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The Visiting Scholars Program is one of CSLS's most important and fruitful activities, enriching current scholarship and stimulating new research ideas in a "unique interdisciplinary and international research environment," in the words of one recent visitor. In recent years, CSLS has welcomed some 25 visiting scholars annually from the U.S. and many other countries, in a range of disciplines, including law, political science, sociology, criminology, history, public administration and communications.  In 2011-2012, for example, 23 visiting scholars gathered at the Center from the U.S. (9), Europe (7), Middle East (1), Mexico (1) and Asia (5).

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND SOCIETY
VISITING SCHOLARS - SPRING 2013

Clare Chambers is University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Her specialism is contemporary analytical political and legal philosophy, particularly feminist and liberal theory, and issues of equality, autonomy, culture, and personal relationships. She is currently working on the normative issues surrounding the state regulation of marriage, in articles such as "The Marriage-Free State" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2013), "Political Liberalism, Neutrality and State-Recognised Marriage" (in progress) and "The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State" (in progress). Clare is the author of two books: Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 2008), and, with Phil Parvin, Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (Hodder, 2012). She has also published numerous articles on feminist and liberal political and legal philosophy in journals of law, politics, and philosophy, and for publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Polity, Routledge, and Penn State University Press. Before joining Cambridge in 2006 she was on the faculties of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the CSLS before, in 2009. cec66@cam.ac.uk

Elisabeth Greif is Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She earned her doctorate at the University of Linz in 2005. She also teaches courses in feminist legal doctrine at the Rosa Mayreder College (Vienna). She specializes in gender studies and law as well as in legal history and earned the JKU goes Gender post-doctorate fellowship in 2010. Her research focuses on the construction of (sexual) identities in both historical and contemporary law and on the rights of sexual minorities. In her book Doing Trans/Gender. Rechtliche Dimensionen she has analysed the legal aspects of gender reassignment in Austria with a strong focus on human rights. Her recent publications include the co-editing of a multidisciplinary volume on legal gender studies and the editing of a comparative study on sex work. At the Center she will be working on her habilitation treatise in which she analyses law against unnatural fornication between people of the same sex in Austria’s First Republic (1918-1934) focusing on the judicial treatment of male and female unnatural fornication and the construction of sexual identity in this context. elisabeth.greif@jku.at

Mari Hirayama is excited to return to the Center for the Study of Law and Society, where she was a visiting student researcher nine years ago. She is now Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure & Criminology at Hakuoh University Department of Law (Japan). She received her Master of Laws from Kwansei Gakuin University Graduate School of Law. As a Fulbright Scholar from 2002-2004, she received an LL.M. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2003, and then was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Professor Hirayama’s specialization is in Criminal Procedure & Criminology. She has conducted research on the impact of victims’ rights and viewpoints on criminal procedure, and on criminal justice policy for sex crimes. Recently, she has also focused on the Saiban-in system (the lay judge system in Japan). At the Center, once again the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she will conduct a comparative study of criminal justice policy for sex crimes in the US and Japan. Her recent publications (in Japanese) include: Criminal Procedure Class (Horitsu-Bunka Publication, forthcoming March 2013), Introduction to Criminal Procedure (Yachiyo Publication 2011), and Direction of Criminology: Challenge of Legal Criminology, 2nd Edition (Horitsu Bunka Press 2007). ma07@fc.hakuoh.ac.jp

Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2008 and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and conducted fieldwork in Asia as a Fulbright scholar. Her research focuses on the politics of market reform, regulation, comparative capitalism, globalization, and the relationship between social and economic control in developing countries. Her recent publications include China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press/ Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2011) and “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Postliberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45 (2012): 32-61. She is also affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies as Residential Research Faculty. rhsueh@temple.edu

Lia Kent is a Research Fellow with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. She holds a Ph.D. and MPubIntLaw from the University of Melbourne. Her research covers the politics of post-conflict peace-building and transitional justice, with a particular focus on East Timor, where she has worked and conducted research since 2000. She is the author of The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor (Routledge: 2012) and has published in journals including Human Rights Quarterly and the International Journal of Transitional Justice. While at CSLS she will be working on a project that investigates how individuals and communities in East Timor remember the past and seek to reconstruct everyday life in the wake of conflict. The project examines how local justice priorities and practices may resonate with, or diverge from, those of the national leadership and international donors. lia.kent@anu.edu.au

Zakiya Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. She is also a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan (2011), where she also earned her Masters of Social Work (2009). Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. Her current research examines why and how marginalized women in the US are engaging international human rights discourse to advance a broader movement for reproductive justice that addresses rights to have children and rights to parent. Her research has been funded by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation. She has published in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Sociological Inquiry; Feminist Studies and Societies without Borders: Social Science and Human Rights. In 2011-2 she was the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison. zluna@law.berkeley.edu

Anne Meuwese is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Public Law at Tilburg Law School in The Netherlands. After obtaining her doctorate in Law from Leiden University in February 2008 (cum laude) with a thesis on `Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking' and working as a researcher for several years at the University of Exeter and the University of Antwerp, Anne currently teaches and carries out research on topics at the intersection of public law and regulation. Anne is co-chairing the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), see http://regulation.upf.edu/. Anne’s current research – funded by a personal Veni grant from the Dutch research council NWO – deals with the use of regulatory mechanisms as alternative review of government action. anne.meuwese@tilburguniversity.edu

VISITING SCHOLARS - FALL 2012

Ana Carolina da Matta Chasin is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department of the University of São Paulo (USP) working on a study of the arbitration system in Brazil. The project intends to discuss the way by which this private remedy system is leading to the restructuring of the Brazilian law field. She holds a Law degree from Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), a Social Sciences degree and a Master in Sociology (both at USP). Her Master thesis was focused on small claims courts in Brazil. She works with sociology of law, focusing on two major topics: alternative dispute resolution and land rights and quilombolas communities (rural black communities formed by descendants of slaves). She also has just finished the Portuguese translation of the paper “Why the “haves” come out ahead: speculations on the limits of legal change” (author Marc Galanter), which will be published at the beginning of 2013. acchasin@usp.br

Fusheng Chen is an Associate Professor of Law at Harbin Engineering University (China). He finished his Post-doctorate research in legal sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and received both the degree of Master of Law and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Heilongjiang University (China), in 1998 and in 2004. He specializes in sociology of law, intellectual property, and company law. He has finished several research projects, including one of the state-level projects of special funds for fundamental researches in universities. The title of it is: Research on the Legal Issues of the Protection of the Enterprises’ Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation (2010). His publications include some books and papers, such as Rule of Law—Dynamic Balance between Freedom and Order.(Law Press, 2006); Fundamentals and Practices of Intellectual Property Law (Heilongjiang People’s Publishing House, 2003); “Research on the Legality of Staff Reduction in Economic Crisis” (Academic Exchange, 2010, No.3.); “A Comparative Study of Mode of Law Development in Russia and East Asia Countries—from the Perspective of Different Cultural Modes” (Russian Central Asian & East European Studies, 2009,No.2.). He plans to work at the Center for the Study of Law and Society on the Comparative Study of Patent Consciousness of Chinese and American Enterprises.   cfsycy@126.com

