Biography Richard Abel is a leading scholar in the fields of legal profession, tort law, and law and social change. A longtime professor at UCLA School of Law, he has served as president of the Law and Society Association and held editorial roles with African Law Studies and the Law & Society Review, among others. …
Biography Shree Agnihotri is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham’s School of Law, where she teaches Public Law, Legal Theory, and Jurisprudence. With a background spanning law and public policy, she holds degrees from NYU (LLM), and a PhD from LSE Law School. Her research explores the intersection of law and political theory, …
Suren Avanesyan is a Professorial Lecturer at GW’s Elliott School, specializing in Russian law, governance, and civil society. He previously served as Division Chief for Democracy & Governance at USAID’s Bureau for Europe & Eurasia, where he led U.S. assistance programs on rule of law, anti-corruption, and human rights across Russia and the region. He …
Biography Atieh Babakhani is an Assistant Professor of Law and Society at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she teaches courses on Law and Society, Legal Professions, and Social Science Inquiry. She joined the faculty in 2023. Dr. Babakhani holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Delaware, an LL.M. in American Legal Practice …
Gülçin Balamir Coşkun is an associate professor of political science and serves as the academic coordinator at the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy. Previously, from 2018 to 2021, she worked as an Einstein Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Currently, she is one of the senior research associates contributing to the …
Biography Sofia Bordin Rolim is a PhD student in Law and Development at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP), with support of the Mario Henrique Simonsen scholarship. Holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), with an exchange period at the …
Robert S. Chang is Professor of Law and the Sylvia Mendez Presidential Chair for Civil Rights at UC Irvine School of Law, where he serves as Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality. He is a leading scholar on race, interethnic relations, critical race theory, LatCrit theory, Asian American legal …
Catherine’s doctoral research is a multiyear ethnographic study of asylum lawyers in Los Angeles—a major hub of immigration procedure—that examines how progressive legal advocates pursue justice within systems designed to constrain it. Because lawyers occupy a distinctive position between migrants and the state, studying their experiences offers an intimate, ground-level view of how migration control …
Biography Leigha Crout is an assistant professor of law at DePaul University and a nonresident fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School. She teaches Constitutional Law, a rule of law seminar and other courses. Professor Crout has previously held academic positions at Syracuse University College of Law as …
Biography Scott Cummings holds the inaugural Robert Henigson Chair in Legal Ethics at the UCLA School of Law, where he has taught since 2002. He is the founding Faculty Director of the Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession, which promotes research and dialogue on the professional challenges of global legal practice and the role …