Laws Locations: Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies

Biographies of Speakers, Chairs and Commentators

Richard Abel (University of California Los Angeles, CA)Richard Abel is Michael J. Connell Professor of Law at University of California Los Angeles Law School. He teaches Torts, Legal Profession, and Law and Social Change. Over the years, he has been president of the Law and Society Association, editor of African Law Studies and of the Law & Society Review, and a member of the editorial boards of other journals in the law and society field in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He participated in the founding of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies in 1977 and helped organize the meeting on "Law and Racism: The Sounds of Silence."

Professor Abel spent two years after law school reading African law and legal anthropology in London and then a year of field work in Kenya studying the ways in which primary courts staffed by and serving the African population had preserved indigenous notions of law and procedure within European institutions. Professor Abel's most recent books are English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism (2003), Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech (1998); Lawyers: A Critical Reader (1997); Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994 (1995); The Law & Society Reader (1995); Speech and Respect (1994); American Lawyers (1989); The Legal Profession in England and Wales (1988); The Politics of Informal Justice (editor, 1982); and Lawyers in Society (co-editor, 1988-89).

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Flavia Agnes (Majlis, Mumbai, India)Flavia Agnes is a leading women’s rights lawyer in India. A pioneer of the women’s rights movement, she has worked for over 25 years on issues of gender and law reform. She is the co-founder of Majlis, a Mumbai-based center that addresses issues of gender and human rights advocacy and provides legal services to women and children. Ms Agnes has played an important role in bringing women's rights to the forefront of the Indian legal system and in contextualizing issues of gender and identity. A prolific writer, she has written on various legal issues including, domestic violence, minority law reform, secularism and human rights. Significant among her many publications is her autobiographical book My Story Our Story ... Of Rebuilding Broken Lives which has been translated into several languages. Other publications include Law & Gender Inequality, The Politics of Personal Laws in India and an Omnibus, Women and Law (co-edited) published by Oxford University Press. At present she is completing a textbook on Gender and Law.

Ms. Agnes is a visiting faculty member at several law schools in India including the prestigious National Law School at Bangalore. She has received many awards for her work on women’s rights including the Times Foundation’s Award for Women Achievers. In 2005 she was recognized as an outstanding women’s rights activist in India at the Global Rights Annual Event held in Washington DC. In fall 2009, she was a Distinguished International Visitor at UW-Madison and taught a course on “Legal Domains, Community Constructions and Gender Concerns” at the UW Law School.

Walter Alban (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)Walter Albán is the Dean and Principle Professor of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is also a member of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the University. Dean Alban has a long history in constitutional law and human rights law. He worked as the Defensor del Pueblo, or human rights ombudsman, of Peru from 2001 to 2005, and has worked with the Defensoría del Pueblo del Perú since it was founded in 1996. Prior to that, he was in charge of the Dirección Adjunta de la Comisión Andina de Juristas, an important transnational NGO that advocated for democracy and rule of law in the Andean region. Since June 2007, he has been a member of the Tribunal de Ética del Consejo de la Prensa Peruana, an institution charged with monitoring compliance by the Peruvian media to ethical standards.

Catherine Albertyn (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)Catherine Albertyn is a professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has a BA LLB from UCT and a Ph.D. from

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Cambridge University. She trained as an attorney and practiced as a human rights lawyer from 1989 to 1992. She then joined the Centre for Applied Legal Studies to start the Gender Research Project. She is currently a commissioner at the Law Reform Commission. Professor Albertyn is a constitutional lawyer with a particular specialization in equality, human rights and social justice, and the transformation of the legal profession and the judiciary.

Helena Alviar Garcia (Los Andes University Law School, Bogota, Colombia)Helena Alviar Garcia is an Associate Professor at Los Andes University Law School, Bogota, and was visiting Tinker Professor at University of Wisconsin Law School in Fall 2008. She holds an SJD Degree in Economic Law and Gender, and an LL.M. Degree from Harvard University, and a law degree from the Universidad de Los Andes. She is the Director of the Master’s Degree in Law program at the Universidad de Los Andes, teaching courses in: Theory of Private Law, Theory of Public Law, Legal Theory, and Law and Development. She is an expert on feminist approaches to law, and on the relationship between law and development. She has many publications to her credit including: “Aproximaciones feministas al Derecho Comercial” (in Revista de Derecho Privado, No. 27, Uniandes Ed., Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, December 2001); “The Relationship between Modernization and Law in Colombia during the First Half of the Twentieth Century” (presented at the Harvard Law School, April 2002), and “The Influence of Leon Duguit in the Colombian Constitutional Reform of 1936” (presented at the Harvard Law School, December 2001).

Penelope Andrews (Valparaiso Law School)Penelope (Penny) Andrews is a Professor of Law at Valparaiso Law School. In the summer of 2010 she will move to the City University of New York as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Between 2008 and 2010 she held a Chair in Law at LaTrobe University, Australia. She has been a visiting professor at several law schools, including the University of Maryland, the University of Natal, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Potsdam, and the University of Amsterdam. In 2002 she was the Stoneman Fellow of Law and Democracy at Albany Law School and the Parsons Visitor at the University of Sydney. In 2004 she was a resident at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, working on a manuscript on women's human rights law.

She has written extensively on human rights issues in the South African, Australian, and international contexts, and appears frequently on panels addressing issues of international human rights, women, and racial minorities. She is the editor of two books, The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa's Basic Law, and Law and Rights: Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Governance. Her forthcoming book, From Cape Town to Kabul: Reconsidering Women’s Human Rights, will be published in 2010. She has received several awards

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for her human rights work, including a scholarship in her honor to benefit disadvantaged black South Africans at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She sits on the Boards of several law journals and is the editor of the International Review of Constitutionalism. Professor Andrews has served as a Board Member for NGOs, and has also served as a consultant and advisor to governments and NGOs. She has served as a law school site inspector for the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools. In 2005 she was a finalist for a vacancy on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Sumudu Atapattu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Sumudu Atapattu is the Associate Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She teaches International Environmental law and her book entitled Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law was published by Transnational Publishers in 2006. She holds an LLM and a PhD Degree from University of Cambridge and is an Attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Sumudu is also the Lead Counsel for Poverty and Human Rights at the Center for International Environmental Law, Montreal, Canada. Before coming to the United States, she was an Associate Professor at the Law School, University of Colombo and Consultant, Law & Society Trust, Colombo. Her research interests include human rights and environment, climate change, environmental migration and sustainable development.

