Laura Dugan is an Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of Maryland. Her research includes examining the consequences of criminal victimization and the efficacy of victimization prevention policy and practice. She also examines the effects of domestic violence laws, policies, services, and reductions in Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefit levels on the behavior patterns of offenders, victims, and players within the criminal justice system.
Neil Gunningham is a lawyer and interdisciplinary social scientist specializing in safety, health and environmental regulation. He currently holds Professorial Research appointments in the Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, and in the School of Resources, Environment and Society, at the Australian National University. His books include Leaders and Laggards: Next Generation Environment Regulation (with Sinclair) (Greenleaf, 2002), Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy, (with Grabosky) (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Regulating Workplace Safety (with Johnstone) (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Susan B. Haire is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Her research has focused on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, with a particular emphasis on federal judicial selection and the role of resources and lawyering in judicial decision making. She is the co-author of Continuity and Change on the United States Courts of Appeals (University of Michigan Press, 2000). Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Judicature, Justice System Journal, and Law & Society Review.
John Heinz is a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, a Professor of Law and Sociology at Northwestern University, and a member of the research faculty at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. For the past 30 years, he has examined the work of lawyers, both in Chicago and in Washington, DC, and has analyzed the social structure of the legal profession more generally. He does not manage to spend nearly enough time in the Adirondacks.
Robert A. Kagan is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the university's Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has written extensively on regulation in the United States and on comparative legal and qregulatory processes. His publications include Regulatory Justice: Implementing a Wage-Price Freeze (1978); Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness (with Eugene Bardach) (1982, reprinted 2002); Patterns of Port Development (1991); Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (with Lee Axelrad, 2000); and Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law (2001).
Stefanie A. Lindquist is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and worked as a research associate at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC. Her current research interests focus on decision making in appellate courts, and her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Judicature, Justice System Journal, and Law & Society Review.
Daniel S. Nagin is Teresa and H. John III Professor of Public Policy at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the evolution of antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and noncriminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data.
Anthony Paik is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago. He is currently working on his dissertation, which investigates commitments in intimate relations. In addition, with Edward Laumann and others, he is completing a monograph for the University of Chicago Press on “sexual markets” in urban life. His other areas of interest include economic sociology, social stratification, and social networks.
Richard Rosenfeld is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is co-author with Steven F. Messner of Crime and the American Dream (3rd ed., Wadsworth, 2001). He has written extensively on the social sources of criminal violence. His current research focuses on social networks among criminal offenders.
Donald R. Songer is a Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. One of the most prolific writers in the area of law and courts, he has published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Law & Society Review, and Judicature. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he also developed the Multi-User U.S. Court of Appeals Database.
Ann Southworth is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on practices and norms of the legal profession. She has written about civil rights and poverty lawyers, and her current work examines lawyers who serve conservative causes.
Mark C. Suchman is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds a JD from Yale Law School (1989) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University (1994). His primary research interests center on the legal environments of organizational activity in general, and on the legal environments of entrepreneurship and technological change in particular. Current projects examine the impact of law firms on the development of Silicon Valley, and the governance challenges surrounding new information technologies in health care. He has also written on organizational legitimacy, ecological and institutional models of organizations, the relationship between economic and sociological explanations of legal phenomena, and the impact of changing professional structures on corporate litigation ethics. He is an active member of the Law and Society Association, the Academy of Management, and the American Sociological Association, and his research has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the American Bar Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At Wisconsin, he chairs the Sociology Department's Deviance, Law and Social Control faculty, and he serves on steering committees for the Institute for Legal Studies, the Legal Studies Program, and the Industrial Relations Research Institute.
Dorothy Thornton obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California in Health Services and Policy Analysis, based on her dissertation The Effect of Management on the Machinery of Environmental Performance. She is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California at Berkeley, studying mechanisms of deterrence in environmental regulation.
William Twining is a Research Professor of Law at University College London and a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. His books include Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement, Rethinking Evidence, Analysis of Evidence (with Terence Anderson), Globalisation and Legal Theory, and, most recently, The Great Juristic Bazaar.