Rebecca Curry received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2008), where she also earned the J.D. (2002).  Her scholarly work investigates interactions between courts and other branches of government, as well as the use of litigation to manage both public policy and the regulation of the private sector.  Her research to date has focused on separation of powers, judicial review, election law, and the First Amendment.  From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Curry served as Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science Department at Hofstra University.  There, she offered courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, the judicial process, and American politics, while also directing the University’s accelerated B.A./J.D. program.  At the Center, she will be completing a book entitled, The Paradox of Rights: Unexpected Lessons in the Judicial Review of Campaign Finance Policy.  It examines the role of electoral interests and interbranch politics in the development of campaign finance jurisprudence.  Dr. Curry is also continuing her work on presidential war powers, investigating how Supreme Court rulings in national security cases are affected by the Court’s interest in preserving its own policymaking authority. Rebecca.s.curry@gmail.com 

Omer Dekel is a Senior Lecturer at the Academic Center of Law & Business in Israel and the former dean of the Academic Center's Law School. He holds LL.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Direct track). Dr. Dekel topics are Administrative Law and Government Procurement Law. Dr. Dekel's books on government procurement law (in Hebrew) are quoted in hundreds of judgments (district and supreme court) and were the base for a vast legislation regulatory reform. Dr. Dekel served as a Counsel for the Israeli Government for strategic and complex acquisition processes; served as a special consultant to the Israeli Parliament for the reform of Public Procurement Regulations; and represents administrative agencies and private entities before the Israeli Supreme Court, primarily in administrative law cases. Among his recent publications: "The Bankruptcy Auction as a Game - Designing an Optimal Auction in Bankruptcy", Review of Litigation (2012) (with Yaad Rotem); "Should the Acquitted Recover Damages? The Right of an Acquitted Defendant to Receive Compensation for the Injury He Has Suffered", Criminal Law Bulletin (2011); “Modification of a Government Contract Awarded Following a Competitive Procedure”, Public Contracts Law Review (2009); “The Legal Theory Of Competitive Bidding For Government Contracts”, Public Contracts Law Review (2008). Dr. Dekel is also a visiting scholar at the Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society and his current research focuses on the connection between Cognitive Psychology, Economics and Law in the scope of Government Procurement.  omerdekel@012.net.il

Jacqueline Gehring is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Allegheny College.  She received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2007).  She is especially interested in how ideas of race and nation are currently evolving in Europe, and in the impact of the European Union on state and local equality policies.  Her past work includes investigations of race riots in France, and the changing nature of German citizenship and identity.  While at CSLS she will be completing “One European Right, Diverse National Realities,” a book investigating the implementation of European racial anti-discrimination policy by labor unions, employers, NGOs and governmental actors. She will also be working on a project that investigates the limitations on the free movement of the Roma in Europe and the use of legal rights and court to remedy discrimination experienced by the Roma. jgehring@allegheny.edu

Ben Golder is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales (Australia). He has undergraduate degrees in law and English literature from the same institution, and took his PhD in legal theory from the University of London (Birkbeck College) in 2009. Ben works in the fields of law and social theory, legal theory, public law and human rights. He is the author, with Peter Fitzpatrick, of Foucault's Law (Routledge, 2009) and the editor of the collection, Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights (Routledge, 2012). His work has been published in journals such as Law, Culture and the Humanities, Social and Legal Studies and the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. He is presently at work, and will continue this work whilst at the Center, on a manuscript entitled Critical Counter-Conducts: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Rights.  b.golder@unsw.edu.au

Thalia González is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College.  She holds a JD from Northwestern University Law School.  In her teaching and scholarship she has developed an interdisciplinary, multicultural, and community-focused approach to understanding increasingly complex and interdependent relationships between law, race, and society.  Her research interests include civil rights, critical race theory, juvenile justice, the organization and experience of community based legal practice, and the intersection between law and organizing.  She has authored articles on collaborative models of community problem-solving, racial inequity in education, juvenile justice, economic development, and the use of non-legal strategies for social change.  Professor González is currently engaged in a multi-year research project addressing racial disparities in school discipline as part of a research collaborative of the UCLA Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project.  While at CSLS, she will be completing several projects including an article that considers norm formation and internalization in the context of education reform.  The project will explore several dimensions of her research agenda, including community mobilization, the use of framing in legal and non-legal contexts, collaborative models of community problem-solving, and institutional reform.  Prior to teaching at Occidental, Professor González was a practicing attorney and community organizer.  She has also taught at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and Arizona State University. thaliagonzalez@oxy.edu

Elisabeth Greif is Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She earned her doctorate at the University of Linz in 2005. She also teaches courses in feminist legal doctrine at the Rosa Mayreder College (Vienna). She specializes in gender studies and law as well as in legal history and earned the JKU goes Gender post-doctorate fellowship in 2010. Her research focuses on the construction of (sexual) identities in both historical and contemporary law and on the rights of sexual minorities. In her book Doing Trans/Gender. Rechtliche Dimensionen she has analysed the legal aspects of gender reassignment in Austria with a strong focus on human rights. Her recent publications include the co-editing of a multidisciplinary volume on legal gender studies and the editing of a comparative study on sex work. At the Center she will be working on her habilitation treatise in which she analyses law against unnatural fornication between people of the same sex in Austria’s First Republic (1918-1934) focusing on the judicial treatment of male and female unnatural fornication and the construction of sexual identity in this context. elisabeth.greif@jku.at

Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University.  She received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2008 and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and conducted fieldwork in Asia as a Fulbright scholar.  Her research focuses on the politics of market reform, regulation, comparative capitalism, globalization, and the relationship between social and economic control in developing countries.   Her recent publications include China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press/ Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2011) and “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Postliberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45 (2012): 32-61.  She is also affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies as Residential Research Faculty. rhsueh@temple.edu

Jiaqi (Anya) Lao is a doctoral candidate in Peking University in China, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in law (with honors) in 2008 and then entered the Masters-Doctor-combined program in 2009. She is also involved in the human rights Masters program jointly launched by the Research Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of Peking University Law School (RCHRHL) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University of Sweden (RWI) in 2008. Her research interests include criminal justice, sentencing policy and human rights protection. She is involved in several important empirical research projects on criminal law funded by National Funds of Social Science in China and is author of five articles dealing with healthcare-related commercial bribery, sentencing policy for recidivists, and the protection of minorities. Jiaqi Lao plans to complete her doctoral dissertation entitled “The Recidivist Premium in Chinese Sentencing Process” at the Center for the Study of Law and Society.  mailto:anyalaopku@163.com

Zakiya Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. She is also a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan (2011), where she also earned her Masters of Social Work (2009). Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. Her current research examines why and how marginalized women in the US are engaging international human rights discourse to advance a broader movement for reproductive justice that addresses rights to have children and rights to parent. Her research has been funded by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation. She has published in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Sociological Inquiry; Feminist Studies and Societies without Borders: Social Science and Human Rights. In 2011-2 she was the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison. zluna@law.berkeley.edu

