Mariano Croce is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. He is also Research leader of the research group in Kinship Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His books include Carl Schmitt’s Institutional Theory (Cambridge University Press 2022, with Andrea Salvatore), The Legacy of Pluralism: The Continental Jurisprudence of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati (Stanford University Press 2020, with Marco Goldoni), and The Politics of Juridification (Routledge 2012).