THOM BROOKS is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle University, UK. He is the editor and founder of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. His books include The Legacy of John Rawls (with Fabian Freyenhagen, 2005), Rousseau and Law (2005), Hegel's Political Philosophy (2007), The Global Justice Reader (2008), The Right to a Fair Trial (2009), and Punishment (2011). He is currently co-editing a collection, Rawls's Political Liberalism, with Martha C. Nussbaum.
