JSP Spotlight - Prof. Chris Kutz / Matthew Hamilton

November 10, 2025

A Collective Improvisation: Professor Christopher Kutz Explores Publics in Action in New Book
Drawing on his training as a philosopher, his experiences living in the United States and France, and on his nearly three decades as a faculty member at a public university, Kutz uses the analogy of musical improvisation to describe the way collective actions take shape.

Powerful policy ideas

Matthew Hamilton, a Ph.D. student in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program, has recently published several essays and white papers for the Edley Center on Law & Democracy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.