Trustees, Class of 2009
Katherine Beckett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Law, Societies & Justice Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Katherine received her Ph.D. from UCLA’s Department of Sociology in 1994. Her work focuses on the political and cultural dimensions of crime-related issues and the consequences of the construction and management of crime-related problems for the distribution of power and resources. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics, including, with Bruce Western, an analysis of the impact of mass incarceration on measures of unemployment (American Journal of Sociology , 1999, Winner of the LSA 2000 Distinguished Scholarly Article Prize), the role of race in drug law enforcement (published in Social Problems in 2005 and Criminology in 2006), and two books: The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (with Theodore Sasson, Sage Publications 2004) and Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Oxford University Press, 1997). Another recent research project investigates the role of law in controversies related to midwifery and childbirth (published in Law & Society Review and Feminist Theory in 2005). Her current research project analyzes the development and application of new forms of spatial exclusion in the contemporary U.S. city. Katherine was book review editor for, and now serves on the editorial board of, Punishment & Society. She is currently serving as a consultant to Seattle’s Racial Disparity Project and was Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the 2006 LSA meetings in Baltimore.
is professor of Law and Sociology at the Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago, Chile. He holds a J.D. from the Catholic University of Chile and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. During the Fall of 2006, he will be the Tinker Visiting Professor at the Law School of University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research interests include the study of law and courts in Latin America, the comparative study of judicialization, and the legal profession. Currently he is working on judicial independence in Latin America, trying to understand the elements which explain its success in some countries, and its failure in others. Recent publications include: "The Changing Role of Law and Courts in Latin America: From an Obstacle to Social Change to a Tool of Social Equity", in Domingo, Gargarella & Roux, eds., Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies (Ashgate, forthcoming, 2006); "The Judicialization of Chilean Politics: The Rights Revolution that Never Was," in Angell, Sieder and Schjolden, eds., The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006); and "Judicial Independence in Latin America: The Lessons of History in the Search for an Always Elusive Ideal," in Ginsburg and Kagan, eds., Institutions and Public Law: Comparative Approaches (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2005). He has been a member of the Law and Society Association since 1997, having served has a faculty of its Graduate Student Workshop (2000), and as member of its International Activities Committee (2004-2006). is Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where she teaches and writes in the area of labor and employment law, civil procedure, labor history, and intellectual property. Most recently, Professor Fisk is the author of Labor Law Stories (with Laura Cooper, Foundation Press 2005); "Credit Where It’s Due: The Law and Norms of Attribution," 95 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2006); "Privacy, Power, and Humiliation in the Workplace: The Problem of Appearance Regulation," 66 Louisiana Law Review 1111 (2006). She has recently completed a book manuscript, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930, and is co-authoring a law casebook, Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, to be published by West Publishing Company in 2007. She has done or is doing empirical research on union organizing among immigrant janitors and on arbitration of employment law disputes. Professor Fisk has also taught at the law schools of the University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, UCLA, and the University of Wisconsin. She received an A.B. from Princeton University, a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an LL.M. with a focus on labor law history from the University of Wisconsin. She began her involvement in the Law & Society Association as a participant in the 1993 Summer Institute, and has since attended the Annual Meeting regularly, and chaired the Willard Hurst Prize Committee in 2003-2004, and served on the Nominating Committee in 2004-2005. She has reviewed manuscripts for, among other publications, Law & Social Inquiry and the Law & Society Review, and has published in the latter. She served or serves on the board and the executive committee of the ACLU of Southern California and the Labor Law Group, served on the nominating committee of the American Society for Legal History, and remains involved in the projects of the University of Southern California Center for Law, History and Culture. is Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. A native New Zealander, Terry studied at Massey University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Chicago (PhD). His current research focuses on globalization of law: (1) he is co-directing a research program on international organizations and the globalization of bankruptcy systems, with special reference to East Asia; and (2) with Lucien Karpik and Malcolm Feeley he leads the Collaborative Research Network on the role of legal professions and political liberalism which has just completed a book manuscript, Struggles for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Change. Both are funded by the National Science Foundation. Other books include Beyond Monopoly (Chicago), Rescuing Business (Oxford), Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism (Oxford), and he is currently completing Globalization, Law and Markets (with Bruce Carruthers). His articles on the legal profession, globalization and law have appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, British Journal of Sociology and European Journal of Sociology. He has served as Editor, Law and Social Inquiry, and General Editor, Onati International Series in the Sociology of Law. Terry was a founding Board Member, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain (1988-1997) and a founder and chair of the Section on Sociology of Law, American Sociological Association. Within LSA, Terry is currently serving as Chair, International Activities Committee, Chair, International Planning Committee, and on the Berlin Program Committee and International Research Collaboratives Committee. He is a coordinator of CRN 10 on Transnational Lawyering (with Sarat and Rostain) and CRN 20 on The Legal Complex and Political Liberalism (with Feeley and Karpik). He has also been a faculty member of the LSA Summer Institute and Graduate Student Workshop. Terry has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the Center for Sociolegal Studies, Oxford University, and the Australian National University, and a consultant to the World Bank, Government of China, and OECD. He is a member of the Working Group on Insolvency, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). is an Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. She teaches U.S. legal history and the history of the relationship between law and society, as well as women's and gender history and the history of social welfare. She has recently served as a member of the Law and Society Association's Willard Hurst Prize Committee and its Dissertation Prize Committee, and has spoken at LSA conferences regularly since 1995. Her research over the past decade has focused on working-class and poor women's uses of legal institutions. Her book, The Rise and Fall of Welfare Rights: Gender, Law, and Poverty in Postwar New York City, is forthcoming (2006) from the University of Pennsylvania Press. She has also published on the subject of welfare in the landmark women's history textbook Women's America, the volume on civil