Dr Thom Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, UK. He is editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy and editor of Rousseau and Law (Ashgate, 2005), The Legacy of John Rawls (2005, 2d ed 2007), Locke and Law (Ashgate, 2007), and The Global Justice Reader (2007), as well as author of Hegel's Political Philosophy (2007) and Punishment (2009).