Peter Lindseth is a professor of international and comparative law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He holds a JD from Cornell and PhD from Columbia in European history.  His teaching and research focus on European integration, American and comparative administrative law, and the legal and political history of the modern state in relation to the underlying process of social change. His most recent book, Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (Oxford University Press, 2010), explores the legal and institutional foundations of European integration in the modern administrative state as it emerged in Western Europe after 1945. Lindseth’s other books include Comparative Administrative Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010), Administrative Law of the European Union: Oversight (ABA Publishing, 2008), and Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects (Oxford University Press 2000). In the United States, Lindseth has served as a visiting professor at Yale Law School, as a fellow and visiting professor at Princeton University, and as a Research Scholar and Associate Director of the European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School, where he was also a teaching fellow. In Europe, Lindseth has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies and a lecturer at the Academy of European Law, both at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Additionally, Lindseth has served as a visiting professor on several law faculties in France (Paris and Aix), and, while in graduate school, as a Chateaubriand Fellow at the French Conseil d’Etat, France’s supreme administrative court.