Berkeley Law - Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

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 2009-2010, for example, 25 visiting scholars gathered at the Center from the U.S. (8), Europe (11) and Asia (6).

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 An early book, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS (1992), used unpublished archival material to document the internal dynamics of the INS in shaping the Bracero Program, and connected structural contradictions in the political economy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

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

VISITING SCHOLARS - SUMMER 2011

Diarmuid Griffin is a lecturer in law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Criminology, University College Dublin. His research examines the decision-making process used to determine when and under what conditions parole is granted to serious and long term offenders, particularly those serving life sentences. He has acted as a consultant and legal expert for FRALEX, a group which advises the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the Garda Síochána (Irish Police) Ombudsman Commission, Transparency International Ireland, and the European Forum for Restorative Justice project, “Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention.” diarmuid.griffin@nuigalway.ie

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

Mercedes Perez-Manzano is Professor of Criminal Law at the Law School, Autonoma University of Madrid (Spain). She has conducted research in different areas of Criminal Law, Fundamental Rights and Evidence Law, such as Foundations and Goals of Criminal Law, Mens rea, Criminal Law and Gender, White-collar Criminality, Double Jeopardy or Standard of Proof of Subjective Elements. She was also Counsellor-at-Law for the Spanish Constitutional Court. Currently she is participating in a research project dealing with Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility and is researching the theoretical and constitutional problems of using neuroimaging in courtrooms as evidence of the mental state of violent criminals, such as psychopaths. More information here. mercedesp.manzano@uam.es

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

Hubert Smekal holds Ph.D. in European Studies from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, where he currently works as an assistant professor. He has also worked as a research fellow in the International Institute of Political Science. He co-founded the Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democratization and serves as an assistant to E.MA Director (E.MA in Human Rights and Democratization, EIUC, Venice) for the Czech Republic. Smekal authored Human Rights in the European Union (MUNI Press, 2009) and his academic interests cover the issue of human rights in the EU, political role of the Court of Justice of the EU and judicialization of international politics. He lectured at the Bilgi University in Istanbul (2009), during the summers of 2005-2008 at University of Toronto and winter 2010 in the Australian International Law and Human Rights Program. He was awarded Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship for 2010–2011. hsmekal@fss.muni.cz

Mark Suchman is Professor of Sociology at Brown University. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a BA (summa cum laude in Sociology, 1983) from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School (1989), and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford (1994). From 1999 to 2001, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale, and in 2002-2003 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. During his visit at Berkeley, he will be writing a book on the role of law firms in Silicon Valley. He will also be continuing a multi-year project on the organizational, professional, and legal challenges surrounding new information technologies in health care. In addition to these topics, he has written on organizational legitimacy, on inter-organizational disputing practices, on the "internalization" of law within corporate bureaucracies, and on social science approaches to the study of contracts. He has also served as Chair of the ASA section on Sociology of Law (2005-2006), as a review-panel member for the NSF's Program on Law and Social Science (2004-2006), and as a member of the Law and Society Association's Board of Trustees (2005-2008). mark_suchman@brown.edu.

VISITING SCHOLARS - SPRING 2011

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

Emily Cloatre is a lecturer at Kent Law School (UK). Before taking up this position in July 2010, she worked at the University of Nottingham, as a lecturer at the School of Law and an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Science and Society. Her main research interest lies in the intersection between law and contemporary ‘science and society’ issues, for example patent law and access to health care, and the regulatory networks of climate change. She has a particular interest in studying these issues in the context of developing countries, as exemplified by her previous (and ongoing) work in sub-Saharan Africa and current work on the international scope of climate change regulation and its impact on developing states. This is not an exclusive focus as she has also conducted research at the level of European nation states (analysing the role of bioethicists in clinical research in France, for example) and at the European Union level (looking at the EC/98/44 Biotech Directive). Alongside her core interests, she has been involved in socio-legal projects looking at the EU and social integration, as well as civil justice and the use of courts in the UK. In relation to theory, she is interested in network theories, as well as exploring key approaches from Science and Technology Studies to analyse the links between law, science and society. The theoretical core of her recent and current work aims to clarify how Actor-Network Theory can be used in socio-legal research. E.cloatre@kent.ac.uk

