Visiting Scholars
The Visiting Scholars Program is one of CSLS's most important and fruitful activities, enriching current scholarship and stimulating new research ideas in a "unique interdisciplinary and international research environment," in the words of one recent visitor. In recent years, CSLS has welcomed some 25 visiting scholars annually from the U.S. and many other countries, in a range of disciplines, including law, political science, sociology, criminology, history, public administration and communications. In 2011-2012, for example, 23 visiting scholars gathered at the Center from the U.S. (9), Europe (7), Middle East (1), Mexico (1) and Asia (5).
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND
SOCIETY
VISITING SCHOLARS - SUMMER 2013
Shahla Ali is an assistant professor of law and deputy director of the LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Ali is currently working on a 3-year research project funded by the Government of Hong Kong on “New Governance and Post-Disaster Humanitarian Aid” which aims to compare how three models of post-disaster governance (international, domestic and public/private) engage local populations in relief efforts. She is the author of Consumer Financial Dispute Resolution in a Comparative Context (Cambridge U. Press, 2013) and Resolving Disputes in the Asia Pacific Region (Routledge, 2010). Her empirical articles on globalization and access to justice have appeared in the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal. She has consulted with USAID, IFC/World Bank and the UN Office of Human Resource Management on issues pertaining to peace process negotiation and assessment of community dialogue and is a member of the IBA Drafting Committee on Investor-State Mediation Rules. She received her J.D. and Ph.D in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley; and her B.A. with honors from Stanford University. She is a member of the State Bar of California and a public arbitrator (FINRA, SCIA). She speaks English, Chinese and Farsi. sali@hku.hk
Clare Chambers is University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Her specialism is contemporary analytical political and legal philosophy, particularly feminist and liberal theory, and issues of equality, autonomy, culture, and personal relationships. She is currently working on the normative issues surrounding the state regulation of marriage, in articles such as "The Marriage-Free State" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2013), "Political Liberalism, Neutrality and State-Recognised Marriage" (in progress) and "The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State" (in progress). Clare is the author of two books: Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 2008), and, with Phil Parvin, Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (Hodder, 2012). She has also published numerous articles on feminist and liberal political and legal philosophy in journals of law, politics, and philosophy, and for publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Polity, Routledge, and Penn State University Press. Before joining Cambridge in 2006 she was on the faculties of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the CSLS before, in 2009. cec66@cam.ac.uk
Ana Carolina da Matta Chasin is a PhD candidate in the Sociology
Department of the University of São Paulo (USP) working on a study of the
arbitration system in Brazil. The project intends to discuss the way by which this
private remedy system is leading to the restructuring of the Brazilian law
field. She holds a Law degree from Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), a
Social Sciences degree and a Master in Sociology (both at USP). Her Master
thesis was focused on small claims courts in Brazil. She works with sociology
of law, focusing on two major topics: alternative dispute resolution and land
rights and quilombolas communities (rural black communities formed by
descendants of slaves). She also has just finished the Portuguese translation of the paper “Why the “haves” come out ahead: speculations
on the limits of legal change” (author Marc Galanter), which will be published
at the beginning of 2013. acchasin@usp.br
Fusheng Chen is Associate Professor
of Law at Harbin Engineering University (China). He finished his Post-doctorate
research in legal sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and received
both the degree of Master of Law and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Heilongjiang
University (China), in 1998 and in 2004. He specializes in sociology of law, intellectual
property, and company law. He has finished several research projects, including
one of the state-level projects of special funds for fundamental researches in
universities. The title of it is: Research on the Legal Issues of the
Protection of the Enterprises’ Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation
(2010). His publications include some books and papers, such as Rule of Law—Dynamic Balance between Freedom
and Order.(Law Press,2006); Fundamentals
and Practices of Intellectual Property Law (Heilongjiang People’s
Publishing House, 2003); “Research on the Legality of Staff Reduction in
Economic Crisis” (Academic Exchange, 2010, No.3.); “A
Comparative Study of Mode of Law Development in Russia and East Asia
Countries—from the Perspective of Different Cultural Modes” (Russian Central Asian
& East European Studies,2009,No.2.). He plans to work at the Center for
the Study of Law and Society on the Comparative Study of Patent Consciousness
of Chinese and American Enterprises. cfsycy@126.com
Sharon Cowan is a Senior
Lecturer in Criminal Law and Medical Jurisprudence at the University of
Edinburgh. Her research interests include: Gender, Sexuality and the Law;
Criminal Law; Criminal Justice; Legal Pedagogy; and Asylum and Immigration.