Dario Melossi is Full Professor of Criminology in the School of Law of the University of Bologna. After having being conferred a law degree at this University, he went on to do a Ph. D. in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was then Assistant and thereafter Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1993. He has published  The Prison and the Factory (1977, together with Massimo Pavarini), The State of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social Control in the Making of Democracy (1990), and Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in Europe and America (2008), plus about 200 other edited books, chapters, and articles. He is Editor of  Studi sulla questione criminale and Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society, and is member of the boards of many other professional journals. His current research concerns the process of construction of deviance and social control within the European Union, especially with regard to migration processes.  dario.melossi@unibo.it

Mathias Siems is Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University, England. He is a graduate of the Universities of Munich, Germany, and Edinburgh, Scotland, and has held visiting research positions at the European University Institute in Florence (as a Jean Monnet Fellow), Harvard Law School (as a Fulbright Scholar), and the Centre for Business Research of the University of Cambridge (ESRC-funded project on Law, Finance and Development). His main research interests lie in comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to private, company and commercial law (see also SSRN author page at http://www.ssrn.com/author=367649). Currently, he is working on a book on Comparative Law, under contract with the Law in Context Series of Cambridge University Press. This book will attempt a detailed contextualized treatment of comparative law, for instance, by way of discussing topics such as legal pluralism and regulatory competition, and by way of incorporating critical, socio-legal and empirical approaches to comparative law. siems@fulbrightmail.org

Satomi Tayama is an Associate Professor of Law at Kanagawa University (Japan). She received a Master of Laws from Waseda University. She specializes in criminal law, and her primary research interests lie in the interrelationship between criminal law and civil law. Getting a foothold in interpretation of Japanese criminal law, she has mainly emphasized in her articles that criminal law should remain the last resort of maintaining social control. During her stay at CSLS, she will be working on research into the limits of criminal sanctions, comparing criminal and civil sanctions in terms of a deterrent to unlawful acts. tayama@kanagawa-u.ac.jp

Frédéric Varone is full professor of political science at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He holds a MA in economics, a MA in public administration and a Ph.D. in political science. He is a member of the Research Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation. His current research interests include comparative public policy (e.g. sustainable management of natural resources, regulation of biotechnologies), program evaluation and, public sector reforms (e.g. New Public Management, liberalization and privatization of public services, Public Service Motivation). At the CSLS, he is launching a new research project focusing on three strategies implemented by interest groups to pursue agenda-setting and policy change: lobbying, litigation and direct legislation. He aims at comparing interest groups' actions and policy impacts in California and in Switzerland, in various policy domains (e.g. health and welfare, economic regulation, environmental protection or morality issues), and over the last two decades. frederic.varone@unige.ch

Kenneth Veitch is Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, UK. He studied law at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and obtained his PhD in Law from Cardiff University. His research interests lie in the fields of sociology of law, legal and social theory, and law and social policy. His current project explores the relationship between law, neo-liberalism and the welfare state. Recent publications include: “Social Solidarity and the Power of Contract”, Journal of Law and Society (2011) and “Juridification, Medicalisation and the Impact of EU Law: Patient Mobility and the Allocation of Scarce NHS Resources”, Medical Law Review (2012). He is the author of The Jurisdiction of Medical Law (Ashgate, 2007). At Berkeley, he will be researching the historical and contemporary nature of the concept of social law (the law of the welfare state) and, specifically, the relationship between this type of law and the privatisation of welfare services. K.J.Veitch@sussex.ac.uk

VISITING SCHOLARS - SUMMER 2012

Ely Aharonson is Assistant Professor at the University of Haifa (Israel). He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an LL.M from NYU, and an MA in the history of ideas from Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude). Dr. Aharonson’s scholarship explores historical, sociological and comparative aspects of criminal justice policy, with particular emphasis on the study of criminalization and sentencing. He is currently working on a book on the criminalization of racial violence in American history (under contract with Cambridge University Press). His recent publications have included a comparative study of the use of determinate sentencing laws in the US and Europe (forthcoming in Law and Contemporary Problems) and the co-editing of a special issue of New Criminal Law Review, examining the impact of recent transformations in the idea of citizenship on various aspects of criminalization policy.   aharonso@research.haifa.ac.il

Kitty Calavita (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She was President of the Law & Society Association in 2000-2001, and is a Thorsten Sellin Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has published widely in the fields of immigration and immigration lawmaking. Her work is both contemporary and historical, U.S.-based and comparative. An early book, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS (1992), used unpublished archival material to document the internal dynamics of the INS in shaping the Bracero Program, and connected structural contradictions in the political economy to the details of agency decisionmaking. Her interest in the interplay of economic forces and state power led to her investigation of white-collar crime in Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (1997, with co-authors Henry Pontell and Robert Tillman). Another book, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe (2005), examined immigrant marginalization in Italy and Spain, and the formal and informal legal processes that contribute to it. Her most recent book is Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010). kccalavi@uci.edu

Yukyong Choe received both LL.M. and JSD degrees from the UC Berkeley School of Law, in 2008 and in 2011. Before she came to Berkeley, she received her Master in International Law and was a Ph.D. candidate in Constitutional law at College of Law, Seoul National University in Korea. While her early interest covers multi-culturism and citizenship policy of Korea which is also ongoing, her current research area mainly encompasses legal profession, legal education and legal reform of Northeast Asian countries. Her dissertation, titled “Politics, Conflicts, and Power Redistribution of the Modern Legal Complex: The Legislative Process of Reform of the Korean Legal Profession,” focuses on diverse agencies shown in the reform of the legal professional training system of Korea. Through many in-depth interviews, she highlighted those agencies’ roles, struggles, and choices that have affected the post-reform legal education system, especially from 1995 to 2007, concluding that the Supreme Court and a small group of legal academics played a decisive role in transforming the Korean legal education system to a U.S.-style law school system. At the Center, she is expanding her research on recent legal reform to inter-Asian countries, including Japan, China and Taiwan. She is also participating in a project called “Reforms and Socio-political Changes in Contemporary Korea” sponsored by AKS-UCB in 2011-2012. She is also serving as an advisor of the California Bar Association International Law Section.  yukyong@gmail.com

Rebecca Curry received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2008), where she also earned the J.D. (2002).  Her scholarly work investigates interactions between courts and other branches of government, as well as the use of litigation to manage both public policy and the regulation of the private sector.  Her research to date has focused on separation of powers, judicial review, election law, and the First Amendment.  From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Curry served as Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science Department at Hofstra University.  There, she offered courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, the judicial process, and American politics, while also directing the University’s accelerated B.A./J.D. program.  At the Center, she will be completing a book entitled, The Paradox of Rights: Unexpected Lessons in the Judicial Review of Campaign Finance Policy.  It examines the role of electoral interests and interbranch politics in the development of campaign finance jurisprudence.  Dr. Curry is also continuing her work on presidential war powers, investigating how Supreme Court rulings in national security cases are affected by the Court’s interest in preserving its own policymaking authority. Rebecca.s.curry@gmail.com 

