Cary Coglianese is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Chair of the Regulatory Policy Program at the school's Center for Business and Government. His interdisciplinary research focuses on issues of regulation and administrative law, with a particular emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative and innovative regulatory strategies and the role of disputing and negotiation in regulatory policymaking. His work has appeared in the Duke Law Journal, Law & Society Review, University of Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Stanford Law Review. An affiliated scholar at the Harvard Law School and the director of the Kennedy School's Politics Research Group, Coglianese is also the co-organizer of the Law & Society Association's international Collaborative Research Network on Regulatory Governance.
Herbert M. Kritzer is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the undergraduate Legal Studies Program and the Criminal Justice Certificate Program. He has conducted extensive empirical research on the American civil justice system, as well as research on other common law systems. His most recent books are two edited works, Legal Systems of the World and In Litigation: Do the Haves Still Come Out Ahead? (co-edited with Susan Silbey). He has recently completed a draft of a new book on contingency fee legal practice.
David Lazer, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, is Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government Research and Practice and Co-Chair of the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks. He has extensive research interests in regulation, including management-based regulation, the international diffusion of regulation, and the regulatory review process in the United States. He is also editor of the forthcoming volume, The Technology of Justice: DNA and the Criminal Justice System.
Richard Moorhead is a Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, and Associate Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He is also a member of the Lord Chancellor's Legal Services Consultative Panel. His current work includes research into the advice needs of lone parents, unrepresented litigants, and their impact on the civil justice system, and an evaluation of public defenders in England and Wales. He has published widely on legal aid, the reform of civil procedure, and professional regulation.
Alan A. Paterson is currently Professor of Law at Strathclyde University Law School, Scotland. He is research adviser to the Scottish Legal Aid Board and research adviser to the Scottish Executive in relation to community legal services. Paterson chairs the International Legal Aid Group as well as the Legal Services Sub-Group of the International Sociological Association Working Group on the Legal Profession. He has conducted numerous empirical research projects in relation to the provision of legal services in the United Kingdom. His publications in this field include The Transformation of Legal Aid (edited volume with Regan, Goriely, and Fleming, Oxford University Press, 1999), Quality and Cost: Final Report on the Contracting of Civil, Non-Family Advice and Assistance Pilot Project (with Moorhead, Sherr, Webley, Rogers, Sherr, and Domberger) (Stationery Office, 2000), and Paths to Justice Scotland (with Genn, Hart Publishing, 2001).
Bruce M. Price is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University's Institute for Law and Society. He holds a J.D. from George Washington University and previously worked as a bankruptcy/corporate law specialist in a large law firm setting in San Francisco. His dissertation, “New Institutions of the Knowledge Economy: A Sociolegal Examination of the Late 20th Century Phenomenon of Equity Billing by Silicon Valley Law Firms,” centers on the legal environment of entrepreneurship and on the organizational, professional, and cultural ramifications of legal representation of high technology start-up clients. He is an active member of the Law and Society Association, the American Sociological Association, and the State Bar of California. His work has received funding from the Social Science Research Council's Program on the Organization as a Social Institution and the New York University Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.
Mark J. Richards is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999. His research interests include U.S. Supreme Court decisionmaking, constitutional law, freedom of expression, and administrative law.
David W. Romero is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His primary area of specialization is American electoral behavior. Examples of his recent work can be found in Presidential Studies Quarterly and American Politics Research. His current research interests focus on candidate competition patterns in primary elections to the House of Representatives.
Francine Sanders Romero is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research focuses on the institutional determinants of policymaking, particularly in the civil rights and land use realms. Her book Civil Rights Policymaking in the United States: An Institutional Perspective, concerning the relative influence of public opinion on civil rights issues in the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court, was published by Praeger in 2002.
Avrom Sherr is Woolf Professor of Legal Education at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Prior to this he was Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business and Professional Law at Liverpool University. His research work covers the sociology of the legal profession, the delivery of legal services, legal education, legal ethics, and the management and organization of legal services, legal aid, and the legal profession. He has been a Higher Education Funding Council Reporting Assessor on teaching quality and on the Quality Assurance Association Benchmarking Group for Law. He has been involved in a number of committees of the Law Society, was a member of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Committee of the Judicial Studies Board, and was appointed to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct.
