Samera Esmeir is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book is Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History (2012). She is working on a ...view moreSamera Esmeir is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book is Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History (2012). She is working on a book that examines the encounter between revolutions and different legal traditions since the eighteenth century.view less