Swethaa Ballakrishnen (Stanford University)Swethaa Ballakrishnen is a PhD candidate in the Sociology of Education Department at Stanford University. She was an Inlaks Scholar to the Harvard LL.M class of 2008 and a 2004 graduate of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (where she won the Amancharla Krishna Murti Memorial Gold Medal for the best student of her graduating class). In 2008, she joined PLP and EALS as a Joint Research Fellow with a South Asia specific research agenda. Before coming to Harvard, Ms. Ballakrishnen was an international finance lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., an intern at the Supreme Court of India with Justice A. Pasayat and spent a year teaching international finance and legal methods at two national law schools in Hyderabad and Bhopal, India.

At the Harvard Law School, her graduate program had a shared focus in international finance and the sociology of legal education and her recent research has been on the evolution of law schools and students in/from South Asia and the corresponding implications on the legal profession. At PLP, her research has been concentrated on further study of the profession in South Asia with particular focus on the globalization and off shoring of legal services in India. This past winter, Ms. Ballakrishnen was on a PLP Research Grant in India, doing field research on the growth and of the country’s growing legal outsourcing industry.  She is currently working on

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finalizing these findings. In addition to her doctoral studies, Ms. Ballakrishnen works closely with Professor Marc Galanter  (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on the legal profession, and consults periodically on legal education-related projects for the Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon.

Jane Burbank (New York University, NY) Jane Burbank is a Professor of Arts and Science at New York University. Her early work concerned the multiple and insightful interpretations of the Russian revolution of 1917 produced by Russian intellectuals during the first five years of Bolshevik government. From the Russian intelligentsia, Professor Burbank turned to study law, in particular law as engaged by Russian peasants in the last years of the imperial regime. She is now working on a study of the law in Russia, as imagined and engaged by professionals, officials, theorists, and court users, from 1905 through 1925, and on a second project comparing law in the Russian and Ottoman empires. Professor Burbank’s teaching interests include Russian cultural, social, and intellectual history; European intellectual history and social theory; rural people and their politics; legal cultures; gender and social organization; political cultures of empires.

Peter Carstensen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Peter C. Carstensen is the George Young-Bascom Professor of Law.  From 1993 to 2002 he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the UW Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and received his law degree and a master's degree in economics from Yale University. From 1968 to 1973, he was an attorney at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice assigned to the Evaluation Section, where one of his primary areas of work was on questions of relating competition policy and law to regulated industries. He has been a member of the faculty of the UW Law School since 1973. His scholarship and teaching have focused on antitrust law and competition policy issues. He has published a number of articles in the field, including a number analyzing aspects of the relationship of antitrust law and regulation.  He has also done extensive research on the operation and regulation of markets for agricultural commodities. He served as co-editor and primary author of four chapters of the ABA Antitrust Section's monograph, Federal Statutory Exemptions from Antitrust Law (2007). His other areas of teaching and scholarly interest are tort law, energy law and insurance law.

Allison Christians (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Allison Christians joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in 2005. She received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty of the UW Law School, Professor Christians taught J.D. and LL.M. courses in federal and international income taxation at

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Northwestern University School of Law, and before that practiced tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where she focused on the taxation of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings and associated issues and transactions involving private and public companies.  Professor Christians has written several articles and book chapters addressing national and international policy, globalization, competition, institutional, and development aspects of taxation, she is co-author of a leading casebook on U.S. international tax law, and she serves as Editor for the Tax Section of Jotwell, the legal scholarship review blog. She teaches courses on Federal Income Taxation; International Taxation; Taxation of Business Entities and Tax Policy.

Joe Conti (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Joe Conti is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor Conti specializes in international trade disputes and world society. He is currently a collaborator at the NSF Center for Nanotechnology and Society. Professor Conti received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California – Santa Barbara, where his research focused on dispute resolution in the World Trade Organization. Before joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Professor Conti was a collaborator at the National Science Foundation Center for Nanotechnology and Society.

Javier Couso (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile) Javier Couso is Professor of Law and Sociology at the Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago, Chile and former Director of the Center of Socio-Legal Research. During Fall 2006, Professor Couso was a Tinker Visiting Professor at UW Law School and organized with Professor Alexandra Huneeus a conference on “Legal Culture and the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America.” The papers presented at the conference were accepted for publication by the Cambridge University Press. Professor Couso’s research interests include the study of law and courts in Latin America, the comparative study of judicialization, and the legal profession.

Jackie Dugard (Socio-Economic Rights Institute, South Africa)Jackie Dugard is the Executive Director of the newly created Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). She is a human rights activist and was a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand. She works on socio-economic rights, focusing on basic services (water and electricity) and access to justice for the poor. Prior to joining CALS (in January 2004), Dr Dugard worked in the Political Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. She has a BA (Hons) and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MPhil and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Jackie was part of the legal team in the Phiri water rights case – Mazibuko & Others v City of Johannesburg &

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Others. In this groundbreaking application in the Johannesburg High Court – the first explicit right to water case in South Africa - the applicants challenged the lawfulness and constitutionality of prepayment water meters, as well as the sufficiency of the City’s Free Basic Water policy to meet the basic needs of large poor urban households.

Rachel Ellett (Beloit College, Wisconsin)Rachel Ellett is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Moat Junior Professor of International Studies, at Beloit College, Wisconsin. She joined the department in 2008 and teaches courses in international and comparative politics, and African Studies. Courses offered include contemporary African politics, comparative law and courts, promoting democracy and women and politics in the developing world. Her research interests focus on the politics of eastern and southern Africa and comparative judicial politics. Her dissertation, "Emerging Judicial Power in Transitional Democracies: Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi," is based on fieldwork funded by the National Science Foundation. Her publications include "Re-emergence of The 'Other': Nationalism in Post-Nyerere Tanzania" in Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism.2005 Vol. 32 No. 1-2. In addition to continuing her research agenda on the intersection of law and politics in sub-Saharan Africa, she is currently exploring the ways in which teachers can effectively draw on students' study abroad experiences in the political science classroom.

David Engel (University at Buffalo Law School, NY) David Engel is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at University at Buffalo Law School and teaches courses on Torts and Products Liability and seminars on Injuries and on Law, Culture, and Society as well as a Directed Readings Course for General LL.M. students. His research deals with law and society in the United States and in other countries, particularly Thailand, where he has lived, worked, and taught for many years. Professor Engel currently serves as chair of UB's Council on International Studies and Programs, an advisory body to the Provost. From 1991 to 2001, he served as Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and as Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies; and from 2002 to 2008 he was Director of International Programs at the law school. His latest book is Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand (2010), which is a study of injuries and the law in a rapidly changing Asian society. Professor Engel is an active member of the Law & Society Association, an international membership organization which he served as President from 1997-1998. He was also a member of the Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation Program for Law and Social Sciences and the LSAC Grants Sub-Committee. In 2005/6, he was selected as the inaugural occupant of the Sturm Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

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Alexander Fischer (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)Alexander Fischer teaches public law and comparative law at the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. During 2004/2005 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and taught at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg before moving to London.

Jan French (University of Richmond, Virginia)Dr. French is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond. Her research focuses on Latin America, Legal and Political Anthropology, Human Rights, and Anthropological Theory. Her new book, Legalizing Identities:   Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Nort heast , published by the UNC Press in 2009 shows how law can successfully serve as the momentum for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Her other publications include: "Ethnoracial Land Restitution: Finding Indians and Fugitive Slave Descendants in the Brazilian Northeast" in Restoring What Was Ours: The Rights And Wrongs Of Land Restitution, eds. Derick Fay and Deborah James (2008); "Ethnoracial Identity in a Neoliberal Age: Government Recognition of Difference in Northeast Brazil," in Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America, eds. John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn and Kenneth Roberts (2008); and “A Tale of Two Priest and Two Struggles: Liberation Theology from Dictatorship to Democracy in Brazilian Northeast,” The Americas, v. 63, no. 3, 409-443 (2007).

Marc Galanter (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Marc Galanter is John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Delhi, a Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies and consultant on legal services to the Ford Foundation in India. He has lectured at more than 80 universities in the United States and abroad. He has taught South Asian Law, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession, Religion and the Law, Contracts, Dispute Processing and Negotiations. He has authored numerous books and articles related to law, the legal profession and the provision of legal services in India.

Mary Gallagher (University of Michigan)Mary Gallagher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in Chinese Studies and Political Science, Professor Gallagher studies Chinese politics, law and society, and comparative politics. She is currently working on two projects. The first, funded by a Fulbright Research Award and the National Science Foundation, examines the development of rule of law in China by looking at the dynamics of legal mobilization of Chinese workers. The second project examines labor standards and practices in four Chinese regions, discerning the diffusion effects in legislation, court behavior, and

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labor practices across different regions and looking for evidence of a “race to the bottom” in labor standards and social welfare within China’s own domestic economy.

Manuel A. Gómez (Florida International University College)Manuel A. Gómez is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University College of Law where he teaches International and Comparative Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Collective Litigation and Legal Institutions in Latin America. He also serves as the Coordinator of International Legal Projects. Before joining FIU, Professor Gomez was a Lecturer in Law and a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School, where he had academic responsibility for the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies. Professor Gómez also led a working group on Law and Policy in Latin America sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Faculty at the Universidad Central de Venezuela Law School (Caracas, Venezuela), a visiting professor at the Universidad Católica del Táchira (1996), Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (2000-2001) and Universidad Metropolitana Law School (2005). Professor Gomez obtained his first law degree with a high academic distinction (cum laude) from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela (1993), where he also completed a specialization in Civil Procedure (1995) and practiced law for several years. Professor Gomez has conducted research and written academic papers on many subjects including dispute resolution (negotiation, arbitration and mediation), comparative civil procedure, complex litigation, legal and institutional reform, legal education and the legal profession. Professor Gomez’s work has received several prestigious awards, including the Law and Society Association’s Dissertation Prize, the Richard S. Goldsmith Award in Dispute Resolution from Stanford University, as well as the annual prize awarded by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). In addition to his academic activities, Professor Gomez has also served as expert in a number of domestic and international commercial arbitration proceedings, has lectured in several countries, and is a founding member of the Miami International Arbitration Society.

Mario Gomez (Colombo, Sri Lanka)Mario Gomez (LL.B; LL.M; Ph.D) is a Member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and a Visiting Lecturer in the University of Colombo. He was previously a full time faculty member at the University of Colombo where he taught administrative law, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and women's rights at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has published in the areas of public law, economic and social rights, women's rights, human rights commissions, internally displaced persons and public law. He has designed and conducted training programs for judges, human rights activists, and staff of human rights commissions. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University in 2001/2002. He works as an independent human

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rights lawyer and is currently the Lead Researcher for a National Integrity Study for Transparency International, and is leading a study on land rights in eastern Sri Lanka.

Mark Goodale (George Mason University, Virginia)Mark Goodale is Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology at George Mason University. He specializes in legal anthropology, human rights and culture, comparative ethical practice and epistemology, the anthropology of morality, and conflict studies. He has been conducting research in Bolivia since 1996 and during 2003-2004 (as a Fulbright scholar) he studied Romania’s efforts to reform its political and legal institutions in preparation for accession to the European Union in 2007. He came to ICAR in the fall of 2003 after serving as the first Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology at Emory University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001). He is the author of two recent books: Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford University Press, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford University Press, 2008). He is currently at work on two new books: the first is an ethnographic analysis of sociopolitical change and the moral imagination in Bolivia based on three years of research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation; the second is a volume of essays on human rights and moral creativity. Recently published or forthcoming edited volumes include (with Kamari Maxine Clarke) Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (Cambridge University Press), Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell), (with Sally Engle Merry) The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local (Cambridge University Press), (with Sinclair Thomson, et al.) The Bolivia Reader: Culture, History, Politics (Duke University Press), and Human Rights: Critical Dialogues (Oxford University Press). In addition, he and Nancy Grey Postero are completing an edited volume with a working title of “The Violence of Ambiguity: Social Change and Subject-Making in Postneoliberal Latin America” that resulted from a 2007 international conference sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and held at UCSD. In 2007 he became Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights, a book series with Stanford University Press.

Professor Goodale is regularly invited to give lectures on different topics throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In recent years he has made presentations at Stanford University, the University of Oxford, the University of Helsinki, Colby College (where he gave the College’s annual Hunt Lecture), the Universidad de Antioquia, Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, the London School of Economics, University College London, Stockholm University, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kathryn Hendley (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Kathryn Hendley is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at University of Wisconsin Law School and William Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Political Science at UW-Madison. Her research focuses on legal and economic reform in the former Soviet Union. She is currently engaged in an inter-disciplinary project aimed at understanding how business is conducted in Russia and the role of law in business transactions and corporate governance. This project has been funded by the World Bank, the National Science Foundation, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. She teaches Contracts, as well as courses related to her interest in Russia, such as Russian Law, International Business Transactions, Comparative Law, and Transitions to the Market. She has served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank in their work on legal reform in Russia. Professor Hendley served as the Director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA), which receives Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Yoshiko M. Herrera is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College (1992) and M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) from University of Chicago.  She taught at Harvard University from 1999-2007. Her research interests include politics in Russia and the former Soviet states; social identities including methodological issues and measurement; nationalism, regionalism and ethnic politics; identity-related variables in public health and demography; norms and institutional change, including bureaucracy; constructivist political economy; and political psychology. She teaches courses on comparative politics, identity, institutional change, post-socialist economic transitions, and politics of the states of the Former Soviet Union.

Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Francine Hirsch is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first, book Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, received several awards including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association. She is currently writing a book on the role of the Soviet Union in the Nuremberg Trials and the postwar development of international law. She received her BA from Cornell University and her MA and PhD Degrees from Princeton University. She teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars on Soviet history.

Alexandra Huneeus (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Alexandra Huneeus is Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies at UW-Madison. She studies the judicialization of politics, the politics of human

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rights, and legal culture in Latin America. Her Ph.D. dissertation centered on the Chilean judiciary’s changing attitude towards cases of Pinochet-era human rights violations. She teaches sociology of law, human rights, Latin American legal institutions, and international law. Before joining the UW faculty in 2007, Professor Huneeus was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (2006), and her J.D. from Boalt Hall, the Berkeley Law School (2001). As a human rights fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Boalt Hall in 2004, she supervised students bringing a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The successful challenge resulted in a ruling ordering the Dominican Republic to alter its citizenship policies and practices. She also worked on the case against Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Spain, through the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco. Prior to her turn to law, Professor Huneeus worked as an editor and journalist in Santiago, Chile, her native city, and in San Francisco, her home town.

Pavel Ivlev (Institute of Modern Russia, New Jersey)Pavel Ivlev was a long-time legal counsel to YUKOS and its former CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Pavel fled to New York from Russia under fear of unjust prosecution. A graduate of the Moscow State University Law School in 1993, Pavel also studied law at Columbia University Law School and at Queen Mary College (London), and is a member of the International Bar Association and US-Russia Business Council. In September 2009 Pavel founded the Committee for Russian Economic Freedom, dedicated to free markets, free people and free ideas in Russia.  Pavel is also an executive director of recently established Institute of Modern Russia, based in New Jersey, USA.

Aviva Kaiser (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Aviva Kaiser is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin Law School. She joined the UW Law School faculty in 1988, teaching Advanced Legal Writing, Legal Research, and Judicial Decision Making and Opinion Writing. From 1992-2002, she was the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program. While Director, she developed the curriculum for the first-year program, and she hired, trained, and supervised the lecturers and teaching assistants. She now teaches Problem Solving, Advanced Legal Writing, and Professional Responsibilities. Professor Kaiser serves on the Professional Ethics Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin. She has presented at CLE seminars on the professional responsibility of lawyers and on legal writing. Professor Kaiser received her B.A. in Chinese from the University of Pittsburgh and her J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Louis B. Garippo in the case of People v. John Wayne Gacy and then clerked for the Honorable Maurice Perlin in the Illinois Appellate Court. She was an associate in the litigation and labor departments of a prominent Chicago law firm before beginning her full-time teaching career

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at IIT Chicago/Kent College of Law. At Chicago-Kent, Professor Kaiser taught Legal Research and Writing, Drafting, and Remedies. She also taught Legal Research and Writing part-time at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. In addition to teaching, Professor Kaiser is a Reiki Master Teacher and has practiced Reiki for 20 years. She has also studied Quantum Touch, Therapeutic Touch, Pranic Healing, and Kabbalistic Healing.

Diana Kapiszewski (University of California-Irvine)Diana Kapiszewski is Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of California-Irvine. Her research interests are: public law, judicial politics, and comparative politics. She earned the following degrees: Ph.D. (2007) and M.A. (2001) in political science, UC Berkeley; M.A. in Latin American studies, Georgetown University 1994; M.A. in Spanish, Middlebury College 1991; and B.A. in Spanish, Dartmouth College 1988. Professor Kapiszewski specializes in Latin American judicial politics and public law. The recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship from 2001-2004 and a Fulbright award in 2005, she was also awarded the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow Award at the Center for Study of Law and Society in 2007. She is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley's political science Ph.D. program where her study on Argentine and Brazilian Supreme Court judicial power received the American Political Science Association's 2008 Edward S. Corwin prize for best dissertation in the field of public law. As a new faculty member in the political science department, Professor Kapiszewski will teach in the high-demand areas of public law and politics and law, and she will participate in the School's international studies program.  

Jonathan Klaaren (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)Jonathan Klaaren is a professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He was the former Director of the Mandela Institute (mid-2005 to end-2007) and the former co-Director of the School of Law's Winter Law School (2007-2009) he conducted with Seattle University School of Law at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Klaaren has served on numerous university committees and currently serves on the Immigration Advisory Board of the Department of Home Affairs. Professor Klaaren co-authored two books on South African administrative and access to information law and co-edited two books on SA refugees law.  He organized the Law and Society Association Summer Institute, 2006. He was a founding member of WISER, 2001-2002 and received University of the Witwatersrand Young Researcher's Award (Friedel Schellschop Award) in 1998. Klaaren has served as Law Clerk to US Judge A Leon Higginbotham, Jr 1991-1992 and as an intern at the Legal Resources Centre, Cape Town, 1989. His research interests are in four broad areas and include international and comparative public law and human rights, citizenship and migration law, transnational regulation (including trade and investment law), and socio-legal studies (including

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legal history and the legal profession). The courses he has taught recently include: Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation, Human Rights Advocacy, South African Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Mining Law and Telecommunications Law.

Heinz Klug (University of Wisconsin Law School, WI)Heinz Klug is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law, H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellow, and the Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at University of Wisconsin Law School. He was born and raised in South Africa and participated in the anti-apartheid struggle as a journalist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). As a result of his anti-apartheid activities, he was forced to spend 11 years in exile. While in exile in Botswana, he helped set up the Solidarity News Service, an independent news agency covering South Africa, and escaped a plot that killed a number of other anti-apartheid activists exiled there. Professor Klug came to the U.S. and in 1990, shortly after earning his law degree from University of California - Hastings College of Law, returned to South Africa as a member of the ANC Land Commission and as the researcher for the chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. The wealth of knowledge he gained from his involvement in South Africa’s political and legal transitions is imparted to his students and continues to influence his research. He remains an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and travels annually to South Africa.

