Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She specialises in contemporary political and legal theory, with a focus on civil society, sovereignty, globalisation and democracy, religion and politics. She is the author of several books and articles, including «Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory» (University of Massachusetts Press, 1982); «Civil Society and Political Theory» (co-authored with Andrew Arato) (MIT Press, 1992); «Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm» (Princeton University Press, 2002); and «Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality and Legitimacy in the Epoch of Globalization» (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is the co-editor of two volumes: «Democratic Citizenship and War» (Rutledge, 2010) and «Religion, Secularism and Constitutional Democracy» (Columbia University Press, 2016). She has published over 70 articles in journals such as «Constellations, Ethics and International Affairs, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Social Research, Political Theory, Telos and Thesis Eleven». She has also published in various legal journals and authored several book chapters. Her work has been translated into various languages including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Swedish.