Notes on contributors

Pedro Spíndola B. Alves holds a graduate degree in Law from the Catholic University of Pernambuco, Brazil, a postgraduate degree in Neuroscience and Applied Psychology from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a master’s degree in the Theory and Dogmatic of Law from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a PhD student in both the Postgraduate Program of Language Sciences at the Catholic University of Pernambuco and the Postgraduate Program of Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a university professor and lawyer.

Kim Barker is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University (UK). Her research focuses on internet regulation and intellectual property law. She has a particular interest in the online regulation of platforms, with specific expertise in online abuse, online violence and the legal responsibilities of internet actors.

George Browne Rego holds a graduate degree in Law and in Philosophy, a master’s degree at Vanderbilt University (College of Preceptors) and a PhD at Tulane University, and is Fellow Honoris Causa at the University of London. He is a former Visiting Professor at the University of London, University of Oxford and University of Frankfurt. He is Emeritus Professor at Federal University of Pernambuco.

Nicole Busby is Professor of Human Rights, Equality and Justice at the University of Glasgow. She is an expert in equality law. Her main areas of interest include sex discrimination, the reconciliation of paid work and unpaid care, the protection of social and economic rights, and access to justice.

David J. Carter is a Senior Lecturer and National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney in the Faculty of Law. His work focuses on the legal, regulatory and governance challenges involved in the delivery of safe, effective and sustainable health care services.

Harison Citrawan is a researcher at Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (National Research and Innovation Agency), Republic of Indonesia. He is an SJD candidate at Penn State University Dickinson Law, sponsored by the Fulbright Commission. His work focuses on legal philosophy and punishment.

Mark De Vitis is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney. His research has been supported by the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and the Newberry Library, Chicago. His work focuses on the agency of material culture and its capacity to impact social histories of place, identity and cultural transference.

David Gurnham is Professor of Criminal Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the Law School of the University of Southampton. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, and was previously a lecturer at the Universities of Reading and Manchester. He co-convenes the Law and Literature stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, and is co-editor in chief of the journal Law and Humanities (Routledge).

Grace James is Professor of Law at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on the legal regulation of working families and she has published widely in this area. She is the co-author, with Nicole Busby, of A History of Regulating Working Families: Strains, Stereotypes, Strategies and Solutions (Hart Publishing 2020).

Olga Jurasz is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University (UK). Her research focuses on international law, human rights and legal responses to violence against women (including online violence), specializing in feminist perspectives on law in these areas.

Frederic R. Kellogg holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a law degree from Harvard Law School and Master of Law and Doctor of Juridical Sciences degrees from George Washington University, and was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by Bridgewater State University. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on the philosophy of law.

Dimitrios Kivotidis is Lecturer in Law at the University of Durham. He has published articles and monographs on topics generally relating to legal and political theory, constitutional law and human rights, as well as the relationship between law and political economy. He is a member of the editorial collective of Legal Form, a forum for Marxist analyses of law.

Jill Marshall is Professor of Law at Royal Holloway, University of London and a qualified lawyer, researching law’s purpose and how law relates to, and shapes, our understandings of human freedom, identity and living. She is the author of three books including Human Rights Law and Personal Identity (Routledge 2014) and numerous peer-reviewed articles.

Renisa Mawani is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Colonial Proximities (2009) and Across Oceans of Law (2018), which won the Outstanding Contribution to History Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Theory and History Book Prize from the Socio-Legal Studies Association (2020).

Sabrina Nadilla is a human rights analyst at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Republic of Indonesia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Universitas Gadjah Mada (2017). As a Fulbright Scholar, she obtained an LLM in American Law from Syracuse University College of Law (2022). Her works focus on the issues of human rights, the criminal justice system and prison reform.

Valerio Nitrato Izzo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He teaches Legal Methodology and his main research interests lie in philosophy of law, legal reasoning, and law and humanities.

David Seymour is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School, City, University of London. He has written extensively on law, rights, critical theory, antisemitism and law and the arts.

Mikki Stelder is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies at Utrecht University. They are a recipient of a three-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission for the project Maritime Imagination: A Cultural Oceanography of Dutch Imperialism and its Aftermaths.

Carl F. Stychin is Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Professor of Law in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He is the author of three monographs, has co-edited three collections and is co-author of a student text and materials collection (four editions). He is the editor of Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal.

Marc Trabsky is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia. His first monograph, Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge 2019), was awarded the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Book Prize for 2019 and was shortlisted for the Council of Australian Law Deans, Australian Legal Research Awards, Book Award in 2020. His second monograph, Death: New Trajectories in Law, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2022.