Regina Kreide, Ph.D. in political science, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. She was visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York), research assistant in an EU-project, assistant professor at Goethe University and is currently guest professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen on Political Theory and History of Ideas. Her research interests in the field of normative political theory are on human rights, global justice, equality, and transnational democracy. She is editor of Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte/ Journal for Human Rights.