Herbert Kritzer (University of Minnesota)Herbert (aka "Bert") Kritzer joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School in July 2009. He currently holds the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy, and is also an Adjunct Professor of Political Science. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, he was on the faculty at William Mitchell College of Law from 2007-09. Before moving to the Twin Cities, Professor Kritzer taught for 30 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he held an appointment as Professor of Political Science and Law (he took emeritus status at UW in May 2007). During his time in Madison he served as chair of the Political Science Department (1996-99), Director of the Legal Studies Program (2000-2004), and Director of the Data and Computation Center (1982-86). . He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1974) and a B.A. in Sociology from Haverford College (1969).

Professor Kritzer is the author or coauthor of five books, coeditor of a sixth book, editor of a four volume encyclopedia ( Legal Systems of the World ), and the author of over 100 journal articles or book chapters. (A complete

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list of his publications can be found on his publications page, which includes links to copies of most of his journal articles and book chapters.) He served as editor of Law & Society Review for four years (2004-2007). He is currently coediting the Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Studies. Professor Kritzer's research focuses on the empirical study of the legal profession and a variety of legal phenomena. Current projects include studies related to judicial elections, local news coverage of litigation and the legal profession, the craft of legal practice, and access to justice.. His research involves a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies including the analysis of data derived from institutional records, systematic surveys, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic-style observation.

Marina Kurkchiyan (University of Oxford, UK) Marina Kurkchiyan is Law Foundation Fellow in Socio-Legal Studies and Research Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.  She is a sociologist who specializes in comparative legal cultures, the post-communist transition, and the impact of development issues on the rule of law.  Dr. Kurkchiyan has conducted research in many European and Central Asian countries, with particular emphasis on Russia and the roles of law, mediation and informal practices in resolving conflicts there. She holds BSc and MSc Degrees in physics and mathematics from Yerevan State University and a PhD in sociology from the Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Vilnius. She completed post-doctoral studies in social policy at the London School of Economics. Since 2007, she has been working on ‘Legal Cultures in Transition: The Impact of European Integration,' a large-scale international project sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council. Together with partners from Bergen and Glasgow, she is analyzing the extent to which legal cultures in Europe are adjusting to each other as integration proceeds.  Her research interests include: comparative legal cultures; legal and institutional transplants; rule of law and development; and relations between the free market, the state and civil society in transitional countries.

Lisa Laplante (Marquette University)Lisa J. Laplante is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School and Deputy Director and co-founder of Praxis Institute for Social Justice. She brings over ten years of experience in human rights law, having worked with institutions such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), the International Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) in Costa Rica and the Center for International Justice and Law (CEJIL). After earning her J.D. from New York University School of Law where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar, she won a Furman Fellowship at Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights). She participated in Peru’s political transition in various capacities for six years, beginning as a researcher with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a grantee of the Notre Dame University Transitional Justice Program. Recipient of

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grants from the United States Institute of Peace and Ford Foundation, she has published extensively earning her international recognition including the American University Washington College of Law’s Human Rights Prize in 2007. Due to her work, she was invited to be a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (IAS) for the academic year 2007-8. In addition to teaching transitional justice, she also directs the trial monitoring project of the human rights trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, funded by the Open Society Institute.

Leah Larson-Rabin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Leah Larson-Rabin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  Her dissertation focuses on the accessibility of environmental justice in China, and she serves as the student coordinator for the Chinese Politics Workshop.  She holds a J.D. and a Master of International Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  Leah has also worked in state government and politics, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso for two years.  Other research interests include law and development, environmental regulation, comparative law and politics, and legal institutional reform.

Sida Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Sida Liu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, and political mobilization of the legal profession. He has conducted extensive research on the Chinese legal profession as an empirical case for understanding how social structures such as professions, market, and the state are produced by two general social processes, boundary-work and exchange. Meanwhile, he has also started a collaborative project with Terence C. Halliday on the everyday work and political mobilization of Chinese lawyers in the criminal justice system. Methodologically, he is primarily interested in the shape of social structures and how they transform over time, and he uses a combination of interviews, participant observation and archival research to investigate the various processes of social change in the legal system and beyond.

Mara Loveman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Mara Loveman is Associate Professor of Sociology at UW Madison. She is a historical sociologist whose research examines racial and ethnic politics, nationalism, and the state in Latin America in comparative perspective. Her work has appeared in several journals, including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Theory and Society, and Hispanic American Historical Review. She is currently writing a book about the politics and practice of official racial classification in Latin America from the colonial period to the present day (“National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America”).

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Shaheda Hassim Mahomed (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)Shaheda Hassim Mahomed (BA, LLB, LLM) is an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand. Shaheda is an admitted attorney and a labor law Specialist. She is also the Director of the Wits Law Clinic. She is presently on sabbatical researching for her PhD at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Mark Fathi Massoud (University of California, Santa Cruz)Mark Massoud is assistant professor of politics and legal studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. He teaches in the areas of international law, human rights, and law and society. His current project, based on extensive field research in Sudan, investigates how key actors -- colonial administrators, post-colonial political leaders, and the international aid community -- have used law to construct stability in a nation struggling with decades of warfare. Professor Massoud's research has been supported through fellowships from U.C. Berkeley's Center for African Studies, Fulbright-Hays (U.S. Department of Education), and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. An attorney of the California Bar, Massoud received his law degree and his Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University (2008-09).

Lauren McCarthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Lauren A. McCarthy is currently a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also received a Masters degree in 2005.  Her research focuses on Russian law enforcement and the legal system along with human trafficking. 

Jens Meierhenrich (Harvard University)Jens Meierhenrich is Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard University. He is a member of Harvard’s University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and has conducted field research in several international organizations as well as in South Africa, Rwanda, Japan, Cambodia, Germany, and Argentina. He recently served in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and has previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Meierhenrich is the author of The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for "the best book published in the United States during the previous year on government, politics, or international affairs," and is currently completing a genocide trilogy,

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comprising The Rationality of Genocide; The Structure of Genocide; and The Culture of Genocide (all forthcoming from Princeton University Press).

Sally Engle Merry (New York University, NY) Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and of Law and Society at New York University. Her work explores the role of law in urban life in the US, in the colonizing process, and in contemporary transnationalism. She is currently doing a comparative, transnational study of human rights and gender. She was previously on the faculty of Wellesley College, where she was the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Anthropology.

Her recent books are Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000), which received the 2001 J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (2006), and The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global, (2007). Professor Merry has authored or edited four other books: Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai’i and Fiji (2004), The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation (1993), Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working Class Americans (1990), and Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers (1981). She has recently published articles on women's human rights, violence against women, and the process of localizing human rights. She is past-president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and currently a member of the Executive Boards of the American Anthropological Association and the Law and Society Association. In 2007, Professor Engle Merry received the Kalven Prize for scholarly contributions from the Law and Society Association. 

