Kim Lane Scheppele is a Member of the IUS International Advisory Committee and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, as well as a faculty fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her research spans the sociology of law, political sociology, comparative and historical sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and human rights. She studies the rise and fall of constitutional government, with a focus on post-1989 Eastern Europe and new constitutions in Hungary and Russia. Her latest book, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (with A. Vedaschi, CUP, 2021), examines worldwide legal shifts.
