The Diffusion of Law

Sue Farran is a Professor of Laws at Northumbria University, UK, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of the South Pacific. She has a long-standing interest in comparative law and legal pluralism, and much of her published research uses case studies from the island countries of the South Pacific region to focus on issues of human rights, legal pluralism, the challenges of development and sustainability, globalisation and legal colonialism. In particular she is interested in the interface between legal systems and normative frameworks within states and between states, and the relationship between national, regional and international players in shaping and developing legal responses to contemporary issues. Sue has contributed to two other collections in this series: `Scotland: Is the tartan fading?' in A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched or Blended (2014 Ashgate) for which she was also lead editor, and `Pacific punch: tropical flavours of mixedness in the Island Republic of Vanuatu' in Palmer, Mattar and Koppel (eds) Mixed Legal Systems East and West (2015 Ashgate).

James Gallen is a graduate and Scholar of Trinity College Dublin and a graduate of New York University School of Law. He is a former Transitional Justice Scholar at New York University and has served as an Intern and Fellow at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York and Kathmandu. He is a lecturer in the School of Law and Government at DCU. James defended his Ph.D. thesis in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin in May 2012. His doctoral thesis examines the relationship between transitional justice, peace-building and economic development in international law. His research interests include human rights, international law and legal and political philosophy. His present research agenda concerns the implementation of policy coherence in international assistance to transitions and a transitional justice approach to child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. James' recent selected publications include: (with Colin Smith, Trinity College Dublin), 'Cain Adomhnain and International Humanitarian Law', (2014) 16(1) Journal of the History of International Law 63-81 and 'Jus Post Bellum: An Interpretive Framework' in Carsten Stahn, Jens Iverson and Jennifer Easteryday (eds) Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations (OUP 2014) 58-79.

Jennifer Hendry is a lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Leeds School of Law, prior to which she was a research fellow at the Tilburg Institute for Comparative & Transnational Law at Tilburg University. Jen has degrees from the University of Glasgow (LLB Hons 2002), the University of Edinburgh (LLM, 2003), and the European University Institute (PhD, 2009). She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney (2011) and the University of Arizona (2013), and is a principal investigator on a World Universities Network-funded interdisciplinary international research network focusing on 'Spaces of Indigenous Justice'. Her research interests are in the areas of social and legal theory and comparative socio-legal studies, specifically legal pluralism, legal culture, spatial justice, and systems theory. Jen is a member of the senior editorial board of the German Law Journal and the executive of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA).
Recent selected publications include: `Legal Comparison and the Im/possibility of Legal Translation' in S. Glanert (ed.) Comparative Law: Engaging Translation (Routledge: July 2014) and `Legal Pluralism and Normative Transfer' in G. Frankenberg (ed.) Order Through Transfer: Studies in Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar: July 2013).

Christa Rautenbach is a Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. B Iuris (cum laude) LLB (cum laude) LLM LLD
Christa has more than 30 years of experience as a legal scientist. She worked for the Department of Justice for 14 years as a prosecutor before she became an academic scholar at the Faculty of Law, North-West University (Potchefstroom) where she currently holds an appointment as Full Professor. She remains involved in private practice as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Christa is the treasurer of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, Scientist Ambassador of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and also the chairperson of the North-Eastern Chapter of the Alexander von Humboldt-Association of South Africa. In addition she is a member of the Executive Committee of Juris Diversitas. She has published extensively on subjects dealing with legal pluralism, customary law, mixed jurisdictions, cultural diversity, comparative law and law of succession and also presented numerous papers on these subjects globally. She is co-editor and co-author Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa (2015( 4 ed) LexisNexis) and The Law of Succession in South Africa (2012 (2nd ed) Oxford University Press). Christa is also the editor of the internationally acclaimed electronic law journal, the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law and the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa.