JSP Alumni
Nothing better represents the unique qualities of the JSP program than its graduates.The first Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy was awarded in 1984. Since then, a steady stream of JSP students have completed theses and moved into top academic and research jobs. JSP’s proven excellence in graduate training is amply displayed in the distinguished careers of its graduates.
Alumni members of the JSP community now comprise a significant and truly international community of teachers and researchers who have helped shape current directions in law and society studies. Their publications have garnered prestigious awards, and they occupy important academic and professional positions.
Placement
Most graduates of the JSP Program embark on academic careers. But there is an unusual variety of institutional settings where JSP graduates obtain their appointments. JSP alumni have been hired to teach in traditional departments (Political Science, Sociology, History, Criminology); in professional schools (Law, Management); and in many different interdisciplinary programs (Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, Women‘s Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies). JSP graduates currently teach at leading universities in Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. In the U.S., graduates have been appointed to the faculties of small liberal arts colleges (Bryn Mawr College, Bard College); large research universities (Harvard University, Duke University, University of Southern California, Emory University); private schools (Amherst College, University of Denver, University of Pennsylvania), and many public institutions (University of Michigan, University of Illinois, University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin, U.C. Irvine, U.C. Santa Barbara, and U.C. Berkeley).
Completed Dissertations
JSP dissertations, taken collectively, constitute an important contribution to the social and philosophical study of law, and encompass an impressive array of subject-matters and methodologies. Our distinguished alumni are listed here with the title of their dissertations.
| NAME | COHORT YEAR | DISSERTATION TITLE |
| Martha-Elin Blomquist | 1978 | Politics, Corrections, and Juvenile Justice: Changing Correctional Ideology, Institutional Organization, and Release Policy of California's Yo* |
| Lloyd Burton | 1978 | American Indian Water Rights in the Western United States: Litigation, Negotiation, and the Regional Planning Process |
| David Neal | 1978 | The Rule of Law In A Penal Colony: Law and Politics in New South Wales, 1788-1840 |
| Richard Howard Rahm | 1978 | Retribution and Modernism: Towards a Moral Theory of Punishment |
| Joseph Rees | 1978 | Reforming the Workplace: A Study of Self-Regulation in Occupational Safety |
| Lawrence Walter Ruth | 1978 | Responsiveness and Responsibility: Planning and Administration under the National Forest Management Act |
| Jack Tweedle | 1978 | Rights of One, Consequences for All: The Dilemma of Rights in Social Programs |
| George Wright | 1978 | The Protestant Hobbes (Nominalism, Theology, Charles I) |
| Kenneth Kress | 1979 | Legal Theory and Political Legitimacy: Positivism, Dworkin's Rights Thesis, and Critical Legal Studies |
| Rosann Greenspan | 1980 | The Transformation of Criminal Due Process in the Administrative State: The Targeted Urban Crime Narcotics Task Force |
| Susan Sterett | 1980 | Judging the Administrative State: British Courts, 1946-1984 |
| Marianne Constable | 1981 | The Jury 'de Medietate Linguae': Changing Conceptions of Law and Citizenship |
| Maureen Ann Young | 1981 | Why Regulatory Reform Fails: A Study of the U.S. Banking System |
| Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy | 1981 | Moral Skepticism and Legal Reasoning |
