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Our Graduates

Nothing better represents the unique qualities of the JSP program than its graduates.

The first Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy was awarded in 1984. Since then, a steady stream of JSP students have completed theses and moved into top academic and research jobs. JSP’s proven excellence in graduate training is amply displayed in the distinguished careers of its graduates.

Alumni members of the JSP community now comprise a significant and truly international community of teachers and researchers who have helped shape current directions in law and society studies. Their publications have garnered prestigious awards, and they occupy important academic and professional positions.

Placement

Most graduates of the JSP Program embark on academic careers. But there is an unusual variety of institutional settings where JSP graduates obtain their appointments. JSP alumni have been hired to teach in traditional departments (Political Science, Sociology, History, Criminology); in professional schools (Law, Management); and in many different interdisciplinary programs (Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, Women's Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies). JSP graduates currently teach at leading universities in Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. In the U.S., graduates have been appointed to the faculties of small liberal arts colleges (Bryn Mawr College, Bard College); large research universities (Harvard University, Duke University, University of Southern California, Emory University); private schools (Amherst College, University of Denver, University of Pennsylvania), and many public institutions (University of Michigan, University of Illinois, University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin, U.C. Irvine, U.C. Santa Barbara, and U.C. Berkeley).

Completed Dissertations

JSP dissertations, taken collectively, constitute an important contribution to the social and philosophical study of law, and encompass an impressive array of subject-matters and methodologies. Our distinguished alumni are listed here with the title of their dissertations.

Alumni, listed by last name

 

 

JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -A-

Catherine Albiston,  J.D., Ph.D., Acting Professor
JSP Program, University of California, Berkeley
Catherine Albison Faculty Page
The Institutional Context of Civil Rights: Mobilizing the Family and Medical Leave Act in the Courts and in the Workplace

Mark Antaki , Assistant Professor
McGill University, Faculty of Law
http://www.academic.mcgill.ca/newfac/profiles/2004/by-name/antaki.htm
A Genealogy of Crimes Against Humanity

Hadar Aviram
http://www.tau.ac.il/law/faculty.htm
Managing Disobedience as Crime: Legal and Extra-Legal Discourse in Addressing Unauthorized Absences and Conscientious Objection in Military Service in Israel

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -B-

Adami Badawi, J.D. Ph.D., Clerk
Tenth Circuit court of Appeals
http://www.mto.com/lawyers/bio.cfm?attorneyID=314
Essays on legal and Extra-Legal Ordering

Charles Barber, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Associate
Forests and Biological Diversity, World Resource Institute
Washington, D.C.
http://www.wri.org/
The State, the Environment, and Development: The Genesis and Transformation of Social Forestry Policy in New Order Indonesia

Carl J. Bauer, M.S, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
Associate Director, Water Resources Research Center
http://geog.arizona.edu/people/bauer.php
Against the Current? Privatization, Markets, and the State in Water Rights: Chile, 1979-1993

Roger Berkowitz, J.D., Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor
Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
http://www.vernunft.org/pages/157549/index.htm
The Gift of Legislation

Martha Blomquist, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Criminology, Florida State University, Panama City
Politics, Corrections, and Juvenile Justice: Changing Correctional Ideology, Institutional Organization, and Release Policy of California's Youth Correctional System 1968-1988

John Burroughs, J.D., Ph.D., Attorney
http://www.ploughshares.org/expert.php?id=1
International Law and American Foreign Policy

Lloyd Burton, M.A., Ph.D., Professor
Graduate School of Public Affairs
University of Colorado
http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/gspa/epml/professors.htm
American Indian Water Rights and Western Regional Planning

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -C-

Christopher J.Carr, J.D. Ph.D, attorney
http://www.mofo.com/attorney/individual.asp?Carr11577
The Legal Status of Highly Migratory Species, 1970-2000: A Case Study of Debate and Innovation in International Fisheries Law

Steven Alan Childress, J.D., M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor
School of Law, Tulane University
http://www.law.tulane.edu/tuexp/facadmin/biotemplate.cfm?username=achildress&status=faculty
Appeal and Error in First Amendment Adjudication