Along with Helen Baillot of the Scottish Refugee Council, and Vanessa Munro of
the University of Nottingham she recently completed a UK-wide empirical
project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation (2009-2012), investigating how women
asylum claimaints, whose applications include a claim of rape, are treated by
the Asylum and Immigration Appeal Tribunal. Her current project investigates
the legal consciousness of transgender people. Recent publications include:
Sharon Cowan 'To Buy or Not to Buy? Vulnerability and the Criminalisation of
Commercial BDSM' (2012) Feminist Legal Studies 20(3) 263-279; Sharon
Cowan, Helen Baillot, Vanessa Munro '‘Hearing the Right Gaps’: Enabling and
Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence within the UK Asylum Process'
(2012) Social & Legal Studies 21(3) 269-296; Sharon Cowan, Suzanne
Bouclin, Gillian Calder 'Playing Games with Law' in Zenon Bankowski, Paul
Maharg, Maks Del Mar (eds) The Arts and the Legal Academy Beyond Text in
Legal Education (Ashgate, 2013) p69-86. scowan1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Rose Cuison
Villazor is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, where she
teaches and writes in the areas of property law, immigration law, race, and citizenship. Her articles have been published in the New York University Law Review, Washington University Law Review,
and California
Law Review, among other leading law journals. She is co-editor of Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex,
and Marriage, published by Cambridge University Press in
2012. Prof. Villazor received the 2011
Derrick A. Bell Award given by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Minority Section. She obtained an LL.M
from Columbia Law School in 2006 and a J.D. from the American University
Washington College of Law in 2000. She clerked for Associate Judge Stephen H.
Glickman on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, received an Equal
Justice Works Fellowship to work for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
(2001-2004), and served as a Human Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School
(2004-2006). While at the Center
(Summer 2013 & Spring 2014) she will be researching the ways in which the
federal government, through the US military, prohibited African American
soldiers from marrying white European women during and a few years after World
War II. Through this exploration, she aims to show that the federal government
has played a significant role in regulating and restricting interracial
marriages. In so doing, her research
challenges the conventional view that the regulation and restriction of
marriages and family formation has rested only with the state governments. rcvillazor@ucdavis.edu
Chris Elmendorf is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. A graduate of the Yale Law School and former clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi, Professor Elmendorf writes primarily in the fields of election law and statutory interpretation. In recent and forthcoming papers, he examines the consequences of election law for political party branding and the performance of low-information electorates; the propriety of categorizing "the electorate" as a state actor under the U.S. Constitution and what this implies for judicial interpretation of the Voting Rights Act; the geography of racial discrimination by voters; and the administration of direct democracy. While at Berkeley, Elmendorf will be working on projects that adapt new statistical techniques and experimental methods from political science to answer longstanding questions under the Voting Rights Act. His work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the New York University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, and the Election Law Journal, among other leading journals. cselmendorf@ucdavis.edu.
Elisabeth Greif is Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She earned her doctorate at the University of Linz in 2005. She also teaches courses in feminist legal doctrine at the Rosa Mayreder College (Vienna). She specializes in gender studies and law as well as in legal history and earned the JKU goes Gender post-doctorate fellowship in 2010. Her research focuses on the construction of (sexual) identities in both historical and contemporary law and on the rights of sexual minorities. In her book Doing Trans/Gender. Rechtliche Dimensionen she has analysed the legal aspects of gender reassignment in Austria with a strong focus on human rights. Her recent publications include the co-editing of a multidisciplinary volume on legal gender studies and the editing of a comparative study on sex work. At the Center she will be working on her habilitation treatise in which she analyses law against unnatural fornication between people of the same sex in Austria’s First Republic (1918-1934) focusing on the judicial treatment of male and female unnatural fornication and the construction of sexual identity in this context. elisabeth.greif@jku.at
Mari Hirayama is excited to return to the Center for the Study of Law and Society, where she was a visiting student researcher nine years ago. She is now Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure & Criminology at Hakuoh University Department of Law (Japan). She received her Master of Laws from Kwansei Gakuin University Graduate School of Law. As a Fulbright Scholar from 2002-2004, she received an LL.M. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2003, and then was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Professor Hirayama’s specialization is in Criminal Procedure & Criminology. She has conducted research on the impact of victims’ rights and viewpoints on criminal procedure, and on criminal justice policy for sex crimes. Recently, she has also focused on the Saiban-in system (the lay judge system in Japan). At the Center, once again the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she will conduct a comparative study of criminal justice policy for sex crimes in the US and Japan. Her recent publications (in Japanese) include: Criminal Procedure Class (Horitsu- Bunka Publication, forthcoming March 2013), Introduction to Criminal Procedure (Yachiyo Publication 2011), and Direction of Criminology: Challenge of Legal Criminology, 2nd Edition (Horitsu Bunka Press 2007). ma07@fc.hakuoh.ac.jp
Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2008 and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and conducted fieldwork in Asia as a Fulbright scholar. Her research focuses on the politics of market reform, regulation, comparative capitalism, globalization, and the relationship between social and economic control in developing countries. Her recent publications include China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press/ Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2011) and “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Postliberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45 (2012): 32-61. She is also affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies as Residential Research Faculty. rhsueh@temple.edu
Sarah E. Igo is Associate Professor of History, with affiliate appointments in Political Science and Sociology, at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 2001 and was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2008. Her primary research interests are in American cultural and intellectual history, the history of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of the public sphere. She is the author of The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (2007), which explores the relationship between survey data—opinion polls, sex surveys, consumer research—and modern understandings of self and nation. Professor Igo is at the CSLS on a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which she is using to pursue training in sociolegal studies and jurisprudence. At the Center she will be working on a cultural history of privacy in the U.S. since the 1890s, examined through legal debates, artistic and architectural movements, technological innovations, professional codes, and shifting social norms. Interested in everyday vocabularies of privacy, her focus is on public debates that had privacy at their core, whether over “instantaneous photographs,” Social Security numbers, suburban home design, reproductive rights, or social media. sarah.igo@vanderbilt.edu
Malcolm Langford is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for
Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. His principal focus is on socio-economic
rights, various equality rights, judicial review, civil society, international development and investment
law. He is currently completing a thesis on the legitimacy and effectiveness of
social rights adjudication. Over the last fifteen years, he has worked
for various universities, NGOs, UN agencies and national human rights
institutions. He has published in law, economic and politics and his books
include: Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: Symbols or Substance? (Cambridge University Press, 2013, edited
with B. Cousins, J. Dugard and T. Madlingozi) and Social Rights Jurisprudence:
Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University
Press, 2008, edited). Malcolm also coordinates a number of international
initiatives (Metrics for Human Rights and the Global School on Socio-Economic
Rights) and is the Chair of Judgment Watch.
Malcolm.langford@nchr.uio.no Home page: http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/people/aca/malcolml/index.html
Zakiya Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. She is also a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan (2011), where she also earned her Masters of Social Work (2009). Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. Her current research examines why and how marginalized women in the US are engaging international human rights discourse to advance a broader movement for reproductive justice that addresses rights to have children and rights to parent. Her research has been funded by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation. She has published in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Sociological Inquiry; Feminist Studies and Societies without Borders: Social Science and Human Rights. In 2011-2 she was the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison. zluna@law.berkeley.edu
Anne Meuwese is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Public Law at Tilburg Law School in The Netherlands. After obtaining her doctorate in Law from Leiden University in February 2008 (cum laude) with a thesis on `Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking' and working as a researcher for several years at the University of Exeter and the University of Antwerp, Anne currently teaches and carries out research on topics at the intersection of public law and regulation. Anne is co-chairing the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), see http://regulation.upf.edu/. Anne’s current research – funded by a personal Veni grant from the Dutch research council NWO – deals with the use of regulatory mechanisms as alternative review of government action. anne.meuwese@tilburguniversity.edu
Frédéric Varone is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He holds a MA in economics, a MA in public administration and a Ph.D. in political science. He is a member of the Research Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation. His current research interests include comparative public policy (e.g. sustainable management of natural resources, regulation of biotechnologies), program evaluation and, public sector reforms (e.g. New Public Management, liberalization and privatization of public services, Public Service Motivation). At the CSLS, he is launching a new research project focusing on three strategies implemented by interest groups to pursue agenda-setting and policy change: lobbying, litigation and direct legislation. He aims at comparing interest groups' actions and policy impacts in California and in Switzerland, in various policy domains (e.g. health and welfare, economic regulation, environmental protection or morality issues), and over the last two decades. Frederic.varone@unige.ch
Piao Yanhong received her Ph.D. in Jurisprudence from Kyoto University (Japan, 2012), where she also earned her Masters of Law and Society (2007). Before coming to America, she served as a researcher in the Department of Legal and Political Studies at Kyoto University (2012). Piao’s research is in the areas of Law and Social Change in China, Chinese Social Security, and Dispute Resolution. Her scholarly interests have been mainly focused on the interactions between courts, local government and migrant laborers’ protests in or out of courts, as well as how these actors’ activities are influenced by the law and other social institutional environment and how they, in turn, have influenced changes in legal institutions. Her doctoral thesis focused on the workers’ accident compensation insurance (WACI) law system in Guangdong, China, and investigated the institutional evolution of the system from 1983 to 1999. At CSLS, she will continue her research on the institutional formation and transformation of Guangdong’s WACI System since the 1980’s, examining the period from 2000 to 2012. yanhong7480@gmail.com
Lan Zhao is a senior lecturer of British and American Cultures in
Central University of Finance and Economics (China). She received her Master’s
Degree in English Language and Literature in Beijing Normal University in 2000.
Ever since, she’s been teaching undergraduate students introductory courses on
the study of American society and culture. In the recent years, she is
beginning to see the vast and significant impact of English language
acquisition on people’s social behavior and thinking patterns, given the
English learning “mania” that has been around for 20 years in China. During her
visit in CSLS, she’ll focus on the development of legal consciousness of the
increasing population of Chinese college students who already have a good
command of English and have been sufficiently exposed to western culture. She
will be working with Dr. Su Li at UCB to establish the theoretical framework,
and design the data collection methods. zhaolan06@126.com
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND SOCIETY
VISITING SCHOLARS - SPRING 2013
Clare Chambers is University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Her specialism is contemporary analytical political and legal philosophy, particularly feminist and liberal theory, and issues of equality, autonomy, culture, and personal relationships. She is currently working on the normative issues surrounding the state regulation of marriage, in articles such as "The Marriage-Free State" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2013), "Political Liberalism, Neutrality and State-Recognised Marriage" (in progress) and "The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State" (in progress). Clare is the author of two books: Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 2008), and, with Phil Parvin, Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (Hodder, 2012). She has also published numerous articles on feminist and liberal political and legal philosophy in journals of law, politics, and philosophy, and for publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Polity, Routledge, and Penn State University Press. Before joining Cambridge in 2006 she was on the faculties of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the CSLS before, in 2009. cec66@cam.ac.uk