Jennifer Drobac is a tenured professor at the Indiana University-Indianapolis School of Law. She holds her doctoral and J.D. degrees from Stanford Law School and Masters and Bachelors degrees in History from Stanford University. Her recent scholarly work focuses primarily on sexual harassment and juvenile law and has been published in a variety of law reviews and journals. In 2005, she finished her first textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Theory. A university video profile of her recent research can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/indylawchannel. While in residence, Jennifer will be researching how new information regarding the neurological and psychosocial development of teenagers might influence the modification of civil law pertaining to youth. jdrobac@iupui.edu

Diarmuid Griffin is a lecturer in law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Criminology, University College Dublin. His research examines the decision-making process used to determine when and under what conditions parole is granted to serious and long term offenders, particularly those serving life sentences. He has acted as a consultant and legal expert for FRALEX, a group which advises the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the Garda Síochána (Irish Police) Ombudsman Commission, Transparency International Ireland, and the European Forum for Restorative Justice project, “Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention.” diarmuid.griffin@nuigalway.ie

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

Kiyoshi Hasegawa is Professor of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Tokyo. He specializes in the sociology of law. Hasegawa’s most well-known work is ‘Toshi Komyuniti to Hō’ [The Urban Community and the Law], which received the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Adam Podgorecki Prize in 2006. He is particularly interested in dispute resolutions in neighborhoods, private land-use restrictions, and residential private governments. He also has an interest in the homeless, and in the exclusion from several social sub-systems that is caused by homelessness. While at the Center, he will be conducting a comparative study of homeowners associations in the United States and Japan. The aim of this study is to present an accurate picture of these associations in addition to examining the conditions wherein residents of the two countries take recourse to their respective legal frameworks. At the same time, Hasegawa will be conducting research on the various kinds of exclusion from communities, and on the phenomena of segregation and homelessness. This study aims to focus on the negative side of deliberative or democratic communities, shedding light on the cumulative effects of exclusion from social sub-systems. He can be contacted at k-hase@tmu.ac.jp

Amanda Hollis-Brusky earned her doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2010. She will begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College in July 2011, where she will teach courses in American Politics, constitutional law, and constitutional theory. Her current research focuses on the role networks of legal elites play in generating, cultivating, and diffusing legal ideas and strategies to decision-makers in government. While in residence at the Center, Amanda will be turning her doctoral dissertation (The Federalist Society and the "Structural Constitution:" An Epistemic Community at Work) into a book manuscript that examines, in much greater detail, how and to what extent actors affiliated with the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy - a conservative and libertarian legal network - shaped and influenced some of the most critical and controversial decisions of the recent "conservative counterrevolution" in American Supreme Court jurisprudence. She will also be completing an article length manuscript on the origins and impact of the Unitary Executive Theory. ahollis@berkeley.edu

Takashi Iida is Associate Professor of Law at Seikei University in Tokyo. He received a Master of Laws at the University of Tokyo in 2002, and worked for the University of Tokyo as Research Associate during 2002-2004. He specializes in law & economics and sociology of law. His main published work is Social Norms and Rationality: A Perspective from Law and Economics (in Japanese, 'Ho to Keizaigaku no Shakaikihan-ron', 2004). He is interested in the impact of social networks on the social functions of the law, especially civil law (including family law), environmental law, and anti-discrimination law. During his residence at Berkeley, he will write his second book which examines the interrelationships among social norms, social networks, and the law. iida-t@mug.biglobe.ne.jp

Hideyo Matsubara is Associate Professor of Law at Ehime University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Law from Kwanseigakuin University. His first book, Controlling Corporate Misconducts through Criminal Sanctions: From Deterrent Function to Defining Function, is based on his doctoral dissertation and won an award from the Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology for Young Scholars in 2000. His research interests lie in the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies. While at Berkeley, he is conducting research into the transformation of criminal policy which occurred in the U.S. in the late-20th-century. hideyoma@ehime-u.ac.jp

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 (in press). 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

