Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Email: allenf@wharton.upenn.edu
Homepage: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/allenf.html
Mailing address: Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty there since 1980. He is currently Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs and Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic finance journals. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen's main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth and ninth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.
Vice President for Studies - International Politics and Governance, The Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
Telephone: (202) 939-2260
Email: tcarothers@CarnegieEndowment.org
Homepage: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=9
Mailing Address: 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20036-2103
Thomas Carothers is the vice president for studies-international politics and governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this capacity, he oversees the Democracy and Rule of Law Project, which he founded, and the Middle East Program.
Carothers is a leading authority on democracy promotion and democratization worldwide as well as an expert on U.S. foreign policy generally. He is the founder and director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project which analyzes the state of democracy in the world and the efforts by the United States and other countries to promote democracy. In addition, he has broad experience in matters dealing with human rights, international law, foreign aid, rule of law, and civil society development.
He is the author or editor of eight critically acclaimed books on democracy promotion as well as many articles in prominent journals and newspapers. He is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and serves on the board of various organizations devoted to democracy promotion.
Prior to joining the Endowment, Carothers practiced international and financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.
Professor Emeritus of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School
Telephone: (773) 702-0216
Email: kdam@law.uchicago.edu
Homepage: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/dam/
Mailing Address: 1111 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Kenneth Dam has devoted his career to public policy issues, both as a practitioner and as a professor. In the former capacity he served as deputy secretary (the second-ranking official) in the Department of Treasury (2001-2003) and in the Department of State (1982-1985). In 1973 he was executive director of the Council on Economic Policy, a White House office responsible for coordinating U.S. domestic and international economic policy. From 1971 to 1973 he served as assistant director for national security and international policy of the Office of Management and Budget. He began his Washington career as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Whittaker (1957-1958).
Dam's entire academic career has been devoted to the University of Chicago, beginning in 1960 and extending, with various leaves of absence, to the present. From 1980 to 1982 he served as provost of the University of Chicago. Most of his academic work has centered on law and economics, particularly with respect to international issues. His publications include a number of books, of which the best known are The GATT: Law and International Economic Organization; Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines (with George P. Shultz); and, most recently, The Law-Growth Nexus: The Rule of Law and Economic Development.
His other activities include serving as IBM vice president for law and external relations from (1985-1992), and as president and chief executive officer of the United Way of America for a six-month period in 1992, when he was chosen to clean up a scandal in that organization and put in place a new system of governance. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator, including five years as the system arbitrator for professional basketball. He is a member of the board of the Brookings Institution and serves as a senior fellow of that organization. He also is a board member of the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and of the National Acadamies' Science, Technology and Law Panel. He was chairman of the German-American Academic Council and a board member of a number of nonprofit institutions, including the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
Dam is currently the Max Pam Professor Emeritus of American and Foreign Law and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Professor, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Email: hrllgyp@hku.hk
Homepage: http://www3.hku.hk/law/staffHomepage.php?id=39
Mailing Address: Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, 4th Floor K. K. Leung
Building, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic
of China
Yash Ghai is professor of public law at the University of Hong Kong. He comes from Kenya and was educated at Oxford and Harvard. For a while he was an advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. He has taught in a number of countries, including Tanzania, Sweden, Britain, Fiji, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the US. His primary interests now are constitutions arising out of conflict, particularly ethnic conflict, as well as human rights. In most of his research he adopts the comparative approach, and tries to locate constitutions and law within a broad political and societal framework. He is also interested in political and constitutional issues of autonomy, particularly in the context of Greater China. Some of his principal writings have been published in non-legal journals.
He has combined an active engagement in advisory work during his academic career. He has been a consultant to a number of countries, including Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Seychelles, Afghanistan, Maldives, Cambodia, and East Timor. He chaired Kenya’s constitutional review from 2001–04. He is currently an advisor to the Constitution Committee of the National Assembly of Iraq. He has facilitated various consultations in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, and has advised the Tibetan Government in Exile on autonomy regimes in China.
