Helena Alviar is Professor of Law at the University of Los Andes School of Law and visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her research interests include legal theory, law and gender, and administrative law. Alviar is the author of <emDerecho, Desarrollo y Feminismo en América Latina (2008) and co-editor of Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice: Critical Inquiries (2014) and Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context (2013). She has published articles on feminist theory, property, law and development, social and economic rights, and transitional justice in journals including Law and Development Review, Journal of Empirical Studies in Law, The American University Journal of Gender, and Social Policy. She has been awarded both a Reginald F. Lewis Fellowship for Law Teaching and a Byse Fellowship from Harvard University. Alviar holds an undergraduate degree in Law and post-graduate degree in Financial Legislation from the University of Los Andes, and an LLM and SJD in Economic Law and Gender from Harvard University.
Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include political ethnography, urban politics, environmental sociology, and collective action. His recent books include the co-authored In Harm’s Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence (2015), the co-edited Violence at the Urban Margins (2015), and the edited Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in the American City (2015). His co-authored book, Flammable (2009), has garnered an array of awards including the ASA Robert Park Best Book Award and the Best Book Award from the Association for Humanist Sociology. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He recently finished a concurrent appointment as a Research Associate in the Society, Work, and Development Institute at the University of Witwatersrand. Auyero holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA and PhD in Sociology, with honors, from The New School for Social Research.
Jennifer Bair is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, specializing in globalization, with interests in trade and the political economy of development, and the relationship between gender and work. Her research centers on the comparative study of export-led development, and includes fieldwork from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Bangladesh. Bair is the editor of Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research (2009). She is also the co-editor of a number of books, most recently Putting Labor in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains (2015). Her articles have appeared in such journals as Humanity, Development and Change; Humanitarianism and Development; Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and Social Problems. Bair served as chair of the American Sociological Association’s section on the Political Economy of the World System. She holds a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and both an MA and PhD in Sociology from Duke University.
Luca Bonadiman is a residential fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. His past research focused broadly on public international law and human rights, including the impact of intellectual property rights on human rights. His doctoral thesis inquired the recent human rights historiography, while his most recent endeavor concerns taxation and, more precisely, the interplay between rights and taxes. He recently contributed to the edited volume Fundamental Concepts of International Law with a chapter on “Faith”. Before joining IGLP, Bonadinman was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki (2012 and 2015-2016) and at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (2016-2017). Bonadiman holds a BA and an MA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Padova (Italy), a European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre, and he was awarded his PhD in Law from City University of Hong Kong, School of Law.
Daniel Brinks is an Associate Professor of Government and Co-director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the role of the law and courts in supporting or extending human rights and many of the basic rights associated with democracy, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. He is currently at work on a project that examines constitutional change in Latin America since about 1975, focusing especially on judicial institutions and constitutional review. He has published articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the Texas International Law Journal. His books Courting Social Justice: The Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (co-edited with Varun Gauri) and The Judicial Response to Police Violence in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law were both published by Cambridge University Press. Brinks received a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and a JD from the University of Michigan.
Rachel Cichowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, with a joint appointment in the Law, Societies and Justice Program at the University of Washington. She is also a member of the European Studies Faculty in the Jackson School of International Studies at UW. Cichowski’s research interests include international law and courts, comparative judicial politics and constitutionalism, international human rights, international organization, and legal mobilization. Cichowski is the author of The European Court and Civil Society: Litigation, Mobilization and Governance (2007). Her articles have appeared in such journals as Law & Society Review; Comparative Political Studies, and Journal of European Public Policy. Cichowski’s current project, “International Courts, Advocacy Groups and Human Rights Governance” is funded by a National Science Foundation grant. Cichowski holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego, and both an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Irvine.
</emJason Cons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include borders, agrarian change, and political ecology in South Asia, specifically Bangladesh. He is the co-editor of the forth
-coming Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia, and the author of Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border (2016). Cons's work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology; Political Geography; Modern Asian Studies; Ethnography; Antipode; Third-World Quarterly; and the Journal of Peasant Studies. He previously worked as the Director of Research and Project Design at the Goldin Institute in Chicago, and as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University. Cons holds a BA with honors in English and American Studies from Wesleyan University, as well as an MS and a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University.
