• 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…

  • Livia Buzolin

    Lívia is a Brazilian socio-legal scholar and researcher specializing in Law and Development, gender and sexuality rights, political institutions, and democratic backsliding. She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Law and Development from the São Paulo Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito SP), alongside a bachelor’s degree in Law from…

  • 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…

  • Hilla Dayan

    Hilla is a Dutch-Israeli political sociologist and Lecturer in Social Sciences at Amsterdam University College (AUC) and affiliated with research centers at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her MA degree at the University of Chicago and completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, focusing her doctoral…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Mohsin Bhat

    Mohsin is a legal scholar and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Law at Queen Mary University of London, specializing in constitutional law, human rights, and the law of democracy. He previously served as an Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law at Jindal Global Law School in India. He earned…

  • Defne Över

    Defne is a political and cultural sociologist who serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. Her research explores how political power is constructed, legitimized, and contested, with a primary empirical focus on contemporary autocratization, democratic backsliding, and social movements. Using an interdisciplinary framework, her scholarship brings sociological perspectives…

  • Jothie Rajah

    Jothie is a socio-legal scholar whose research explores the intersections of law, language, and state power. She is a full-time Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation (ABF) in Chicago and serves as the Book Review Editor for the Law & Society Review. She completed her law and English degrees at the National University of…