Trustees, Class of 2010

Blanca G. Silvestrini is a Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. A graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, she received her Ph.D. in Latin American History at SUNY-Albany and a J.S.M. from Stanford University and did postgraduate work at Harvard University. Professor Silvestrini was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in 1987-88 and Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School from 1988-1990. Her scholarship has centered on the crucial hiatus of the Caribbean in the first have of the 20th century, especially in Puerto Rico, where two legal systems clashed, accommodated and transformed with the inception of the United States’ presence. Her first books, especially, Violencia y criminalidad en PuertoRico 1898-1973: Un estudio de historia social (University of Puerto Rico Press, 1980) study issues of social change in the transition to a “modern” society by looking at the creolization of legal cultures in the context of gender and institutional change. She is currently finishing a book on public health and marginalized citizenship in Puerto Rico for which she received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 2006. She has published numerous articles and chapter on the socio-cultural construction of citizenship, especially under conditions of immigration and cultural subordination. As part of this interest, she worked on project with Renato Rosaldo and William Flores, partially funded by the Social Science Research Council, resulting in the article “The World We Enter When Claiming Rights,” which explored the cultural dimension of Puerto Rican migrants’ claims to health and education in California as they developed new definitions of rights and community. Her most recent research project, tentatively titled “The Hospitable US: Transacting Hemispheric Agency, Human Rights and Border Epistemologies” (in collaboration with Guillermo Irizarry), seeks to critically consider the sites of rights, agency, and identity in conditions of hemispheric socio-historical transformation and movement. She has been a member of the Law and Society Association since the early 1990s, has participated regularly in the annual meetings and is a member of the Hurst Prize Committee for 2007-08. She also is a member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association.

Anne Boigeol is French sociologist. She works in Paris at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP), a research center of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. She studied at Strasbourg University and at the University of Paris René Descarte at Paris where she obtained her doctorate in sociology. She has also a master of demography (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne). Her current field of research is related with the transformation of French magistrature and legal professions. She has a special interest in gender in the legal profession and in judiciary, and more precisely on the participation of women in the elite of the legal profession/ judiciary. She has published articles in French Journal (Genèses, Droit et Société…), English journal (International Journal on Legal Profession) and many book chapters in French or English including one in L.M. Friedman and R. Perez Perdomo’s « Legal culture and the age of globalization » and one in Bill Felstiner’s « Reorganization and Resistance ». Her last paper was published in Genèses in june (Le genre comme ressource dans l’accès des femmes au « gouvernement du barreau » ). She has taught history and sociology of professions at Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) of Cachan. She is the current President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International Sociological association ). She is also member of the Governing Board of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain ).
She has participated to the joint meetings LSA-RCSL : Amsterdam, Glasgow, Budapest. And she was co-chair, with David Trubek, of the Program Committee for the 2007 joint LSA/RCSL meeting in Berlin.

Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, on socio-legal history, on criminal justice, and generally, on the relationship between law and society. His books include A History of American Law (3rd edition, 2005); The Legal System: A Social Science Perspective (1975), The Republic of Choice: Law, Authority, and Culture (1990), Crime and Punishment in American History (1993); American Law in the 20th Century (2002); and Private Lives: Families, Individuals, and the Law (2004). His most recent publication was Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader (2007; edited by Stewart Macaulay, Lawrence M. Friedman, and Elizabeth Mertz) A study of social and legal controls over reputation and propriety, Guarding Life's Dark Secrets, is scheduled to be published in 2007l. He is currently working on the social history of the law of succession, among other projects. He is a past President of the Law and Society Association, and has been active in the Association for many years; most recently, he was a member of the Hurst Prize committee. He is also a past-president of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, and the American Society for Legal History. He has been the recipient of the Kalven Prize and the Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association; and the order of the coif award of the Association of American Law Schools. His work has been widely translated into European and Asian languages. He holds six honorary degrees, three from American schools, and three from European universities. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians

