José Luis Martí is a legal and political philosopher. He holds a degree in Law (LLB) from Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (1997) and a PhD in Political Theory from the same university (2004). He has also been a Laurance Rockefeller Visting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, at Princeton University 2008-2009. His research in the last years has been related to democratic theory and political philosophy in general, as well as jurisprudence and legal theory. He has authored several books, being the most important: La república deliberativa (Marcial Pons, 2006), and A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain (with Philip Pettit, Princeton University Press, 2009). He has edited several books too. Among them: Nuevas Ideas Republicanas (with Félix Ovejero and Roberto Gargarella, Paidós, 2004), Deliberative Democracy and Its Discontents (with Samantha Besson, Ashgate, 2006), and Legal Republicanism (with Samantha Besson, Oxford University Press, 2009).  He has also authored several articles published in books and journals in Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Colombia. He is also the translator into Spanish, with Agueda Quiroga, of Jeremy Waldron’s Law and Disagreement, also published in this series; as well as of Robert Fishman’s Democracy’s Voices (CIS, 2008).