Ekaterina Mishina (Institute of Legal Studies, Higher School of Economics, Russia)Ekaterina (Katya) Mishina is a deputy director of the Institute of Legal Studies of the Higher School of Economics, Russia. Prior to this, Katya worked as a legal advisor to the President of the Foundation for Development of Parliamentary Processes in Russia. She received a PhD in law from the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Science in 1992. Dr Mishina is the author of a number of publications, including “Student’s Record Book in Judge’s Robe Pocket” (2005), “Pornography Against the Freedom of Speech” (2004), and “The Authorities Shall Be Responsible (Comments on the Draft Code of Administrative Procedure).” She is currently collaborating with Melanie Peyser, Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center, on co-authoring a white paper entitled “Obstacles and Opportunities for Promoting Judicial Independence: Supporting Independent Decision-making and Curbing Internal and External Influences on Judges.”

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Sindiso Mnisi (University of Cape Town, South Africa)Sindiso Mnisi is a Senior Researcher at the Law, Race and Gender Unit at University of Cape Town, South Africa. In October 2005, she joined the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford as a Master of Studies (Legal Research) student where she completed her doctoral studies in 2009.  Her research looked at the ‘The Interface between Living Customary Law(s) of Succession and South African State Law’.  Prior to that, Dr. Mnisi worked as a Law Clerk to the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She presented a paper at the ‘Law and Society in the 21st Century’ conference in Berlin, Germany in 2007. Her latest publications are “(Post) Colonial Culture and its Influence on the South African Legal System: Understanding the Relationship between Living Customary Law and State Law” in Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie – The German Journal of Law and Society 28 (2007), Heft 2, S. 241-251 and "Rural Women Redefining Land Rights in the Context of Living Customary Law" in South African Journal on Human Rights (forthcoming).

Cecilia Naddeo (Stanford University)Cecilia Naddeo is a JSD candidate at Stanford Law School working on a dissertation related to the history and future of the Inter-American system of human rights. She conducted research for her dissertation in Argentina, Peru and El Salvador. She is also a visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School where she is an affiliated fellow at its Human Rights Program. She obtained her LLB from the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law in 2004 with hors and JSM from Stanford Law School in 2007. She word as a legal officer at the Supreme Court of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as an attorney at both the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and as a Consultant for the Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) in Bolivia. Cecilia also worked as a researcher at the Grotius Center for International Legal Studies (Leiden University, The Netherlands) and the Fresh Spogli Institute for International Studies in its “Courts, Politics and Human Rights” project (Stanford University).

John Ohnesorge (University of Wisconsin-Madison)John Ohnesorge is an Associate Professor, the Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center and co-chair of the UW-Madison China Initiative. He received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College (1985), his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School (1989), and his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2002). Along the way he has spent several years in East Asia, first as a teacher and law student in Shanghai in the 1980s, and then as a lawyer in private practice in Seoul in the 1990s. During the course of his S.J.D. studies, Professor Ohnesorge spent the 1997-98 academic year as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, on a fellowship from Harvard's Center for European Studies. In 2000 he served as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, co-teaching the Pacific Legal Community seminar with Professor William P. Alford. From 2000 to 2001 he clerked for Federal District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel (D. Mass), and came

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to Madison in the fall of 2001. Professor Ohnesorge teaches Business Organizations, Administrative Law, Chinese Law, and Law and Modernization.

Maria Popova (McGill University, Political Science Department)Maria Popova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, McGill University and holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her research interests are: Comparative Judicial Politics (structural and behavioral judicial independence, global expansion of judicial power, post-communist judicial reforms); Post-communist Transitions; Russian and Ukrainian Politics (freedom of speech, elections); and European politics (EU accession; right-wing parties in Bulgaria). Some of her publications include: "Watchdogs or attack dogs? The role of the Russian courts and the Central Election Commission in the resolution of electoral disputes" Europe-Asia Studies, 58:3 (May 2006), 391-414; "Implicit Objections to the Rule of Law Doctrine in Russian Legal Thought", Journal of East European Law, Spring 2006 and "Just Fix It! The Role of the EU and Domestic Political Actors in Efforts to Reform the Bulgarian Judiciary", Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, York University, June 1-5, 2006.

Asifa Quraishi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Asifa Quraishi, a specialist in Islamic law and legal theory, joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in Fall 2004. Professor Quraishi's expertise ranges from U.S. law on federal court practice to constitutional legal theory, with a comparative focus in Islamic law. At the UW Law School, she teaches a combination of core law school classes in Constitutional Law, and electives in Islamic law and jurisprudence. She received her B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988. In 1992, she received her law degree from the University of California-Davis, where she served as Senior Research Editor for the UC- Davis Law Review. She also earned an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her professional experience includes serving as a judicial law clerk with Judge Edward Dean Price on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and as the death penalty law clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Asifa made news in 2001 when she drafted a clemency appeal brief in the case of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who was sentenced to flogging for fornication in Zamfara, Nigeria. Professor Quraishi is a founding member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) and the California group American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA). She is an associate of the Muslim Women's League, and has served as past president and board member of Karamah: Muslim Women for Lawyers for Human Rights.  She also served as an Islamic law and culture consultant for the JAG episode "The Princess and the Petty Officer.” She was recently named U.S. delegate to the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Professor Quraishi attended the session between March 1

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and March 12, 2010 where she was one of five Public Delegates who accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ambassadors Susan Rice, Melanne Verveer and Rick Barton, and Deputy Head of Delegation Meryl Frank. The Commission's goal is to undertake a fifteen year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as well as a review of the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.

María Fernanda Ramírez Navarro María Fernanda Ramírez Navarro is Associate Professor, Universidad de Guadalajara, México. From 1995–2004 she served as the Head of legal affairs unit, Secretaría de Desarrollo Social, Aguascalientes, México and from 1990 – 1993 as the Deputy of the Legal Affairs Unit, Presidencia Municipal de Lagos de Moreno, México. She obtained her Masters Degree in 2000 from Universidad de Guadalajara, México and her BA in Law from Universidad Iberoamericana, León, México. She was the best student in her graduating class.

