Justine Lacroix is Professor in the Department of Politics at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She is the author of Walzer. Le pluralisme et l’universel (Michalon, 2001) ; Communautarisme versus libéralisme (ULB, 2003) ; La pensée française à l’épreuve de l’Europe (Grasset, 2008). She has recently co-edited European Stories. How Intellectuals Debate Europe in their National Contexts (Oxford University Press, 2010, with K. Nicolaïdis). Her current research on the critiques of human rights is sponsored by an European Research Council Starting Grant (2010-2015).