As of September 2006, he will take up his appointment as the UN Special Representative for human rights to Cambodia. He will succeed Peter Leuprecht, also a member of the SSHRC MCRI Ethnicity and Democratic Governance research team.
Professor, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Telephone: (972)-3-6408798
Fax: (972)-3-6407260
Email: harrisr@post.tau.ac.il
Homepage: http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/law/researcher.asp?id=agihecicf
Mailing Address: Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Ron Harris is a Professor of Law and Legal History and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University. He teaches Corporations, Bankruptcy, and courses on the history of Anglo-American and Israeli law. He earned an LL.B. and M.A. (History) from TAU and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. At Columbia he was the recipient of a four years President's Fellowship. He has received fellowships from Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation), the British Council, and the Israel Science Foundation. He spent two years as a visitor at UC Berkeley and extended research periods in Oxford and London.
Harris is the author of Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844 (CUP, 2000), the editor of two other books, and the author or co-author of numerous articles., and ``Bankruptcy Policy in Light of Manipulation in Credit Advertising'' for {\itshape Theoretical Inquiries in Law}.
He is currently working on the early history of the English and Dutch East India Companies; on the migration of organizational forms used in early modern Eurasian trade; and on the comparative history of Private Limited Companies in France, Germany, Britain, and the US (with Naomi Lamoreaux, Timothy Guinnane, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal).
Professor, University of Chicago Department of Economics, and Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Homepage: http://jenni.uchicago.edu/
James Heckman's administrative assistant is Amanda Edwards:
Telephone: (773) 702-3478
Facsimile: (773) 702-8490
Email: aedwards1@uchicago.edu
Mailing Address: University of Chicago Department of Economics, 1126 E 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
James Heckman received his B.A. in mathematics from Colorado College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1971. He is currently the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where he has served since 1973 and where he directs the Economics Research Center and the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and is affiliated with University College London, Peking University and University College Dublin. Heckman's work has been devoted to the development of a scientific basis for economic policy evaluation, with special emphasis on models of individuals and disaggregated groups, and to the problems and possibilities created by heterogeneity, diversity, and unobserved counterfactual states. In the early 1990s, his pioneering research on the outcomes of people who obtain the GED certificate received national attention. His findings, which questioned the alleged benefits of the degree, spurred debates across the country on the merits of obtaining the certificate. His recent research focuses on human development and lifecycle skill formation, with a special emphasis on the economics of early childhood. His research has given policymakers important new insights into such areas as education, job-training programs, minimum-wage legislation, anti-discrimination law and civil rights. Heckman has published over 200 articles and several books.
His most recent books include: Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policy? (with Alan Krueger) and Evaluating Human Capital Policy, and Law and Employment: Lessons From Latin America and the Caribbean (with C. Pages).
Heckman has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association in 1983, the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Daniel McFadden), the 2005 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Economics, the 2005 Dennis Aigner Award for Applied Econometrics from the Journal of Econometrics, and the 2005 Ulysses Medal from the University College Dublin. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economics, and the American Statistical Association.
Director of Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Email: dkaufmann@worldbank.org
Homepage: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20025914~menuPK:34491~pagePK:36880~piPK:36882,00.html
Daniel Kaufmann's administrative assistant is Diane Leslie Billups:
Email: dbillups@worldbank.org
Telephone: (202) 473-5818
Daniel Kaufmann is the Director of Global Programs at the World Bank Institute (WBI) where he oversees the governance and knowledge agenda. Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser on governance and development, with his colleagues he has pioneered new empirical approaches and survey methodologies resulting in action programs and supports countries on good governance and anti-corruption programs and capacity building. He previously held positions at the World Bank heading Capacity Building for Latin America; managed a team on Finance, Regulation and Governance; and was as a Lead Economist in Economies in Transition in the research department. He was also an author of the World Development Report on the Challenges of Development. In the early nineties he was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and subsequently he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.
Kaufmann's research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, trade and exchange rate, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals. A Chilean national, he received his M.A and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University, and a Bachelors degree in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Details on his publications and access to the databank are at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/kaufmann.
Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islam and the Social Sciences, Duke University
Telephone: (919) 660-1872
Facsimile: (919) 684-8974
Email: t.kuran@duke.edu
Homepage: http://econ.duke.edu/~tk43/
Mailing Address: Department of Economics, Duke University, 213 Social Sciences Building, Box 90097, Durham NC 27708
Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islam and the Social Sciences at Duke University. His teaching and research draw on multiple disciplines, including economics, political science, history, and legal studies.
He has written extensively on the evolution of preferences and institutions, with contributions to the study of hidden preferences, the unpredictability of social revolutions, the dynamics of ethnic conflict, perceptions of discrimination, and the evolution of morality. His best known theoretical work is Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (Harvard University Press), which deals with the repercussions of being dishonest about what one knows and wants. Since its original publication in 1995, this book has appeared also in German, Swedish, Turkish, and Chinese.
Kuran has also written on Islam and the Middle East, with an initial focus on contemporary attempts to restructure economies according to Islamic teachings. Several of his essays on this topic are included in Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton University Press). Since the mid-1990s he has turned his attention to the conundrum of why the Middle East, which once had a high standard of living by global standards, subsequently fell behind in various realms, including economic production, organizational capability, technological creativity, democratization, and military strength.
He is at work on books and articles on this general subject. His thesis is that the economic and educational institutions of Islam, though well-suited to the era in which they emerged, were poorly suited to a dynamic industrial economy. These institutions fostered social equilibria that reduced the likelihood of modern capitalism emerging from within Islamic civilization. His recent papers have identified obstacles involving inheritance practices, contract law, procedures of the courts, the absence of corporations, the financial system, and the delivery of social services.
Since 1990 Kuran has been the founding editor of an interdisciplinary book series published by the University of Michigan Press. He has served, or currently serves, on the editorial or advisory boards of numerous scholarly journals. Since 2005, he has been Director of USC's Institute for Economic Research on Civilizations. In 1989-90 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; in 1996-97 he held the John Olin Visiting professorship at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; and in 2004-05 he was Visiting Professor Of Economics at Stanford University.
Professor, University of Washington Department of Political Science
Telephone: (206) 543-7947
Email: mlevi@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/mlevi/index.htm
Mailing Address: Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
98195
Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle. She is Director of the CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) Center and formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and Director, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Levi earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington. She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. She is a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2006-7. She was awarded the S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award in 2001. She served as President of the American Political Science Association (2004-5).
Levi is the author of three solely authored books, Bureaucratic Insurgency: The Case of Police Unions (1977); Of Rule and Revenue (1988); and Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (1997). She is the joint author of Analytic Narratives (1998); Cooperation Without Trust? (2005); and Democracy at Risk (2005). She is the co-editor of The Limits of Rationality (1979); Trust and Governance (1998); and Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science (1999). Her current research focuses on the bases for and effects of trustworthy and effective government. Concurrently, she is working on a range of issues having to do with labor unions and with global justice campaigns. Some of the work builds on the WTO History Project, which she co-directed. She also continues to write on issues concerning the analytic narrative approach to the study of complex historical and comparative processes.
In 1999 she became the general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and in 1997 the co-general editor of the Trust series for Russell Sage Foundation Press. As of 2006, she is the editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, and she is on the editorial boards of Politics & Society, Rationality and Society, and Political Studies. She served on the board of the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) and the Society for Comparative Research. She is currently a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). She served the American Political Science Association (APSA) as the president of the Section on Political Economy (SOPE), convention program co-chair with James Alt, a member of the Executive Council, and Vice-President.
She also has numerous community commitments. She has served on the Jobs for Justice Workers' Right Board and was a member of the first coordinating committee of SAWSJ (Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice). With her husband, Robert D. Kaplan, she has developed a substantial collection of Australian aboriginal art, part of which is on loan to the Seattle Art Museum.
Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988-9, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-1994. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, and Oxford University.