Marianne Constable, J.D., Ph.D., Professor
Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/marianne_constable.html
The Jury de Medietate Linguae: Changing Conceptions of Law and Citizenship

Javier Couso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Law, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
http://www.derecho.udp.cl/
The Politics of Judicial Control of the Constitution in Latin America:  The Chilean Case in Comparative Perspective

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -D-

Alison Dundes-Renteln , M.A., Ph.D., Professor
Political Science, University of So. California
http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/faculty_fellows/renteln.html
A Conceptual Analysis of International Human Rights: Universalism versus Relativism

 

JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -E-

Paul Stringham Edwards, J.D., Ph.D, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar
Mercatus Center, George Mason University
http://www.mercatus.org/People/id.102,cfilter.0/people.asp
Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy in Silicon Valley

Jeremy N. Elkins, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Political Science, Bryn Mawr College
http://www.brynmawr.edu/catalog/polisci.php
Law, Political Science and Democratic Theory

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -F-

Eric Feldman, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania Law School
http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/eafeldma/
Rights in Japan: Customs, Concepts and Conflicts

Yuval Feldman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Bar Ilan University, Israel
http://www.law.biu.ac.il/English/main.php?id=48
Confident Know-How Sharing and Trade Secrets Laws: Studying the Interaction Between Legality, Social Norms and Justice Among High Tech Employees in Silicon Valley

Jill Sari Frank, M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Government and International Studies, University of South Carolina
http://www.cas.sc.edu/poli/facbio/frank.html
Identity and Difference in Aristotle's Treatment of Property

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -G-

William T. Gallagher, J.D. Ph.D., Practicing Attorney
http://www.ggu.edu/school_of_law/law_faculty/full_time_faculty_a_l#wgallagher
Controlling Professions: The "Crisis" of Professional Self-Regulation in the California Bar

Brian P. Gill, J.D., Ph.D.
Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org/education/bios/gill.html
The Jurisprudence of Good Parenting: The Selection of Adoptive Parents 1894-1964

Stephen Gillespie, J.D., Ph.D., practicing attorney, Fenwick and West, LLP
http://www.fenwick.com/attorneys/4.2.1.asp?aid=337
The Transformation of American Public Law: Promotion and Regulation in California, 1950-1990

Tom Ginsburg, J.D., Ph.D, Professor
University of Illinois, College of Law
Director, Program in Asian Law, Politics and Society
http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty/DirectoryResult.asp?Name=Ginsburg,+Tom
Growing Constitutions: Judicial Review in New Democracies

Jeffrey Goldsworthy, LL.B., LL.M., M.A., Ph.D., Professor
Faculty of Law, Monash University
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/staff/jgoldsworthy.html
Moral Skepticism and Legal Reasoning

Rosann Greenspan, M.A., M.A., Ph.D., Executive Director
Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley
Greenspan Faculty Profile
The Transformation of Criminal Due Process in the Administrative State: The Targeted Urban Crime Narcotics Task Force

Kaaryn Gustafson, J.D. Phd. Associate Professor
University of Connecticut, School of Law
http://www.law.uconn.edu/faculty/kgustafs/
The Morality and Rationality of Welfare

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -H-

Eric Haiman, J.D., Ph.D., Practicing Attorney
http://www.atwoodlaw.com/eric.html
Jurisprudence and Adjudication in the Civil Restraint of the Mentally Ill

Linda Helyar (Meyer), J.D., Ph.D., Professor
School of Law, Quinnipiac University
http://law.quinnipiac.edu/x550.xml?School=&Dept=&Person=1864
Grace and Justice

Robert Hennig, J.D., Ph.D.
Between the Margins: Party Politics and Committee Power in Conference Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives

Mark Howenstein, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Professor
Law and Society, Ramapo College of New Jersey
http://www.ramapo.edu/facultystaff/profiles/faculty.html#h
The Moral Limits of Legal Obligation: Contrasting Conceptions of Civil Disobedience From Freedom to Necessity

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -J-

Christopher Jewell, J.D., Ph.D. Research Fellow
Yale University, Program on Poverty, Disability and Urban Health
http://www.yale.edu/ccr/jewell.doc
Responding to Need in the “Three Worlds of Social Welfare”: Welfare State Traditions and social Service Organizations Impact the Role Caseworkers Play in Shaping Welfare policy in the United States, Germany and Sweden

