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 …
Biography Tamir Moustafa is Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research explores the intersection of law, religion, and governance, with deep empirical focus on Egypt and Malaysia. His work examines how courts operate as tools of state control and as spaces for resistance, as well as how law shapes …
Biography Dr. Renata Mustafina is a law and society scholar with research interests in authoritarian legality, legal mobilization, and defense lawyering in repressive settings, as well as in critical approaches to human rights. Her book manuscript, tentatively titled “Against Impossible Odds: Defensive Legal Mobilization in Russian Protest-Related Prosecutions,” ethnographically studies the legal aftermath of opposition …
Biography Nelson is a leading figure in the sociology of law with a research focus on the legal profession and anti-discrimination law. He is the author or editor of 10 books, most recently Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality (U of Chicago Press 2017), with Ellen Berrey and Laura Beth Nielsen and The Making …
Biography Laura Beth Nielsen is a Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Chair, a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, as well as a Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is a sociologist and lawyer with degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Nielsen’s research focuses on law’s capacity for …