Kim Lane Scheppele is Professor of Law, Political Science and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she moved officially in 1996 after spending 12 years in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan (with appointments in the School of Public Policy, the department of sociology, the women's studies program and the law school). During her time at Michigan, she also held the Arthur F. Thurnau Chair as Associate Professor of Political Science.  From 1994-1998, she resided principally in Budapest where she spent two years (thanks to grants from the American National Science Foundation) carrying out a research project on the new constitutionalism at the Constitutional Court of Hungary. Between 1996-1998, she was co-chair of the new department of gender studies at the Central European University in Budapest, the first place in the post-Soviet world to give graduate degrees in gender studies. She is currently working on three books: one on the development of "courtocracy" in the aftermath of state socialism, one on abortion in comparative constitutional law, and one on legal fictions and the interpretation of legal facts. Scheppele has been an active member of the Law and Society Association since 1980.  She was chair of the membership committee from 1985-1987, program committee member for the first international meetings held in Amsterdam in 1990, a member of the Board of Trustees from 1990-1993, a member of the Nominating Committee in 1994 and a member of the long-range planning committee from 1991-1993 and again starting in 1998. She has taught in the Graduate Student Workshop (1990) and in the Summer Institute (1996). Outside the Law and Society Association, she has been active in keeping sociolegal scholarship alive by being a founding organizer of the Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law within the American Political Science Association (starting in 1985) and a founding organizer of the Sociology of Law section of the American Sociological Association (where she was section chair in 1994-1995).  She is the author of Legal Secrets, which received special recognition in the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship prize competition of the American Sociological Association, and has published many articles on subjects ranging from legal narrative and insider trading to feminist jurisprudence and the rule of law. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1985.