Author: Colin Macleod

Alexander Bagattini is assistant professor in Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. His areas of research and teaching are in the ethical implications of the concept of child well-being, children’s rights, philosophy of education and environmental ethics. He is also principal investigator in the interdisciplinary research project “Child Well-Being as a Collective Interpretive Pattern” which is funded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry for Education and Research / Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). Colin M. Macleod is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research focuses on issues in contemporary moral, political and legal theory, with a special focus on distributive justice and equality; children, families and justice and democratic ethics. He is the author of Liberalism, Justice and Markets (Oxford University Press, 1998) and the editor of Justice and Equality (University of Calgary Press, 2012) and (with David Archard) of The Moral and Political Status of Children (Oxford University Press, 2002).