Hubert Smekal holds Ph.D. in European Studies from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, where he currently works as an assistant professor. He has also worked as a research fellow in the International Institute of Political Science. He co-founded the Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democratization and serves as an assistant to E.MA Director (E.MA in Human Rights and Democratization, EIUC, Venice) for the Czech Republic. Smekal authored Human Rights in the European Union (MUNI Press, 2009) and his academic interests cover the issue of human rights in the EU, political role of the Court of Justice of the EU and judicialization of international politics. He lectured at the Bilgi University in Istanbul (2009), during the summers of 2005-2008 at University of Toronto and winter 2010 in the Australian International Law and Human Rights Program. He was awarded Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship for 2010–2011. hsmekal@fss.muni.cz

Robert J. Steinfeld is Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His most recent book, Coercion, Contract and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. The University of North Carolina Press brought out his earlier book The Invention of Free Labor in 1992. He has published numerous articles on the history of labor law in America and England. Professor Steinfeld has been a Langdell Fellow at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is currently at work on a book about the origins of American judicial review. steinfel@buffalo.edu

Mark Suchman is Professor of Sociology at Brown University. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a BA (summa cum laude in Sociology, 1983) from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School (1989), and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford (1994). From 1999 to 2001, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale, and in 2002-2003 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. During his visit at Berkeley, he will be writing a book on the role of law firms in Silicon Valley. He will also be continuing a multi-year project on the organizational, professional, and legal challenges surrounding new information technologies in health care. In addition to these topics, he has written on organizational legitimacy, on inter-organizational disputing practices, on the "internalization" of law within corporate bureaucracies, and on social science approaches to the study of contracts. He has also served as Chair of the ASA section on Sociology of Law (2005-2006), as a review-panel member for the NSF's Program on Law and Social Science (2004-2006), and as a member of the Law and Society Association's Board of Trustees (2005-2008). mark_suchman@brown.edu.

Rob Tennyson received his doctorate in Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in the Fall of 2009, writing a dissertation on the function of private legislative procedure in the eighteenth-century British parliaments. At the Center, he aims to extend the project, carrying it into the nineteenth century and examining the impact of parliamentary procedures and norms on administrative, corporate and property law. Prior to obtaining his PhD, Robert worked as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert B. Propst and the Honorable Dean Buttram, Jr., (resigned) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He obtained his JD from Tulane Law School in 1996. leytyn@gmail.com

Michael Tolley is associate professor of political science and an affiliated faculty in the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University. His research interests are at the intersection of law and politics and, in recent years, his work has taken comparative and empirical turns. He was co-editor (and contributor) most recently of a book titled Globalizing Justice: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Law and the Cross-Border Migration of Legal Norms (SUNY, 2010). He is planning to use his time at the Center for the Study of Law and Society to finish two projects. One, called Constituting Social Welfare Rights, examines the judicial protection of socio-economic rights from a comparative perspective and explores the relationship between socio-economic rights in national constitutions, government spending on various social welfare programs, and civic engagement. The second, called Keeping Pace with Brusssels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg, examines the efforts by national courts in several western European countries to harmonize national law with international and supranational law in dealing with asylum and immigration. Michael Tolley is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, 1984) and Johns Hopkins University (PhD, 1990). m.tolley@neu.edu

VISITING SCHOLARS – FALL 2010

Daniella Beinisch is an SJD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she completed her LLM (with honors). She also holds an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Daniella worked as a criminal prosecutor in the Israeli State Attorney’s office for several years; she also worked for a few NGOs promoting social programs and human rights. Her research interests include the intersections between civil society organizations and governmental agencies, criminal justice, community justice and the social role of courts. While at the Center, she plans to complete her doctoral dissertation exploring the problem solving courts phenomenon and the challenges that it represent to the traditional criminal justice system. beinisch@law.berkeley.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). Interweaving scholarship with personal anecdotes and humor, it is an accessible guide to the prominent issues and distinctive approaches in the field of law & society. Her current research project explores the informal grievance process in California prisons, and what the use of this process can tell us about prisoners’ legal consciousness, as well as about rights consciousness and prison life more generally. Data for the study include prisoners’ written grievances and interviews with prisoners and corrections officials. kccalavi@uci.edu

