Ben Cashore is Professor of Environmental Governance and Political Science at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. His research interests focus on non-state market-driven environmental governance, the impact and opportunities of globalization and internationalization on domestic...

Mr. Schima is a legal adviser in the Euorpean Commission's Legal Service. He has studied law in Vienna, where he was born, and in Paris and at Harvard Law School. From 1995 to 2003, he was a member of the chambers of Judge Dr. Peter Jann at the European Court of Justice. In 2003, Mr. Schima...

Professor Winroth, who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003, specializes in the history of medieval Europe, especially religious, intellectual and legal history as well as the Viking Age. We talk with him about his new book, "The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in...