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Shauhin Ahmadi Talesh
Year: Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) - JSP
Email: stalesh@berkeley.edu
Biography:After practicing law for five years as a general commercial litigator, I have returned to school for a life of scholarship. My academic work focuses on socio-legal issues and I have a range of criminal and civil interests. I have published articles on a variety of issues, ranging from consumer protection, social welfare insurance, health insurance, mental health courts, and issues relating to criminal procedure and process. My dissertation focuses on how public legal rights are privatized by organizations in the consumer protection context.
My publications are as follows:
The Privatization of Public Legal Rights: How Manufacturers Construct the Meaning of Consumer Law 43 Law & Society Rev. (forthcoming 2009)
Mental Health Court Judges as �Dynamic Risk Managers�: A New Conceptualization of the Role of Judges, 57 DEPAUL L. REV. (2007).
Breaking the Learned Helplessness of Patients: Why MCOs Should be Required to Disclose Financial Incentives, 26 LAW & PSYCHOL. REV. 49 (2002).
Welfare Migration to Capture Higher Welfare Benefits: Fact or Fiction?, 32 CONN. L. REV. 675 (2000).
Parole Officers and the Exclusionary Rule: Is There Any Deterrent Left?, 31 CONN. L. REV. 1179 (1999).
Insurance LL.M, 2001, University of Connecticut
J.D. 2000, University of Connecticut (with Highest Honors)
B.A. 1996, Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine (Cum Laude).
Organizations
Sociology of Law
Public Law
Business, Law & Politics
History, Institutions & Political Analysis
Consumer Protection & Business law
Health law
Insurance
Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
Regulation & Governance
Problem-solving/Collaborative courts
Am. Sociological Assoc. Best Graduate Paper, Soc.of Law Section 2008
Am. Political Science Assoc. CQ Press Award for Best Graduate Paper 2007
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 2008
Mentored Research Award 2008
Phi Beta Kappa
UCI Rhodes Scholar Finalist 1995
Mohan Narasimhan Award-Most Outstanding Jr., Research in Crim., Law, & Society
Most Outstanding Law Review Note 2000
Research Assistant, Professor Lauren Edelman (Jan. 2008-Aug. 2008)
Graduate Student Instructor, Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency, 2007 (For Professor Frank Zimring)
Research Assistant, Professor Jonathan Simon (May-August, 2007)
Graduate Coordinator for Conference on Mentally Ill and the Law (May-present, 2007)
Research Assistant, Professor David Sklansky (Jan.-March, 2007)
Research Assistant, Professor Tom Baker (Aug. 1999-Jan. 2000)
Teachers Assistant, Lawyering Process, (Fall 1998)
Research Assistant, Professor John Dombrink (Jan.-June 1995)
Research Assistant, Professor Henry Pontell (Jan.-June 1994)
Attorney in Commercial Lit. Dept., Foley & Lardner LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 2001-June 2006: Managed cases involving insurance, health law, product liability, breach of contract, express and implied warranty, as well as extensive appellate briefing experience.
Law Clerk for the Honorable Flemming Norcott, Conn. Supreme Court, 2000-2001
HEMBA Class Manager, UC Irvine Grad. Sch. of Mgmt 1997
