Faculty
STEERING COMMITTEE
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and Society; Affiliated Professor, Law; Director, Law and Society, Law/GSAS
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 409B
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6646
Email: Sally.merry@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D. , Brandeis University , 1978
M.A , Yale University , 1967
B.A., Wellesley College , 1966
Research and Teaching Interests
Human rights; gender violence; gender and law; law and culture; mediation
and conflict resolution; legal consciousness
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 409C
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6694
Facsimile: (212)995-4034
Email: Jo.dixon@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University , 1989
M.A., Emory, 1981
B.A., North Carolina , 1972
Research and Teaching Interests
Law and society; law and social policy; courts; punishment; legal profession; gender and law; human rights; criminology; violence; Central Europe; transitional justice
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 413
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6217
Facsimile: (212)995-4881
Email: Oscar.chase@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Yale, 1963
B.A., New York , 1960
Research and Teaching Interests
Civil litigation in social and cultural context; comparative civil procedure
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 335
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)992-8843
Facsimile: (212)995-4760
Email: DavisK@juris.law.nyu.edu
Education
B.A. (Economics), McGill University, 1990
LL.B., University of Toronto, 1993
LL.M., Columbia Law School, 1996
Research and Teaching Interests
"Taking the Measure of Law: The Case of the Doing Business Project," 32 Law & Social Inquiry 1095 (2007) (with Michael Kruse)
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 340
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6337
Facsimile: (212)995-4692
Email: David.garland@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh , 1984
M.A., Univesity of Sheffield , 1978
LL.B., University of Edinburgh , 1977
Research and Teaching Interests
Sociology and history of punishment; crime control and criminal justice policy; sociology of law; social theory; history of criminological ideas
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New York University
19 West 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-8509
Facsimile: (212)995-4184
Email: Christine.harrington@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin , 1982
M.A., University of Wisconsin , 1976,
B.A., University of New Mexico , 1974
Research and Teaching Interests
Politics and ideology of law; legal culture; legal profession; dispute processing and litigation; administrative law and regulatory politics; constitutional law and society; law and state formation in American political development
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 314E
New York , New York 10012
Telephone:(212)998-6175
Facsimilie:(212)995-4341
Email: Lewis.kornhauser@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D. (economics), University of California at Berkeley, 1980
J.D. , Univesity of California at Berkeley School of Law, 1976
B.A., M.A., Brown University, 1972
Research and Teaching Interests
Microeconomic analysis; litigation; jurisprudence
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New York University
25 Waverly Place, 602
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-8555
Facsimile: (212)995-4014
Email: Fred.myers@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1976
M.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1972
B.A., Amherst College
Research and Teaching Interests
Social Anthropology; Hunters and gatheres; Kinship and social organization; Symbolic systems; Dispute processes; Art and material culture; Fourth World peoples; Australia
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South, 402A
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)992-8930
Email: Nicola.persico@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1996
B.A., Bocconi University, 1991
Research and Teaching Interests
Law & Economics; Political Economy
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New York University
6 Washington Place , 579
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-7816
Facsimile: (212)995-4826
Email: Tom.tyler@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 1978
M.A., California (Los Angeles), 1974
B.A., Columbia, 1973
Research and Teaching Interests
Organizational/social psychology; social justice; the psychology of authority; legal psychology; survey research/field research
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 502
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6243
Facsimile: (212)995-3662
Email: Frank.upham@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Harvard University , 1974
B.A., Princeton University , 1957
Research and Teaching Interests
Japanese law and society; urban politics; economic regulations; minorities' and women's rights
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South, 411k
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6573
Facsimile: (212)995-4894
Email: Jeremy.waldron@nyu.edu
Education
D. PHil., Oxford University, 1986
LL.B. , Otago University, 1978
B.A. , Otago University, 1974
Research and Teaching Interests
Law & Philosophy; rule of law
affiliated Faculty
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 305
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6173
Facsimile: (212)995-4590
Email: Philip.alston@nyu.edu
