Lori Hausegger is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include judicial decisionmaking, legislatures and courts, and comparative judicial process.

Stacia L. Haynie is Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on comparative appellate court behavior and processes. She is the author of Judging in Black and White: Decision Making in the South African Appellate Division, 1950–1990.

Laura J. Hickman is an Associate Behavioral Scientist at RAND. Her research interests focus on violence against women, sentencing and corrections, and policing. Her current work includes an assessment of military-civilian cooperation around domestic violence in military families, an evaluation of a county-level program to increase identification of criminal illegal aliens, and an examination of capital case processing in the federal system.

Robert J. Hume is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. His dissertation focuses on administrative behavior and the motives guiding agency responses to courts. Additional projects include studies of the use of rhetoric and other opinion content by Supreme Court justices.

David E. Klein is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1996.

Hong Lu is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her areas of interest are comparative criminology and law and social control. Her current research focuses on legal reform in China.

Terance D. Miethe is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of five books and various articles in the general areas of criminal processing, violent crime, and criminal victimization.

Frank Munger is Professor at New York Law School, co-author (with David Engel) of Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans With Disabilities (Chicago, 2003), and editor of Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy (Russell Sage, 2001). His current research includes ethnographic study of recent changes in poverty programs and the welfare state.

Sally S. Simpson is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Her research mostly centers around theory construction; the intersections of gender, race, class, and crime; and corporate crime etiology and prevention. Recent publications include Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and “Low Self-Control, Organizational Theory, and Corporate Crime” (Law & Society Rev., 2002).

Jason Sunshine is a graduate student in the Law and Society Program at New York University, as well as a law student at Fordham University. He studies the role of moral solidarity in shaping public reactions to the police and policing activities.

Tom R. Tyler is University Professor of Psychology at New York University. His research is concerned with the legitimacy of law and legal authorities.