Costas Douzinas is a law professor at Birkbeck University, London, where he has lived since having left Greece in 1974. A regular columnist on Greek issues for The Guardian, he is well known for his work in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Postmodern Legal Theory and Political Philosophy. His books include The End of Human Rights (Hart, 2000) and Human Rights and Empire (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).