Elisabeth Greif is Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She earned her doctorate at the University of Linz in 2005. She also teaches courses in feminist legal doctrine at the Rosa Mayreder College (Vienna). She specializes in gender studies and law as well as in legal history and earned the JKU goes Gender post-doctorate fellowship in 2010. Her research focuses on the construction of (sexual) identities in both historical and contemporary law and on the rights of sexual minorities. In her book Doing Trans/Gender. Rechtliche Dimensionen she has analysed the legal aspects of gender reassignment in Austria with a strong focus on human rights. Her recent publications include the co-editing of a multidisciplinary volume on legal gender studies and the editing of a comparative study on sex work. At the Center she will be working on her habilitation treatise in which she analyses law against unnatural fornication between people of the same sex in Austria’s First Republic (1918-1934) focusing on the judicial treatment of male and female unnatural fornication and the construction of sexual identity in this context. elisabeth.greif@jku.at
Mari Hirayama is excited to return to the Center for the Study of Law and Society, where she was a visiting student researcher nine years ago. She is now Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure & Criminology at Hakuoh University Department of Law (Japan). She received her Master of Laws from Kwansei Gakuin University Graduate School of Law. As a Fulbright Scholar from 2002-2004, she received an LL.M. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2003, and then was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Professor Hirayama’s specialization is in Criminal Procedure & Criminology. She has conducted research on the impact of victims’ rights and viewpoints on criminal procedure, and on criminal justice policy for sex crimes. Recently, she has also focused on the Saiban-in system (the lay judge system in Japan). At the Center, once again the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she will conduct a comparative study of criminal justice policy for sex crimes in the US and Japan. Her recent publications (in Japanese) include: Criminal Procedure Class (Horitsu-Bunka Publication, forthcoming March 2013), Introduction to Criminal Procedure (Yachiyo Publication 2011), and Direction of Criminology: Challenge of Legal Criminology, 2nd Edition (Horitsu Bunka Press 2007). ma07@fc.hakuoh.ac.jp
Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2008 and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and conducted fieldwork in Asia as a Fulbright scholar. Her research focuses on the politics of market reform, regulation, comparative capitalism, globalization, and the relationship between social and economic control in developing countries. Her recent publications include China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press/ Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2011) and “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Postliberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45 (2012): 32-61. She is also affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies as Residential Research Faculty. rhsueh@temple.edu
Lia Kent is a Research Fellow with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. She holds a Ph.D. and MPubIntLaw from the University of Melbourne. Her research covers the politics of post-conflict peace-building and transitional justice, with a particular focus on East Timor, where she has worked and conducted research since 2000. She is the author of The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor (Routledge: 2012) and has published in journals including Human Rights Quarterly and the International Journal of Transitional Justice. While at CSLS she will be working on a project that investigates how individuals and communities in East Timor remember the past and seek to reconstruct everyday life in the wake of conflict. The project examines how local justice priorities and practices may resonate with, or diverge from, those of the national leadership and international donors. lia.kent@anu.edu.au
Zakiya Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. She is also a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan (2011), where she also earned her Masters of Social Work (2009). Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. Her current research examines why and how marginalized women in the US are engaging international human rights discourse to advance a broader movement for reproductive justice that addresses rights to have children and rights to parent. Her research has been funded by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation. She has published in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Sociological Inquiry; Feminist Studies and Societies without Borders: Social Science and Human Rights. In 2011-2 she was the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison. zluna@law.berkeley.edu
Anne Meuwese is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Public Law at Tilburg Law School in The Netherlands. After obtaining her doctorate in Law from Leiden University in February 2008 (cum laude) with a thesis on `Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking' and working as a researcher for several years at the University of Exeter and the University of Antwerp, Anne currently teaches and carries out research on topics at the intersection of public law and regulation. Anne is co-chairing the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), see http://regulation.upf.edu/. Anne’s current research – funded by a personal Veni grant from the Dutch research council NWO – deals with the use of regulatory mechanisms as alternative review of government action. anne.meuwese@tilburguniversity.edu