rights history, Freedom North, the journals Feminist Studies and Radical History Review, and the periodicals Social Policy, The Nation, In These Times, and the Women's Review of Books. She has held fellowships in legal studies and legal history from the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, New York University School of Law (the Samuel Golieb Fellowship, under the direction of William Nelson), and the American Historical Association (the Littleton-Griswold Prize). She is in the beginning stages of two new projects: A study of disability rights and 20th-century equality jurisprudence that centers on the scholar and activist Dr. Jacobus tenBroek; and an oral history project (and possibly documentary film) tentatively entitled "Women Veterans of the First Gulf War." is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has a Ph.D. from the Political Science Department of Northwestern University (1999) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia (1985). Drawing on both social movement theory and legal consciousness frameworks, her research examines the relationship between law and social change in the context of everyday life. In her book, Confronting Sexual Harassment: The Law and Politics of Everyday Life, she analyzed the way that women rely on legal and political frames to interpret their experiences with sexual harassment at work and to develop strategies for responding to such behavior. Articles based on this research have appeared in Law & Society Review and Law & Social Inquiry. In her current research, she is analyzing various aspects of the environmental justice movement, including the role of law in constructing political grievances out of personal tragedy and the persistence of law and legal framing in a movement openly skeptical of the judicial process, lawyers, and experts of all kinds. She has been an active participant in the cause lawyering project, contributing papers to The Worlds Cause Lawyers Makeon the lawyers who worked on the same-sex marriage case in Vermont (with Scott Barclay)and to Cause Lawyers and Social Movementson the possibilities of participatory litigation in the environmental justice movement. With Scott Barclay and Lynn Jones, Anna is one of the co-organizers of Law and Society Association CRN-Collaborative Research Network on Law and Social Movements. She has also served on several Association committees, including the Development Committee (2004-05), the Article Prize Committee (2005-06), and the Program Committee (2005-06). She has chaired the Student Paper Prize Committee (2003-04) and is chairing the Article Prize Committee this year. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Law & Society Review. is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1999-2001). She holds a Ph.D. (2000) from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department at the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree (1991) and B.A. in English and French Literature (1988) from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the political economy of regulatory reform, the intersection between regulation and social and economic human rights, and global governance. Her 2003 monograph Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics in 2004, and a related article in Social and Legal Studies was joint winner of the 2004 UK Socio-Legal Article Prize. This line of research traces the ways in which economic rationality increasingly shapes both regulatory governance and collective identity, using Australian regulatory reform policy as a case study. Her current research explores globalised struggles over socio-economic rights that revolve around axes of conflict between national and local control, and between market efficiency and human rights. She recently completed a project focusing on private sector participation in water delivery to households, its consequences and the patterns of social protest it generates in six different national contexts. Recent publications on both lines of work have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Policy, the European Journal of International Law and edited volumes including Public Accountability, (ed. Michael Dowdle, Cambridge University Press 2006) and Institutions and Public Law: Comparative Approaches (eds. Tom Ginsburg and Robert Kagan, Peter Lang 2005). Bronwen is a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association, has attended Law and Society Association meetings regularly since 1993, and has served on several LSA committees, including the Summer Institute Committee (2004-2006), the International Activities Committee (2005-2006) and the Program Committee for the 2007 Annual Meting in Berlin (2005-2007). She was Chair of the Host Committee for the 2005 Summer Institute which was held at the University of Oxford and, together with Jonathan Klaaren, and Eve Darian-Smith, she wrote a successful NSF grant application for funding three sequential Summer Institutes (in the UK, South Africa, Oxford, and the US) on the theme of The Intersection of Rights and Regulation. She is editing a collection of essays with the same title which Ashgate will publish in 2007, containing the work of nine young doctoral and post-doctoral scholars from the 2005 Summer Institute. She is excited about, and committed to supporting, the various aspects of ‘internationalisation’ in LSA. She serves on the editorial boards of Governance and Regulation, a new journal recently launched by Blackwells; and the Law, Science and Society series launched by University College London Press. is the Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St. John’s University Law School. He is the author of five books: Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law (Cambridge 2006); On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory (Cambridge 2004); A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (Oxford 2001), which was awarded the 2002 Herbert Jacob Prize; Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law (Oxford 1997), which received a Certificate of Special Recognition from LSA, and Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law (Brill 1993). He has also published articles in a new of journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, American Journal of International Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Law & Society Review, and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Professor Tamanaha has been invited to deliver the 2007 Julius Stone Address at the Univerity of Sydney. He delivered the inaugural Montesquieu Lecture (2004) at the University of Tilburg as part of a series on the development of legal theory. Professor Tamanaha also delivered the Keynote Address at the Conference on Law and Social Theory (2001) at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and presented Public Lectures at the University of Tilburg (2001) and University College London (2002). He has given presentations to a number of law faculties, including Leiden, Amsterdam, Stanford, Northwestern, Cardozo, Hofstra, Pennsylvania, Emory, Indiana (Bloomington), Rutgers (Newark), Temple, and Miami. Prior to joining the St. John's law faculty, Professor Tamanaha taught law for four years at the University of Amsterdam, and worked as a Research Associate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law and Administration in Non-Western Countries. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Anton de Kom University of Suriname, and a Lecturer in the Graduate Program at Harvard Law School and at the College of Micronesia. He from Boston University School of Law and served as a law clerk to Judge Walter E. Hoffman of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He practiced law as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the District of Hawaii, and later as an Assistant Attorney General for Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia, and as Legal Counsel at the Micronesian Constitutional Convention (1990). He then earned a Doctorate in Juridical Science, with a concentration in legal philosophy, from Harvard Law School. He has twice been a member of Publications Committee (2000 and 2002-04) and was chair of the 2006 Jacob Prize Committee.