Director and Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
Telephone: (312) 988-6532
Facsimile: (312) 988-6579
Email: rnelson@abfn.org
Homepage: http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/resnelson.html
Mailing Address: 750 N Lakeshore Drive (4th Floor), Chicago, IL 60611
Robert L. Nelson is the Director of the American Bar Foundation, the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession at the ABF, and professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University. He holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in sociology, both from Northwestern. He is a leading scholar in the fields of the legal profession and discrimination law. He has authored or edited six books and numerous articles, including Legalizing Gender Inequality, which won the prize for best book in sociology in 2001. His most recent book is Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar, co-authored with John Heinz, Edward Laumann, and Rebecca Sandefur, which was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005.
Robert Nelson is the founding director of the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern; was the Director of the Bar Foundation's Program on Professionalism, Law and Economic Change from 1988 to 1992; and served as Department Chair from 1997-2000 and as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology in 1991-92 and 1993-96. In 1992-93 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. He has served on the Council of the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Law, the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, was Secretary/Treasurer of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the ASA, and is a Member of the editorial board of the Law & Society Review.
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Telephone: (212) 854-0068
Facsimile: (212) 854-7946
Email: kpisto@law.columbia.edu
Homepage: http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Katharina_Pistor
Mailing Address: 435 W 116th St, Room 643, New York, NY 10027
Katharina Pistor's administrative assistant is Lidiya Talaizadeh:
Telephone: (212) 854-4769
Email: ltalai@law.columbia.edu
Katharina Pistor is professor of law at Columbia Law School. Before joining the faculty of Columbia Law School in 2001, she taught at the Kennedy School of Government, and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg (Germany). Her main research interests are comparative law, comparative corporate governance, and the development of legal institutions with special emphasis on the evolution of law in transitional and emerging economies. Recent publications include George Bermann and Katharina Pistor (eds), Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union, Oxford: Hart Publishing; Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu, "Incomplete Law", NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 931 (2003); Dan Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor, Jean-Francois Richard, "Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect", 47 European Economic Review 165 (2003); Katharina Pistor, Yoram Keinan et al., "The Evolution of Corporate Law", 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 791 (2002).
Professor, Harvard University Department of Economics
Telephone: (617) 495-1871
Facsimile: (617) 496-5942
Homepage: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/sen/sen.html
Mailing Address: Department of Economics, Littauer 205, North Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Amartya Sen's administrative assistant is Shelley Rich:
Email: SLRich@fas.harvard.edu
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, and the International Economic Association. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor. Born in Santiniketan, India, Amartya Sen studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, India, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an Indian citizen. He was Lamont University Professor at Harvard also earlier, from 1988 - 1998, and previous to that he was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College (he is now a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls). Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Delhi University and at the London School of Economics.
Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), and Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006), among others. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war.
Amartya Sen has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Among the awards he has received are the Bharat Ratna (the highest honor awarded by the President of India), the Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics, the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award, the Edinburgh Medal, the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz), the Presidency of the Italian Republic Medal, the Eisenhower Medal, Honorary Companion of Honour (U.K.), The George E. Marshall Award, and the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Professor, Stanford University Department of Political Science
Telephone: (650) 723-3729
Facsimile: (650) 723-1687
Email: weingast@stanford.edu
Homepage: http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/weingast.html
Mailing Address: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010
Barry R. Weingast is the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, and a Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1996 through 2001. In 1996, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Weingast received his Ph.D. in economics from the California Institute of Technology in 1978. He has worked extensively with various development agencies, such as US AID and the World Bank.
Weingast’s research focuses on the political foundation of markets, economic reform, and regulation. He has written extensively on problems of political economy of development, federalism and decentralization, legal institutions and the rule of law, and democracy. He has written on the foundations that support democracy and the rule of law, including: twentieth century Spain, nineteenth century United States, seventeenth century England, and modern Chile. His current project involves a book coauthored with Douglass North and John Wallis on A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History.
He co-authored Analytic Narratives (1998, Princeton) and edited The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (with Donald Wittman, Oxford, 2006).