William Gallagher is Associate Professor of Law at the Golden Gate University School of Law. Prior to his full-time academic appointment, he was a partner in a San Francisco law firm where he specialized in intellectual property litigation. He holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley. His research interests include intellectual property law and policy, the legal profession, and the sociology of law. He is a co-founder of the Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network (“CRN”) on Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property. While serving as a visiting scholar at the CSLS, he will be continuing research on (1) two empirical studies of strategic enforcement of intellectual property claims, (2) an empirical study of patent lawyers, (3) an edited book on “law and society” approaches to intellectual property law, and (4) a study of lawyer regulation in California. wgallagher@ggu.edu

Kiyoshi Hasegawa is Professor of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Tokyo. He specializes in the sociology of law. Hasegawa’s most well-known work is ‘Toshi Komyunitii to Hō’ [The Urban Community and the Law], which received the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Adam Podgorecki Prize in 2006. He is particularly interested in dispute resolutions in neighborhoods, private land-use restrictions, and residential private governments. He also has an interest in the homeless, and in the exclusion from several social sub-systems that is caused by homelessness. While at the Center, he will be conducting a comparative study of homeowners associations in the United States and Japan. The aim of this study is to present an accurate picture of these associations in addition to examining the conditions wherein residents of the two countries take recourse to their respective legal frameworks. At the same time, Hasegawa will be conducting research on the various kinds of exclusion from communities, and on the phenomena of segregation and homelessness. This study aims to focus on the negative side of deliberative or democratic communities, shedding light on the cumulative effects of exclusion from social sub-systems. k-hase@tmu.ac.jp

Paul Hirschfield is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey. He holds a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Kalamazoo College and a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University, Evanston. Most of his work aims to uncover the causes and social implications of the widespread criminalization of adolescent deviance and school misconduct, especially in the inner-city. He also has examined criminalization in relation to adolescent mental disorders and symbolic criminalization within news media narratives of deadly force. He is currently conducting a federally-funded study on competing approaches to the reintegration of youth from correctional facilities into New York City schools. During his residency, he will be focused on a project that assesses the impact of neighborhood levels of proactive policing in Chicago on African-American and Latino children’s attitudes toward and compliance with the Law, along with any moderating influence of local participation in community policing. His email address is phirschfield@sociology.rutgers.edu.

Hideyo Matsubara is Associate Professor of Law at Ehime University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Law from Kwanseigakuin University. His first book, Controlling Corporate Misconducts through Criminal Sanctions: From Deterrent Function to Defining Function, is based on his doctoral dissertation and won an award from the Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology for Young Scholars in 2000. His research interests lie in the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies. While at Berkeley, he is conducting research into the transformation of criminal policy which occurred in the U.S. in the late-20th-century. hideyoma@ehime-u.ac.jp

Dario Melossi is Full Professor of Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Bologna. He received a law degree at Bologna and went on to do a Ph.D.in sociology at UC, Santa Barbara. From 1986 to 1993 he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Sociology at UC, Davis. He has authored Carcere e fabbrica, 1977 with Massimo Pavarini which was translated as The Prison and the Factory, 1981; The State of Social Control, 1990 (Stato, controllo sociale, devianza, 2002); and Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and America, 2008. He has also contributed over 100 chapters and articles to edited books. He is a prominent spokesperson for “critical criminology,” a movement in and outside Italy. He is the main editor of the Italian journal Studi sulla questione criminale, co-editor of Punishment and Society, and a member of the Board of many other professional journals. His current research concerns the construction of deviance and social control in the European Union, especially with regard to migration. He is currently leading a research project on self-reported delinquency in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. dario.melossi@unibo.it

Charles O’Mahony is a Ph.D candidate in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway working on a comparative study of the diversion of mentally ill persons from the criminal justice system in Ireland, the United States and New Zealand. (His research is supported by a Higher Education Authority of Ireland PRTLI scholarship). He was awarded a LL.M from University College London in 2005 and a LL.M in Public Law from NUI Galway in 2006. Charles worked as a full-time legal researcher for the Law Reform Commission of Ireland from 2006-2008. He was the principal legal researcher for the Commission’s Third Programme of Law Reform 2008-2014 and the Commission’s Consultation Paper on Jury Selection published in March 2010. Charles has taught in the areas of criminal law, human rights, the criminal jury and labour law. He is a regular contributor to the Human Rights in Ireland blog (www.humanrights.ie) where he writes on mental health and disability law. mailto:c.omahoney3@nuigalway.ie

