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 …
Biography Eve Darian-Smith is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, with affiliated appointments in the Law School, Anthropology, and Criminology, Law & Society. A lawyer, historian, and anthropologist by training, her interdisciplinary research explores authoritarianism, crises of democracy, global and international law, and …
Biography Fabio de Sá e Silva is Associate Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, as well as an affiliated fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession. Trained in law, social sciences, and public policy, he brings over 15 years of experience in …
Biography Matthew S. Erie is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law and an Associate Member of the Oxford Law Faculty, whose interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship examines “non-liberal law” and its interactions with liberal legal systems across domestic, international, and transnational contexts. Drawing on historical, ethnographic, and socio-legal methods, his …
Claire Finkelstein is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a non-partisan interdisciplinary institute affiliated with Penn Carey Law, where her research focuses on national security law and policy, democratic governance, and professional ethics. An expert in the law of armed conflict, military ethics, national security …
Fu Hualing is a Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities whose scholarship focuses on law, politics, and reform in China and Hong Kong. His current research examines the rise of human rights lawyering in China, anti-corruption enforcement, popular justice and mediation, rule of law reform over …
Biography Kaja Gadowska is a Professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University and President of the European Sociological Association (2024–2026). Her research focuses on democratization, the public sphere, and the intersection of politics, economy, and administration in post-communist countries, with particular expertise in Poland’s coal industry and government administration. She has led and contributed to …
Bruce A. Green is the Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School and director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1987. A prolific and frequently-cited scholar, Green teaches professional responsibility and seminars in ethics in criminal advocacy and access to justice. Through the …
Arushi Gupta is a lawyer trained in India and holds degrees from Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai and Columbia Law School. She presently works at Outright International as a researcher on the Queer Legal Futures Project. Her interest is in how illiberal politics is reshaping law and society, with a particular emphasis on studying the …
Professor Xin He is a Professor of Law, Mok Sau-King Professor in Law, and Chair of Law & Society whose work uses empirical methods to study China’s legal system, with particular interests in judicial processes, especially criminal justice, legal consciousness, and law and gender. He has authored several major books in English, including The Judicial …