David DePianto is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (ASU). His work applies economic insights, both classical and behavioral, to active issues in tort and the study of social norms. A number of his ongoing projects explore the implications of subjective well-being (or "happiness") research to the area of tort damages. Professor DePianto's work has appeared, or is forthcoming in, the Arizona State Law Journal, Law and Psychology Review, Social Science Research, and The Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts. Prior to arriving at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, DePianto received his Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and the recipient of an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. DePianto practiced law at Cooley Godward (now Cooley LLP). depianto@gmail.com  

Christoph B. Graber is a founding member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lucerne, since 2001, where he is Professor of Law, Head of the research center i-call (International Communications and Art Law Lucerne) and Director of lucernaiuris, the Institute for Research in the Fundaments of Law. He studied law at the Universities of Bern and St. Gallen, received his admission to the bar in Switzerland, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence) and his Habilitation from the University of Bern. He teaches in the fields of media law, intellectual property (IP) and art law, international trade law and legal sociology. His main research interests relate to legal challenges of globalisation and a digital networked environment at the intersection of IP, cultural diversity, cultural heritage, human rights and international trade regulation, including issues of indigenous peoples. Christoph is a member of the Swiss Federal Arbitration Commission for the Exploitation of Author’s Rights and Neighbouring Rights and a member of the research commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne. He has been advisor to various branches of the Swiss Government in the fields of IP, trade and culture. He is the author of numerous publications, including Handel und Kultur im Audiovisionsrecht der WTO (Staempfli, 2003), and editor of Free Trade versus Cultural Diversity: WTO Negotiations in the Field of Audiovisual Services (Schulthess, 2004), Digital Rights Management: The End of Collecting Societies? (Staempfli, 2005), Interdisziplinäre Wege in der juristischen Grundlagenforschung (Schulthess, 2007), Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment (Edward Elgar, 2008) and Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity (Edward Elgar, 2010). He is editor of medialex, the Swiss journal of media law, and a member of the board of directors of the Solothurn Film Festival.  In 2010, Christoph Graber received the Swiss-Academies Award for Transdisciplinary Research (the highest research prize of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences). Christoph-Beat.Graber@unilu.ch

Joseph Gusfield (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement and The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order helped define the fields of the sociology of law, the sociology of social movements and the sociology of social problems, bringing the study of culture into the emerging field of law and society.  jgusfield@ucsd.edu

Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University.  She received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2008 and has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and conducted fieldwork in Asia as a Fulbright scholar.  Her research focuses on the politics of market reform, regulation, comparative capitalism, globalization, and the relationship between social and economic control in developing countries.   Her recent publications include China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press/ Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2011) and “China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Postliberalization Reregulation,” Comparative Political Studies 45 (2012): 32-61.  She is also affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies as Residential Research Faculty. rhsueh@temple.edu

Tamara Lave is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Miami.  Prior to her full-time academic appointment, she was a deputy public defender for ten years in San Diego.  She holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a B.A. from Haverford College.  Her dissertation and subsequent research have focused on sexually violent predator legislation.  tlave@law.miami.edu

Raquel Medina-Plana is a Professor of Legal History at the Universidad Complutense Law School (Madrid, Spain). She holds a PhD in Law (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2001), as well as degrees in Law (1992) and in Cultural Anthropology (2007). Her current main lines of research deal with the interaction of law and culture in the construction of family legal discourse, both from a socio-legal and historical perspective. Recently published are studies on the early modern Castilian family through the study of successoral mechanisms and practices. Another ongoing research project dealing with judicial discretionary treatment of rape crimes committed through promise of marriage in early modern Castille is to be published in 2012 by the Université de Montpellier. Legal Education is another important area of study in which she addresses the interdependence of theoretical and methodological issues around the relationship of law and social sciences. She has been director of half a dozen research projects on legal education in recent years involving: planning of the socio-legal courses in the new law degrees; analysis of the treatment given to critical thinking in social sciences and law schools; legal culture and professional image in law schools. Recently she has been chair of an International Workshop on “Critical thinking inside law schools” in the Oniati’s International Institute of Sociology of Law, which has reunited prestigious legal scholars from all over the world.  This workshop’s results are available in the online Oniati Socio Legal Series: http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/index. At the CSLS she will be working on an ongoing research project on the subject of monoparental families by choice. Part of two interdisciplinary working groups on the subject, constituted by cultural anthropologists and jurists, her research approaches the subject from a socio-legal perspective, stemming from ethnographies constituted from participant observation, interviews and also archival documentation. Disruptions of the formal line between private and public law appear as soon as gender issues are addressed, and governance issues are advanced in the analysis of public policies and judicial treatment dispensed to these families. She will also be working on a reader volume on Legal Anthropology to be published next year. rmedina@der.ucm.es

Xiaoling Qin is a Ph.D. candidate at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China, working on Human Rights Law and Population Law. Since her study for the Master of Law degree (2002-2005) and during her tenure in the Development and Reform Commission of Sichuan Province (2005-2011), she has been working on a series of research projects, from the regional to the national level, on disadvantaged population’s rights in the workplace, and on social security reform regarding farmers and migrant workers. Xiaoling plans to work at the Center for the Study of Law and Society on exploring workers’ legal consciousness, legal mobilization, and empowerment in the work place. Xiaolingqin2008@gmail.com

James B. Rule (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) earned his Ph.D. at Harvard. University.  He has held research and teaching positions at MIT, Nuffield College, Oxford, the Université de Bordeaux, Clare Hall, Cambridge; and SUNY Stony Brook. His research interests include privacy, technology, and social roles of personal information.  He is author of seven books, monographs, and chapters, including Privacy in Peril; How we are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (Oxford 2007) and  “The Once and Future Information Society,” (with Yasemin Besen) in Theory and Society. jrule@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Satomi Tayama is an Associate Professor of Law at Kanagawa University (Japan). She received a Master of Laws from Waseda University. She specializes in criminal law, and her primary research interests lie in the interrelationship between criminal law and civil law. Getting a foothold in interpretation of Japanese criminal law, she has mainly emphasized in her articles that criminal law should remain the last resort of maintaining social control. During her stay at CSLS, she will be working on research into the limits of criminal sanctions, comparing criminal and civil sanctions in terms of a deterrent to unlawful acts. tayama@kanagawa-u.ac.jp

Zheng Xi is a Ph.D candidate in China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) working on criminal procedure law and criminal evidence law. He also holds his Master of Laws (with honors) and Bachelor of Laws (with honors) from CUPL. Zheng Xi has published in a variety of law reviews and journals. His research interests include police behavior and human rights protection in criminal investigations and he is now working on his book titled Police’s Temporary Physical Seizure Power in Criminal Investigations. Zheng Xi is planning to use his time at the Center for the Study of Law and Society to explore the issue of police interrogation in order to promote human rights protection during the interrogation. zhengxi-jim@hotmail.com

VISITING SCHOLARS - SPRING 2012

Victoria Belco is an Associate professor of Modern European History at Portland State University in Portland Oregon. She has both a JD and a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and practiced as a criminal defense attorney for a number of years, including seven years at the Federal Public Defenders in San Francisco.  Her 2010 book, War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 is an archival study of the transition from war to peace as well as a social history of war and the immediate postwar years in Italy from the fall of Fascism to the inauguration of the Republic. She is currently researching crime and criminal justice in Fascist Italy.  vbelco@pdx.edu