Meredith Ross (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Meredith Ross is Clinical Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin Law School. She has worked at the Law School's Frank J. Remington Center since 1990, and has served as the Center's director since 1996. In that capacity, she oversees all of the Remington Center's in-house clinical projects and externships.  Professor Ross also provides supervision to individual students in the clinics, in their work assisting inmates in state and federal prisons throughout Wisconsin, and representing defendants in criminal appeals. In addition to clinical teaching, Professor Ross teaches courses in substantive criminal law and criminal justice administration at the law school, and has designed and taught a seminar on the history of punishment.  She came to the Remington Center as a recent UW Law graduate (magna cum laude), having completed her final year of law school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.   Prior to attending law school, Professor Ross earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught writing, literature, and women's studies.  Her work at the Remington Center allows her to combine her interests in teaching and academic research with work on individual cases. She particularly enjoys the collaborative teaching setting which is possible in a clinical program. 

Pablo Rueda (University of California, Berkeley)Pablo Rueda is a graduate student at the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at University of California, Berkeley. He has written about judicial politics, especially regarding social rights discourse and social change in

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Latin America. His more recent work is concerned with the relation between neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and the emergence of transnational indigenous movements.

Michelle Sanchez (FGV, Sao Paulo, Brazil)Michelle Ratton-Sanchez is a professor at the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (DireitoGV/ FGV-EDESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Research (CEBRAP), for the project entitled "Democracy and Law in Brazil."  She earned a Ph.D. with distinction from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil, Department of Philosophy and General Theory of Law (2004). She was a visiting scholar at the International Law Department of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS), in Geneva, Switzerland (2001) and she has a Bachelor in law from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a specialization in Business Law (1998). She received a fellowship from the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) during her Ph.D. studies (2001-2004) and, during her undergraduate studies (1995-1998), as well as a fellowship from the Brazilian Governmental Foundation in the Special Program Trainee for Undergraduate and Graduate Students (PET-CAPES). Her areas of interest include international economic law, recent changes in international regulation and how non-state actors influence and participate in international fora and policies. Since 2003, she has worked together with other researchers on the creation of an innovative course on global law for the Direito GV Law School. This course was started for undergraduates in 2005 and graduates in 2008.

Alvaro Santos (Georgetown University, Washington DC)Alvaro Santos joined the Law Center of the Georgetown University in 2007 as an Associate Professor of Law. He teaches international trade, law and economic development and transnational labor law, and his scholarly interests also include international law and legal theory. Professor Santos’ research analyzes the impact of the global economy on domestic labor regimes. He is author of The World Bank's Uses of the “Rule of Law” Promise in Economic Development, in The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge 2006), which he co-edited with David Trubek. Prior to joining the Law Center, Santos taught at the University of Texas as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Emerging Scholars Program (2005-2007). He has taught international law at Tufts University and law and development in the Master’s Degree in Management of Development offered by the University of Turin and the International Labour Organization. He has a J.D. degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and LL.M., S.J.D. degrees from Harvard University.

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a professor at the University of Coimbra, School of Economics, Department of Sociology, in Portugal. He is also a Distinguished Scholar of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has published prolifically on issues related to law and globalization, legal pluralism, multiculturalism, and human rights, and has taught at law schools and graduate programs in Brazil, England, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Angola, Mozambique, and Spain, in addition to his current Coimbra, Portugal and Madison posts. His most recent book, co-edited with Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, is Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He teaches a seminar at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Globalization, Law and Democracy.

Mario Schapiro (FVG, Sao Paulo, Brazil)Mario Schapiro is Professor and Coordinator of Research and Educational Projects at the Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo (DireitoGV/FGV-EDESP). He is a graduate of the University of Sao Paulo Law School (USP) and was recently awarded a doctorate by USP. His doctoral dissertation deals with the role of the developmental state in a global and knowledge economy, the role of BNDES in financial development, and new roles for law in domestic finance in Brazil. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Colombia University and has published articles and book chapters on economic law in Brazil. Professor Schapiro worked on LANDS Brazilian Pilot project, conducting interviews in Rio and Sao Paulo.

Druscilla Scribner (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)Druscilla Scribner is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego in 2004 and specializes in Comparative Politics, Latin American Judicial Politics, and Women and Politics.  Her current research agenda includes a multi-year study on gender and constitutions funded by the National Science Foundation, as well as projects on regional supranational courts and judicialization.

Gregory Shaffer (University of Minnesota)Gregory Shaffer is the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Previously he was Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Director of the university’s European Union Center of Excellence, Co-Director of its Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), and Wing-Tat Lee Chair at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College and his J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School. He practiced law in Paris for seven years for Coudert Frères and Bredin Prat, where he was a member of the Paris bar. He teaches courses in international law, international trade law, European Union law, and administrative law, among other areas, and conducts a variety of research seminars.

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Professor Shaffer's publications include When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (with Mark Pollack, 2009), Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (with Mark Pollack, Rowman & Littlefield 2001), and over 50 articles and book chapters on international trade law, global governance, and globalization's impact on domestic regulation. Professor Shaffer's work is cross-disciplinary and empirical, addressing such topics as public-private networks in international trade litigation; comparative institutional approaches to trade-social policy conflicts; and national regulation in global context. Professor Shaffer is on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, co-Chair of the ASIL's International Economic Law Group, and founding Board member of the Society of International Economic Law. He is a recipient of two U.S. National Science Foundation awards, was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Rome, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation and at Columbia Law School. Among his numerous presentations, he was a speaker at three of the five conferences organized by the WTO Appellate Body for its tenth anniversary, held in Tokyo, Cairo and Sao Paulo. Professor Shaffer is the Senior Research Fellow in the program on developing countries and WTO dispute settlement at the International Centre on Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva.

Jessica Slavin (Marquette University)Jessica Slavin joined the Marquette University Law School faculty in 2002, after practicing in the litigation department of Foley & Lardner, focusing on commercial litigation and appeals. She earlier practiced immigration law, at the Refugee and Asylum Project of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights and at a small immigration practice in St. Paul, Minnesota. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jon P. Wilcox of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, during the court’s 1999-2000 term. Jessica teaches legal writing and research, appellate advocacy, and refugee law.

Catalina Smulovitz (University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aire, Argentina)Catalina Smulovitz has been a Professor of Political Science at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires since 1993, and chair of that department since 2004; she has also been a CONICET researcher since 1992. After earning her undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Salvador in 1980, she came to the United States, where she earned her M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1991) from the Pennsylvania State University. However, after completing her Ph.D. coursework in 1984, she returned to Argentina, where she became a researcher for the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES) (1985-93) and took up an

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appointment at the University of Buenos Aires, first as a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (1985-90) and then in the Faculty of Social Sciences (1987-88).

