• Deepa Das Acevado

    Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and an Associate Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law. Her research uniquely intersections ethnographic fieldwork, anthropological theory, and legal doctrine to evaluate legal systems, labor dynamics, and conceptions of personhood. She earned her A.B. in Politics from Princeton University, followed by a J.D. and…

  • Bijal Shah

    Bijal is an American legal scholar specializing in administrative law, structural constitutionalism, critical legal theory, and immigration law. She is a Professor of Law and Provost Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School, where she was recognized with the Faculty Prize for Excellence in Scholarship and ranks as one of the institution’s most highly cited…

  • Eve Darian-Smith

    Eve is an Australian-born legal scholar, anthropologist, and historian specializing in authoritarianism, legal pluralism, human rights, and the politics of higher education. She serves as a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), holding affiliated appointments across the School of Law, Department of…

  • Heinz Klug

    Heinz is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and the Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he specializes in comparative constitutional law, socio-legal studies, and democratic transitions. Born and raised in Durban, South Africa, Klug was a prominent anti-apartheid student leader and spent eleven years…

  • Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

    Sindiso is a South African legal scholar and socio-legal researcher specializing in legal pluralism, indigenous African law, gender rights, and constitutionalism. She is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and serves concurrently as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at the University…

  • Rebecca Sanders

    Rebecca is an American political scientist, human rights expert, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she also serves as the Assistant Director of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree from McGill University and earned her Ph.D. in Political…

  • Thomas M. Keck

    Tom is an American political scientist and constitutional law scholar who serves as the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. Before joining…

  • Heba M. Khalil

    Heba is an American socio-legal scholar and legal ethnographer specializing in the intersections of law, social movements, and democratic backsliding. She serves as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the American University in Cairo, an LL.M. in International Human Rights…

  • Danielle Lucksted

    Danielle is an American socio-legal researcher and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University. Her academic work explores the intersections of law and society, memory studies, and the sociology of human rights, focusing heavily on memory laws, international law norms, and the comparative memorialization of historical atrocities. She earned a Bachelor…

  • Richard L. Abel

    Rick is the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at the UCLA School of Law, where he has taught since 1974. A towering figure in socio-legal studies and the comparative sociology of the legal profession, he earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, an LL.B. from Columbia University,…