Dan Danielsen is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Corporation, Law and Global Society program at the Northeastern University School of Law. He teaches on corporations, law and development, international business regulation, international law, and conflict of laws. His research explores the complex role of the business firm in global governance. Danielsen is author of publications including The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Research Manifesto and International Law and Economics: Letting go of ‘the Normal’ in Pursuit of an Ever-Elusive ‘Real’. He was formerly executive vice president and general counsel of Europe Online Networks S.A. Dr. Danielsen holds a BA in English Literature from the University of California – Los Angeles and his JD from Harvard University.
Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and founder and co-director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory. Professor Engle is at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during the 2016-17 academic year, where she is the Deborah Lunder and Alan Ezekowitz Founders’ Circle Member. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. She is co-editor of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (Routledge, 1995). Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009 and an assignment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Bogotá in 2010. She received a BA from Baylor University and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Luis Eslava is Senior Lecturer in International Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical International Law at Kent Law School, the University of Kent. He is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, International Professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and faculty member at the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy. His research interests include international legal theory and history, law and development, global governance, and public law, and he is an active member of the Third World Approaches to International Law network. Eslava's books include Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development (2015), and the edited collections Imperialismo y Derecho Internacional: Historio y Legado (2016) and Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures (2017). He has published articles in journals such as the London Review of International Law; University of Miami Inter-American Law Review; Transnational Legal Theory; the Law and Development Review; and the Journal of Law and Politics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Eslava completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne.
Jorge Esquirol is Professor of Law at the Florida International University School of Law. He teaches and researches in the areas of international law, comparative law, and commercial law. Esquirol is the author of Las Ficciones del Derecho Latinoamericano (2014). He has published articles in such journals as the American University International Law Review; Comparative Property Law; Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal; and Comparative Law Review. His book chapter, “Latin America,” is included in the Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (2012). Esquirol has been a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia, as well as Visiting Professor of Law at numerous institutions, most recently at the University of Trento (Italy). He regularly guest teaches at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. Esquirol holds a BA in Finance from Georgetown University, as well as a JD and SJD from Harvard University.
James Ferguson is the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His research focuses on South Africa and has engaged in a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues, including changing topographies of property and wealth and experiences of modernity. Prior to his current appointment, Ferguson served as Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine. Some of his recent publications include Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (Duke University Press, 2015) and “From Anti-Politics to Post-Neoliberalism: A Conversation with James Ferguson” (Humanity, 2014). Ferguson holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MA and PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.
William Forbath is Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. His current research concerns social and economic rights in the courts; social movements in the Southern Hemisphere; and Jews, law, and identity politics in the Progressive Era. Forbath is the author of the seminal Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991), and has published dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays on legal and constitutional history and theory. His articles have appeared in such journals as Yale Law Journal; Harvard Law Review; Stanford Law Review; Law and Social Inquiry, and the Journal of American History, and his journalism in The New York Times, American Prospect, and the Nation. Forthcoming publications include The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, co-authored with Joseph Fishkin (2018) and a chapter in Law of Strangers: Critical Perspectives on Jewish Lawyering and International Legal Thought (2018). Forbath serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Law & History. He holds an AB from Harvard University, a BA from Cambridge University, and both a JD and PhD from Yale University.
James Galbraith is Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, Professor of Government, and Director of the Inequality Project in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. His teaching and research areas include economics, social policy, and development policy. His most recent books include Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016), Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016), and The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth (2014). Galbraith has also co-authored and co-edited a number books, including two textbooks, and he publishes widely in both scholarly and general-interest journals. In 2014, he was named co-winner of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. In 2016, he advised the Presidential Campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. Galbraith previously served as Chair of the Board of Directors for Economists for Peace and Security (1996-2016) and is a Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute. He holds an AB from Harvard University and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in Economics from Yale University.
Neville Hoad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include Victorian feminism contemporary feminist theory in French and English, and international human rights law pertaining to sexual orientations. His books include African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization (2007) and the co-edited Sex and Politics in South Africa (2005). His work has appeared in journals such as Victorian Studies, The New Centennial Review, and the Journal of Palestine Studies. Previously, Hoad taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Witwatersrand. He holds a PhD in English from Columbia University.
