Eva Pils is an interdisciplinary expert on international human rights law with special focus on China. She is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at FAU and holds the Chair of Human Rights Law. She is also a member and part of the collegiate directorship team of the FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen Nuremberg. Eva studied …
Ben Polk is a Research Scholar at NYU School of Law, where he directs the TransformativeJustice Project. His work focuses on legal empowerment, democratic resilience, and theinstitutional conditions that enable ordinary people to meaningfully use and shape the law.Before joining NYU, he served as Global Policy Director at the International Legal Foundation,helping to build and …
Mitt Regan is the McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence at Georgetown University Law Center, where he also serves as Director of the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession and Coordinator of the Program on Law, Ethics, and International Security, with research interests spanning international law, national security, international human rights, legal ethics, the legal profession, …
Kathleen Rubenstein is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University and inaugural Visiting Fellow at Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration. She brings extensive experience in public interest law and nonprofit leadership, having served as executive director of the Skadden Foundation from 2018 to 2025, where she oversaw a …
Biography Raul Sanchez Urribarri is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at La Trobe University, specializing in constitutionalism, judicial politics, and the rule of law, particularly in contexts of democratic decline such as Venezuela. Holding a PhD in Political Science from the University of South Carolina, an LLM from Cambridge, and a law degree from Universidad …
Margaret Satterthwaite is a Professor of Law at NYU, where she directs the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic and serves as faculty director of both the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, while also holding the role of UN Special Rapporteur on the …
Steven D. Schaaf is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Mississippi whose research focuses on political accountability, comparative judicial politics, Middle East politics, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. He earned a B.A. in International Relations and Law, Politics & Society from Drake University in 2013, an M.A. …
Biography Peter H. Solomon, Jr. is Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Law, and Criminology at the University of Toronto and affiliated with the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies. His research focuses on judicial reform and criminal justice in Russia, Ukraine, and other authoritarian and transitional states. He is the author or editor …
Biography Ann Southworth is a Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law (Raymond Pryke Endowed Chair in First Amendment Law) and co-directs UCI’s Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, with a joint appointment in Criminology, Law & Society. Her work focuses on the legal profession and legal ethics, cause lawyering and …
Rachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Berkeley, where she holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Her research focuses on law in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution building, political space, and professionalization. She is the author of …