Education
J.S.D., University of California at Berkeley , 1980
LL.M., University of California at Berkeley , 1977
LL.M., University of Melbourne, 1976
B.Comm., University of Melbourne, 1976
LL.B., University of Melbourne , 1972
Research and Teaching Interests
International law; international organizations; human rights; children's rights
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New York University School of Law
245 Sullivan Street , 504
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6232
Facsimile: (212)995-4027
Email: Aa1@nyu.edu
Education
LL.B., University of Pennsylvania , 1960
B.A., Haverford College , 1957
Honorary degree: LL.D., John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Research and Teaching Interests
Clinical legal education; evidence; criminal law and procedure; law and psychiatry; lawyering theory
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 314A
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6362
Facsimile: (212)995-4186
Email: Jeanpierre.benoit@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University , 1983
B.A., Yale University , 1978
Research and Teaching Interests
Economic theory; game theory; industrial organization; law and economics
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New York University
6 Washington Place , room 577
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-7811
Facsimile: (212)995-4826
Email: peter.carnevale@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1982
MA, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979
BA, University of Delaware, 1977
Research and Teaching Interests
Decision making in interdependent situations
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 333
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6258
Facsimile: (212)995-4760
Email: Rochelle.dreyfuss@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Columbia University , 1981
M.S., University of California at Berkeley , 1970
B.A., Wellesley College , 1968
Research and Teaching Interests
Intellectual property; law and science; civil procedure
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New York University
50 Washington Square South , 302
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8896
Facsimile: (212)995-4689
Email: Khaled.fahmy@nyu.edu
Education
D.Phil., Oxford University , 1993
M.A., American University in Cairo , 1988
B.A., American University in Cairo , 1985
Research and Teaching Interests
Social history of the modern Middle East; gender studies; Egypt
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 317
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6293
Facsimile: (212)995-4030
Email: Barry.friedman@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Georgetown University , 1982
B.A., University of Chicago , 1978
Research and Teaching Interests
Federal courts; public law; criminal procedure; politics of judicial review
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New York University
53 Washington Square , 606
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8627
Facsimile: (212)995-4017
Email: Linda.gordon@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Yale University , 1970
M.A., Yale University , 1963
B.A., Swarthmore College , 1961
Research and Teaching Interests
Twentieth-century U.S. social, political, and social policy history; women and gender; family; U.S. Southwest
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New York University
19 West 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-3708
Facsimile: (212)995-4184
Email:sanford.gordon@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University , 1999
M.A., Princeton University , 1996
B.A., Cornell University , May 1994
Research and Teaching Interests
American politics; bureaucratic and administrative politics; political economy of regulation; elections; law and public policy; quantitative political methodology
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New York University
295 Lafayette Street , 144
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8382
Facsimile: (212)995-4140
Email: Doug.guthrie@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkely, 1997
M.A., University of California at Berkeley , 1994
B.A., University of Chicago , 1992
Research and Teaching Interests
Courts; labor; organizations
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Lynne Haney , Associate Professor, Sociology
New York University
295 Lafayette Street , 122
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8373
Facsimile: (212)995-4433
Email: Lynne.haney@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley , 1997
M.A., University of California at Berkeley , 1992
B.A., University of California at San Diego , 1990
Research and Teaching Interests
Sex and gender; qualitative methodology; social psychology
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Anna L. Harvey , Associate Professor, Politics
New York University
19 West 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-3709
Facsimile: (212)995-4184
Email: Anna.harvey@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University , 1995
M.A., Princeton University , 1990
B.A., Ohio University , 1988
Research and Teaching Interests
Political economy; electoral politics; political parties; politics of judicial review
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 506
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6357
Facsimile: (212)995-3662
Email: Stephen.holmes@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Yale University , 1976
M.Phil., Yale University , 1975
M.A., Yale University , 1974
Research and Teaching Interests
History of European liberalism; disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism
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New York University
6 Washington Place , room 578
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-7665
Facsimile:
Email: john.jost@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Yale University , 1995
M.Phil., Yale University , 1993
M.S., Yale University, 1992
M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1993
A.B., Duke University, 1989
Research and Teaching Interests
Theoretical and empirical implications of a system justification theory; study of complementary stereotypes; Gender stereotypes; the underlying cognitive and motivational differences between liberals and conservatives
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New York University School of Law
70 Washington Square South , 1229
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-2306
Facsimile: (212)995-4419
Email: Linda.mills@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Brandeis University , 1994
M.S.W., San Francisco State , 1986
J.D., University of California at Hastings , 1983
B.A., University of California at Irvine , 1979
Research and Teaching Interests
Bias in the legal system; intimate violence; psychodynamics of the legal system
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19 West 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York , New York 10003
Telephone: (212)998-3706
Facsimile: (212)995-4184
Email: rebecca.morton@nyu.edu Education
Ph.D., Tulane University , 1984
M.P.A., Louisiana State University , 1977
B.S., Louisiana State University , 1976 Research and Teaching Interests
American Politics; Political Methodology; Political Economy
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 401
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6230
Facsimile: (212)995-4658
Email: John.reid@nyu.edu
Education
J.S.D., New York University , 1962
LL.M., New York University , 1960
M.A., University of New Hampshire , 1957
LL.B., Harvard University , 1955
B.S.S., Georgetown University , 1952
Research and Teaching Interests
Law of the fur trade and the mountain men; law of the American West, especially the Overland Trail to the Pacific; English, British, and American legal and constitutional theory prior to the American Revolution
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 421
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6251
Facsimile: (212)995-4894
Email: David.richards@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Harvard University , 1971
Ph.D., Oxford University , 1970
B.A., Harvard University , 1966
Research and Teaching Interests
Ethics; philosophy of law; philosophy and social theory; justice, gender, and sexual preference
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New York University
269 Mercer Street , room 726
New York , NY 10003
Telephone: (212)998-8932
Facsimile: (212)995-4186
Email: Mario.rizzo@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago , 1977
M.A., Fordham University , 1973
B.A., Fordham University , 1970
Research and Teaching Interests
Austrian economics; law and economics; microeconomics
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New York University
25 Waverly Place, 510
New York , NY 10003
Telephone: (212)998-8556
Facsimile: (212)995-4014
Email: Bs4@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University , 1979
M.A., Columbia University, 1977
B.S., Columbia University , 1967
Research and Teaching Interests
Linguistic anthropology; discourse analysis; language and gender; language socialization; language ideology; language and the legal process; Papua New Guinea and the Caribbean
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 322B
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6260
Facsimile: (212)995-4767
Email: Stephen.schulhofer@nyu.edu
Education
LL.B., Harvard University , 1967
B.A., Princeton University , 1964
Research and Teaching Interests
Criminal procedure; criminal justice; juvenile crime and sentencing; sexual harassment; Fifth Amendment principles
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 332
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6250
Facsimile: (212)995-4881
Email: Diane.zimmerman@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Columbia University , 1976
B.A., Beaver College , 1963
Research and Teaching Interests
First Amendment issues; civil liberties; women's rights
CORE Faculty
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 314H
New York , NY 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6223
Facsimile: (212)995-4341
Email: Vicki.been@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., New York University , 1983
B.S. Colorado State University , 1978
Research and Teaching Interests
Environmental justice; land use; property; state and local government
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 308B
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6235
Facsimile: (212)995-4341
Email: Derrick.bell@nyu.edu
Education
LL.B., University of Pittsburgh , 1957
B.A., Duquesne University , 1952
Research and Teaching Interests
Civil liberties; racism and American law
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New York University
53 Washington Square South , 612
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8643
Facsimile: (212)995-4017
Email: Lauren.benton@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1987
M.A., Johns Hopkins University , 1983
B.A., Harvard University , 1978
Research and Teaching Interests
Legal cultures; social theory; world history; Atlantic history; colonialism
