Melissa Hooper is a lawyer and policy expert with more than 20 years of experience working on democracy, rule of law, justice and accountability, human rights, civic engagement, transparency, investigations, oversight, and efforts to counter kleptocracy and authoritarianism. Her work has included litigation in state and federal courts, amicus briefing, habeas cases, civil rights and …
Ching-fang Hsu is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at National Chi Nan University in Taiwan. Her research focuses on the legal profession, with a particular focus on how legal actors and institutions operate under varying configurations of political power. Her recent work examines gender and judicial authority in the Taiwanese judiciary, the cross-border influence …
Biography Eugene Huskey is Professor Emeritus at Stetson University, where he held the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair from 1999 until his retirement in 2019. He earned his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and previously taught at Bowdoin College and Colgate University before joining Stetson in 1989. His scholarly interest …
Biography Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher. Social Inequalities, Social Movements, Race, Gender, Law and Society, Political Economy and Social Research Methods.
Biography Ekaterina Khodzhaeva is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Rule of Law at the European University at St. Petersburg and at the Institut d’études avancées de Nantes. Trained as a sociologist at Kazan State University, her research focuses on the legal profession, law enforcement, and the criminal justice system in Russia. She has …
Alyssa King studies courts and comparative procedure, with a focus on issues of adjudicator role and borrowing of procedural rules. She is particularly interested in access to justice and in the intersection of normative systems through mechanisms such as federalism, arbitration, and the reception of international law. She received her PhD from Yale University in …
Biography Eszter Kirs is an associate professor of International Relations at Corvinus University of Budapest whose research focuses on protest movements and human rights under illiberal political systems. She has taught international law and human rights at several institutions and has extensive practitioner experience, including serving as a legal officer at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee …
Jonathan Klaaren is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, with a joint appointment at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), whose research spans regulation, competition policy, the legal profession, migration and citizenship, and Southern African studies. He holds a BA from Harvard, a JD from …
Biography Jayanth Krishnan is the Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Director of the Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. A socio-legal scholar, his research explores the legal profession, access to justice, immigration, and legal globalization, with a focus on the U.S., India, and other …