Annabel Brett is Professor of Political Thought and History and co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include the history of political thought, primarily early modern but also ancient and late medieval, and the history of international law.

Selected publications: Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Cambridge University Press 1997); Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace (Cambridge University Press 2005); Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, ed. with James Tully and Holly Hamilton-Bleakley (Cambridge University Press 2006); Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law (Princeton University Press 2011); History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International, ed. with Megan Donaldson and Martti Koskenniemi (Cambridge University Press 2021).

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