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

Jothi Saunthararaja (Jothie Rajah) has just submitted her doctoral dissertation to the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, for examination. Her dissertation applies critical theory on language and power to study the intersections of law, language and politics. She has studied the manner in which the Singapore state has reframed the liberal idea of the rule of law through legislation and public discourse. Jothie also has research interests in the legal professions, the British colonial state’s formulations of law, and Hindu law. Her earlier degrees are from the National University of Singapore. Jothie2010@gmail.com

Jodi Short is Associate Professor at Georgetown Law. Her research is on the nexus of public and private institutions in regulatory governance. She is currently working on a series of empirical papers examining the effects of corporate internal compliance auditing on regulatory performance. Her work also addresses theoretical justifications for and critiques of regulation, exploring tensions in the U.S. administrative state between cooperation and coercion, expertise and politics, and public and private interests. While in residence at the Center for the Study of Law and Society this summer, Professor Short will be working on papers that investigate: (1) whether the voluntary disclosure of legal violations can serve as a reliable signal of effective self-policing; (2) the conditions under which self-policing policies get institutionalized within or decoupled from the actual compliance practices of regulated organizations; (3) how sociological theories of reason-giving can help us better understand practices of administrative justification. Professor Short teaches courses on administrative law, the regulatory state, and the role that private organizations play in public governance and law. She can be contacted at jls272@law.georgetown.edu

Hubert Smekal holds a Ph.D. in European Studies from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, (Czech Republic)where he is currently works Assistant Professor. He has also worked as a research fellow at the International Institute of Political Science. He co-founded the Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democratization and serves as an assistant to E.MA Director (E.MA in Human Rights and Democratization, EIUC, Venice) for the Czech Republic. Smekal authored a book Human Rights in the European Union (MUNI Press, 2009) and his academic interests cover the issue of human rights in the EU, the political role of the Court of Justice of the EU and the judicialization of international politics. He lectured at the Bilgi University in Istanbul (2009), at the University of Toronto during the summers of 2005-2008 and in winter 2010 in the Australian International Law and Human Rights Program. He was awarded Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship for 2010–2011. hsmekal@fss.muni.cz

Rob Tennyson received his doctorate in Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in the Fall of 2009, writing a dissertation on the function of private legislative procedure in the eighteenth-century British parliaments. At the Center, he aims to extend the project, carrying it into the nineteenth century and examining the impact of parliamentary procedures and norms on administrative, corporate and property law. Prior to obtaining his PhD, Robert worked as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert B. Propst and the Honorable Dean Buttram, Jr., (resigned) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He obtained his JD from Tulane Law School in 1996. leytyn@gmail.com

Center for the Study of Law and Society
Visiting Scholars Summer 2010

Kiyoshi Hasegawa is Professor of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Tokyo. He specializes in the sociology of law. Hasegawa’s most well-known work is ‘Toshi Komyunitii to Hō’ [The Urban Community and the Law], which received the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Adam Podgorecki Prize in 2006. He is particularly interested in dispute resolutions in neighborhoods, private land-use restrictions, and residential private governments. He also has an interest in the homeless, and in the exclusion from several social sub-systems that is caused by homelessness. While at the Center, he will be conducting a comparative study of homeowners associations in the United States and Japan. The aim of this study is to present an accurate picture of these associations in addition to examining the conditions wherein residents of the two countries take recourse to their respective legal frameworks. At the same time, Hasegawa will be conducting research on the various kinds of exclusion from communities, and on the phenomena of segregation and homelessness. This study aims to focus on the negative side of deliberative or democratic communities, shedding light on the cumulative effects of exclusion from social sub-systems. k-hase@tmu.ac.jp

Amanda Hollis-Brusky earned her doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2010. She will begin her appointment as Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College in July 2011, where she will teach courses in American Politics, constitutional law, and constitutional theory. Her current research focuses on the role networks of legal elites play in generating, cultivating, and diffusing legal ideas and strategies to decision-makers in government. While in residence at the Center, Amanda will be turning her doctoral dissertation (The Federalist Society and the "Structural Constitution:" An Epistemic Community at Work) into a book manuscript that examines, in much greater detail, how and to what extent actors affiliated with the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy - a conservative and libertarian legal network - shaped and influenced some of the most critical and controversial decisions of the recent "conservative counterrevolution" in American Supreme Court jurisprudence. She will also be completing an article length manuscript on the origins and impact of the Unitary Executive Theory. ahollis@berkeley.edu

