research energies on the legal profession, publishing a book on divorce lawyering and editing one on the legal culture of global business transactions. From 1994-2000, he also chaired the influential Working Group on Legal Professions of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, which produced a number of important collections. Humanitarian Aid Organizer Almost forty years after his work with USAID, Bill Felstiner returned to this earlier vocation. During the Katrina disaster in 2005, he volunteered and worked as the director of one on the largest shelters for the homeless of New Orleans. In 2007 he founded, together with colleagues from Santa Barbara, the Chad Relief Foundation (CRF) and became its first director. The organization is a non-profit NGO, whose objective is to provide assistance to refugees from the Central African Republic in South Chad and to the local population surrounding the refugee camps. Personal Felstiner and his wife, Gray, have two sons, Ben and Paul. Footnotes Selected publications Deep Time. Ninety Years of Mischief. Santa Barbara: El Bosque 2022. "Helter-Shelter". In: What Lawyers Do. Narratives from the Yale Law School Class of 1958. Santa Barbara 2018, 141-163. Bill Felstiner (ed.) What Lawyers Do. Narratives from the Yale Law School Class of 1958. Santa Barbara 2018. Reorganization and Resistance: Legal Professions Confront a Changing World (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005) (ed.). Federalismo/Federalism (Madrid: Dykinson 2004 (ed. with Manuel Calvo Garcia). Rules and Networks: The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001) (ed. with V.Gessner und R.P. Appelbaum). "Firm Handling: The Litigation Strategies of Defence Lawyers in Personal Injury Cases", 20 Journal of Legal Studies 1 (2000) (co-authored with Robert Dingwall et al.). "Justice and Power in the Legal Profession" in B.G. Garth & A. Sarat (ed) Justice and Power in Sociolegal Studies (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998). "Professional Inattention: Origins and Consequences" in K. Hawkins (ed.) The Human Face of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) (with Austin Sarat). "Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less than the Sum of Its Parts" in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.), Learning from Disaster (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) (co-authored with Tom Durkin). Asbestos Litigation in the United Kingdom: An Interim Report (Oxford: Centre for Socio-legal Studies; Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1988) (co-authored with R.Dingwall). Asbestos in the Courts. The Challenge of Mass Toxic Torts,