VISITING SCHOLARS - FALL 2012
Ana Carolina da Matta Chasin is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department of the University of São Paulo (USP) working on a study of the arbitration system in Brazil. The project intends to discuss the way by which this private remedy system is leading to the restructuring of the Brazilian law field. She holds a Law degree from Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), a Social Sciences degree and a Master in Sociology (both at USP). Her Master thesis was focused on small claims courts in Brazil. She works with sociology of law, focusing on two major topics: alternative dispute resolution and land rights and quilombolas communities (rural black communities formed by descendants of slaves). She also has just finished the Portuguese translation of the paper “Why the “haves” come out ahead: speculations on the limits of legal change” (author Marc Galanter), which will be published at the beginning of 2013. acchasin@usp.br
Fusheng Chen is an Associate Professor of Law at Harbin Engineering University (China). He finished his Post-doctorate research in legal sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and received both the degree of Master of Law and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Heilongjiang University (China), in 1998 and in 2004. He specializes in sociology of law, intellectual property, and company law. He has finished several research projects, including one of the state-level projects of special funds for fundamental researches in universities. The title of it is: Research on the Legal Issues of the Protection of the Enterprises’ Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation (2010). His publications include some books and papers, such as Rule of Law—Dynamic Balance between Freedom and Order.(Law Press, 2006); Fundamentals and Practices of Intellectual Property Law (Heilongjiang People’s Publishing House, 2003); “Research on the Legality of Staff Reduction in Economic Crisis” (Academic Exchange, 2010, No.3.); “A Comparative Study of Mode of Law Development in Russia and East Asia Countries—from the Perspective of Different Cultural Modes” (Russian Central Asian & East European Studies, 2009,No.2.). He plans to work at the Center for the Study of Law and Society on the Comparative Study of Patent Consciousness of Chinese and American Enterprises. cfsycy@126.com
Rebecca Curry received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2008), where she also earned the J.D. (2002). Her scholarly work investigates interactions between courts and other branches of government, as well as the use of litigation to manage both public policy and the regulation of the private sector. Her research to date has focused on separation of powers, judicial review, election law, and the First Amendment. From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Curry served as Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science Department at Hofstra University. There, she offered courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, the judicial process, and American politics, while also directing the University’s accelerated B.A./J.D. program. At the Center, she will be completing a book entitled, The Paradox of Rights: Unexpected Lessons in the Judicial Review of Campaign Finance Policy. It examines the role of electoral interests and interbranch politics in the development of campaign finance jurisprudence. Dr. Curry is also continuing her work on presidential war powers, investigating how Supreme Court rulings in national security cases are affected by the Court’s interest in preserving its own policymaking authority. Rebecca.s.curry@gmail.com
Omer Dekel is a Senior Lecturer at the Academic Center of Law & Business in Israel and the former dean of the Academic Center's Law School. He holds LL.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Direct track). Dr. Dekel topics are Administrative Law and Government Procurement Law. Dr. Dekel's books on government procurement law (in Hebrew) are quoted in hundreds of judgments (district and supreme court) and were the base for a vast legislation regulatory reform. Dr. Dekel served as a Counsel for the Israeli Government for strategic and complex acquisition processes; served as a special consultant to the Israeli Parliament for the reform of Public Procurement Regulations; and represents administrative agencies and private entities before the Israeli Supreme Court, primarily in administrative law cases. Among his recent publications: "The Bankruptcy Auction as a Game - Designing an Optimal Auction in Bankruptcy", Review of Litigation (2012) (with Yaad Rotem); "Should the Acquitted Recover Damages? The Right of an Acquitted Defendant to Receive Compensation for the Injury He Has Suffered", Criminal Law Bulletin (2011); “Modification of a Government Contract Awarded Following a Competitive Procedure”, Public Contracts Law Review (2009); “The Legal Theory Of Competitive Bidding For Government Contracts”, Public Contracts Law Review (2008). Dr. Dekel is also a visiting scholar at the Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society and his current research focuses on the connection between Cognitive Psychology, Economics and Law in the scope of Government Procurement. omerdekel@012.net.il
