Alessandro Ferrara is Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Adjunct Professor of Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. In 2025 he has been Spender Visiting Professor at the Law School of the University of Sydney. He has served as President of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy (2005-2010) and since 1993 is a Co-Director of the Prague Conference Philosophy and Social Science. He serves on the editorial board of several journals, including Philosophy & Social Criticism and Constellations, and co-edits (with David Rasmussen) the series Philosophy & Politics – Critical Explorations, at Springer. His book Sovereignty Across Generations. Constituent Power and Political Liberalism (OUP, 2023) was awarded the “Best 2023 Book” prize by ICON-S, International Society of Public Law. With Frank Michelman, he has recently co-authored Legitimation by Constitution. A Dialogue on Political Liberalism (OUP, 2021). He also authored The Democratic Horizon. Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism (CUP, 2014) and The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (Columbia UP, 2008).
