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Jonathan Simon
Title: Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
Office: 592 Boalt Hall
Tel: 510-643-5169
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: jsimon@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Constance Curtin
Before joining the Boalt Hall faculty in 2003, Simon was a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1992. Prior to that, he clerked for Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Simon teaches courses on criminal law, criminal justice, risk and the law, and socio-legal studies. His scholarship concerns the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies, insurance and other contemporary practices of governing risk, and the intellectual history of law and the social sciences. Simon serves as faculty co-chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice.
Simon is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility (with Tom Baker, 2002) and Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism (with Austin Sarat, 2003). His most recent book is, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007).
Simon also serves as co-editor of Punishment & Society and an associate editor of Law & Society Review.
Education:
A.B., UC Berkeley (1981)J.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1987)
Ph.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1990)