Among her publications that she considers most significant are “Guarding the Guardians in Argentina. Some Lessons about the Risks and Benefits of Empowering the Courts,” in Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies, ed. James McAdams (U of Notre Dame Press, 1997), which she wrote with Carlos Acuña; “Citizen Insecurity and Fear: Public and Private Responses in the Case of Argentina,” in Crime and Violence in Latin America: Citizen Security, Democracy, and the State, ed. Hugo Fruhling et al. (Johns Hopkins UP, 2003); “Societal and Horizontal Controls. Two Cases about a Fruitful Relationship,” in Accountability, Democratic Governance, and Political Institutions in Latin America, ed. Scott Mainwaring and Christopher Welna (Oxford UP, 2003), which she wrote with Mr. Peruzzotti; “How Can the Rule of Law Rule? Cost Imposition through Decentralized Mechanisms,” in Democracy and the Rule of Law, ed. Adam Przeworski and José Maria Maravall (Cambridge UP, 2003); “Petitioning and Creating Rights. Judicialization in Argentina,” in The Judicalization of Politics in Latin America, ed. Rachel Sieder et al. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and Enforcing the Rule of Law. Citizens and the Media in Latin America (Pittsburgh UP, 2006), which she and Mr. Peruzzotti edited.

Helen Stacy (Stanford University)Helen Stacy is a Senior Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School. She is also a Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Coordinator, Program on Human Rights, FSI; Faculty Research Fellow, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. As a scholar of international and comparative law, legal philosophy, and human rights, Helen Stacy has produced works analyzing the efficacy of regional courts in promoting human rights, differences in the legal systems of neighboring countries, and the impact of postmodernism on legal thinking. Her recent scholarship has focused on how international and regional human rights courts can improve human rights standards while also honoring social, cultural, and religious values.

In addition to her role at the law school, Stacy is a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where she coordinates the human rights program. She is also a researcher with the European Forum at the Freeman Spogli Institute, a member of the Committee in Charge of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, and she is associated with the Center for African Studies. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2005, Stacy was a senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology School of Law, a senior prosecutor for

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the Director of Public Prosecutions in London, and a legal officer for Shell Oil in Australia.

Steve Stern (University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI)Steve Stern is Alberto Flores Galindo Professor at the Department of History and Vice-Provost for Faculty and Staff at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was the Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2003-2006, and the Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies Program from 1992-1995. Professor Stern’s specialization is Latin America (especially colonial, Andes, Mexico, Chile). He teaches and researches Latin American history. His research and teaching interests often focus on the various ways people cope with problems of power and social conflict in their societies. His specific research themes have included Amerindian responses to colonialism, gender relations, political economy, social acquiescence and rebelliousness, and memories of trauma and political violence.

Alexei Trochev (Indiana University)Alexei Trochve is a Jerome Hall fellow at the Indiana University Mauer School of Law. He holds a degree in Russian law from Syktyvkar State University in Russia and graduate degrees from the Universities of Kansas and Toronto. He explores how political competition simultaneously helps and hurts judicial independence in post-communist countries. Dr Trochev is the author of Judging Russia: Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006, which received an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice magazine in 2008. He will use his fellowship at Indiana to examine how and why politicians and business people respond to judicial systems in the context of heightened political fragmentation. He was a Research Associate at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University (Kingston, Canada). He has taught Russian and comparative constitutional law at Pomor State University Law School in Arkhangelsk, Russia. In addition to several chapters on the informal dimensions of Russian judicial politics, his articles on post-Soviet constitutional courts have appeared in Law & Society Review, I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law, and East European Constitutional Review. Prior to joining the Indianan University, Alexei was a Law & Society Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

David M. Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as Dean of International Studies from 1990 to 2001, and as the Director of WAGE from 2001 to 2004. A graduate of UW-Madison and Yale Law School, Professor Trubek joined the UW Law School faculty in 1973. He has taught at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and the Catholic University Law School in Rio de Janeiro. He served as Associate Dean for Research of the UW Law School and Director of the

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UW's Institute for Legal Studies from 1985-90. As Dean of International Studies at the UW-Madison, Professor Trubek coordinated area and international studies and managed the UW International Institute. He directed the Office of International Studies and Programs, oversaw UW's relations with foreign universities, managed study abroad programs, and was responsible for campus-wide strategic planning in international education. He was principal investigator of the Stanford-Wisconsin-Minnesota MacArthur Consortium in International Peace and Cooperation. Professor Trubek has written extensively on international and comparative law as well as other topics in legal studies. He has published articles and books on the role of law in development, human rights, European integration, and the impact of globalization on legal systems and social protection schemes. He has also made contributions in critical legal theory, the sociology of law, the sociology of the legal profession, and civil procedure.

Louise Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Law School)Louise G. Trubek is an Emerita Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Louise is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale Law School. Louise directed the Health Law Project at UW Law School. Professor Trubek is an active scholar in the field of Health Law. Her article with Maya Das, "Achieving Equality: Healthcare Governance in Transition" won an award for excellence from the Wisconsin Public Health and Policy Institute at the UW Medical School. She is the author of papers on health care, new governance, and soft law. She is writing extensively the European Union and Health and has forthcoming article on the European Union and the War on Cancer in the fall issue of the Wisconsin International Law Journal. She is an editor of the March 2008 special issue of the Journal Regulation & Governance.

David and Louise Trubek are researching and writing on regulatory reform topics in the United States and the European Union. Louise is the co-editor of a forthcoming edited volume on Transnational Public Interest Law. The volume is an issue of the UCLA International Law Journal - fall 2008.

Mauricio Villegas (Bogotá, Colombia)Mauricio Villegas is Professor of Law at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School.  During fall of 2008, he was the Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 1994, he published La eficacia symbólica del derecho (the symbolic efficacy of law) and recently, a reader on comparative sociology of law (Sociología jurídical), and with Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a two-volume book entitled, El caleidoscopio de las Justicas en Colombia.

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Margaret Woo (Northeastern Law School, Boston, MA) Margaret Woo teaches civil procedure, administrative law, and comparative law at Northeastern University School of Law. In 1997, she was named the law school’s Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and is presently an associate in research at the East Asian Legal Studies Center of Harvard Law School and the Fairbank Center of Harvard College. She is also a faculty director for the law school’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. She has published and spoken widely on China’s legal reforms. She is the co-editor of East Asian Law—Universal Norms and Local Cultures as well as co-author of American Civil Litigation. Professor Woo is committed to Asian American and civil rights issues, serving as a board member of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Harry Dow Legal Assistance Memorial Fund and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law.

 

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