Jacqueline Gehring is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Allegheny College. She received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2007). She is especially interested in how ideas of race and nation are currently evolving in Europe, and in the impact of the European Union on state and local equality policies. Her past work includes investigations of race riots in France, and the changing nature of German citizenship and identity. While at CSLS she will be completing “One European Right, Diverse National Realities,” a book investigating the implementation of European racial anti-discrimination policy by labor unions, employers, NGOs and governmental actors. She will also be working on a project that investigates the limitations on the free movement of the Roma in Europe and the use of legal rights and court to remedy discrimination experienced by the Roma. jgehring@allegheny.edu
Ben Golder is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales (Australia). He has undergraduate degrees in law and English literature from the same institution, and took his PhD in legal theory from the University of London (Birkbeck College) in 2009. Ben works in the fields of law and social theory, legal theory, public law and human rights. He is the author, with Peter Fitzpatrick, of Foucault's Law (Routledge, 2009) and the editor of the collection, Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights (Routledge, 2012). His work has been published in journals such as Law, Culture and the Humanities, Social and Legal Studies and the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. He is presently at work, and will continue this work whilst at the Center, on a manuscript entitled Critical Counter-Conducts: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Rights. b.golder@unsw.edu.au
Thalia González is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College. She holds a JD from Northwestern University Law School. In her teaching and scholarship she has developed an interdisciplinary, multicultural, and community-focused approach to understanding increasingly complex and interdependent relationships between law, race, and society. Her research interests include civil rights, critical race theory, juvenile justice, the organization and experience of community based legal practice, and the intersection between law and organizing. She has authored articles on collaborative models of community problem-solving, racial inequity in education, juvenile justice, economic development, and the use of non-legal strategies for social change. Professor González is currently engaged in a multi-year research project addressing racial disparities in school discipline as part of a research collaborative of the UCLA Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project. While at CSLS, she will be completing several projects including an article that considers norm formation and internalization in the context of education reform. The project will explore several dimensions of her research agenda, including community mobilization, the use of framing in legal and non-legal contexts, collaborative models of community problem-solving, and institutional reform. Prior to teaching at Occidental, Professor González was a practicing attorney and community organizer. She has also taught at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and Arizona State University. thaliagonzalez@oxy.edu
Elisabeth Greif is Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She earned her doctorate at the University of Linz in 2005. She also teaches courses in feminist legal doctrine at the Rosa Mayreder College (Vienna). She specializes in gender studies and law as well as in legal history and earned the JKU goes Gender post-doctorate fellowship in 2010. Her research focuses on the construction of (sexual) identities in both historical and contemporary law and on the rights of sexual minorities. In her book Doing Trans/Gender. Rechtliche Dimensionen she has analysed the legal aspects of gender reassignment in Austria with a strong focus on human rights. Her recent publications include the co-editing of a multidisciplinary volume on legal gender studies and the editing of a comparative study on sex work. At the Center she will be working on her habilitation treatise in which she analyses law against unnatural fornication between people of the same sex in Austria’s First Republic (1918-1934) focusing on the judicial treatment of male and female unnatural fornication and the construction of sexual identity in this context. elisabeth.greif@jku.at
Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2008 and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and conducted fieldwork in Asia as a Fulbright scholar. Her research focuses on the politics of market reform, regulation, comparative capitalism, globalization, and the relationship between social and economic control in developing countries. Her recent publications include China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press/ Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2011) and “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Postliberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45 (2012): 32-61. She is also affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies as Residential Research Faculty. rhsueh@temple.edu
Jiaqi (Anya) Lao is a doctoral candidate in Peking University in China, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in law (with honors) in 2008 and then entered the Masters-Doctor-combined program in 2009. She is also involved in the human rights Masters program jointly launched by the Research Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of Peking University Law School (RCHRHL) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University of Sweden (RWI) in 2008. Her research interests include criminal justice, sentencing policy and human rights protection. She is involved in several important empirical research projects on criminal law funded by National Funds of Social Science in China and is author of five articles dealing with healthcare-related commercial bribery, sentencing policy for recidivists, and the protection of minorities. Jiaqi Lao plans to complete her doctoral dissertation entitled “The Recidivist Premium in Chinese Sentencing Process” at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. mailto:anyalaopku@163.com
