Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt received his Ph.D. in Economics and his J.D. from the University of Michigan. He is the Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Indiana University–Bloomington and has also taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Cincinnati, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, and Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). His fields of expertise include labor law, employment law, and the economic analysis of law. Before teaching, Professor Dau-Schmidt practiced law with the firm of Previant, Goldberg, and Uelmen and as counsel to the Labor Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Professor Dau-Schmidt is the author of three books and numerous articles on labor and employment law and the economic analysis of law.
Lauren Edelman is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the social construction of civil rights law in the workplace, with an emphasis on how employers and human resource professionals interpret, implement, and transform legal rules. She served as President of the Law and Society Association from 2002 to 2003.
Lee Epstein is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Washington University. She is the author or coauthor of more than seventy articles and essays, as well as twelve books, including the Constitutional Law for a Changing America series (in its 5th edition, CQ Press, 1992; winner of the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association), The Supreme Court Compendium (now in its 3rd edition, CQ Press, 1993; winner of an Outstanding Academic Book Award from Choice), and The Choices Justices Make (CQ Press, 1998; winner of the Pritchett award for the Best Book on Law and Courts). Her current research focuses on courts in comparative perspective.
Rosemary Gartner is a professor in the Centre of Criminology and the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is coauthor (with Jim Phillips) of Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell (University of British Columbia Press and University of Washington Press, 2003) and is currently working with Candace Kruttschnitt on a book about women's imprisonment in California in the late twentieth century.
Terence Halliday is Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. His current research focuses on (1) global institutions and the legal (re)construction of markets in transitional and developing economies, and (2) the significance of legal professions for transitions toward or away from political liberalism. His most recent books are Rescuing Business: Making Corporate Bankruptcy Law in the United States and Britain (with Bruce Carruthers, Oxford, 1998) and Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism (with Lucien Karpik, Oxford, 1997). He is currently completing a book on law, markets, and globalization (with Bruce Carruthers).
Kathryn Hendley is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests center on legal and economic reform in Russia. She has written extensively about the role of law in business transactions in Russia and about the Russian economic courts. Her work has appeared in Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, and Law & Social Inquiry.
Jack Knight is the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts and Sciences and the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His publications include Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Explaining Social Institutions (with Itai Sened, University of Michigan Press, 1995), and The Choices Justices Make (with Lee Epstein, CQ Press, 1997), as well as articles in numerous journals and edited volumes. His primary areas of interest are modern social and political theory, political economy, and law.
Herbert M. Kritzer is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Director of the Center for Law, Society, and Justice. He has conducted extensive empirical research on the American civil justice system and on other common law systems. His most recent books are two edited works: Legal Systems of the World (ABC-CLIO, 2002) and In Litigation: Do the Haves Still Come Out Ahead? (co-edited with Susan Silbey; Stanford University Press, 2003). His new book, Risks, Reputations, and Rewards: Contingency Fee Legal Practice in the United States (Stanford University Press) will appear in 2004.
Candace Kruttschnitt is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She has published extensively on the subject of female offenders, including both reviews of research pertaining to gender differences in etiology and primary analysis of criminal court sanctions. Currently she is writing a book with Rosemary Gartner on women's imprisonment in California during the 1960s and the 1990s.
Richard H. McAdams is the Guy Raymond Jones Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and is currently Visiting Professor at the Yale Law School. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the economics and philosophy of social norms and conventions, the expressive influence of law on behavior, and the application of game theory to issues of inequality. His work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science.
Lawrence Solan is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Language of Judges (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and worked on the current piece in part while a visiting fellow in the Department of Psychology at Princeton.
Peter Tiersma is Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, and a J.D. from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Legal Language (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and is in the process of writing a book on language and the criminal law, Language on Trial, with his coauthor, Lawrence Solan.
