the morality of war, including humanitarian intervention and preventive war.
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- Hugo Omar Seleme
- Research Collaborator
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Hugo O. Seleme is professor of Philsophy of Law at Córdoba University (Argentina), researcher at CONICET (Argentinean National Council for Sciences and Technology), and visiting professor at the School of Law Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He has also been a visiting scholar at Ohio University, Alcala University (Spain) and Chile University. Currently, he is working on two books related to international distributive issues and human rights. The first one is about John Rawls` conception of international justice. The second one defends the thesis that inequality is relevant only for citizens of legitímate states. Wherever legitimacy requirements are not satisfied prioritarian or egalitarian distributive justice requirements do not take place.
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