Return to Faculty List Miguel Vatter Ph.D. New School for Social Research Assistant Professor   Specializes in history of modern political thought; contemporary political theory. He is the author of Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom (Kluwer Academic Press, 2000); and is completing a book on law and interpretation in contemporary continental thought. His current research and teaching interests focus on the origins of republicanism and liberalism; theories of rights; and on the relation between political thought and philosophy of history in modernity. [e-mail: m-vatter@northwestern.edu]