Biography
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Director of the Program in Law and Normative Thinking at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele’s current work focuses on the rise of autocratic legalism first in Hungary and then in Poland within the European Union, as well as its spread around the world, including to the United States. In 2014, she received the Law and Society Association’s Kalven Prize for influential scholarship and in 2024, she received a Guggenheim fellowship. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Academy of Comparative Law. She had held professorships at University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Central European University Budapest as well as visiting faculty positions in the law schools at Yale, Harvard, Erasmus/Rotterdam, and Humboldt/Berlin. She has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law and President of the Law and Society Association. Her book Destroying (and Restoring) Democracy by Law is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