Anna Kirkland is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan. She earned her J.D. (2001) and Ph.D. (Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 2003) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has focused on the construction of the legal categories that receive civil rights protections in various jurisdictions of the United States as well as the ways in which ordinary people understand and negotiate their identities through the law. Her first book, Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, was published in 2008 by New York University Press. Prof. Kirkland has also published work on fat acceptance advocates and their perceptions of law, fatness as disability, transgendered plaintiffs who win their cases, transgender discrimination as sex discrimination, the moral, racial, gendered, and political features of the “obesogenic environment” account of population weight gains, and an analysis of the diversity essay on the undergraduate UM application. With Michigan colleague Jonathan Metzl, Prof. Kirkland edited the forthcoming volume Against Health: How Health Become the New Morality (New York University Press, 2010). While at Berkeley, she is working on a second book on vaccination law, politics and activism. The new research focuses on the ongoing Autism Omnibus Proceedings before the federal vaccine compensation court, in which the Special Masters have found that vaccines did not cause autism spectrum disorder in children. Prof. Kirkland is also studying movement opposition to the rulings, state-level vaccine controversies and regulation, and the interaction between vaccine safety advocates and policymakers at the federal level. She will spend the 2010-2011 academic year as a Fellow in Princeton University’s Law and Public Affairs Program. akirkland@umich.edu

Joe McGrath graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Cork, Ireland. He was awarded the title ‘College Scholar’ and a Faculty of Law PhD scholarship. He was subsequently awarded the Government of Ireland PhD scholarship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His doctoral research employs jurisprudential methodologies, enriched by a criminological, penological and sociological analysis of law, to explore the emergence of a new legal regime addressing corporate deviancy and corporate crime in Ireland and it explores the impact of this regulatory regime on traditional criminal law values and the practice of corporate enforcement. He has also undertaken studies in European business regulation in Bilbao, pursuant to a European Commission scholarship. He has presented papers both domestically and internationally on corporate crime and corporate regulation and published in books and journals on these areas. He was also a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School in 2009. jhmcgrath@gmail.com

Christopher Roberts is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Michigan in the Joint Program in Public Policy and Sociology. He holds a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. While in residence, Christopher will be working on completing his dissertation project, in which he examines the social origins of the modern international human rights concept. His work shows how the human rights concept became the site for a series of seminal struggles over competing institutional frameworks for organizing social and political relationships, and how the formidable opposition that developed against human rights between 1944 and 1966 has been influential in shaping the modern human rights concept, itself. His article (co-authored with Margaret Somers), "Toward a New Sociology of Rights: A Genealogy of 'Buried Bodies' of Citizenship and Human Rights", will appear in the next issue of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. cnrobert@umich.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. antonirubi-puig@upf.edu

Jodi Short is Associate Professor at Georgetown Law. Her research is on the nexus of public and private institutions in regulatory governance. She is currently working on a series of empirical papers examining the effects of corporate internal compliance auditing on regulatory performance. Her work also addresses theoretical justifications for and critiques of regulation, exploring tensions in the U.S. administrative state between cooperation and coercion, expertise and politics, and public and private interests. While in residence at the Center for the Study of Law and Society this fall, Professor Short will be working on papers that investigate: (1) how different regulatory enforcement strategies influence the self-policing practices of regulated organizations; (2) how concerns about state coercion have shaped the debate about regulatory reform; and (3) how agencies administer “public interest” standards in their enabling statutes – how they develop models of and mediate competing claims about what the public’s interest is. Professor Short teaches courses on administrative law, the regulatory state, and the role that private organizations play in public governance and law. She will present a talk in the CSLS Speaker Series on Sept. 27 entitled, “Institutionalizing Self-Regulation: The Effect of Threat, Surveillance and Experience." She can be contacted at jls272@law.georgetown.edu.

Mark Suchman mark_suchman@brown.edu