Biography Agnieszka Kubal is Associate Professor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. A socio-legal scholar with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, she has held academic posts at UCL, Harvard, and Oxford. Her research explores human rights, migration, and legal consciousness …
Omri is currently completing his doctoral dissertation on post-World War II Jewish property restitution in Poland at King’s College London, where he has served as Research Assistant in the Law School’s Transnational Law Institute, working on projects including the Consortium on Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion. At King’s, Omri has taught on a range of courses and modules, including …
Milburn Line is a Program Specialist with the Prosecutors and Politics Project where he supports research on the democratic accountability of prosecutors across the country. His previous experience includes human rights missions and projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and Guatemala and a rule of law project in the People’s Republic of China.
Biography Sida Liu is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. A leading scholar in the sociology of law, his research explores Chinese law and society, criminal justice, legal professions, and sociolegal theory. He has conducted extensive empirical work on China’s legal reforms and …
Luo Jiajun is a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at NYU and an affiliated scholar of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute whose work centers on comparative constitutional and public law, especially legality, dispute resolution, and judicial institutions in authoritarian and Global South contexts. His current project, Authoritarian ADR: China’s Fengqiao Model of Dispute Resolution, examines how non-litigious …
Biography Sky Ma’s research interests lie in comparative criminal procedure, law & tech, the legal profession, and evidence law. Sky was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) and a Hause Global Fellow at NYU School of Law. Sky served as an extern Judicial Clerk at the California Court of Appeal Second …
Biography Doctor in Human Rights from the University of São Paulo Law School (USP) and Master’s in Constitutional Politics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She holds a Law degree from PUC-SP and studied Social Sciences at USP. From 2003 to 2009, she served as Strategic Litigation Coordinator at Conectas Human Rights. …
Biography Vitor Martins Dias is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Butler University in Indianapolis. A law and society scholar, his research investigates how legal, political, and social actors shape institutions and organizations across global and local contexts—producing social change while also reproducing structural inequalities. His recent work explores how …
Lauren McCarthy is a Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where her research focuses on the relationship between law and society in Russia, police and law enforcement institutions, citizen oversight, repressive and authoritarian law, and human trafficking. She is the author of Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police Use …
Biography Ethan Michelson is a sociologist specializing in law and society in China. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in East Asian studies and sociology from McGill University. Currently Academic Director of the IU China Gateway, his research on Chinese lawyers and social conflict has …