Annie Bunting is an Associate Professor in the law & society program at York University in Toronto, teaching in the areas of social justice and human rights. Professor Bunting is a graduate of York, having studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School (1988). She received her LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1991) and her S.J.D. from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (1999). The topic of her doctoral dissertation is international women's rights, culture, and the case of early marriage. She has published articles in Social and Legal Studies, Journal of Law and Society, Canadian Journal of Women & the Law, and chapters in various book collections. She is currenlty on the Editorial Board of Law & Social Inquiry. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Professor Bunting has worked with a variety of human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch (HRW), Centre for Rights and Democracy, and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). She recently completed a 4 year SSHRC-funded project, "Cross-Cultural Issues in Canadian Family Law. She was Graduate Program Director of the new program in Socio-Legal Studies at York. In 2008, she was the LSA program co-Chair with D. Marie Provine for the joint meetings in Montreal. She also served on the LSA program committee for Vancouver.

David M. Engel is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo Law School. He has been an active LSA member for more than three decades, and LSA scholarship has had an extensive influence on his research and teaching. His fieldwork in “Sander County” Illinois led to publication of “The Oven Bird’s Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community” as well as Law and Community in Three American Towns (1994 – with Carol Greenhouse and Barbara Yngvesson), which received the Jacobs Book Prize in 1996. His research on children and adults with disabilities produced, among other publications, Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Lives of Americans with Disabilities, coauthored with Frank Munger, which received the Meyers Outstanding Book Award in 2003. An earlier article they coauthored, "Rights, Remembrance and the Reconciliation of Difference," received the first Law and Society Article Award in 1997. He recently coedited Fault Lines: Tort Law As Cultural Practice (2009 - with Michael McCann). A forthcoming book, Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand, will summarize 30 years of fieldwork on injuries in northern Thailand and will suggest that globalization has surprisingly diminished the role of official law for injury victims and enhanced the role of Buddhism. Currently co-chair of the Planning Committee for the 2012 LSA international meeting in Hawaii, he has also served as LSA President (1997-98), CRN Coordinator, Program Committee member multiple times (chair, 1985 meeting), member of the Organizing Committee for the LSA Summer Institutes (1993-95), the Disability Access Committee, the Kalven Prize Committee, the International Prize Committee (chair, 2000), and other activities over the years. He was a Trustee in 1985-88.

Alexandra Huneeus is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she is also a faculty member of the Legal Studies Program. She earned her doctorate and J.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006, working under the guidance of Robert Kagan and Martin Shapiro. Huneeus has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University; a Visiting Scholar at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile; and a fellow of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Berkeley Law School. Her research focuses on judicial politics, legal cultures and human rights in Latin America. She is the editor (with Javier Couso and Rachel Sieder), of Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America, currently under review at Cambridge University Press, and a product of the LSA-sponsored International Research Collaborative program. Her article Judging from a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary’s Human Rights Turn, will soon be published in Law and Social Inquiry, and forms part of an ongoing inquiry into the Chilean courts’ prosecution of Pinochet-era crimes. She is also working on a project that examines the role national courts play in the Inter-American Human Rights System. Huneeus served for one year on the LSA’s Early Career Workshop Committee, and for two years on its predecessor, the Summer Institute Committee. As a boardmember, Huneeus would be particularly interested in working on LSA’s engagement with the international community.  Before turning to the study of law, Huneeus worked as a journalist in Chile, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, El Mercurio and América Economía.