Mauricio Garcia-Villegas is a law professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a researcher at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society – Dejusticia. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université Catholique de Lovain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and did a post-doctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). His work focuses on Legal Theory, Sociology of Law and Constitutional Law in Latina America, France and the United States. He was a Tinker fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies in 2002 (University of Wisconsin- Madison), and currently teaches a four-week seminar at the Center for Study of Law, History, and Public Administration of the Université de Grenoble (CERDHAP) in France. From his experience as a visiting professor in both France and the United States, professor Garcia-Villegas has published numerous articles and book chapters on sociology of law in the two countries, including “L´éfficacité symbolique du droit” (Revue Interdisciplinaire d´études juridiques, 1995-34); “Comparative Sociology of Law” (Law & Social Inquiry, 31-2,2006); “On Pierre Bordieu´s Legal Thought” (Droit et société 56, 2004); “Justice and Society in Colombia: a Sociolegal Analysis of Colombian Courts” (with Rodrigo Uprimny and César Rodríguez) (Friedman, Lawrence and Pérez Perdomo (eds.), Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization, 2002). He has also published a great deal of articles in Latin America, including “Notas preliminares para la caracterización del derecho en América Latina” (El otro Derecho 26-27, 2001) and “No sólo de mercado vive la democracia” (Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad del Externado - 2003), and a number of books, including La eficacia simbólica del derecho (1993); El Caleidoscopio de las Justicias en Colombia (with Boaventura de Sousa Santos, 2001); Sociología Jurídica. Teoría y sociología jurídica en los Estados Unidos, 2001); Derecho y Sociedad en América Latina, (with César Rodríguez, 2002); and ¿Justicia para todos?, (with Rodrigo Uprimny, and Cesar Rodríguez, 2006). Currently, he holds the post of director of the Institute for Legal Research of the National University of Colombia (UNIJUS).

Shari Seidman Diamond is Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Psychology at Northwestern University Law School and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She has a PhD in social psychology from Northwestern University (1972) and a law degree from the University of Chicago (1985). Shari has been an active member of the Law & Society Association since starting out as a sociolegal scholar. She served on the Board of Trustees (1979-82) and as a guest editor of the Law & Society Review in 1982 before serving as editor of the Review (1988-1991).
Shari’s research on legal decision-making focuses on understanding institutions, procedures, and policies that can enhance citizen participation, control bias, and guide discretion. Her studies have examined sentencing disparity, lay magistrates (Great Britain), the death penalty, jury selection, scientific evidence, and influence in the jury room (on real juries). Her writings have appeared in social science journals (e.g., Law & Society Review, Law and Human Behavior, Law and Social Inquiry, American Psychologist) and law reviews (e.g., Arizona, Chicago, Northwestern, Stanford, Virginia), as well as in policy publications, and have been cited by the US Supreme Court in majority (and dissenting) opinions. She was president of the American Psychology-Law Society (1987-88) and received the 1991 Award for Distinguished Research Contributions in Public Policy from the American Psychological Association. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the U. of Illinois at Chicago. She also practiced law at Sidley & Austin (1985-87). She has been on advisory boards of the National Science Foundation (Law and Social Sciences Program; Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate), National Academy of Sciences (Panel on Criminal Sentencing; Panel on the Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence), National Center for State Courts, Federal Judicial Center, American Bar Association, American Judicature Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has lectured widely to judicial audiences, and has testified in American and Canadian courts on the death penalty and survey research. Shari has served on or chaired a variety of LSA committees, including: Teaching (1985); Kalven Prize (1987, 1997); Executive Office Study (1996); Grad Student Workshop (1987-88); Program (1998); Nominations (1980, 1992, 2003); Summer Institute (2001); Editor Search (1990, 2000). She is currently a member of the Publications Committee and an enthusiastic participant in the CLN on Lay Participation in Legal Decisionmaking.

