Alexander Somek is professor of legal philosophy at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. Before joining the Faculty in Vienna, he held the Charles E. Floete Chair in Law in the College of Law, University of Iowa, and visiting professorships at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He was Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton in the academic year 2012/2013 and a fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin during 2007/2008. His more recent publications include Knowing What the Law is: Legal Theory in a New Key (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2021) and The Legal Relation: Legal Theory after Legal Positivism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017).