Fiona Kay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. She is author (with John Hagan) of Gender in Practice: A Study of Lawyers Lives (Oxford University Press, 1995) and co-editor (with Richard Johnston) of Social Capital, Diversity, and the Welfare State (UBC Press, 2007). She continues to explore gender dynamics in the profession of law (with Elizabeth Gorman “Women in the Legal Profession” v. 4 [2008] Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences) and work satisfaction and well-being among lawyers (with John Hagan “Even Lawyers Get the Blues: Gender, Depression and Job Satisfaction in Legal Practice.” v. 41 [2007] Law & Society Review). Her recent work examines jurisdictional disputes in law practice (v. 4 [2009] Int. J. of Law in Social Context), mentorship and professionalism in law (with Jean Wallace v. 79 [2009] Sociological Inquiry and v. 29 [2008] Journal of Organizational Behavior; and with John Hagan and Patricia Parker v. 31 [2008] Law & Policy), and in-progress work on pro bono legal service and racial/ethnic diversity in legal careers. She has been an active member of the Law and Society Association since her graduate studies when she attended the conference graduate student workshop in Amsterdam (1991) and later the junior career workshop in Niagara-on-the-Lake (1995). In LSA, she served on the Best Article Award Committee (2007, 2008), Jacob Book Prize Committee (2005), and the Conference Program Committee (Vancouver 2002). In the American Sociology Association, Sociology of Law Section, she served as Council member (2004-7) and member of the Student Prize Committee, (1998-9). She was Editor of the Canadian Law and Society Association newsletter, The Bulletin (1999-2001). She currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Law & Society Review (2007-10).

David Nelken is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Macerata University, Italy, as well as Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff, UK, and Visiting Professor of Law at the LSE. He has also taught visiting courses in many other leading universities in Europe, the USA (including Berkeley, and NYU) and Australia. In 2007-2008 he was elected to the Wiarda chair at the Willem Pompe Institute of Penal Law at Utrecht, Netherlands and in 2008-2009 to the S. T. Lee Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced studies at the University of London. He works mainly on social theory and law, comparative sociology of law, and criminal justice. Recent books include Adapting Legal Cultures (2001)  European Ways of Law (2007) Comparative Law: A Handbook (2007) Beyond Law in Context (2009) and Comparative Criminal Justice: Making Sense of Difference (forthcoming). Six of his books have been translated into Chinese. In 1985 David received the 'Distinguished Scholar Award' of the American Sociological Association, and in 2009 the 'Sellin - Glueck award' from the American Criminological Society. David has been a long standing member of the Research Committee of Sociology of Law and served as its vice president, has been on the governing board of the Onati Institute of Sociology of Law, and is currently General editor of its publications (with Judy Fudge). He also serves on numerous editorial boards concerned with law, sociology of law and criminology He has been coming to Law and Society meetings since 1980 and has benefited enormously from contacts made there. His previous Involvement in the work of the Society includes International Activities Committee, 2000; 2005-2007; 2008-09; Nominations Committee, 2004, Kalven Prize Committee, 2007, 2008, Article Prize Committee (Chair), 2006, and Annual Meeting Program Committee, 2001, invited faculty for the didactic workshop 2000 and the postgraduate workshop 2007. He was a Trustee, class of 2002. He would be interested in helping the Society develop its role in comparative socio-legal studies.

Doris Marie Provine is a Professor at Arizona State University. She has earned a BA from University of Chicago, a J.D. from Cornell Law School and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.   She was at Syracuse University (Political Science) before coming to Arizona in 2001 to direct the School of Justice Studies. She has also been a Judicial Fellow in the Federal Judicial Center, a Director of the Law & Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation, and, most recently a Fulbright Research Fellow.    Her scholarship has focused on courts and justice, and more recently the role of race in the development of public policy (Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs, 2007). Her current work explores racial and justice themes concerning settled but unauthorized immigrants, particularly at the local level, and in comparative context. She has served twice on the LSA Board, once as its Treasurer and on several committees. For the 2008 annual meeting, she and Professor Annie Bunting were co-chairs of the Program Committee.  

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Associate Professor of Law and Sociology and founding Director of the Program on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of the Andes (Bogota, Colombia). He is a founding member of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) and a former Director of the Center for Socio-Legal Research at the University of the Andes. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. (Sociology) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. from NYU’s Institute for Law and Society, an M.A. (Philosophy) from the National University of Colombia, and a J.D. from the University of the Andes. He is the author of numerous books and articles on law, globalization, social movements, and human rights. His recent books include Globalization, Governance, and Labor Rights; The Global Expansion of the Rule of Law; Race, Racism and Human Rights in Colombia; Law and Globalization from Below (with Boa Santos, coed.); and The New Latin American Left. He has been co-chair of LSA's Collaborative Research Network on Counter-Hegemonic Globalization (with Boa Santos), a fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the Andean University of Quito, and the Irish Center for Human Rights