Peter Niesen is Professor of Political Theory at Hamburg University. He holds a doctorate in philosophy (1998) and a habilitation in political science (2005) from Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He has held visiting positions at Fudan, Harvard, London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, and Lyon II and has published on Bentham, Kant, democratic theory, and animal politics.


Markus Patberg is Research Associate in Political Theory at the University of Hamburg. From April 2026, he will take up a position as Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the University of Greifswald. He has held visiting positions at University College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is the author of Constituent Power in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2020).


Lucia Rubinelli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science of Yale University. Before joining Yale, she held post-doctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her first book is titled Constituent Power: A History (CUP, 2020).