KIM LANE SCHEPPELE

 is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University and a faculty fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her research spans the sociology of law, political sociology, comparative and historical sociology, sociology of knowledge, and human rights. She studies the rise and fall of constitutional government, focusing on post-1989 Eastern Europe and the enactment of new constitutions in Hungary and Russia. Her most recent book, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World (with A. Vedaschi, CUP, 2021), addresses global legal shifts.