Kitty Calavita (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She was President of the Law & Society Association in 2000-2001, and is a Thorsten Sellin Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has published widely in the fields of immigration and immigration lawmaking. Her work is both contemporary and historical, U.S.-based and comparative. An early book, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS (1992), used unpublished archival material to document the internal dynamics of the INS in shaping the Bracero Program, and connected structural contradictions in the political economy to the details of agency decisionmaking. Her interest in the interplay of economic forces and state power led to her investigation of white-collar crime in Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (1997, with co-authors Henry Pontell and Robert Tillman). Another book, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe (2005), examined immigrant marginalization in Italy and Spain, and the formal and informal legal processes that contribute to it. Her most recent book is Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010). kccalavi@uci.edu

Mónica Castillejos-Aragón received a J.S.D and LL.M from The University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and earned an LL.B from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Her general areas of research are comparative courts and politics, and justice systems in the developing world. Dr. Castillejos-Aragón clerked at the Mexican Supreme Court for four years. She also interned at the Supreme Court of California (2009) and at the Supreme Court of India (2010). These experiences with high courts inspired her current research on judicial behavior, civil society, and the legal profession. Dr. Castillejos-Aragón is currently drafting an extract of her doctoral dissertation entitled “The Transformation of the Mexican Supreme Court into an arena for political contestation”. castillejosa.m@gmail.com

Leonidas Cheliotis is Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. He holds MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge (his doctoral thesis was awarded the 2010 Nigel Walker Prize by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology). Leonidas is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Criminology, and the editor of three books: The Arts of Imprisonment: Control, Resistance and Empowerment (2012), Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives (2011, with Sappho Xenakis), and Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good (2010). He is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled The Punitive Heart: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Psychopolitics of Crime Control, where he draws on Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to account for level and nature of state and public punitiveness in the US and the UK under conditions of neoliberal capitalism. L.Cheliotis@qmul.ac.uk

Yukyong Choe received both LL.M. and JSD degrees from the UC Berkeley School of Law, in 2008 and in 2011. Before she came to Berkeley, she received her Master in International Law and was a Ph.D. candidate in Constitutional law at College of Law, Seoul National University in Korea. While her early interest covers multi-culturism and citizenship policy of Korea which is also ongoing, her current research area mainly encompasses legal profession, legal education and legal reform of Northeast Asian countries. Her dissertation, titled “Politics, Conflicts, and Power Redistribution of the Modern Legal Complex: The Legislative Process of Reform of the Korean Legal Profession,” focuses on diverse agencies shown in the reform of the legal professional training system of Korea. Through many in-depth interviews, she highlighted those agencies’ roles, struggles, and choices that have affected the post-reform legal education system, especially from 1995 to 2007, concluding that the Supreme Court and a small group of legal academics played a decisive role in transforming the Korean legal education system to a U.S.-style law school system. At the Center, she is expanding her research on recent legal reform to inter-Asian countries, including Japan, China and Taiwan. She is also participating in a project called “Reforms and Socio-political Changes in Contemporary Korea” sponsored by AKS-UCB in 2011-2012. She is also serving as an advisor of the California Bar Association International Law Section.
yukyong@gmail.com

Rebecca Curry received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2008), where she also earned the J.D. (2002).  Her scholarly work investigates interactions between courts and other branches of government, as well as the use of litigation to manage both public policy and the regulation of the private sector.  Her research to date has focused on separation of powers, judicial review, election law, and the First Amendment.  From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Curry served as Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science Department at Hofstra University.  There, she offered courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, the judicial process, and American politics, while also directing the University’s accelerated B.A./J.D. program.  At the Center, she will be completing a book entitled, The Paradox of Rights: Unexpected Lessons in the Judicial Review of Campaign Finance Policy.  It examines the role of electoral interests and interbranch politics in the development of campaign finance jurisprudence.  Dr. Curry is also continuing her work on presidential war powers, investigating how Supreme Court rulings in national security cases are affected by the Court’s interest in preserving its own policymaking authority. Rebecca.s.curry@gmail.com 

Christoph B. Graber is a founding member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lucerne, since 2001, where he is Professor of Law, Head of the research center i-call (International Communications and Art Law Lucerne) and Director of lucernaiuris, the Institute for Research in the Fundaments of Law. He studied law at the Universities of Bern and St. Gallen, received his admission to the bar in Switzerland, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence) and his Habilitation from the University of Bern. He teaches in the fields of media law, intellectual property (IP) and art law, international trade law and legal sociology. His main research interests relate to legal challenges of globalisation and a digital networked environment at the intersection of IP, cultural diversity, cultural heritage, human rights and international trade regulation, including issues of indigenous peoples. Christoph is a member of the Swiss Federal Arbitration Commission for the Exploitation of Author’s Rights and Neighbouring Rights and a member of the research commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne. He has been advisor to various branches of the Swiss Government in the fields of IP, trade and culture. He is the author of numerous publications, including Handel und Kultur im Audiovisionsrecht der WTO (Staempfli, 2003), and editor of Free Trade versus Cultural Diversity: WTO Negotiations in the Field of Audiovisual Services (Schulthess, 2004), Digital Rights Management: The End of Collecting Societies? (Staempfli, 2005), Interdisziplinäre Wege in der juristischen Grundlagenforschung (Schulthess, 2007), Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment (Edward Elgar, 2008) and Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity (Edward Elgar, 2010). He is editor of medialex, the Swiss journal of media law, and a member of the board of directors of the Solothurn Film Festival.  In 2010, Christoph Graber received the Swiss-Academies Award for Transdisciplinary Research (the highest research prize of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences). Christoph-Beat.Graber@unilu.ch

Joseph Gusfield (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement and The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order helped define the fields of the sociology of law, the sociology of social movements and the sociology of social problems, bringing the study of culture into the emerging field of law and society.  jgusfield@ucsd.edu

Daniel E. Martin is an Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay. His research interests include: social capital, ethical behavior, racism and prejudice, human resources assessment, religiosity, spirituality and humor. Formerly a Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute as well as a Personnel Research Psychologist for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, He has worked with private, public and non-profit organizations on pre-employment selection, training, and organizational assessment. Dan is published in journals including Personnel Review, Human Organization, Ethics and Behavior, Equal Opportunities International, Management Research Review, Intelligence, Military Psychology, Business Education Forum, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Dan holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Howard University. While at CSLS, Dan will be working on a research stream that aims to establish the interaction between employment law and potentially higher levels of prejudice/discrimination in members of a Title VII (1964) protected class (religion). An established body of research links prejudicial behavior with higher levels of religiosity. As many organizations have become interested in the application of religion in the workplace, the possibility of religiosity contributing to discriminatory employment decisions has ramifications for employment law. The working title is: Protected and Prosecutorial. daniel.martin@csueastbay.edu

