The Contributors
- The Contributors
Fiona Shen-Bayh will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan in September 2018. Her research interests include autocratic courts, strategies of repression, and postautocratic rule of law. Her dissertation examined the role courts play in autocratic survival in Africa. She can be reached at fishenbayh@berkeley.edu.
R. Daniel Kelemen is a professor of political science and law at Rutgers University. His research interests include the politics of the European Union, law and politics, comparative political economy, and comparative public policy. He is author or editor of six books, including Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union (2011), which won the Best Book award from the European Union Studies Association. He can be reached at d.kelemen@rutgers.edu.
Tommaso Pavone is a doctoral candidate in politics at Princeton University. His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and socio-legal studies. Specifically, his current work probes the ways that judges and lawyers, particularly in the European Union, reconfigure social and political relations by constructing transnational polities, by transforming local practices, and by brokering fields of knowledge across time and space. He can be reached at tpavone@princeton.edu.
Cathie Jo Martin is professor of political science at Boston University. Her current book project explores the origins of education systems and their effect on the social and economic inclusion of low-skill youth. Other publications include The Political Construction of Business Interests (2012), which was coauthored with Duane Swank and received the apsa Politics and History Section book award; Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (2000); and Shifting the Burden: The Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation (1991). She can be reached at cjmartin@bu.edu.
Carlos Closa is a professor of political science at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council and a faculty member at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute. His research focuses on institutional design in the European Union and regional integration organizations and comparative regional governance with an emphasis on mechanisms for the protection of democracy and rule of law. He is coeditor, with Dimitry Kochenov, of Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union (2016), and editor of Secession from a Member State and Withdrawal from the European Union: Troubled Membership (2017). He can be reached at carlos.closa@csic.es.
Stefano Palestini is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research College “The Transformative Power of Europe” at the Free University of Berlin. He has been a consultant at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-Chile) and a visiting researcher and lecturer at universities in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, and the United States. His research focuses on comparative regionalism, and the role of international organizations in the protection of democracy. He can be reached at Stefano.Palestini@eui.eu.
