Alessandro Ferrara es profesor en la facultad de Sociología de la Universidad de Roma "La Sapienza". Es autor de "Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" (SUNY Press, 1993) y de "Justice and Judgment. The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Modelin Contemporary Political Philosophy" (Londres, Sage, 1998).