LIST of CONTRIBUTORS Saïd Amir Arjomand (Ph.D., University Of

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Saïd Amir Arjomand (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980) is Dis- tinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the Founder and current President of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, and is working on a constitutional history of the Islamic Middle East as a Carnegie Scholar (2006–8). His books include The Turban for the Crown. The Islamic Revolution in Iran (Oxford University Press, 1988) and Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, co-edited with E. A. Tiryakian (London: Sage, 2004), and Constitutional Politics in the Middle East (with special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan), edited (London: Hart Publishers, 2007). Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is author of Palestinian Politics since the Oslo Accords (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World (SUNY Press, 2001), The Rule of Law in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt (Yale University Press, 1990). Jill Cottrell retired as Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Hong Kong in 2003, and has been teaching part time since. Previously since 1965 she had taught in Nigeria and England. Now she is mainly involved in writing on constitutional issues, including in Fiji and Kenya, and in some consultancy work. Anders Fogelklou is Professor of East European Law at the Depart- ment of East European Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Pro- fessor of Comparative Public Law at Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia. Ruth Gavison is Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a senior fellow of the Israel Democracy Institute. Yash Ghai recently retired from the Sir YK Pao Chair of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he is now Honorary Professor, ARJOMAND-F18-378-382.indd 379 7/4/2007 9:17:30 PM 380 list of contributors and is engaged in writing, and in consulting on constitutional matters in various countries. He advised the opposition parties in Fiji during the constitution making process. His writings cover constitutions, ethnic relations, human rights, and sociology of law. Julian Go is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He is the co-editor (with Anne Foster) of The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2003), and author of American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and US Colonialism (forthcoming). Dieter Grimm was a Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1987 to 1999. He currently teaches law at Humboldt University Berlin, New York University Law School and Yale Law School. He is Director of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He published widely on issues of constitutional law, constitutional history and constitutional theory as well as political science. Heinz Klug is Associate Professor in the Law School at the university of Wisconsin-Madison and is Honorary research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the California Bar. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle as a journalist and African National Congress activist. After 11 years in exile, he returned to South Africa in 1990 to teach law at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has worked with various ANC commissions and government ministries on a range of issues. He has published Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism, and South Africa’s Political Reconstruction (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Dicle Kogaciolu is Assistant Professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Her dissertation thesis focused on sociological questions of legal conduct and inequality based on an ethnography of a contempo- rary Istanbul courthouse. She also has published on the legal framing of honor crimes, and is currently writing on the impact of legal reform in terms of the daily conduct of the law. Jacek Kurczewski is Professor and Chair in Sociology of Custom and Law, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University. He was ARJOMAND-F18-378-382.indd 380 7/4/2007 9:17:31 PM.

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