PERSPECTIVES

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WOLF LINDER

Wolf Linder is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bern and a leading expert on comparative federalism, referendums, and Swiss democracy. His research centers on decentralization and power-sharing in young democracies. He co-authored Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies (with Sean Mueller, Palgrave, 2017) and has published widely in top journals, including the European Journal of Political Research and the Swiss Political Science Review. Linder’s work significantly shapes scholarship on democratic institutions and conflict resolution in multicultural societies.

PETER L. LINDSETH

Peter L. Lindseth is a Member of the IUS International Advisory Committee and the Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. His research examines European integration, comparative administrative law, and legal history. He is the author of Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP, 2010) and co-editor of several volumes on comparative administrative law. His articles have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Contemporary European History, European Law Journal, Revue française d’administration publique, and the Yale Law Journal. He holds a BA and JD from Cornell and a PhD in European history from Columbia.

KALYPSO NICOLAIDIS

Kalypso Nicolaïdis is Professorial Chair of Global Affairs at the EUI School of Transnational Governance in Florence. She directs the Transnational Democracy Programme, the Democratic Odyssey, the EUI democracy cluster, and the Global Peace Tech Hub. A leading scholar of European integration, democratic governance, and global affairs, she bridges academic research with public deliberation and institutional innovation. Her most recent book, A Citizen’s Guide to the Rule of Law: Why We Need to Fight for the Most Precious Human Inventions of All Time, argues for renewing civic commitment to the rule of law amid democratic backsliding.

KIM LANE SCHEPPELE

Kim Lane Scheppele is a Member of the IUS International Advisory Committee and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, as well as a faculty fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her research spans the sociology of law, political sociology, comparative and historical sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and human rights. She studies the rise and fall of constitutional government, with a focus on post-1989 Eastern Europe and new constitutions in Hungary and Russia. Her latest book, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (with A. Vedaschi, CUP, 2021), examines worldwide legal shifts.

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