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 …
Biography Dr. Tetiana Borysivna Vilchyk is a Ukrainian legal scholar and professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, where she has led the Department of Advocacy and currently teaches in the Department of Civil Justice and Advocacy. She holds a Doctor of Legal Sciences degree and has been practicing law since 2000. Her work focuses …
Biography Oscar Vilhena Vieira is the Dean and founding Professor at FGV São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP), where he teaches Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Law and Development. He has a B.A. in law from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, a LL.M. from Columbia University in New York, a M.A. and Ph.D. …
Pauline White Meeusen is an interdisciplinary sociolegal scholar whose research focuses on immigration and refugee law and policy, law and social movements, and the legal profession. Her current work examines whether and how volunteers who provided direct legal services to asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border and in immigration detention centers came to see themselves …
Biography Ying Xia received her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her doctoral thesis examines the socio-legal implications of Chinese investment in African countries. During her study at Harvard, Ying was also awarded the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize for her work on the connections between China’s environmental campaign and the international trade in waste. She also received …
Biography Ellen Yaroshefsky is a leading expert in legal ethics, with decades of experience as a scholar, practitioner, and educator. She teaches ethics courses, organizes symposia, and serves as an expert witness and advisor to lawyers and law firms. A former Commissioner on the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, she co-chaired the …