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Joxerramon Bengoetxea obtained his PhD in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He was Scientific Director at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2005-2007). Since 1990 he is Professor Titular of Legal Theory and Sociology and Jurisprudence at the University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian. He has been Legal Secretary (law clerk) at the Court of Justice of the European Communities.
Shaheen Sardar Ali formerly University of Peshawar, Pakistan, is professor of law at Warwick University and professor II at the University of Olso. She regularly acts as a consultant for a range of international bodies, including NORAD, UNICEF, UNIFEM. She has served as Minister for Health, Population Welfare and Women's Development in the Government of the North West Frontier Province (Pakistan) and Chair of the National Commission on the Status of Women of Pakistan.
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Pia Letto-Vanamo obtained her doctorate in Legal History at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She has been professor of Roman Law and History of Law at the University of Helsinki, where she has also held a Jean Monnet professorship. Since 2001 she has been Director at the Institute of International Economic Law, University of Helsinki.
Julie Bailleux is a Ph.D-student in political science at the Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne where she works on a dissertation on the genesis and consolidation of European law as an academic discipline. Before embarking on her doctoral studies, she obtained a number of degrees in law and political science from the Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne and Université Paris 5.
Reza Banakar is professor of law at University of Westminster, London. He studied at Lund University in Sweden receiving his BA and PhD. Later he was a senior lecturer at Lund University where he taught sociology of law. Before coming to Westminster Reza was Senior Research Fellow in Law at Harris Manchester College and Paul Dodyk Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford.
Ralf Rogowski, Ass.iur Berlin, LLM Wisconsin, Ph.D. European University Institute, Florence. He is Associate Professor and Reader in Law and Co-Director of the Social Theory Centre of Warwick University. He has formerly taught at the Free University in Berlin and at Lancaster University, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, at the University of Limburg at Maastricht, at the University of Pecs in Hungary and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.
Emilios Christodoulidis is professor of legal theory and joined the Law School at Glasgow in 2006. He holds degrees from the Universities of Athens and Edinburgh. His interests lie mainly in the area of the philosophy and sociology of law and in constitutional theory. He was visiting Professor at the European Academy for Legal Theory in Brussels between 1996 and 1998. In June/July 2002 he gave the seventh series of the KOBE lectures in Japan.
Kaarlo Tuori is professor of Legal theory at the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki, and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European Law Polity Research. The Centre operates under the auspices of the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki, with researchers attached to the Universities of Tampere, Turku, Lapland, and Åbo Akademi in Finland, and the Universities of Bamberg in Germany and Strasbourg in France.
Sanne Taekema was Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, where she taught Jurisprudence and Introduction to Dutch Law, both to Dutch and foreign students. She has now moved to Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has specialised in Legal pragmatism and most recently in legal tradition and its role in legal Culture. She is the author of The Concept of Ideals in Legal Theory (Kluwer) and Understanding Dutch Law (The Federation Press).
Lonneke Poort (Bremen) / Wibren van der Burg (Rotterdam)
Lonneke Poort is a ph.d.-student working on a project entitled Ways to Legislate Moral Problems - Animal Biotechnology as an Example.
Wibren van der Burg is professor of legal philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He studied moral philosophy and law at Utrecht University. From April 2001 he was Professor of Jurisprudence (‘Metajuridica') at Tilburg University. From September 2006 until June 2007 he was on sabbatical at the Center for Human Values in Princeton, N.Y. He is the author of Importance Of Ideals - Debating Their Relevance In Law, Morality, And Politics (Peter Lang Publishing Inc.)
Ulla Neergaard is professor of law at the Copenhagen Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in law from the European University Institute from 1998, and has written extensively on issues concerning EU-law. Her primary fields of research include the relationship between national law and EU law as well as the role of the European Court of Justice. Her research concerns the substantive law of the EU, including in particular the constitutional elements and the principles of the internal market.
Margareta Bertilsson is professor in the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University since January 1994 and Professor II (adj. professor) Centre for the Study of Science and Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway (2006 - 2007). She was lecturer in Sociology at Lund University, Sweden 1986 - 1994. Her research interests are social theory and philosophy, sociology of science and knowledge, legal profession and socio-legal studies.
Christian Boulanger is research associate at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, LL.M., Department of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was Project Coordinator and Local Organizer of the International Conference Law and Society in the 21st Century, which took place in Berlin in 2007. He is working on a dissertation with the working title: Verfassungsgerichtbarkeit in Ostmitteleuropa aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive.
Ole Hammerslev is associate professor of sociology of law at the Department of Law at University of Southern Denmark, Odense. His ph.d. dissertation deals with the role of Danish judges. He is working on a project about the EU-expansion in Eastern Europe focusing specifically on the changes in Bulgaria and the impact of international actors.
Marlene Wind has a Ph.D. in political science from the European University Institute. She is currently senior lecturer and Director of a Centre for European Politics at the University of Copenhagen. She works particularly on the interrelationship between law and politics within the EU and on institutional changes of the EU.
Ditlev Tamm is professor of legal history and holds a doctoral degree in law and one in history, and has written on Danish and European legal history, recent Danish political history, and history during the occupation. He is a member of the management team of the Centre for the Studies of Legal Culture at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Hanne Petersen is professor of law and has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI. She has held professorships at the University of Greenland, Nuuk, and at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2007 she is Professor II at the University of Tromsø, Norway. She is a member of the management team of the Centre for the Studies of Legal Culture at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
Henrik Palmer Olsen is professor of legal philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the management team of the Centre for the Studies of Legal Culture at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Architectures of Justice (Ashgate) and Law in its Own Right (Hart Publishing), both with Prof. Dr. Stuart Toddington.
Mikael Rask Madsen is researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, as well as Centre for the Studies of Legal Culture at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He holds a doctoral degree in sociology from l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has conducted extensive empirical research of the role of human rights in the rise of an integrated Europe since the postwar period.