Albert Dzur is professor of political science and philosophy at Bowling Green State University, a research fellow at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Edinburgh, and an associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at Canberra University (Australia). He is the author of Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice and Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury.