ALEARDO ZANGHELLINI is Professor of Law & Social Theory at The University of Reading. Zanghellini's academic work is in the areas legal & moral philosophy, and the politics of gender & sexuality, including from historical perspectives. Zanghellini has published numerous academic articles, as well as two research monographs: Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction & the Law, and The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority. Aleardo Zanghellini is also the author of The Spellbinders, a novel retelling the story of Edward II, Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser.