Notes on Contributors

Felice Batlan is Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. She is the author of Women and Justice to the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (2015), which won the 2016 Willard Hurst Prize.

Bruno Debaenst is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Legal History at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He studied history, law, and criminology, and became a Doctor of Laws in 2010 at Ghent University in Belgium.

Jin Dong is Lecturer at the City College of Dongguan and has a Ph.D. in Sociology (sociology of law) and a Masters of Law. His main research interests include law and social change, globalisation, and the sociol­ogy of professions. He is the author of several scholarly articles regarding lawyers’ pro bono work and the legal profession in the age of globalisation. He has also conducted a range of empirical investigations in the area of Chinese lawyers’ pro bono service.

Hiroki Kawamura has been a research associate at the Faculty of Law, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, since 2013 and part-time lecturer at the University of Trier. He studied law at the Waseda University in Tokyo and received his Doctor of Law (doctor iuris) at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Previously he was a research associate at the Freie Universitat Berlin (2008-2012) and at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (2012-2013).

Mia Korpiola is Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku, Finland. She has edited several books, including The Svea Court of Appeal in the Early Modern Period (2014) and Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies (2019). She is working on the legal literacy of ordinary nineteenth-century Finnish men, women, and children in a research proj­ect funded by the Academy of Finland (nr.

Marianne Gonzalez Le Saux is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the University of Chile School of Law. She studied law at the University of Chile and received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. Her work on the history of legal aid and the legal profession in Chile has been published, among others, in Law and Social Inquiry and The American Journal of Legal History.

William E. Pomeranz, Ph.D., J.D., is the Deputy Director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Law and the Russian State: Russia's Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2018.

Sylvia Schafer is Associate Professor of History. She teaches modern French history at the University of Connecticut. Her published works include Children in Moral Danger and the Problem ofGovernment in Third Republic France (1997) and “L’Assistance judiciaire et l’etranger civil, 1840-1851,” Societes et Representations (2014). Her current research addresses the entwined histories of legal and medical assistance, liberal imagination, and the problem of the outsider in modern France.

Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen, LL.D. (2018), is University Lecturer of Legal History at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession (2020) and several articles on the history of legal education, the legal profession, and the courts. She is studying the history of legal aid in Finland.