Legal Studies
2015-16 General Catalog
27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
legalstudies@ucsc.edu
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Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Elizabeth Beaumont, Associate Profesor, Politics
Constitutionalism, democracy, and American political development; civic engagement and education; citizenship, rights, and problems of inequality; social movements and popular constitutionalism
Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology
Linguistic anthropology, folklore, legal anthropology, ethnomusicology, overseas Indians, South Asia, disputing and dispute management, legal language, bureaucratic institutions, knowledge production, improvisation
Ryan Coonerty, Lecturer, Legal Studies
American political history, law and international relations
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
Citizen participation in law, race and the law, indigenous approach to international law, decolonialism, Japan and East Asia, advanced quantitative methods, survey research
Craig W. Haney, Professor of Psychology
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
Ruth Langridge, Lecturer, Legal Studies
Water resource issues, including control over, access to, and management of water; climate change; groundwater management, and broader theoretical and political issues related to property; institutions form and change; the social, political and environmental impacts and beneficiaries of current rules; and the consequences of proposed changes
Mark Fathi Massoud, Associate 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
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
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Dane Archer, Emeritus
John Dizikes, Emeritus
Walter L. Goldfrank, Emeritus
Michael E. Urban, Emeritus
Revised: 09/01/15
