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 …
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 Transformative Justice Project. His work focuses on legal empowerment, democratic resilience, and the institutional 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, …
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 …