ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Date08 November 2001
Published date08 November 2001
Pages271-273
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-6136(2001)0000003003
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Richard Block, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, began his study
of Law as a graduate student at the University of Chicago working on several
statistical projects at the Law School. As a Fulbright Scholar, he completed
research on victims of crime while affiliated with the Law School of the
University of Amsterdam, The Dutch Ministry of Justice, and the British Home
Office. He is co-founder of the Homicide Research Working Group. For the
past twelve years, he has been Project Director of the Judicial Development
Project.
Katherine Cermak began her work on the Judicial Development Project as a
graduate student at Loyola University of Chicago. Her areas of interest are
expertise, occupations and professions, and science and technology. In 1997
she completed her thesis on the professionalism and expertise issues in the
occupation of physical therapy. She has been Project Coordinator of the Judicial
Development Project for four years.
Stephen Daniels is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation,
Chicago, IL. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His research interest is the American civil justice system,
with a current focus on plaintiffs’ lawyers in Texas and the impact of tort
reform. Together with Joanne Martin, he is the author of Civil Juries and the
Politics of Reform and numerous articles in interdisciplinary journals and law
reviews covering such issues as tort reform, jury verdicts, punitive damages,
medical malpractice, and product liability.
Robert Dingwall is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the
Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham. He
received a Ph.D. in medical sociology from the University of Aberdeen in 1974
and has worked at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of
Oxford and, as a visitor, at the American Bar Foundation, before moving to
Nottingham in 1990. Within the law and society field, he has carried out research
on agency decision-making in child abuse and neglect, medical negligence and
asbestos disease litigation, the legal profession, and divorce mediation. Since
1997, he has been directing a research and graduate centre for the study of the
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