Kim Lane Scheppele

Kim Lane Scheppele (III.4)

Princeton University

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values.   Works at the intersection of law, political science, sociology, public policy and normative theory.   Studies constitutional systems in transition and under stress.    Examined post-1989 constitutions in eastern Europe, working as a researcher in the constitutional courts of Hungary and Russia.   Explored challenges to constitutional democracies as they responded to post-9/11 threats by developing comprehensive anti-terror programs that affected both civil liberties and separation of powers.   Tracked the spread of constitutional worst practices through the rise of the new populist authoritarians in Eastern Europe and beyond.   Diagnosed and proposed cures for constitutional dysfunctions in the European Union and its Member States.    Was founding co-director of the Program in Gender and Culture (now the Department of Gender Studies) at Central European University and director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs for 10 years.   Has taught in law schools throughout Europe and the United States, is an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, won the Law and Society Association’s Kalven Prize for influential scholarship and has been  a frequent recipient of research grants from the US National Science Foundation.  Has advised constitutional drafting processes, governments and international organizations on matters of comparative constitutional law.