Legal Studies

27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2056
legalstudies@ucsc.edu
http://legalstudies.ucsc.edu

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