Letizia Mancini is an Associated Professor at the Università Statale di Milano. Since 2002, she has been teaching the courses of Juridical Anthropology and Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Jurisprudence. She is a member of the Academic Board of the Università degli Studi di Milano, and a member of the Editorial board of the journal Sociologia del diritto, among others. Recent publications include “Prevenire, contrastare e punire le pratiche di mutilazione genitale femminile.
Stephan Parmentier studied law, political science and sociology at the universities of Ghent and Leuven (Belgium) and sociology and conflict resolution at the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (U.S.A.). He currently teaches sociology of crime, law, and human rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven, and since September 2017 serves as the Chairperson of the Interfaculty Council of Development Cooperation at the same university.
Camilo Umaña is a law professor at the Externado University. He worked with the Colombian Truth Commission for over a year as an expert on access to justice and impunity. He has also been a consultant for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on transitional justice and the National Ombudsman on restorative justice. He is a founding member of the sociology of law research project on “Social Demands and the Law” of the Externado University.
Santiago Abel Amietta is currently a lecturer in criminology at the School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, an MA from the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), and an LLB from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina (UNC). His research interests span the legal profession, lay participation in criminal justice, migration and integration, and state recognition of indigenous nations, with a continued regional focus on Latin America.
Johannes Feest is a (retired) professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Bremen, Germany. He received his legal education at the universities Vienna and Munich and his sociological training at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1995-1997, he was Scientific Director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati . He has performed empirical research on criminal justice agencies (police, judges, prisons).
