Current Students

Tabatha Abu El-Haj - J.D. / Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., Haverford College , 1994;
J.D. New York University School of Law, 2004
Research Interests: Political practices, changes and democratic citizenship
E-mail address: taa205@nyu.edu
   
Amanda Marie-Frances Bakale – J.D. / Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.S., B.Phil., University of Pittsburgh, 2004
Research Interests: Intellectual property, jurisprudence, procedure, institutions & legal culture, Law & development, International law
E-mail address: afm258@nyu.edu
   
Laura L. Becking -Ph.D.
Educational Background: L.L.M., University of Amsterdam School of Law , 1996;
L.L.M., New York University School of Law, 1996
Research Interests: Global employment law
E-mail address: lb204@nyu.edu
   
David Bergan - Ph.D.  
Educational Background: B.S., M.S., Stanford University. 1995
  J.D., Columbia University School of Law. 2002
Research Interests: Intellectual property, its cultural roots and its societal effects
E-mail address: david.bergan@nyu.edu
   

Michela Bowman - J.D. / Ph.D.

Educational Background: B.A., Colgate University , 1993;
J.D., NYU School of Law, 2003
Research Interests: Criminal justice, punishment, prisons, prisoners' rights
E-mail address: mab299@nyu.edu
   
Erin Braatz - J.D. / Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., Northwestern University, 2001
Research Interests: Criminal punishment, transitional justice, legal transplants
E-mail address: Eb243@nyu.edu
 
Matthew Canfield- Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2007
Research Interests: Transitional justice, international criminal law, collective memory, trauma, citizenship, state-building
E-mail address: mcc502@nyu.edu
   
Gabrielle Clark - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A. Harvard College , 2002;
M.A. New York University , 2005
Research Interests: Transnational legality, transitional legality,
law and development, legal pluralism, islamic law, courts, property, social and economic rights
E-mail address: gec213@nyu.edu
   
Nadine Dechausay - Ph.D.
Educational Background: A.B., Brown University , 2000;
M.A., Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto , 2004
Research Interests: Race and sentencing,the emergent problem of crime in the african-canadian community, moral reasoning and occupational enculturation of prosecutors
E-mail address: nmd259@nyu.edu
   
Mitzi Dorland - J.D./Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A. Claremont McKenna College , 2004
Research Interests: Comparative criminal law, death penalty,
religion and the death penalty, capital punishment in Asia  
E-mail address: mmd322@nyu.edu
   
Russell Ferri - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A. University of Massachusetts , Amherst , 2004
Research Interests: Social movements, LGBT politics, law and social policy
E-mail address: rff226@nyu.edu
   
David Fonseca -Ph.D.
Educational Background: J.D., Federal University of Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil , 2000;
L.L.M., Utrecht University, Utrecht , The Netherlands, 2004;
L.L.M., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil , 2006
Research Interests: Criminal justice, The Consequences of New Arrangements on Punishments and Criminal Institutions and their Operational Effects upon Society

E-mail address:

dsf251@nyu.edu

 

 
John Halushka -Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Research Interests: Mass Imprisonment, Racial Stratification, State Bureacracies, Political Culture, Critical Theory

E-mail address:

jmh599@nyu.edu

 

 
Leila Kawar - Ph.D.
Educational Background: AB, Harvard University , 1998;
MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2000
Research Interests: Comparative public law, immigration, judicial politics
E-mail address: lck212@nyu.edu
   
Liz Loeb -J.D./Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., Brown University , 2000;
J.D. New York University School of Law, 2003
Research Interests: Queer theory, critical race theory, native land rights, international and constitutional law, social movements and law, geography and law
E-mail address: elizabeth.loeb@gmail.com

 

Francesca LaGuardia - J.D. / Ph.D.

Educational Background: B.A. University of Chicago , 2000
J.D. NYU School of Law , 2007
Research Interests: Prosecuting terrorism, torture, civil liberties & war on terrorism
E-mail address: laguardia@nyu.edu
fsk208@nyu.edu
   
Terra Lawson-Remer - J.D./Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A. Yale University , 2000
J.D. NYU School of Law, 2006  
Research Interests: International economic development, human rights, resource governance & property rights.
E-mail address: tlr229@nyu.edu
   
Sydney McKinney - Ph.D.  
Educational Background: B.A., Tufts University. 2005
  M.PH., Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. 2007
Research Interests: Juvenile delinquency, ex-offender reentry, neighborhood disorder and perceptions of crime and safety, and restorative justice
E-mail address: slm379@nyu.edu
   
Alexander K. Panayotov - Ph.D.
Educational Background: Jurist, Sofia University "St.Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria, 1996;
LL.M., George Washington University Law School, 2002;
M.A., University of Delaware, 2003
Research Interests: Law and politics, international law and international relations theory, legal transplants, neo-liberalism and institutional reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe , European integration, Max Weber
E-mail address: akp253@nyu.edu
   
Jennifer L. Ray - Ph.D
Educational Background: B.A., Williams College, 2007
Research Interests: Punishment & society, criminal justice, wrongful convictions, transitional justice, human rights.
E-mail address:

jlr452@nyu.edu
Christine S. Scott-Hayward - Ph.D.
Educational Background: BCL, University College Dublin ( Ireland ), 1999;
M.A., University of Chicago , 2000
Research Interests: Criminal justice & criminology, sociology of punishment, juvenile justice & delinquency, ex-offender reentry; dissertation on adolescent re-entry.
E-mail address:

csh238@nyu.edu
Richard Stacey - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., University of Witwatersrand, 2001
LL.B., University of Witwatersrand, 2004
Research Interests: State, law & politics, constitutional courts, social justice, public law, welfare & courts, regulation & society, law & social policy
E-mail address:

richard.stacey@nyu.edu
Mihaela Serban - Ph.D.
Educational Background: Licentiat in Stiinte Juridice, Bucharest, Romania, 1995;
LL.M., Central European University, 1996;
S.J.D., Central European University, 2000
Research Interests: Law and culture, legal consciousness, property, transitional justice, cause lawyering, comparative constitutionalism
E-mail address: mihaela.serban@nyu.edu
   
Laine Strutton - Ph.D.  
Educational Background: B.A., University of Arizona. 2004
  M.A., Columbia University, 2008
Research Interests: International humanitarian law, gender-based violence during war, female and child combatants, and post-conflict reconstruction
Email address: lps247@nyu.edu
   
Deirdre O'Sullivan - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., University of Southern California, 1994;
M.S., Columbia University School of Social Work, 1996;
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1999
Research Interests: Social work, child welfare
E-mail address: do342@nyu.edu
   
Gail Super - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A.LLB, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1988;
MSc, London School of Economics, 2000
Research Interests: Sociology of punishment, governmentality, penality in neoliberal regimes, penality in South Africa , knowledge production Asia
E-mail address: gjs220@nyu.edu
   
Jennifer Telesca - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., University of Richmond, 1996;
M.A., University of Connecticut, 2004
Research Interests: International human rights law, poverty, development
E-mail address: jet302@nyu.edu
   
Umut Turem - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey, 1999;
M.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey, 2001
Research Interests: Globalization & law, neoliberal restructuring of legal regimes, Regulatory reform in the global south, administrative law & the state.
E-mail address: zut200@nyu.edu
   
Diana H. Yoon - Ph.D.
Educational Background: B.A., University of California , 1999
Research Interests: Citizenship, ethnic studies
E-mail address: yoon@nyu.edu
dhy204@nyu.edu