Raquel Medina-Plana is a Professor of Legal History at the Universidad Complutense Law School (Madrid, Spain). She holds a PhD in Law (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2001), as well as degrees in Law (1992) and in Cultural Anthropology (2007). Her current main lines of research deal with the interaction of law and culture in the construction of family legal discourse, both from a socio-legal and historical perspective. Recently published are studies on the early modern Castilian family through the study of successoral mechanisms and practices. Another ongoing research project dealing with judicial discretionary treatment of rape crimes committed through promise of marriage in early modern Castille is to be published in 2012 by the Université de Montpellier. Legal Education is another important area of study in which she addresses the interdependence of theoretical and methodological issues around the relationship of law and social sciences. She has been director of half a dozen research projects on legal education in recent years involving: planning of the socio-legal courses in the new law degrees; analysis of the treatment given to critical thinking in social sciences and law schools; legal culture and professional image in law schools. Recently she has been chair of an International Workshop on “Critical thinking inside law schools” in the Oniati’s International Institute of Sociology of Law, which has reunited prestigious legal scholars from all over the world.  This workshop’s results are available in the online Oniati Socio Legal Series: http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/index. At the CSLS she will be working on an ongoing research project on the subject of monoparental families by choice. Part of two interdisciplinary working groups on the subject, constituted by cultural anthropologists and jurists, her research approaches the subject from a socio-legal perspective, stemming from ethnographies constituted from participant observation, interviews and also archival documentation. Disruptions of the formal line between private and public law appear as soon as gender issues are addressed, and governance issues are advanced in the analysis of public policies and judicial treatment dispensed to these families. She will also be working on a reader volume on Legal Anthropology to be published next year. rmedina@der.ucm.es

Jialu Ou is a Ph.D. candidate at Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL), where he earned a Bachelor of Law (2006) and his Master of Law (2009). He has been Editorial Commissioner of a Research series on Chinese Real Estate Law since 2006, and also served as Executive Chief Editor of the Law Review of SWUPL from 2007 to 2008 and 2009 to 2010. His interests include civil society, philosophy of property, judicial reform, etc. At SWUPL, he actively participated in a research series covering topics including China’s existing land expropriation policy and legal problems resulting from the reconstruction of earthquake-stricken areas, and co-organized forums about Chinese judicial reform and marketization of land in China. Under the sponsorship of a Fulbright Scholarship, he plans to continue his research on the construction of Chinese civil society and protection of private rights during his stay at CSLS.  oujialu@gmail.com

Xiaoling Qin (pronounced "shiaoling chin") is a Ph.D. candidate at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China, working on Human Rights Law and Population Law. Since her study for the Master of Law degree (2002-2005) and during her tenure in the Development and Reform Commission of Sichuan Province (2005-2011), she has been working on a series of research projects, from the regional to the national level, on disadvantaged population’s rights in the workplace, and on social security reform regarding farmers and migrant workers. Xiaoling plans to work at the Center for the Study of Law and Society on exploring workers’ legal consciousness, legal mobilization, and empowerment in the work place. Xiaolingqin2008@gmail.com

Elizabeth Rapaport is professor of law and philosophy at the University of New Mexico (JD, Harvard, PhD, philosophy, Case Western Reserve University). Rapaport has also held appointments in public policy, political science and women’s studies in the course of a hybridizing academic career.  Her principal endeavor while at the Center in Spring 2012 will be to update her research on gender and capital punishment in the contemporary U.S. dispensation, and to begin work on a book on that subject.   She has written on many facets of the topic, including the history of capital punishment for women, and whether women are more successful than men in avoiding death sentences, gaining judicial relief after a death sentence, and obtaining executive clemency, and the gendered nature of the law of homicide.   Representative of the earlier work she is updating are “Gender Discrimination and the Death Penalty,” 25 Law and Society Review (1991) and “Staying Alive: Executive Clemency, Equal Protection, and the Politics of Gender in Women’s Capital Cases,” 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review (2001).  Rapaport is also engaged in the study of executive clemency, capital and noncapital (would that there were more of it).  Her other interests include international criminal law and the history and philosophy of religion. rapaport@law.unm.edu

Sidney William Richards is a doctoral candidate in the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College). His dissertation deals with the various relationships between the philosophy of law and globalisation, particularly how dominant theories of general jurisprudence and general concepts of law are affected by ongoing work in the fields of global governance, sociology and economics and transnational/global political theory. At the centre, his work will focus on how the interconnected and networked nature of a globalised society challenges the underlying concepts of practical agency, citizenship and collective action in the work of authors such as Hart, Raz and Finnis. Sidney Richards holds degrees in law (LLB/LLM) and political science (BA/MA) from Leyden University and was formerly attached to the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law and Utrecht University. Swr28@cam.ac.uk

Kimberly Richman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco.  She received her B.A. at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine.  Her research interests include gender, sexuality, and law; crime, law, and deviance; family law; legal consciousness; court processes; and reintegrative programming for prison inmates. She is the author of the award winning book Courting Change (NYU Press) and multiple articles and book chapters on the topic of child custody and adoption for gay and lesbian parents, in which she investigates the negotiation of sexual and parental identity in family court, the problematic deployment of rights discourses in the LGBT family law context, and the development of expanded legal definitions of family over time. These articles appear in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Law & Sexuality, and in the edited volume, The New Civil Rights Research. She is also the author of two articles on domestic violence, appearing in Sociological Inquiry and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Her current research, the subject of a book under contract with NYU Press as well as an article in the University of San Francisco Law Review, analyzes variation in legal consciousness regarding same sex marriage through interviews with gay and lesbian couples married in California and Massachusetts.  She sits on the Editorial Board for Law & Society Review, was recently elected Council Member for the American Sociological Association Sections on Sociology of Law and Sex and Gender, as well as Executive Counselor for the Western Criminological Association. In addition, she is co-founder and President of the Board of Directors for the San Quentin Alliance for C.H.A.N.G.E., a non-profit and inmate-led rehabilitative and community service program at San QuentinState Prison. kdrichman@usfca.edu

Yaad Rotem is Assistant Professor at the Center of Law & Business in Ramat Gan, Israel; and serves there as the Academic Director of the Business Law Program. He holds an LL.B. (1998, magna cum laude) and a B.A. in economics (1998) from the University of Haifa, and an LL.M. (2000) and LL.D. (2005) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as a law clerk for Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1999, and as a senior law clerk for the Justice during the years 2000-2002. Dr. Rotem also served as a special consultant to the State Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli Government's Treatment of Holocaust Survivors (2008). His main areas of research include corporate bankruptcy law, and the conflict of laws (private international law). Among his recent publications: "The Problem of Selective or Sporadic Recognition: A New Economic Rationale for the Law of Foreign Country Judgments," Chicago Journal of International Law (2010); "Company Duplication—Plain Fraud or a 'Poor Man's' Bankruptcy? A Case Study in the Financial Distress of Small Businesses," International Insolvency Review (2011); "Better Positioned Agents: Introducing a New Redeployment Model for Corporate Bankruptcy Law," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Employment Law (2008); "Contemplating a Corporate Governance Model for Bankruptcy Reorganizations: Lessons from Canada," Virginia Law and Business Review (2008); "Pursuing Preservation of Pre-Bankruptcy Entitlements: Corporate Bankruptcy Law's Self-Executing Mechanisms," Berkeley Business Law Journal (2008). yrotem@law.berkeley.edu

James B. Rule (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) earned his Ph.D. at Harvard. University.  He has held research and teaching positions at MIT, Nuffield College, Oxford, the Université de Bordeaux, Clare Hall, Cambridge; and SUNY Stony Brook. His research interests include privacy, technology, and social roles of personal information.  He is author of seven books, monographs, and chapters, including Privacy in Peril; How we are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (Oxford 2007) and  “The Once and Future Information Society,” (with Yasemin Besen) in Theory and Society. jrule@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Jennifer Skeem is Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. She also is a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, and the Centers for Psychology and Law and Evidence-Based Corrections at UCIrvine.  She earned her PhD from the University of Utah and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Skeem’s research is designed to inform clinical and legal decision-making about individuals with mental disorder. Specific topics include understanding psychopathic personality disorder, assessing and treating violence risk, and identifying factors that influence the outcomes of offenders who are required to accept psychiatric treatment.  She has authored and coauthored over 70 articles, chapters, and books.  To help research inform policy and practice, she works closely with both national and local agencies. Dr. Skeem received a Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence from the American Psychological Association (Division 41) and a Distinguished Research award from the Academic Senate of UC, Irvine.  skeem@uci.edu

Satomi Tayama is an Associate Professor of Law at Kanagawa University (Japan). She received a Master of Laws from Waseda University. She specializes in criminal law, and her primary research interests lie in the interrelationship between criminal law and civil law. Getting a foothold in interpretation of Japanese criminal law, she has mainly emphasized in her articles that criminal law should remain the last resort of maintaining social control. During her stay at CSLS, she will be working on research into the limits of criminal sanctions, comparing criminal and civil sanctions in terms of a deterrent to unlawful acts. tayama@kanagawa-u.ac.jp

Zheng Xi is a Ph.D candidate in China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) working on criminal procedure law and criminal evidence law. He also holds his Master of Laws (with honors) and Bachelor of Laws (with honors) from CUPL. Zheng Xi has published in a variety of law reviews and journals. His research interests include police behavior and human rights protection in criminal investigations and he is now working on his book titled Police’s Temporary Physical Seizure Power in Criminal Investigations. Zheng Xi is planning to use his time at the Center for the Study of Law and Society to explore the issue of police interrogation in order to promote human rights protection during the interrogation.
zhengxi-jim@hotmail.com

 

VISITING SCHOLARS - FAll 2011

Victoria Belco is an Associate professor of Modern European History at Portland State University in Portland Oregon. She has both a JD and a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and practiced as a criminal defense attorney for a number of years, including seven years at the Federal Public Defenders in San Francisco.  Her 2010 book, War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 is an archival study of the transition from war to peace as well as a social history of war and the immediate postwar years in Italy from the fall of Fascism to the inauguration of the Republic. She is currently researching crime and criminal justice in Fascist Italy.  vbelco@pdx.edu

Kitty Calavita (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She was President of the Law & Society Association in 2000-2001, and is a Thorsten Sellin Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has published widely in the fields of immigration and immigration lawmaking. Her work is both contemporary and historical, U.S.-based and comparative. An early book, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS (1992), used unpublished archival material to document the internal dynamics of the INS in shaping the Bracero Program, and connected structural contradictions in the political economy to the details of agency decisionmaking. Her interest in the interplay of economic forces and state power led to her investigation of white-collar crime in Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (1997, with co-authors Henry Pontell and Robert Tillman). Another book, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe (2005), examined immigrant marginalization in Italy and Spain, and the formal and informal legal processes that contribute to it. Her most recent book is Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010). Her current research, with co-author Valerie Jenness, examines the inmate grievance process and legal mobilization in California prisons. kccalavi@uci.edu

Rebecca Curry received the Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (2008), where she also earned the J.D. (2002).  Her scholarly work investigates interactions between courts and other branches of government, as well as the use of litigation to manage both public policy and the regulation of the private sector.  Her research to date has focused on separation of powers, judicial review, election law, and the First Amendment.  From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Curry served as Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science Department at Hofstra University.  There, she offered courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, the judicial process, and American politics, while also directing the University’s accelerated B.A./J.D. program.  At the Center, she will be completing a book entitled, The Paradox of Rights: Unexpected Lessons in the Judicial Review of Campaign Finance Policy.  It examines the role of electoral interests and interbranch politics in the development of campaign finance jurisprudence.  Dr. Curry is also continuing her work on presidential war powers, investigating how Supreme Court rulings in national security cases are affected by the Court’s interest in preserving its own policymaking authority. Rebecca.s.curry@gmail.com

Joseph Gusfield (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement and The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order helped define the fields of the sociology of law, the sociology of social movements and the sociology of social problems, bringing the study of culture into the emerging field of law and society.  jgusfield@ucsd.edu

Daniel E. Martin is an Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay. His research interests include: social capital, ethical behavior, racism and prejudice, human resources assessment, religiosity, spirituality and humor. Formerly a Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute as well as a Personnel Research Psychologist for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, He has worked with private, public and non-profit organizations on pre-employment selection, training, and organizational assessment. Dan is published in journals including Personnel Review, Human Organization, Ethics and Behavior, Equal Opportunities International, Management Research Review, Intelligence, Military Psychology, Business Education Forum, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Dan holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Howard University. While at CSLS, Dan will be working on a research stream that aims to establish the interaction between employment law and potentially higher levels of prejudice/discrimination in members of a Title VII (1964) protected class (religion). An established body of research links prejudicial behavior with higher levels of religiosity. As many organizations have become interested in the application of religion in the workplace, the possibility of religiosity contributing to discriminatory employment decisions has ramifications for employment law. The working title is: Protected and Prosecutorial. daniel.martin@csueastbay.edu

Rolf Nygren, born 1944, is senior professor of legal history, Dept of Law (Law School), Uppsala University. Rolf passed his Ph.D. in history  (Uppsala) in 1977, was promoted assistant professor of history in 1980, archivist-in-chief of Swedish Parliament 1979-1984, professor of  legal history (Uppsala) 1984-2011, senior professor of legal history 2011-. He has been vice dean 1999-2001 including chair of the Law School´s doctoral training, head of the Law School 2001-2007. He has also been member of the Swedish Council for Social Research for six years in the 1990s. Rolf´s main fields in legal history are family law and constitutional law. He has been a visiting scholar/ professor at Minnesota Law School in 1991-1992, and Robbins Collection, Berkeley, in 1999. He hopes to finish two running projects during his stay at Berkeley: 1) Swedish Law and Integration of Jewish Immigrants in the 19th century, and 2) Constitutional values and school curricula 1980-2011. rolf.nygren@jur.uu.se

