Starting with issue 01/2009, our editors will be joined by a guest editor for almost each issue. The guest editor assists us in conceptualizing a particular issue of the IGJR. The choice of the guest editors largely depends on the main theme of an issue. He or she has to be an expert on the given field of research and possess an excellent reputation in the scientific community. The exact tasks of the guest editor are outlined here.

The following list provides information about all guest editors since issue 01/2009.

Issue 01/2010: Prof. Dr. Dr. Laura Westra

Laura Westra did her undergraduate and graduate work in philosophy, and she received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1983. In 2005 she received her second PhD in jurisprudence at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has been reinstated at the University of Windsor (Canada), Faculty of Law, in 2008 and has been teaching environmental law since 2009. She is the author of over 85 articles and chapters in books, as well as 22 books including Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations (2006).

Issue 03/2009: Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott and Prof. Dr. Edward Page
Konrad Ott is Professor for environmental ethics at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald. He was born in 1959, studied philosophy in Frankfurt and achieved his doctorate in 1989 with a work about the ‘Development and Logic of the Historic Science’. During his post-doc phase, he had a stipendiary at the “Centrums for Ethic at the sciences” at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. 

Edward Page is Associate Professor of political theory at Warwick University. He was trained in politics and philosophy at the Universities of Sheffield and Essex, before completing a doctorate on the topic of intergenerational justice (Warwick University: 1998). In 2002, he won a two-year Marie Curie Research Fellowship to pursue research on climate change ethics and politics at Lund University; and he was AHRC Research Fellow in “Global Justice and the Environment” at Birmingham University before taking up his current post in 2006.

Issue 01/2009: Prof. Dr. Lukas Meyer
Prof. Dr. Lukas Meyer received his MA in Philosophy from the Washington University in St. Louis, a diploma in political science from the Free University of Berlin, and his PhD from the University of Oxford. He was lecturer at the Free University and the University of Bremen where he wrote his habilitation on historical justice. After having been assistenzprofessor at the University of Bern he is professor of practical philosophy at the Karl-Franzens University Graz (since March 2009). He also is a member of the committee for "economic science and ethic" of the Verein für Socialpolitik.