Diana Kapiszewski Author & Editor

Diana Kapiszewski is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil, which draws on her PhD dissertation, which was winner of the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Award for Best Dissertation in Public Law, and is also co-authoring Field Research in Political Science, the discipline's first book-length treatment of fieldwork. Her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, the Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Latin American Politics and Society. Gordon Silverstein is Assistant Dean at Yale Law School, where he is helping to develop and implement a PhD in Law degree program, as well as administering Yale Law School's other graduate programs, including the LLM, JSD and MSL degree programs. Silverstein is the author of Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy and Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics, which was awarded the 2009 C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book published in the field of law and courts that year. Silverstein also has published work focused on comparative constitutionalism, with a focus on Singapore, Hong Kong and Europe. Robert A. Kagan is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous works on regulatory enforcement and compliance and on the relationships between political structures, legal systems and courts, including Regulatory Justice: Implementing a Wage-Price Freeze; Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness; Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law; and Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of the Law and Society Association's Harry Kalven Prize for distinguished sociolegal scholarship and its Stanton Wheeler Award for teaching and mentorship, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law-Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. He has served as co-editor of Regulation and Governance and as director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley.