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 …
Whitney Taylor is an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in comparative politics. Her research focuses on the intersection of rights, law, and contentious politics, with particular emphasis on social constitutionalism, legal mobilization, and social movements. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her research has appeared …
Nataliya Tchermalykh is a visual anthropologist and socio-legal scholar working at the intersection of art, politics, and law, with a long-term focus on Eastern Europe and Ukraine. Her research explores how images, artistic practices, and material landscapes shape political contestation, and forms of dissent, particularly in contexts of war and social transformation. She is the recipient …
Ertuğ Tombuş is co-director of the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy and a research associate at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2017 to 2020, he was the academic coordinator of the Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies program at HU Berlin. Prior to joining Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, he taught at Columbia University, the …
Biography Born in Syktyvkar, Russia, Dr. Alexei Trochev (PhD, University of Toronto; MPA, University of Kansas; Law, Syktyvkar State University) teaches Political Science Research Methods, International Law, and Law, Politics, and Society, and Post-Soviet Public Policy. Prior to that, he taught political science and law courses at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Queen’s University in Kingston, …
Biography David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Senior Global Fellow at FGV Direito SP in São Paulo. A Yale Law School graduate, he has held prominent roles in legal academia and global research institutions, founding the Institute for Legal Studies …