Zakiya Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. She is also a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan (2011), where she also earned her Masters of Social Work (2009). Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. Her current research examines why and how marginalized women in the US are engaging international human rights discourse to advance a broader movement for reproductive justice that addresses rights to have children and rights to parent. Her research has been funded by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation. She has published in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Sociological Inquiry; Feminist Studies and Societies without Borders: Social Science and Human Rights. In 2011-2 she was the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison. zluna@law.berkeley.edu
Dario Melossi is Full Professor of Criminology in the School of Law of the University of Bologna. After having being conferred a law degree at this University, he went on to do a Ph. D. in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was then Assistant and thereafter Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1993. He has published The Prison and the Factory (1977, together with Massimo Pavarini), The State of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social Control in the Making of Democracy (1990), and Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in Europe and America (2008), plus about 200 other edited books, chapters, and articles. He is Editor of Studi sulla questione criminale and Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society, and is member of the boards of many other professional journals. His current research concerns the process of construction of deviance and social control within the European Union, especially with regard to migration processes. dario.melossi@unibo.it
Mathias Siems is Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University, England. He is a graduate of the Universities of Munich, Germany, and Edinburgh, Scotland, and has held visiting research positions at the European University Institute in Florence (as a Jean Monnet Fellow), Harvard Law School (as a Fulbright Scholar), and the Centre for Business Research of the University of Cambridge (ESRC-funded project on Law, Finance and Development). His main research interests lie in comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to private, company and commercial law (see also SSRN author page at http://www.ssrn.com/author=367649). Currently, he is working on a book on Comparative Law, under contract with the Law in Context Series of Cambridge University Press. This book will attempt a detailed contextualized treatment of comparative law, for instance, by way of discussing topics such as legal pluralism and regulatory competition, and by way of incorporating critical, socio-legal and empirical approaches to comparative law. siems@fulbrightmail.org
Satomi Tayama is an Associate Professor of Law at Kanagawa University (Japan). She received a Master of Laws from Waseda University. She specializes in criminal law, and her primary research interests lie in the interrelationship between criminal law and civil law. Getting a foothold in interpretation of Japanese criminal law, she has mainly emphasized in her articles that criminal law should remain the last resort of maintaining social control. During her stay at CSLS, she will be working on research into the limits of criminal sanctions, comparing criminal and civil sanctions in terms of a deterrent to unlawful acts. tayama@kanagawa-u.ac.jp
Frédéric Varone is full professor of political science at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He holds a MA in economics, a MA in public administration and a Ph.D. in political science. He is a member of the Research Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation. His current research interests include comparative public policy (e.g. sustainable management of natural resources, regulation of biotechnologies), program evaluation and, public sector reforms (e.g. New Public Management, liberalization and privatization of public services, Public Service Motivation). At the CSLS, he is launching a new research project focusing on three strategies implemented by interest groups to pursue agenda-setting and policy change: lobbying, litigation and direct legislation. He aims at comparing interest groups' actions and policy impacts in California and in Switzerland, in various policy domains (e.g. health and welfare, economic regulation, environmental protection or morality issues), and over the last two decades. frederic.varone@unige.ch
Kenneth Veitch is Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, UK. He studied law at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and obtained his PhD in Law from Cardiff University. His research interests lie in the fields of sociology of law, legal and social theory, and law and social policy. His current project explores the relationship between law, neo-liberalism and the welfare state. Recent publications include: “Social Solidarity and the Power of Contract”, Journal of Law and Society (2011) and “Juridification, Medicalisation and the Impact of EU Law: Patient Mobility and the Allocation of Scarce NHS Resources”, Medical Law Review (2012). He is the author of The Jurisdiction of Medical Law (Ashgate, 2007). At Berkeley, he will be researching the historical and contemporary nature of the concept of social law (the law of the welfare state) and, specifically, the relationship between this type of law and the privatisation of welfare services. K.J.Veitch@sussex.ac.uk
