Kim Lane Scheppele
Professor Kim Lane Scheppele | |
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Scheppele in October 2016 | |
| Title | Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Barnard College (BA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs University of Pennsylvania Law School |
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele works on topics related to comparative constitutional ethnography within the sociology of law.
She spent several years living in Hungary and Russia doing fieldwork on the creation of new constitutions after the revolutions of 1989. In the post-9/11 era, she became interested in the global impact of anti-terrorism laws on constitutional democracies. Her research on autocracy and democratic backsliding in the 21st century led her to expand upon the concept of autocratic legalism by Javier Corrales. She coined the term "Frankenstate" to describe the kind of governance that emerges from autocratic legalism.
Her book Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law (1988) received multiple awards. For her research advancing law and society, she was awarded the Kalven Prize in 2014. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. She is currently recognized as an expert on authoritarian regimes.