DISCOURSES ON CORRUPTION

Kalpana Kannabiran is the recipient of the inaugural Amartya Sen Award for Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in Law. She is a sociologist and legal researcher and is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an autonomous research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research in the field of Social Aspects of Law by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2003. She was part of the founding faculty of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law where she taught sociology and law for a decade (1999–2009) and is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she has coordinated research and legal outreach for women. Kannabiran has been the general secretary of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (1998–2000) and is active in the International Sociological Association. She was a member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunity Commission, Government of India (2007–2008) and member of the Expert Group on Legal Education Reform in Kerala, Government of Kerala. She has been an activist in the women’s movement since the late 1970s.

Florian Hoffmann is a professor of Law at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, and an associate researcher in the Nucleo de Direitos Humanos (Human Rights Centre) of the Law Department. Prior to this, he was the Franz Haniel Chair of Public Policy (2010–2016) and the Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy (2012–2015) at the University of Erfurt (Germany). Before this, he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE; 2008–2010) and the PUC-Rio (2003–2008). His work has generally focused on the interface between law and politics, with his main research interest having been in international law and human rights and (international) legal theory. He is, with Anne Orford, the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (2016).

Bettina Hollstein is the academic manager and adjunct professor of Economic Ethics at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Her research and teaching focus on economic ethics, pragmatism, sustainability, volunteering, action theory and corruption. She has long-standing expertise as a manager in science organizations. Since 2004, she is co-editor of the Journal for Business, Economics and Ethics (Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik).