ABOUT

Cindy Skach teaches legal and political theory at the University of Bologna, and is Emeritus Professor of Law at King's College London. Skach was previously Professor of Comparative Government and Law at the University of Oxford, after having taught as a professor at Harvard University for nearly a decade. She is actively engaged with governments and citizen groups around the world, working to establish more meaningful democratic practice and policy, and challenge existing paradigms that place formal constitutions and hierarchical leadership at the core of government. Having served as constitutional advisor to world leaders directly and through organisations such as the Club of Madrid, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, Skach is now committed to working with future citizens on post-constitutional democratic governance. 

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Born in Chicago, Skach was educated at Northwestern University (BA, Honors), Columbia University (MA, MPhil), and the University of Oxford (DPhil). She was an exchange student at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Seville, and a research student at the Santa Fe Institute, where she worked with physical scientists to understand non-hierarchical order and organisation.  

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Skach has held visiting positions and conducted research on six continents, and has been supported by numerous foundations and organisations, including the Harvard Medical School and the Fulbright Commission.