John R Morss was born in London and educated at the Universities of Sheffield (BSc), Edinburgh (PhD) and Otago (LLB). He has lectured in Psychology/Education/Law at the Universities of Ulster and Otago and at Deakin University, Victoria (Australia). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society for International Law. He has been Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. His most recent book is International Law as the Law of Collectives: Toward a Law of People (Ashgate, 2013).