• Natasza Quelvennec

    Natasza is a French-Polish political sociologist and researcher specializing in gender studies, social movements, and the sociology of religion. She is a doctoral researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris and a member of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CESSP). She completed her studies at…

  • 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…

  • İlker Gökhan Şen

    Gökhan is a Turkish legal scholar and researcher specializing in comparative constitutional law, international law, and democratic theory. He currently works as a researcher within the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Zurich and has previously taught constitutional law at…

  • Deniz Erkmen

    Deniz is a Turkish political scientist and Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at Özyeğin University in Istanbul. Her teaching and research focus on comparative politics and political sociology, examining authoritarian consolidation, transnationalism, and the mechanics of protest repression. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University…

  • Mert Arslanalp

    Mert is a Turkish political scientist and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, where he also serves as the Head of the Department of Legal Sciences. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boğaziçi University and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University. His research combines…

  • 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,…

  • Raul Sanchez Urribarri

    Raul is a comparative law and politics scholar specializing in judicial politics, constitutionalism, and the rule of law under democratic erosion and hybrid authoritarianism. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Neukom Center for the Rule of Law and an incoming Professor of Law at Western Sydney University. He holds a Bachelor…

  • Bojan Bugaric

    Bojan is a Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield Department of Law, specializing in comparative constitutional law, public law, and the intersection of law, populism, and democratic decline. Before his appointment at Sheffield in 2018, he taught for many years at the University of Ljubljana School of Law in Slovenia, where he also…

  • Kathryn Hendley

    Kathryn is an American professor of law and politics, and is currently the William Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her Ph.D. the University of California – Berkeley and her J.D. from the University of California – Los Angeles. Her research focuses on legal and economic reform…

  • Mbongiseni Buthelezi

    Mbongiseni is a South African scholar, social commentator, and institutional leader who serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. His career operates at the intersection of public governance, memory studies, and decolonial archive management. He completed his initial degrees at the University of KwaZulu-Natal before earning a Ph.D. in English and…