A leading political and moral philosopher, Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she holds appointments in the philosophy department and in Chicago’s law and divinity schools. She is widely known for her work on the foundations of social justice, principally her work developing the “capabilities approach” to national and global development, as well as for her work on the philosophy of emotion. She is the founder and coordinator of Chicago’s Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. Dr. Nussbaum received her B.A. from New York University and her Ph.D. in classical philology from Harvard University, where she was the first woman to be elected a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows. She joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor of philosophy and the classics and was appointed an associate professor in 1980. From 1984 to 1995 she taught at Brown University, where she was appointed to a University Professorship in 1987. The same year, she became a research advisor to the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki, a post she held until 1993. Dr. Nussbaum moved to Chicago as professor of law and ethics in 1995. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at Oxford, and a visiting professor at the Centre for Political Science at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and at Harvard. The recipient of thirty-three honorary degrees from colleges and universities in North America, Europe, and Asia and numerous awards, she is an honorary fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. Dr. Nussbaum delivered the 1992 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh and two sets of Tanner Lectures, in Canberra, Australia, and in Cambridge, England. The author of more than 300 published papers, she is  the editor or co-editor of thirteen books and the author of fourteen other books, including The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Love’s Knowledge (1990), Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1997), winner of the Grawemeyer Prize in Education and the Frederic W. Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Sex and Social Justice (1999), winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, Women and Human Development (2000), Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001), Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004), winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Book Award, and Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2006). Her most recent book, Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on America’s Tradition of Religious Equality, published in 2008 by Basic Books, examines constitutional law governing the relationship between religion and government, arguing that the best basis for conceptualizing religious freedom is the idea of equal respect for all citizens. She has three books scheduled to appear during 2010: From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitional Law (Oxford University Press), Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton University Press), and Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Harvard University Press).