MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School of the University of Chicago. She is an Associate in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, a Member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and Co-Chair of the Human Rights Program. She is the founder and Coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism.

She received her BA from New York University and her MA and PhD from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities.

She received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction for 1990, and the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays in 1991;

• Cultivating Humanity won the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1998 and the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002.
• Sex and Social Justice won the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in 2000.
• Hiding from Humanity won the Association of American University Publishers Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law in 2004.
• Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership won the Elaine and David Spitz Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in liberal/democratic theory, 2008.
• She is the author of the 2007 Supreme Court Foreword for the Harvard Law Review entitled "Constitutions and Capabilities: 'Perception' against Lofty Formalism” and
• Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality, from which the chapter in "Whose God Rules?" is based.