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 302D
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6463
Facsimile: (212)995-4881
Email: Jerome.bruner@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University , 1941
B.A., Duke University , 1937
Research and Teaching Interests
Cognitive psychology; rules, language, and culture of legal practices
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 318
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6192
Facsimile: (212)995-4692
Email: Paulette.caldwell@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Howard University , 1969
B.S., Howard University , 1966
Research and Teaching Interests
Real estate transactions; employment discrimination; lawyering; property; race and legal scholarship
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 301
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6465
Facsimile: (212)995-4539
Email: Peggy.cooper.davis@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., Harvard University , 1968
B.A., Western College for Women, 1964
Research and Teaching Interests
Influence of antislavery ideology on American constitutional theory; use of multiple intelligences and reasoning styles in the work of lawyering; effects of culture and discourse styles on legal processes and on the development of law
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New York University
295 Lafayette Street , room 117
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8345
Facsimile: (212)995-4140
Email: Dg4@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago , 1969
M.S., University of Chicago , 1963
B.S., University of Chicago , 1962
Research and Teaching Interests
Deviance; sociology of law; criminology; quantitative methods; sociology of sex; sociology of science
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 322A
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6213
Facsimile: (212)995-4692
Email: Jbj1@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago , 1975
J.D., University of Chicago , 1973
B.A., Johns Hopkins University , 1969
Research and Teaching Interests
Criminal law; criminal procedure; sociology of law; state and local government; administration of the criminal justice system
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 314D
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6278
Facsimile: (212)995-4341
Email: Benedict.kingsbury@nyu.edu
Education
D.Phil., University of Oxford , 1990
M.Phil., University of Oxford , 1984
LL.B., University of Canterbury , 1981
Research and Teaching Interests
International institutions; theory of international law; indigenous peoples in international law; international courts and tribunals; history of international law
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 429
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6265
Facsimile: (212)995-4526
Email: Sylvia.law@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., New York University , 1968
B.A., Antioch College , 1964
Research and Teaching Interests
Civil rights issues; social policies; women's and minorities' rights; culture and law; health law
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New York University
295 Lafayette Street , 125
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8363
Facsimile: (212)995-4140
Email: Steven.lukes@nyu.edu
Education
D.Phil., University of Oxford , 1968
B.A., University of Oxford , 1962
Research and Teaching Interests
Social theory; political theory; moral philosophy
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New York University School of Law
245 Sullivan, room 522
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6433
Facsimile: (212)995-4031
Email: Holly.maguigan@nyu.edu
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania , 1972
M.A., University of California at Berkeley , 1969
B.A., Swarthmore College , 1966
Research and Teaching Interests
Criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence; global public service lawyering; domestic violence
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 420
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6241
Facsimile: (212)995-4658
Email: William.nelson@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University , 1971
LL.B., New York University , 1965
B.A., Hamilton College , 1962
Research and Teaching Interests
Legal history and scholarship; legal history of 20th-century New York ; history of common law in America
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South , 330B
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6361
Email: Jerome.skolnick@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Yale University , 1953
M.A., Yale University , 1953
B.B.A., City College (CUNY), 1952
Research and Teaching Interests
Criminal justice policy; policing and courts
Faculty Emeritus
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New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, 419
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-6249
Facsimile: (212)995-4760
Email: Paul.chevigny@nyu.edu
Education
LL.B., Harvard University , 1960
B.A., Yale University , 1957
Research and Teaching Interests
Relations between the citizen and the state; criminal and civil rights litigation; police abuse in the global South
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New York University
295 Lafayette Street , 138
New York , New York 10012
Telephone: (212)998-8354
Facsimile: (212)995-4140
Email: wolf.heydebrand@nyu.edu
Education
Ph.D. Chicago, 1965
M.A. Chicago 1961
Research Interests
Comparative sociology; politics; sociology of law in the US and Europe.













































