JSP Program Students Win National Awards

Two students from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program have received national honors. Shauhin Talesh won the Law and Society Association’s Graduate Student Paper Prize for “How Organizations Shape the Meaning of Law: A Comparative Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws.” Talesh had won best graduate student paper awards from the American Political Science Association (twice) and American Sociological Association. Keramet Reiter received a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for “The Most Restrictive Alternative: The Origins, Functions, and Ethical Implications of Supermax Prisons, 1976-2010.” .