| John Robert Burroughs | 1981 | Nuclear Obligations: Nuremberg Law, Nuclear Weapons, and Protest |
| Jeremy Nathan Elkins | 1981 | The Perspective of Political Justice |
| Lucy Salyer | 1981 | Guarding the "White Man's Frontier": Courts, Politics, and the Regulation of Immigration, 1891-1924 |
| Donna Clare Schuele | 1981 | A Robbery to the Wife: Culture, Gender and Marital Property in California Law and Politics, 1850-1890 |
| Jonathan Steven Simon | 1982 | From Discipline to Management: Stategies of Control in Parole Supervisi on 1890-1990 |
| Marcia Hampton Rioux | 1982 | The Equality-Disability Nexus: The History and Law of Mental Handicap in Canada |
| Victoria Alice Saker | 1983 | Benevolent Monopoly: The Legal Transformation of Agricultural Cooperati on, 1890-1943 |
| Eric Saul Haiman | 1984 | Jurisprudence and Adjudication in the Civil Restraint in the Mentally Ill |
| Linda Ross Helyar | 1984 | Grace and Justice |
| William Thomas Gallagher | 1984 | Controlling Professions: The "Crisis" of Professional Self-Regulation in the California Bar |
| Steven Alan Childress | 1984 | Appeal and Error in First Amendment Adjudication |
| Melanie Myers | 1984 | Culpability and Consequences: A Study of Felony Murder |
| Barbara Leibhardt | 1985 | Law, Environment, and Social Change in the Columbia River Basin: The Yakima Indian Nation as a Case Study, 1840-1933 |
| Charles Frederick Lester | 1985 | The Search for Dialogue in the Administrative State: The Politics, Policy and Law of Offshore Oil Development |
| Kevin Patrick Quinn | 1985 | Allocating Medicine and the Common Good: In Search of a Public Philosophy for American Health Care |
| Eric Adam Feldman | 1985 | Rights in Japan: Customs, Concepts and Conflicts |
| Nicholas Gonzalez Yuen | 1985 |
Lives of Resistance, Communities of Support: Microstructural Processes In The Recruitment And Retention Of High Cost and High Risk Political Activists In The War Tax Resistance Movement
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| Mark Stephen Howenstein | 1986 | The Moral Limits of Legal Obligation: Contrasting Conceptions of Civil Disobedience from Freedom to Necessity |
| John Wright Sither | 1986 | Form, Substance, and History in Max Weber's Sociology of Law |
| Nancy Ann Weston | 1986 | The Law of Accidents: Tort Theory and the Metaphysics of Will |
| Jill Sari Frank | 1987 | Identity and Difference in Aristotle's Treatment of Property |
| Paul Stringham Edwards | 1987 | Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy in Silicon Valley |
| Ann Michele Lucas | 1987 | The Dis(-)ease of Being a Woman: Rethinking Prostitution and Subordination |
| Noga Morag-Levine | 1988 | Chasing the Wind: Reactive Law, Environmental Equity and Localized Air Pollution Regulation |
| Carl Jonathan Bauer | 1988 | Against the Current? Privatization, Markets, and the State in Water Rights: Chile, 1979-1993 |
| Stephen Rogers Latham | 1988 | Emerson in the Workplace: A Theory of Professionalism from the Inside Out |
| Susan Poser | 1988 | Rights, Remedies, and Organizational Change: A Theory for School Desegregation |
| Stephen David Gillespie | 1989 | The Transformation of American Public Law: Promotion and Regulation in California, 1950 to 1990 |
| David Ted Johnson | 1989 | The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan |
| Robert Alan Hennig | 1989 | Between the Margins: Party Politics and Committee Power in Conference Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives |
| Richard Angelo Leo | 1990 | Police Interrogation in America: A Study of Violence, Civility and Social Change |
| Brian Paul Gill | 1990 | The Jurisprudence of Good Parenting: The Selection of Adoptive Parents, 1894-1964 |