</emMónica Jiménez is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores the intersections of law, race and nationalism in US empire building in Latin America and the Caribbean. Jiménez’s book manuscript, American State of Exception, offers a legal history of race and exception in US empire building and centers on the place of Puerto Rico within that historical trajectory. She has received fellowship support from the Ford Foundation, the Puerto Rican Studies Association, the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School and the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly, Jiménez taught History and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a BA in Classical Civilizations from Yale University and an MA in Latin American Studies, as well as a JD and PhD in History from The University of Texas at Austin.
Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He teaches and researches on the topics of law, slavery, capitalism, and political economy. His recent publications include “What do we mean when we say, ‘Structural Racism’? A walk down west Florissant Avenue, Ferguson, Missouri,” (Kalfou, 2016) and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, 2013). Johnson previously served as Chair of the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard and Director of the American Studies program at New York University, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a BA in History from Amherst College, a Postgraduate Diploma in History from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in American History from Princeton University.
David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Institute for
Global Law and Policy at the Harvard School of Law. His research focuses on issues of global
governance, development policy and the nature of professional expertise. Kennedy is the author
of A World of Struggle: How Power, Law and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy and
co-editor of Law and Economics with Chinese Characteristics: Institutions for Promoting
Development in the 21st Century, and New Approaches to International Law: The European and
American Experiences. Dr. Kennedy holds an AB (with honors) from Brown University, an
MALD and PhD from Tufts University, a JD from Harvard Law School and a JD (honoris causa)
from University of Helsinki.
Vasuki Nesiah is Associate Professor of Practice in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Her research centers on the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism, with a particular focus on transitional justice and reparations. Nesiah is co-editor of Bandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures (2017) and recently contributed a book chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict (2018). Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of International Law Unbound and Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka. Nesiah is one of the founding members of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). Formerly, she taught at Brown University, where she served as Director of International Affairs, and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Government from Cornell University, and both a JD and SJD from Harvard University.
Sharmila Rudrappa is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches on gender, race, labor, and reproductive justice, with a focus on the U.S. and India. Rudrappa’s current research looks at how markets develop in human materials, specifically from women's bodies. She has written extensively on the cultural politics of assisted reproductive technologies in India, with her article, "Reproducing Dystopia: The Politics of Transnational Surrogacy in India, 2002–2015,” forthcoming in Critical Sociology (Nov 2018). Rudrappa is the author of Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India (2015) and Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship (2004), and has articles in such journals as Positions: Asia Critique and Gender & Society. She holds a BSc in Horticulture from the University of Agriculture in Bangalore, India, an MS in Conservative Biology and Sustainable Development, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shirley E. Thompson is Associate Professor of American Studies and of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include 19th century US cultural history, slavery and post-emancipation politics, and cultural memory. She is currently working on a book project entitled No More Auction Block for Me: African Americans and the Problem of Property, and has published Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (2009). Her publications have appeared in journals such as Transition, Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Leisure Studies, and American Quarterly. Thompson holds an AB in History from Harvard College, and an AM in History and PhD in History of American Civilization from Harvard University.
Steve Viscelli is Lecturer of Sociology, a Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and the Robert and Penny Fox Family Pavilion Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include work, policy, labor markets and public policy related to automation and energy. Since authoring his first book, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream (2016), Viscelli’s research has focused on the policy and politics of self-driving trucks, including their potential impacts on labor and the environment, and on the “gig economy,” specifically the ride-sharing business of Uber and Lyft. His research has appeared in or been covered by media including: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Money, Forbes, Businessweek, NPR and The Atlantic. Viscelli holds a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University, an MA in Anthropology from Syracuse University, and a PhD in Sociology from Indiana University.
Lucie White is Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Executive Committee member of the Harvard Center for African Studies. Her research interests include civil rights and civil liberties, poverty and human rights, environmental rights and policy, and comparative and foreign law in South Africa. After working for two decades on critical lawyering and client voice in the context of US poverty, she joined with Ghanaian partners on an interdisciplinary Right to Health project. In 2006, White initiated a collaboration with African human rights activists and scholars that culminated in Stones of Hope: African Lawyers Use Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (co-editor, 2011). She co-edited Hard Labor: Poor Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era (1999), has published in such journals as Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and Maryland Journal of International Law, and contributed numerous book chapters. White has been a Fulbright Senior Africa Scholar, a Carnegie Scholar on Teaching and Learning, a scholar in residence at the Harvard Divinity School, and a Bunting Scholar at Radcliffe College. White holds a BA from Radcliffe University and JD from Harvard University.