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy is Associate Professor in the Law, Societies, and Justice program, and in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition, she is Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a specialist in human rights, and the author of a book (Popular Injustice: Violence, Community and Law in Latin America, published by Stanford University Press in 2006) and numerous articles on vigilantism in contemporary Latin America, with particular emphasis on lynchings in postwar Guatemala. Her current research project examines the extension of intellectual property rights through trade agreements and international commercial law and its impacts on the right to health in Central America. She is a member of LSA's Collaborative Research Network on Counter-Hegemonic Globalization and in 2003-04 served as a member of the Article Prize Committee.

Rebecca L. Sandefur's, work is at the intersection of the sociolegal study of law and the sociological study of inequality. She was introduced to law and society research through the Chicago Lawyers project, out of which she published work on inequality among lawyers, focusing on prestige, income and career outcomes (American Sociological Review v. 66 [2001], "Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar" [2005], Southwestern Law Review v. 37 [2007]). Her current research includes a project exploring inequalities in access to civil justice from both ‘the ground up’ and ‘the system down.’ Recently published and in-progress papers explore the dynamics of the American legal aid supply (Law & Society Review v.41 [2007]) and lawyers’ impact on the outcomes of civil trials and hearings, as well as social class differences in how people respond to problems with money and housing (in Transforming Lives: Law and Social Process [2007]) and in the consequences of civil justice problems for social class inequality. Her review of research on race, class, and gender inequality and access to civil justice is scheduled to appear in Annual Review of Sociology (v. 34, 2008). As a member of the Law and Society Association, she has had the pleasure of reading fine work on the article prize committee (2003 and 2007) and on the editorial board of Law & Society Review (2003-2007). She has also served as consulting editor for Law & Social Inquiry (2004- the present) and American Journal of Sociology (2002-2004), and as volume editor for Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance (“Access to Justice,” 2009). She currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. She is a member of the executive coordinating committee of the After the JD:A Longitudinal Study of Careers in Transition project. In 2005-2006, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California-Berkeley. Since receiving her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2001, she has been assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, where she directs the coterminal master’s program in sociology and is affiliated with the joint JD/PhD program in sociology and law, the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and the Committee on Urban Studies.

Masayuki Murayama is Professor of Law and Sociology at School of Law, Meiji University, in Tokyo, Japan. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology of Law from University of Tokyo and a LL.M. from University of California at Berkeley. He was a visiting research fellow at the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies at University of Oxford, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations in Paris, and Institut fuer Rechtssoziologie und Rechtstatsachen Forschung, Freie Universitaet Berlin. Masayuki has been conducting empirical research extensively on both criminal and civil justice. His publications include “Patrol Police Activities in Changing Urban Conditions: The Case of the Tokyo Police,” in Ferrari & Faralli eds., Law and Rights (1993), “Does a Lawyer Make a Difference? Effects of a Lawyer on Mediation Outcome in Japan,” 13 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 52, (1999), “Protecting the Innocent Through Criminal Justice: A Case Study from Spain, Virtually Compared to Germany and Japan,” (with J. Feest) in Nelken ed., Contrasting Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There (2000), “The Role of the Defense Lawyer in the Japanese Criminal Process,” in Feeley & Miyazawa eds., The Japanese Adversary System in Context: Controversies and Comparisons (2002) and “Experiences of Problems and Disputing Behavior in Japan,” 14 Meiji Law Journal 1 (2007) as well as other books and articles published in Japanese. Since 2004 he has been working on civil justice and dispute resolution and directs Civil Justice Research Project, which includes three national surveys covering the whole process from problem experience to civil litigation in Japan. Masayuki has been a board member of Japanese Association of Sociology of Law since 1993, having served as Editor of JASL Journal, Chair of the International Committee and General Secretary, and also has been a board member of Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association, since 2000. In LSA he served on International Prize Committee 2005, International Advanced Planning Committee (Berlin) 2005 & 2006, Program Committee 2007 and International Activities Committee 2006 & 2007.