| Amy Lyn Toro | 1990 | Standing Up for Listeners' Rights: A History of Public Participation at the Federal Communications Commission |
| Daniel Robert Krislov | 1991 | Interest Groups and the Formulation of Federal Crime Policy: The Origins and Funding of the 1994 Federal Crime Bill |
| Catherine Albiston | 1991 | The Institutional Context of Civil Rights: Mobilizing the Family and Medical Leave Act in the Courts and in the Workplace |
| Roger Berkowitz | 1991 | The Gift of Science: Leibniz's Legal Code and the Advent of Positive Law |
| Brad R Roth | 1992 | Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law: An Emerging Norm in Theoretical Perspective |
| Thomas B Ginsburg | 1992 | Growing Constitutions: Judicial Review in New Democracies |
| Laura Beth Nielsen | 1992 | License to Harass: Offensive Public Speech, Legal Consciousness, and Hierarchies of Race, Gender, and Class |
| Sam Kamin | 1992 | The Death Penalty and the California Supreme Courts: Politics, Judging and Death |
| John Sung Woo Park | 1993 | Legislation Unworthy of a Brave and Manly People: Membership and Belonging in Liberal Political Theory and American Public Law |
| Bronwen Margot Morgan | 1993 | Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition: The Bureaucratic Politics of Regulartory Justification in Australia |
| Shai Joshua Lavi | 1995 | The Modern Art of Dying: The History of Euthanasia in the United States |
| Neil S. Siegel | 1996 | Intransitivities Protect Minorities: Interpreting Madison's Theory of the Extended Republic |
| Karl Blaine Shoemaker | 1996 | Sanctuary Law: Changing Conceptions of Wrongdoing and Punishment |
| Idit Kostiner | 1996 | Conflicted Legalities: A Cultural Analysis of Law and Activism |
| Mark Antaki | 1996 | A Genealogy of Crimes Against Humanity |
| Anna R. Kirkland | 1997 | Personhood and Identity in American Law |
| Amy Steigerwalt | 1997 | Cultivating Controversy: Senators, Interest Groups and the Politics of Courts of Appeals Confirmations |
| Alexandra Huneeus | 1997 | The Dynamics of Judicial Stasis: Judges, Pinochet-Era Claims, and Judicial Legitimacy in Chile (1998-2005) |
| Rebecca Curry | 1997 | Making Law with Lawsuits: The Politics of Judicial Review in Federal Campaign FInance Policy |
| Matthew Jude Egan | 1997 | The Stewardship Claim at Los Alamos National Laboratory: Managing Hazardous Legal and Regulatory Environments |
| Adam B. Badawi | 1998 | Essays on Legal and Extra-Legal Ordering |
| Kerstin B. Carlson | 1998 | Model(ing) Law: The ICTY, the International Criminal Justice Template, and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia |
| Helen Elizabeth Hartnell | 1998 |
Europeanizing Civil Justice in Amsterdam (1997) and Tampere (1999): Legal Elites and the Politics of Private International Law, Civil Procedure and the Administration of Justice in the European Union
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| Yuval Feldman | 1999 |
Confidential Know-How Sharing and Trade-Secrets Laws: Studying the Interaction between Legality, Social Norms and Justice among High-Tech Employees in Silicon Valley
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| Susan M. Dennehy | 1999 | Shifting Family Boundaries: State Courts, Functional Parents, and the Expansion of Parental Status |
| Joshua C. Wilson | 1999 | Rights, Process, & Political Passions: A Study of Three Anti-Abortion Protest Regulation Cases |
| Jacqueline S. Gehring | 1999 | Race, Law, and Politics in the European Union |
| Shalini P. Satkunanandan | 1999 | The Turn: Plato, Kant, and Heidegger on the Encounter with the Ground of Obligation |
| Bradley W. Bryan | 2000 | Code Dependency: Biotechnology and the Embrace of Biopolitics |
| Dorit Rubinstein | 2000 | Regulatory Accountability: Telecommunications and Electricity Agencies in the UK, France and Sweeden |