David Ted Johnson, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Sociology, University of Hawaii
http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=soc&faculty=davidjoh@hawaii.edu
The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -K-

 

 Sam Kamin, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
School of Law, University of Denver
http://www.law.du.edu/kamin/
Law, Politics, and Death: The Death Penalty Decisions of the California Supreme Courts

Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/akirkland.html
Personhood and Identity in American Law

Idit Kostiner, Ph.D., Lecturer
Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/law/researcher.asp?id=adgmcfhkd
Evaluating Legality: Activists’ Understandings of the Role of Law in Social Change

Kenneth Kress, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Professor
School of Law, University of Iowa
http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/kenneth-kress.php
Legal Theory and Political Legitimacy: Positivism, Dworkin's Rights Thesis, and Critical Legal Studies

Daniel Krislov, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Political Science, University of New Hampshire
http://www.unh.edu/undergrad-catalog/0304/webla.html#faculty
Interest Groups and the Formation of Federal Crime Policy: The Origins and Funding of the 1994 Federal Crime Bill

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -L-

 Stephen Rogers Latham, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Law, Quinnipiac College
http://law.quinnipiac.edu/x550.xml?School=&Dept=&Person=9070
Emerson in the Workplace: A Theory of Professionalism from the Inside Out

Shai Lavi, Ph.D., Lecturer
Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/law/researcher.asp?id=adjmdeccd
The Modern Art of Dying: The History of Euthanasia In the United States

Barbara Leibhardt, Ph.D., J.D.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Division 5, Chicago
Law, Environment, and Social Change in the Columbia River Basin: The Yakima Indian Nation as a Case Study, 1840-1933

Richard Leo, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Fellow
Soros Justice Fellowship
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/justice_fellows/grantees/leowells_2004
Police Interrogation: A Sociological Study of Violence, Civility, and Social Change in America

Charles Lester, J.D., Ph.D., Research Associate
California Coastal Commission
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/address.html
The Search for Dialog in the Administrative State: The Politics, Policy and Law of Offshore Oil Development

Kay Levine, J.D., PhD. Assistant Professor
Emory University School of Law
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=1240
Prosecution, Politics and Pregnancy: Enforcing Statutory Rape in California

Ann Lucas, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Criminology, San Jose State University
http://www2.sjsu.edu/justicestudies/faculty.htm
The Dis(-)ease of Being a Woman: Rethinking Prostitution and Subordination

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -M-

Candace McCoy, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Professor
Criminal Justice, Graduate Center, City University of New York
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/directories/faculty/m.htm
Plea Bargaining and Proposition Politics: Criminal Court Reform in Four California Counties

Noga Morag-Levine, L.LB, MA, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
College of Law, Michigan State University
http://www.law.msu.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?prof=372
Chasing the Wind: Reactive Law, Environmental Equity and Localized Air Pollution Regulation

Bronwen Morgan, Ph.D., Fellow in Law
St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University
http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/jurisprudence/morgan.shtml
Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition: The Bureaucratic Politics of Regulatory Justification in Australia

Melanie Myers, J.D., Ph.D.
Culpability and Consequences: A Study of Felony Murder

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -N-

David Neal, M.A., Ph.D., Barrister
Consultant, Federal Attorney-General's Department, Australia
The Role of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Politics in New South Wales 1788-1840

Laura Beth Nielsen, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Northwestern University, Sociology and Law
Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/faculty/nielsen/home.html
License to Harass: Offensive Public Speech, Legal Consciousness, and Hierarchies of Race, Gender and Class

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -P-

 

John Sung Woo Park, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.senate.ucsb.edu/about/Membership/
Legislation Unworthy of a Brave and Manly People: Membership and Belonging In Liberal Political Theory and American Public Law

Susan Poser, J.D., Ph.D., Professor
University of Nebraska, College of Law
http://law.unl.edu/fac-poser.html
Rights, Remedies, and Organizational Change: A Theory for Social Desegregation

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -Q-

 Kevin Patrick Quinn, J.D., Ph.D., Professor
Georgetown University Law Center
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&Detail=309
Allocating Medicine and the Common Good: In Search of a Public Philosophy for American Health Care

