Joan Brockman is a professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. She has graduate degrees in law and sociology, and is a nonpracticing member of the Law Societies of British Columbia and Alberta. Her research and teaching interests include crimes and misconduct in the professions, gender bias in the legal and other professions, the history of women in the professions, criminal procedure and evidence, and corporate financial crimes and misconduct. Her two recent books are Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001) and Canadian Criminal Procedure and Evidence for the Social Sciences (with V. Gordon Rose) (Toronto: Nelson, 2001, 2nd edition).
Robert Dingwall is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham. He received a Ph.D. in medical sociology from the University of Aberdeen in 1974 and worked at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and, as a visitor, at the American Bar Foundation, before moving to Nottingham in 1990. Within the law and society field, he has carried out research on agency decision-making in child abuse and neglect, medical negligence and asbestos disease litigation, the legal profession, and divorce mediation, funded by various U.K. foundations and government agencies. Since 1997, he has been developing a research and graduate center for the study of the social, cultural, ethical and legal implications of biological sciences and technologies.
Bryant Garth is director of the American Bar Foundation. His recent research has concentrated on the globalization of law and legal institutions, focusing currently on Asia. Recent books include: The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists and the Contest to Transform Latin American States (with Yves Dezalay) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) and two edited volumes: Global Prescriptions: The Construction, Exportation and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy (with Yves Dezalay) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), and Looking Back at Law's Century (with R. Kagan and A. Sarat) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002). Other research projects include a ten-year project to follow the careers of law graduates of the class of 2000, which is undertaken with the National Association for Law Placement, the Law School Admission Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Open Society Institute.
Idit Kostiner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University, Israel and an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include the relationships between law and social change, legal consciousness, and legal culture.
Jodi Lane received her Ph.D. in Social Ecology (Criminology) from the University of California, Irvine in 1998. She is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Studies in Criminology and Law at the University of Florida. Her interests include fear of crime, juvenile justice policy, and corrections. Her work has appeared in Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, and Critical Sociology.
Lynn Mather is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University at Buffalo, where she is Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Before her recent move to Buffalo, she was the Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Her co-authored book, Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice (Oxford University Press 2001) received the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in law and courts. Her current areas of research interest include lawyers, family law, and tobacco law and policy. She served as President of the Law and Society Association in 2001–2002.
James W. Meeker received his J.D. and Ph.D. in sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and is currently the Associate Dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include the sociology of law, criminology and applied research methodology and statistics with particular emphasis on policy analysis. He has published in the areas of gangs, procedural justice, access to justice for the poor, legal services delivery mechanisms, domestic violence and the impact of criminological research on policy, and prosecutorial strategies against organized crime.
Noga Morag-Levine is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her book, Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He founded the UW Institute for Legal Studies and was its Director from 1985 until 1989. From 1990–2001 he served as the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Dean of International Studies and Director of the UW's campus-wide International Institute. Trubek has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association and currently is on the Board of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association. He has written on the legal profession, Max Weber's theories of law, litigation and disputes processing, public interest law, critical legal studies, the role of law in economic development, law and European integration, globalization and the law, human rights, and the role of interdisciplinary and international studies in U.S. universities. He was recently appointed Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Ministry of Culture for his research on globalization and his role in developing French and European Studies in the U.S. During 2002–2003 Trubek will be a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School and Harvard's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies.
Mark D. West is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where he directs the Japanese Legal Studies Program. His recent articles have appeared in Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Japanese journals Jurisuto and Leviathan. He is currently working on two books; Law and Private Ordering in the Japanese Economy (with Curtis J. Milhaupt) and Law in Everyday Japanese Life.