| Robert Tennyson | 2000 | Private Legislation: Function and Procedure in the Eighteenth Century |
| Hamsa M. Murthy | 2000 | Justice and the Foreigner: Illegal Alienage and the Dilemmas of Law and Government in Modern America |
| Hadar Aviram | 2001 |
Managing Disobedience as Crime: Legal and Extra-Legal Discourse in Addressing Unauthorized Absences and Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel
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| Chrysanthi S. Leon | 2001 | Compulsion and Control Sex Crime and Criminal Justice Policy in California, 1930-2007 |
| Lyndsay M. Campbell | 2001 | Truths and Consequences: The Legal and Extalegal Regulation of Expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840 |
| Takeshi Akiba | 2001 | The Evolution of State and Federal Citizenship in the United States |
| Edith Celine Marie Kinney | 2001 | The Political Economy of Globalizing Sex Norms: Tracing the Trajectory of tanti-trafficing Reforms |
| Shahla Farzaneh Maghzi Ali | 2002 | International Arbitration and Mediation in East Asia: Examining the Role of Domestic Legal Culture and Globalization on Shaping East Asian Arbitration |
| Michael D. Gilbert | 2002 | Law, Politics, and Preferences: An Economic Analysis of Direct Democracy and the Single Subject Rule |
| Mark Massoud | 2002 | Who Rules the Law? How Grovernment, Civil Society, and Aid Agencies Maniputale Law in Sudan |
| Ross Astoria | 2002 | Judging the Decalogue: The Ten Commandments and the Establishment Clause |
| Willow Mary Meyer | 2002 | Beyond the Seas: Eighteenth-Century Convict Transportation and the Widening Net of Penal Sanctions |
| Brian J. Broughman | 2003 | Oppurtunistic Conduct and Governance Structure in Startup Firms |
| Timothy L. Meyer | 2003 | The Evolution of International Law |
| Ariel Meyerstein | 2003 | On the Effectiveness of Global Private Regulation: The Implementation of the Equator Principles by Multinational Banks |
| Judith A. Randle | 2003 | Victim Assistance in the Age of Victims' Rights: A Study of California's County Victim-Witness Assistance Programs |
| Stephen Davis Carniglia | 2003 | Law, Politics and Markets of Corporate Governance: Institutional Investors' Influence |
| Janette D. Catron | 2003 | Ethics on the Ground: Egg Donor Agency Behavior in an Unregulated Legal Environment and the Growth of Ethical Norms in a New Field |
| Veena B. Dubal | 2003 | Driving Freedom, Navigating Neoliberalism: San Francisco Taxi Workers, Juridical Precarity, and the Politics of Work Law |
| David E. DePianto | 2004 | Happiness in Law and Policy: Two Empirical Studies |
| Jennifer M. Denbow | 2004 | Reproducing Autonomy |
| Ming H. Chen | 2004 | Regulatory Rights: Civil Rights Agencies Translating "National Origin Discrimination" into Language Rights, 1965-1979 |
| Alexander S. Rosas | 2004 | Diversification of the Republic: Cultural Diversity in Contemporary France |
| Pablo Rueda | 2004 | From the Law to the Market: the Campaign of the U'wa Indigenous People in Colombia (1995-2010) |
| Larisa Mann | 2004 | Decolonizing Copyright: Learning from the Jamaican Street Dance |
| Tamara R. Lave | 2005 | Constructing and Controlling the Sexually Violent Predator: An American Obsession |
| Lynette J. Chua | 2005 | How Does Law Matter to Social Movements? A Case Study of Gay Activism in Singapore |
| Pamela Coukos | 2005 | Hostile Environment? The Development of Sexual Harassment Law in the United States 1971-1991 |
| Jamie Rowen | 2005 | Truth in Transition: The Politics of Mobilization in the Wake of State-Sponsored Violence |
| Gwendolyn Manriquez Leachman | 2005 | Legalizing LGBT Politics: Litigation and the Construction of Social Movement Agendas |
| David Yieh Hunn Kwok | 2006 | The Private Enforcement of Government Interests Under the False Claims Act |
