Rachel A. Cichowski is Assistant Professor of Comparative Law in the Department of Political Science and the Law, Societies and Justice Program at the University of Washington. She has held visiting research positions at the European University Institute, Florence, and the Max Planck Institute, Bonn. Her research interests include comparative law and politics, legal mobilization, and European integration. Her publications include State of the EU: Law, Politics and Society (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), and her research also appears in edited volumes and journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and Women & Politics.
Leslie Friedman Goldstein is the Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. She has written Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context (2001), Contemporary Cases in Women's Rights (1994), In Defense of the Text: Democracy and Constitutional Theory (1991), and Women's Constitutional Rights (1988). She edited and contributed to Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Debate (1992).
Anke Grosskopf is Assistant Professor of Political Science at C.W. Post University. Her research focuses on the intersection and interaction of international and/or supranational legal systems with their domestic counterparts. She is also interested in understanding the sources and linkages of public support for national and supranational constitutional courts.
Dicle Kogacioglu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Studies at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook. Her Ph.D. dissertation is based on an ethnographic study of a civil courthouse in one of Istanbul's internal-migrant districts. As a sociologist studying law, she is interested in the meanings and practices of law in daily life and their relationship to the reproduction of social inequalities. She also writes about the Turkish Constitutional Court and about the legal framing of honor crimes in Turkey. Her main theoretical interests are postcolonial and feminist sociolegal studies.
Nancy Maveety is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University and was a Fulbright lecturer at Tartu University in Estonia in spring 2001. Her edited volume The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2002.
Jiří Přibáň is Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University, and Professor of Legal Sociology and Philosophy, Charles University, Prague. He is author and editor of the following books in English: Dissidents of Law (2002), Systems of Justice in Transition (2003, co-edited with P. Roberts and J. Young), Law's New Boundaries (2001, co-edited with D. Nelken), and The Rule of Law in Central Europe (1999, co-edited with J. Young). Fields of research include social theory of law, legitimacy of law, constitutionalism and human rights theories.
Troy Riddell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2002. His research interests include constitutionalism and human rights, the impact of litigation on public policy and administration, and public opinion and the courts. His work has appeared in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Canadian Public Administration. His most recent work examines the changing nature of public support for the Supreme Court of Canada (forthcoming, with Lori Hausegger, Canadian Journal of Political Science).
Kim Lane Scheppele is the John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has spent approximately five years out of the last ten living in Hungary and Russia, studying the development of their new constitutional systems. Since 9/11, she has been examining reactions to the terrorist attacks in comparative perspective for a book to be titled Law in a Time of Emergency. Scheppele is a former co-director of the Program on Gender and Culture at Central European University in Budapest. Next year, she will be a fellow in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University.
Peter H. Solomon Jr. is Professor of Political Science, Law, and Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto. His recent publications include Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864–1996: Power, Culture, and the Limits of Legal Order (edited; M.E. Sharpe, 1997), and Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform (with Todd S. Foglesong, Westview, 2000). He is active in judicial reform programs in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Alexei Trochev, currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Toronto, has taught Russian and comparative constitutional law at Pomor State University Law School in Arkhangelsk, Russia. His articles on post-Soviet constitutional courts have appeared in I-CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law and East European Constitutional Review.
