Legal Studies
2012-13 General Catalog
27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
legalstudies@ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Dane Archer, Emeritus
Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology
Linguistic anthropology, folklore, legal anthropology, ethnomusicology, overseas Indians, South Asia, disputing and dispute management, legal language, bureaucratic institutions
Gina Dent, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies
Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture
Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology
Global jury systems; international law; colonialism and genocide; lay justice systems in Japan, Mexico, China, and Korea; theories of democracy; advanced quantitative analysis, survey, and field methods
Craig W. Haney, Professor of Psychology, Director of Legal Studies
Applications of social psychological principles to legal settings, assessment of the psychological effects of living and working in institutional environments, social contextual origins of violence, development of alternative legal and institutional forms
Mark Fathi Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics
Law and society; human rights; international law and development, with a special interest in Sudan; field research, with an emphasis on qualitative and ethnographic methods
Triloki Nath Pandey, Professor of Anthropology
Native peoples of North America, cultures of India, political anthropology, anthropological theories and comparisons
Daniel M. Press, Professor of Environmental Studies
U.S. environmental politics and policy, social capital and democratic theory, industrial ecology, land and species conservation, regionalism
Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology
Political sociology; law, crime, and social justice; drugs and society
Michael E. Urban, Emeritus
Daniel J. Wirls, Professor of Politics
American politics, including national political institutions (Congress) and the President; public policy (military and foreign policy) and political history
Donald A. Wittman, Professor of Economics
Economic theory, politics, law
Lecturer
Ryan Coonerty
Ruth Langridge
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John Dizikes, Emeritus
Walter L. Goldfrank, Emeritus
Revised: 8/13/12
