Notes on Contributors

Ananyo "Tito" Basu was educated in schools in Hong Kong, India, Scotland, and the United States. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duke University before receiving a J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law and went on to teach philosophy at Mt. Holyoke College and at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Basu is currently an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board at its regional office in Tampa, Florida, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Doriane Lambelet Coleman is a senior lecturing fellow, Duke University School of Law. She received a B.A. in 1982 from Cornell University and a J.D. in 1988 from Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of numerous articles and the book Fixing Columbine: The Challenge of American Liberalism (2002).

Rosemary J. Coombe is Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication, and Cultural Studies at York University. She is the author of The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties (1998) and numerous articles in anthropology, cultural studies, and legal theory. Her current work explores the global imposition of and resistance to intellectual property norms in an era characterized by the intensification of informational capital.

Carol Boyce Davies is Herskovits Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University and professor of comparative literary studies. She is author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994) as well as numerous scholarly articles and several critical editions. Currently, Davies is writing a series of personal reflections called Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad, and is preparing three projects on the Caribbean feminist activist Claudia Jones, including a book on Jones called Left of Karl Marx; an edition of Jones's writings, called Beyond Containment: Claudia Jones, Activism, Political Clarity, and Vision; and a Web site on Jones that will contain many of Jones's personal papers.

Gaurav Desai, currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, is assistant professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library (2001) and coeditor of a forthcoming volume of essays on law and literature in a multiethnic frame.

Andrew Herman is associate professor of sociology at Drake University and research principal at the Nommos Consulting Group. He is the author of The "Better Angels" of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative and Moral Identity Among Men of the American Upper Class (1999) and editor of Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory (1997) and The World Wide Web and Contemporary Theory: Magic, Metaphor and Power (2000).

Feroza Jussawalla is currently professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She is author of Family Quarrels: Toward a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1989) and editor of Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World (1992) and Conversations with V. S. Naipaul (1997).

Robert Justin Lipkin is a professor of law and the H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law, Widener University School of Law. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews and the book Constitutional Revolutions: Pragmatism and the Role of Judicial Review in American Constitutionalism (2000).

Ellen Messer-Davidow, an associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, is also a faculty member in American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies. Her most recent book, Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse (2002), is a critical study of academic institutionalization and social change.

Alison Dundes Renteln is an associate professor of political science at the University of Southern California. Her publications include International Human Rights: Universalism versus Relativism (1990), Folk Law: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta (1994, coedited with Alan Dundes), and numerous articles related to cultural rights.

Keith Werhan is Geoffrey C. Bible and Murray H. Bring Professor of Constitutional Law at Tulane Law School. He specializes in Constitutional law, the First Amendment, and administrative law, and has published widely in those areas. He currently is at work on a book entitled Freedom...