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Legal Studies
27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
legalstudies@ucsc.edu
http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/Pol/legal.html
Program Description | Faculty
| Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Dane Archer, Professor of Sociology
Violence, war and peace, cross-national and
cross-cultural research, verbal and nonverbal communication, crime and law
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
Paul Frymer, Associate Professor of
Politics, Director of Legal Studies
American politics and institutional development;
law, race, and civil rights; parties, elections, and representation;
organizations, collective action, and social movements; labor and employment;
political history
Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of
Sociology
Intersection between race and jury, comparative
analysis of world's jury systems, theories of checks and balances and questions
of accountability through representational models in civilian legal
participatory processes, performative construction of racial identity, Japanese
judicial reforms in the establishment of the "quasi-jury" (saiban-in)
system, advanced quantitative statistical methods (covariance and moment
structural modelings)
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, Professor of
Politics
Russian politics, postcommunist transitions,
U.S.-Russian relations, political language and ideology, revolution
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
John Dizikes, Emeritus
Walter L. Goldfrank, Professor of
Sociology
Social change, historical sociology, world
systems, modern Mexico, Chile, social movements and revolution, development
theories, policies and outcomes, jury studies
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
Robert L. Meister, Professor of
Politics
Political and moral philosophy, law and social
theory, Marxian theory, institutional analysis, antidiscrimination law
Gary B. Miles, Emeritus
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