PHILIP LISTE (Dr. phil. Goethe University Frankfurt, Habilitation University of Hamburg) is Professor of Political Science & the Politics of Human Rights at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies of Fulda University of Applied Sciences. His fields of interest include theories of human rights, politics of international law, transnational law, and critical theory. He has published in refereed journals like European Journal of International Relations, Transnational Legal Theory, International Political Sociology, and Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.