Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Advisory Council

SUSAN FRELICH APPLETON
Associate Dean of Faculty and the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law 
Professor Appleton is a nationally known expert on family law. She serves as a member of the Council of the American Law Institute (ALl) and as an adviser for the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. She previously served as a consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency in its recommendations for laws addressing "surrogate-mother" arrangements. She frequently teaches medical students at Washington University. Professor Appleton is the co-author of Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials, Aspen Law and Business (1998). Her recent publications include "Assisted Suicide and Reproductive Freedom: Exploring Some Connections," 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 15 (1998); "Standards for Constitutional Review of Privacy-Invading Welfare Reforms: Distinguishing the Abortion-Funding Cases and Redeeming the Undue-Burden Test," 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (1996); and "When Welfare Reforms Promote Abortion: 'Personal Responsibility: 'Family Values: and the Right to Choose," 85 Georgetown Law Journal (1996).

STUART A. BANNER
Professor of Law
Professor Banner is a legal historian whose work is wide-ranging. He has written several books, including Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860, published by Cambridge University Press, as well as two important articles on the early property laws of New Zealand. He recently chaired a panel on 19th-century Australia at the annual meeting of the American Society for legal History in Toronto. After conducting extensive research at the National Library of New Zealand and the Public Record Office in London, he is writing a book on British and postcolonial land policies concerning indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia. In the summer of 2002, Professor
Banner will be a Fulbright senior scholar, splitting his time between teaching law at the University of Sydney and conducting research at the State Library of New South Wales.

WILLIAM BECHTEL
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy
Professor Bechtel's research and teaching focus on philosophy of cognition and neuroscience. His central research addresses the role of decomposition and localization as heuristics in developing brain-based models of cognitive function and epistemological issues concerning research techniques such as dissociation studies and neuroimaging. He also investigates neural network and other dynamical models of cognition and on the reliance of cognitive systems on external symbols to carry out cognitive tasks research. In addition, he researches and teaches in the history and philosophy of biology, where his emphasis is on the development of mechanistic explanatory models and on the contribution of the development of research techniques and scientific institutions in constraining these models. This project is realized in a detailed case study of the development of modern cell biology in the period
1940-1965. He is editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology and co-editor of A Companion to Cognitive Science and of the forthcoming reader Philosophy and Neurosciences. He is co-author of Discovering Complexity, Connectionism and the Mind and How to Do Things with Logic, and author of Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Mind. 

JOHN BOWEN
Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences
Professor Bowen holds an appointment in the Department of Anthropology and chairs the Committee on Social Thought and Analysis, a multidisciplinary program in the social sciences. The program's colloquia series joins faculty and students in economics, political science, history, social work, and literature, as well as anthropology; it also gives graduate students opportunities to hear speakers from a variety of disciplines. Professor Bowen was also active in the Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations, which encouraged students to study the wide range of present and past Muslim societies. His courses include the history of anthropological theory, religion and ritual, historical anthropology, and social theory. His research is concerned with the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) in processes of social change. His writing links historical and ethnographic
material.

KATHLEEN CLARK
Professor of Law
Professor Clark, a specialist in government ethics who studied Russian in the Soviet Union and Spanish in Guatemala, has been involved in various international law reform and anti-corruption activities. These include an Olin Foundation-funded trip to Kiev to liaise between U.S. academics and advisers to the Ukrainian Parliament, an ABA-CEELI project commenting on Uzbekistan's proposed code of conduct for lawyers, lectures in Venezuela about integrating ethics into law school courses, and a workshop for Nigerian NGOs lobbying the legislature to adopt a code of ethics. She has spoken at international conferences in Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and South Africa. She also serves on the board of the Immigration Project, a nonprofit legal services organization for indigent foreign migrant workers and others.

CLARK D. CUNNINGHAM
Professor of Law and Israel Treiman Research Fellow 
Professor Cunningham brings significant public interest and litigation experience to his students. He has led a linguistics and social thought and analysis course with Professor john Bowen. Professor Cunningham has been a staff attorney for Michigan Legal Services and in private practice. In 1994, he visited the National Law School of India to help develop a model clinical curriculum intended for eventual adoption throughout the nation. His publications include "Plain Meaning and Hard Cases," Yale Law Journal (1994);
"Sometimes You Can't Make a Dent But They Know You've Been There," Harvard Law Review (1993); and "Race, Class, Caste...Rethinking Affirmative Action," 97 Michigan Law Review 5 (1999). Professor Cunningham is a member of the American Law School's Committee on Clinical Scholarship.

REBECCA S. DRESSER
Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine
Professor Dresser has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, a Bigelow teaching fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and a fellow of the Program in Ethics and Professions at Harvard University. She was a chaired professor at Case Western Reserve School of Law while also teaching in the medical school's Center for Biomedical Ethics. Professor Dresser now holds joint appointments with Washington University's School of Law and School of Medicine. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, the Advisory Work Group on Human Subject Research for the New York Department of Health, and the Ethics Committee for the American Society for Reproductive
Medicine. Recent writings include "Science in the Courtroom: A New Approach," Hastings Center Report (1999); "The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice," Oxford University Press (1998); "Breast Implants Revisited: A Response to Science on Trial," Wisconsin Law Review (1997); and "Mentally Disabled Research Subjects: The Enduring Policy Issues," Journal of the American Medical Association (1996).

JOHN N. DROBAK
Professor of Law and Professor of Economics
Professor Drobak, an expert in law and economics, also holds an appointment in Arts & Sciences and teaches in the Olin School of Business. At the law school, he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He has been on the faculty of the U.S. Business School in Prague since its inception in 1991. There he annually co-teaches an MBA course for Central Europeans with Nobel laureate Douglass North. Professor Drobak has advised the finance minister of the Czech Republic on the large-scale voucher privatization program and the Republic of Georgia in connection with the drafting of its post-Soviet constitution. He is also one of the founders, the secretary, and a member of the Board of Directors
of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, whose members represent 45 countries. He has spoken at the society's annual conferences in Paris and at the World Bank, as well as at the University of Tubingen in Germany. He gave the keynote address at an event honoring the manager of the year for the Czech Republic in 2000. He has also participated in a joint project of the United States and the New Independent States on democracy and the market economy for business and government leaders in the former Soviet Union. His book, The Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics, has been translated into Chinese. In 2000, Washington University honored Professor Drobak with its Distinguished Faculty Award.

LEE EPSTEIN
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Political Science and Professor of Law
Professor Epstein, who has an appointment in the Department of Political Science, joined the School of Law as a full-time faculty member in 2000. She is interested in the fields of judicial politics and interest-group politics. Over the years, she authored or co-authored several books, including The Supreme Court and Legal Change, University of North Carolina Press (1992), and Constitutional Law for a Changing America, Congressional Quarterly Press (3rd ed., 1998). Her writings have appeared in several journals and law reviews, including an article she co-authored on "Do Political Preferences Change? A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Supreme Court Justices" for the Journal of Politics 60 (1998). Professor Epstein also has several grants from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on interest-group participation in litigation and on coalition formation among justices on the Supreme Court of the United States. Recent projects include The Choices Justices Make (co-authored with Jack Knight), which offers a strategic account of judicial decisions, and "On the Struggle for Judicial Supremacy" (also co-authored with Knight), which invokes game theory to explore Marbury V. Madison (1803). She is currently investigating the role constitutional courts play in establishing and maintaining democratic systems of government.

JOHN 0. HALEY
Wiley Rutledge Professor of Law
Professor Haley, one of the nation's outstanding international and comparative law scholars, is widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies. His numerous scholarly works span issues ranging from international trade policy and comparative law to Japanese land-use law, Japanese and East Asian business transactions, and Japanese law and contemporary society. He has taught and lectured internationally, including at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and at Kobe University in Kobe, Japan. The author or editor of nine books and monographs, Professor Haley wrote Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox. This book and his article on "The Myth of the Reluctant Litigant" are considered leading works in the field.

PAULINE KIM 
Professor of Law
Professor Kim, who joined the law school in 1994, has done much in the area of empirical scholarship. Before beginning her teaching career, she was a staff attorney at the Employment Law Center, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco. She also served as a clerk for Judge Cecil F. Poole, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Kim was a member of the board of California Rural Legal Assistance and a member of the Legal Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union-Northern California. Publications include "Norms, Learning and Law: Exploring the Influences on Workers' Legal Knowledge," 1999 University of Illinois Law Review 447; "Bargaining with Imperfect Information: A Study of Worker Perceptions of Legal Protection in an At-Will World," Cornell Law Review, Vol. 83, Issue I (1997); and "Privacy Rights, Public Policy and the Employment Relationship," Ohio State Journal, Vol. 57, No.3 (1996).

JACK KNIGHT
Sidney W Souers Professor of Government and Chair of the Department of Political Science
Professor Knight is a resident fellow in the Center in Political Economy and a member of the Committee on Social Thought and Analysis. His primary areas of interest are modern social and political theory, law and legal theory, political economy, and philosophy of social science. His publications include Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Explaining Social Institutions (with Itai Sened-The University of Michigan Press, 1995), and The Choices Justices Make (with Lee Epstein, CQ Press, 1997), as well as articles in various journals and edited volumes. 

DAVID KONIG
Professor of History
Professor Konig, who joined the Washington University faculty in 1973, served as chair of the Department of History from 1987-93. He has been a Fulbright lecturer at the Universities of Rome and Perugia; a senior research fellow, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1985-87; the founder and director of the Legal Studies Program, 1994; and a visiting professor of law at Saint Louis University since 1999. Professor Konig is the editor and co-author of many books and articles, including Devising Liberty: Creating and Preserving Freedom (Stanford,
1995); " A Summary View of the Law of British America," William and Mary Quarterly (January 1993); "The Virgin and the Virgin's Sister: The Competing Legal Legacies of Colonial Virginia and Massachusetts," The History of the Law in Massachusetts: The Supreme Judicial Court, 1692-1992, R. Osgood, ed., Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society (1992); and "Colonization and the Common Law in Ireland and Virginia, 1569-1634," The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority, and Ideology, J. Henretta et al., eds. (1991).

GARY MILLER
Professor of Political Science
Professor Miller's area of expertise is in the politics of organizations, committees, and small-group decisionmaking. He has been the principal investigator for three National Science Foundation grants that have funded experimental research on coalition formation and decisionmaking under various institutional rules. In the area of organizational decisionmaking, he has written Managerial Dilemmas (Cambridge University Press), which attempts to bridge the gap between the traditional behavioral analysis of business firms (stressing managerial leadership and cooperation) and the emerging literature of organizational economics (focusing on the engineering of incentive systems rewarding productive employee behavior). Other works include Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice (with Jack Knott, Prentice-Hall), which dicusses the historical origins of the bureaucratic and regulatory forms that have shaped business-government relations since the progressive reform movement at the beginning of the lOth century.

DOUGLASS C. NORTH
Spencer T Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences
Professor North received the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of his seminal work in economic history and the new institutional economics. All of his scholarship has focused on economic growth, providing insights to answering his ultimate question: "Why are some countries rich, while others are poor?" Neoclassical price theory lies at the heart of his scholarship, and, in the early 1960s, he was part of a small group of economic historians who changed their field by applying economic theory and quantitative methods to history in a process referred to as "cliometrics." By the mid-1970s, Professor North began to emphasize the relationship between economic growth and institutions, the formal and informal rules that structure a society. In 1997, he and a few other social scientists created the International Society for New Institutional Economics at an organizing conference held at Washington University. During the past several years, Professor North has begun to use insights from cognitive and behavioral science to better understand economic change over time. He has served as president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, the Economic History Association, and the Western Economic Association. He is a frequent adviser to the World Bank and to countries throughout the world on issues of economic growth.

MICHAEL SHERRADEN
Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development
Professor Sherraden concentrates on defining, implementing, and studying policy and community innovations; focusing on the least advantaged; and drawing lessons from historical and international examples. As director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), he leads efforts to evaluate asset-building projects, such as individual development accounts (IDAs), across the country and in St. Louis. CSD has a range of other research and policy projects in areas such as school achievement, welfare reform, productive aging, and youth services. He has authored and edited several books and monographs: Alternatives to Social Security; An International Inquiry; Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy; The Moral Equivalent of War? A Study of Non-Military Service in Nine Nations; National Service: Social, Economic, and Military Impacts; and Community-Based Youth Services in International Perspective. He has served as an adviser and consultant to many groups and organizations, including the White House, the U .5. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. Washington University has honored Professor Sherraden with the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1994, and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work honored him with its Distinguished Faculty Award in 1999. He has been a Fulbright research fellow at the National University of Singapore and a visiting professor of the National University of Mexico.

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