Legal Studies
2018-19 General Catalog
27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
legalstudies@ucsc.edu
https://legalstudies.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Elizabeth Beaumont, Associate Professor, 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, democratic systems, local governance, constitutional and international laws
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 the justice system, international law, race and inequality, East Asian law and politics, military and justice, and advanced quantitative methods
Jacqueline Gehring, Teaching Professor
Legal studies, comparative politics, critical race and ethnic studies, discrimination and inequality, european politics, human rights, law and policy
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; drought; groundwater management; theoretical and political issues related to property
Mark Fathi Massoud, Associate Professor of Politics
Law and society; human rights; international law; Islamic law, with a special interest in Sudan and Somalia; research methods, with an emphasis on archival research, fieldwork, and ethnography
Triloki Nath Pandey, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Shawn Nichols, Lecturer
International and global affairs, international development, politics, political economy of development, comparative politics, critical theory
Daniel M. Press, Professor of Environmental Studies
U.S. environmental politics and policy, agricultural policy, industrial ecology, land and species conservation, regionalism
Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology
Political sociology; law, crime, and social justice; drugs and society
Eric Snickars, Lecturer
Law and politics, American political development, U.S. constitutional law
Anjuli Verma, Assistant Professor of Politics
Punishment and inequality; mass incarceration; decarceration; deinstitutionalization; sociology of law; politics and social change; mixed-methods research; aging and health
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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John Dizikes, Emeritus
Michael E. Urban, Emeritus
Revised: 07/15/18
