"Ian Shapiro [1956–], Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, J.D.; Yale Law School, 1987, is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. His research interests include the methods of social inquiry; theories of justice, democracy, and distribution; and the prospects for sustainable democracy in countries that are emerging from authoritarianism. Shapiro is author of The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory; Political Criticism; Democracy's Place; Democratic Justice; The Moral Foundations of Politics; The State of Democratic Theory; and The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences. He is co-author, with Donald Green, of Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory and, with Michael Graetz, of Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth. He served as editor of NOMOS from 1992-2000, has edited numerous other collections, and has edited the Cambridge University Press series on Contemporary Political Theory since 1998. Shapiro was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, and has been a Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town and Nuffield College, Oxford...." (from faculty website at Yale)