Ronit Dinovitzer is a Project Manager with the American Bar Foundation, where she is conducting research on the sociology of law and legal careers. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Recent publications have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Crime and Justice, and the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice.

John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. His most recent book is Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (Harvard University Press, 2001) and he is coauthor with Holly Foster of “Youth Violence and the End of Adolescence,” which appeared in the December, 2001 issue of the American Sociological Review.


Myra J. Hird lectures in Sociology at Queen’s University, Belfast. She is the author of several articles on new materialism, sexual difference, intersex and transgender, including “Considerations for a Psycho-analytic Theory of Gender Identity and Sexual Desire: The Case of Intersex” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; “Gender’s Nature: Intersexuality, Transsexualism and the ‘Sex’/ ‘Gender’ Binary” in Feminist Theory; “For a Sociology of Transsexualism” in Sociology; and “Unidentified Pleasures: Gender Identity and it’s Failure” in Body and Society. She is completing a sole-authored book on new materialism and sexual difference.


Patricia Parker is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto where she is currently working with John Hagan in a study of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.


John Myles is Canada Research Chair in Sociology at the University of Toronto and Visiting Research Fellow Statistics Canada. His current research focuses on issues of urban inequality and its consequences.


James Sheptycki an Associate Professor of Criminology at York University, Toronto. Formerly he was a lecturer at Durham University in England and a research fellow in the School of Law at Edinburgh University. He has published widely on criminological topics, including domestic violence, serial killers, money laundering, and transnational policing. He has edited a book entitled Issues in Transnational Policing (Routledge, 2000) and has just published a research monograph entitled In Search of Transnational Policing (Ashgate, 2002).


Tanya Titchkosky is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University where she teaches sociology and disability studies courses. She is author of Disability, Self and Society (2003 University of Toronto Press), numerous articles including, “Disability Studies: The New and the Old,” (CJS, 2000, 25:2) and chapters in readers, such as Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory (2002) and Embodied Rhetorics (2002).


Alain Touraine, Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, founded in l981 and chaired till 1993 the Centre of Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS). He is the author of many books, among which the most recent are Can we live together ? Equal and different, Polity Press, 1999, Beyond neoliberalism, Polity Press, 2001. His last book, not yet translated into English, is : La recherche de soi. Dialogue sur le sujet (avec Farhad Khosrokhavar) (Fayard, 2000).