Jialu Ou is a Ph.D. candidate at Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL), where he earned a Bachelor of Law (2006) and his Master of Law (2009). He has been Editorial Commissioner of a Research series on Chinese Real Estate Law since 2006, and also served as Executive Chief Editor of the Law Review of SWUPL from 2007 to 2008 and 2009 to 2010. His interests include civil society, philosophy of property, judicial reform, etc. At SWUPL, he actively participated in a research series covering topics including China’s existing land expropriation policy and legal problems resulting from the reconstruction of earthquake-stricken areas, and co-organized forums about Chinese judicial reform and marketization of land in China. Under the sponsorship of a Fulbright Scholarship, he plans to continue his research on the construction of Chinese civil society and protection of private rights during his stay at CSLS.  oujialu@gmail.com

Jirí Pribán graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1989 and joined Cardiff University as a full-time member of staff in 2001. Jirí received his LLD in 2001 and was appointed visiting professor of legal philosophy and sociology at Charles University in November 2002. He was also visiting professor or scholar at European University Institute in Florence, New York University, University of San Francisco, University of Pretoria, and University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published extensively in the areas of sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutional and European comparative law, and theory of human rights. He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Society and a regular contributor to the BBC World Service, the Czech TV, newspapers and review journals. He is author of several monographs and edited volumes, especially Legal Symbolism: On Law, Time and European Identity (Ashgate, 2007), Dissidents of Law: On the 1989 Revolutions, Legitimations, Fictions of Legality and Contemporary Version of the Social Contract (Ashgate, 2002), Liquid Society and Its Law (ed., Ashgate, 2007), Law's New Boundaries: On the Consequences of Legal Autopoiesis (edited with D. Nelken, Ashgate, 2001) and The Rule of Law in Central Europe (edited with J. Young, Ashgate, 1999). priban@cardiff.ac.uk

Xiaoling Qin (pronounced "shiaoling chin") is a Ph.D. candidate at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China, working on Human Rights Law and Population Law. Since her study for the Master of Law degree (2002-2005) and during her tenure in the Development and Reform Commission of Sichuan Province (2005-2011), she has been working on a series of research projects, from the regional to the national level, on disadvantaged population’s rights in the workplace, and on social security reform regarding farmers and migrant workers. Xiaoling plans to work at the Center for the Study of Law and Society on exploring workers’ legal consciousness, legal mobilization, and empowerment in the work place. Xiaolingqin2008@gmail.com

Kimberly Richman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco.  She received her B.A. at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine.  Her research interests include gender, sexuality, and law; crime, law, and deviance; family law; legal consciousness; court processes; and reintegrative programming for prison inmates. She is the author of the award winning book Courting Change (NYU Press) and multiple articles and book chapters on the topic of child custody and adoption for gay and lesbian parents, in which she investigates the negotiation of sexual and parental identity in family court, the problematic deployment of rights discourses in the LGBT family law context, and the development of expanded legal definitions of family over time. These articles appear in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Law & Sexuality, and in the edited volume, The New Civil Rights Research. She is also the author of two articles on domestic violence, appearing in Sociological Inquiry and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Her current research, the subject of a book under contract with NYU Press as well as an article in the University of San Francisco Law Review, analyzes variation in legal consciousness regarding same sex marriage through interviews with gay and lesbian couples married in California and Massachusetts.  She sits on the Editorial Board for Law & Society Review, was recently elected Council Member for the American Sociological Association Sections on Sociology of Law and Sex and Gender, as well as Executive Counselor for the Western Criminological Association. In addition, she is co-founder and President of the Board of Directors for the San Quentin Alliance for C.H.A.N.G.E., a non-profit and inmate-led rehabilitative and community service program at San Quentin State Prison. kdrichman@usfca.edu

Yaad Rotem is Assistant Professor at the Center of Law & Business in Ramat Gan, Israel; and serves there as the Academic Director of the Business Law Program. He holds an LL.B. (1998, magna cum laude) and a B.A. in economics (1998) from the University of Haifa, and an LL.M. (2000) and LL.D. (2005) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as a law clerk for Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1999, and as a senior law clerk for the Justice during the years 2000-2002. Dr. Rotem also served as a special consultant to the State Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli Government's Treatment of Holocaust Survivors (2008). His main areas of research include corporate bankruptcy law, and the conflict of laws (private international law). Among his recent publications: "The Problem of Selective or Sporadic Recognition: A New Economic Rationale for the Law of Foreign Country Judgments," Chicago Journal of International Law (2010); "Company Duplication—Plain Fraud or a 'Poor Man's' Bankruptcy? A Case Study in the Financial Distress of Small Businesses," International Insolvency Review (2011); "Better Positioned Agents: Introducing a New Redeployment Model for Corporate Bankruptcy Law," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Employment Law (2008); "Contemplating a Corporate Governance Model for Bankruptcy Reorganizations: Lessons from Canada," Virginia Law and Business Review (2008); "Pursuing Preservation of Pre-Bankruptcy Entitlements: Corporate Bankruptcy Law's Self-Executing Mechanisms," Berkeley Business Law Journal (2008). yrotem@law.berkeley.edu

Antoni Rubi-Puig is a full time Lecturer in Civil Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). His main interests of research lie in the fields of copyright, commercial speech, tort law and products liability. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is the author of the book Advertising and Freedom of Speech (Publicidad y libertad de expresión, Thomson-Civitas, 2008). Antoni has previously been an Invited Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg (Germany) and a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. At the CSLS he will be working on a volume on the limits of private ordering of information by intellectual property rightholders.
Antoni.rubi-puig@upf.edu

James B. Rule(Distinguished Affiliated Scholar) earned his Ph.D. at Harvard. University.  He has held research and teaching positions at MIT, Nuffield College, Oxford, the Université de Bordeaux, Clare Hall, Cambridge; and SUNY Stony Brook. His research interests include privacy, technology, and social roles of personal information.  He is author of seven books, monographs, and chapters, including Privacy in Peril; How we are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (Oxford 2007) and  “The Once and Future Information Society,” (with Yasemin Besen) in Theory and Society. jrule@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Jennifer Skeem is Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. She also is a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, and the Centers for Psychology and Law and Evidence-Based Corrections at UCIrvine.  She earned her PhD from the University of Utah and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Skeem’s research is designed to inform clinical and legal decision-making about individuals with mental disorder. Specific topics include understanding psychopathic personality disorder, assessing and treating violence risk, and identifying factors that influence the outcomes of offenders who are required to accept psychiatric treatment.  She has authored and coauthored over 70 articles, chapters, and books.  To help research inform policy and practice, she works closely with both national and local agencies. Dr. Skeem received a Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence from the American Psychological Association (Division 41) and a Distinguished Research award from the Academic Senate of UC, Irvine.  skeem@uci.edu

Zheng Xi is a Ph.D candidate in China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) working on criminal procedure law and criminal evidence law. He also holds his Master of Laws (with honors) and Bachelor of Laws (with honors) from CUPL. Zheng Xi has published in a variety of law reviews and journals. His research interests include police behavior and human rights protection in criminal investigations and he is now working on his book titled Police’s Temporary Physical Seizure Power in Criminal Investigations. Zheng Xi is planning to use his time at the Center for the Study of Law and Society to explore the issue of police interrogation in order to promote human rights protection during the interrogation.
zhengxi-jim@hotmail.com

 

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