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -R-

 Richard Rahm, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Practicing Attorney
http://www.littler.com/people/index.cfm?event=getPerson&contactID=2189
Retribution and Modernism: Towards a Moral Theory of Punishment

Joseph Rees, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
http://search.vt.edu/peopledetail.jsp?person=822855
Reforming the Workplace: A Study of Self-Regulation in Occupational Safety

Marcia Rioux, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Social Work, York University, Canada
Director, The Roeher Institute, Canada
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~sowk/msw/mrioux.html
The Equality-Disability Nexus: The History and Law of Mental Handicap in Canada

Brad Roth, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Legal Studies/Political Science, Wayne State University
http://www.la.wayne.edu/polisci/faculty/roth/Roth1.htm
Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law: An Emerging Norm in Theoretical Perspective

Lawrence Ruth, M.A., Ph.D., Policy Specialist, Lecturer
Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Responsiveness and Responsibility: Planning and Administration Under the National Forest Management Act of 1976

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -S-

 Victoria Saker Woeste, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow
American Bar Foundation
http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/reswoeste.html
Benevolent Monopoly: The Legal Transformation of Agricultural Cooperation, 1890-1943

Lucy Salyer, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor
History, University of New Hampshire
http://www.unh.edu/history/fac_salyer.htm
Guarding the "White Man's Frontier": Courts, Politics, and the Regulation of Immigration, 1891-1924

Donna Schuele, Ph.D., Adjunst Assistant Professor
Political Science, University of Southern California
Executive Director, California Supreme Court Historical Society
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1008112.html
A Robbery to the Wife: Culture, Gender and Marital Property in Cailfornia Law And Politics, 1850-1980

Karl Shoemaker, J.D, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
History Department and Legal Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/msp/wun/shoemaker01.htm
Sanctuary Law: Changing Conceptions of Wrongdoing and Punishment

Neil Siegel, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Law and Political Science, Duke University
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/nsiegel/
Intransitivites Protect Minorities: Interpreting Madison’s Theory of the Extended Republic

Jonathan Simon, J.D., Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean
Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Simon Faculty Page
From Discipline to Management: Strategies of Control in Parole Supervision

John Sither, J.D., Ph.D.
Form, Substance, and History in Max Weber's Sociology of Law

Amy Steigerwalt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Political Science, University of New Orleans
http://poli.uno.edu/Faculty/facultywebpages/Steigerwalt/steigerwalt.htm

Susan Sterett, M.A., Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Political Science, University of Denver
http://www.du.edu/plsc/SusanSterett.html
Judging the Administrative State: British Courts, 1946-1984

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -T-

 Amy Toro, J.D., Ph.D., Associate
Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA
http://www.cov.com/lawyers/atoro/biography.html
Standing Up for Listeners’ Rights: A History of Public Participation at the Federal Communications Commission

Jack Tweedie, J.D., Ph.D., Welfare and Human Services Reform Specialist
National Conference of State Legislators
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/hsstaff.htm
Rights of One, Consequences for All: The Dilemma of Rights in Social Programs

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -W-

 Nancy Weston, J.D., M.A., Ph.D., Lecturer
Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/people.html
The Law of Accidents: Tort Theory and the Metaphysics of Will

Laurence Wiseman, M.A., J.D., Ph.D.
Alexander Bickel and the Idea of Prudence: Value Choices in Modern Constitutional Theory 

George Wright, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Superior
http://www.uwsuper.edu/~plj/
The Protestant Hobbes

 

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JSP Alumni and Dissertations: -Y-

 Maureen Young, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Partner
Bingham McCutchen LLP
http://www.bingham.com/bingham/attorneys_bios.asp?aid=2244
Why Regulatory Reform Fails: A Study of the U.S. Banking System

Nicholas Gonzalez Yuen, J.D., Ph.D., Instructor
DeAnza College
http://www.deanza.edu/faculty/yuen/index.htm
Lives of Resistance, Communities of Support: Microstructural Processes in the Recruitment and Retention of High Cost and High Risk Political Activists in the War Tax Resistance Movement

 

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