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William Scheuerman is professor of political science at Indiana University at Bloomington. His primary research interests include modern political thought, German political thought, democratic theory, legal theory, and normative international theory. In addition to publishing a variety of articles in professional journals, Scheuerman is author of Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time (Johns Hopkins, 2008); Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law (Routledge, 2008); and Hans J. Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond (Polity Press, 2009). Scheuerman has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota as well as the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. in Philosophy at Yale University and a Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. He is co-director of an annual international conference for critical theorists held in Prague.