Ben Dorfman is associate professor of intellectual and cultural history and coordinator of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the author of 13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics (2017) and Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights (2020) on Peter Lang.