Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow at Merton College and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, is best-known for his book on international distributive justice, Basic Rights (2nd ed., 1996), and for pioneering the sub-field of International Normative Theory. He was a co-founder of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (U.S.), and the inaugural Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson Professor of Ethics & Public Life at Cornell University. His research has focused on institutions to protect the vulnerable and includes a series of a dozen articles on climate change, beginning in 1992.