| Shauhin Ahmadi Talesh | 2006 | Manufacturing Consumer Protection Law: The Private Construction of Public Legal Rights |
| Keramet Ann Reiter | 2006 | The Most Restrictive Alternative: The Origins, Functions, Control, and Ethical Implications of the Supermax Prison, 1976 - 2010 |
| Hillary L. Berk | 2006 | The Legalization of Emotion: Risk, Gender and the Management of Feeling in Contracts for Surrogate Labor |
| Christina Stevens Carbone | 2006 | The Promise of Accountability: Countering Racial Bias in Decision-Making |
| Kony Kim | 2006 | Restoring Human Capabilities After Punishment: Our Responsibilities Toward Incarcerated Americans |
| Wei Zhang | 2007 | Constitutional Environment and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Study |
| Ashley T. Rubin | 2007 | Institutionalizing the Pennsylvania System: Organizational Exceptionalism, Administrative Support, and Eastern State Penitentiary, |
| Douglas M. Spencer | 2007 | Regulating the Political Process |
| Kimberly Alexa Koenig | 2007 | Indefinite Detention / Enduring Freedom: What Former Detainees' Experiences Can Teach Us About Institutional Violence, Resistance and the Law |
| John W. Bliss | 2007 | The Dynamics of the Professional Self: Findings from Law School and Early Law Careers |
| Megan Claire Wachspress | 2007 | The Criminal and the Enemy in Seventeenth Century English Thought |
| Ana Kathryn Anne Henderson | 2008 | Shaping Issues: News Media Framing of Proof of Citizenship Requirements to Register to Vote |
| Nicole S. Lindahl | 2008 | Intimate Bonds: Dislocation, Survival, & Resistance in the Era of Neoliberal Punishment |
| Adam D. Hill | 2008 | |
| Mary Agnes Savino Hoopes | 2008 | Empirical Studies of the State’s Treatment of Noncitizens in the United States: A Mixed Method Approach |
| Stephen M. Rushin | 2009 | Structural Reform Litigation in American Police Departments |
| Genevieve Painter | 2009 | Partial Histories: Constituting a Conflict between Women's Equality Rights and Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada |
| Lauren Maisel Goldsmith | 2009 | Fake Federalism: How American "Federalism" Works and Why It Doesn't |
| Kelsey Ward Mayo | 2009 | Law and Discretion in California Charter School Oversight |
| James Cleith Phillips | 2009 | Political Diversity and the Legal Academy: Three Empirical Studies |
| Mina Barahimi | 2009 | Deporting Due Process: A Study of Race and Structural Coercion in "Voluntary" Departure at the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| David S. Louk | 2009 | Law's Audiences |
| Cristian Villalonga Torrijo | 2010 | The Rhetoric of Legal Crisis. Lawyers and the Politics of Juridical Expertise in Chile (1830-1990) |
| Ayako Hirata | 2010 | Regulatory Ambiguity: How Inter-Office Interaction Defines Japanese Environmental Law |
| Hannah S. Laqueur | 2010 | Synthetic Crowdsourcing A Machine-Learning Approach to the Problems of Inconsistency and Bias in Adjudication |
| Ryan William Copus | 2010 | Machine Learning and the Reliability of Adjudication |
| Mayra Feddersen | 2010 | The Bureaucratic Politics of Legal Reform: Chile as an Exceptional Case |
| Sarah Monira Ludin | 2010 | The Reformation Suits: Litigation as Constitution-Making in a German Imperial Court, 1521-1555 |
| James Richard Dillon | 2011 | Epistemic Institutions: Law’s Encounters with Knowledge |
| Joy E. Milligan | 2011 | The Segregation State: Administrative Constitutionalism and Federal Agencies’ Resistance to Brown |
| Julian Nyarko | 2011 | Empirical Essays on the Enforcement of Domestic and International Contracts |
| Alexandra T. Havrylyshyn | 2011 | Free for a Moment in France: How Enslaved Women and Girls Claimed Liberty in the Courts of New Orleans (1835-1857) |
| Mary Caitlin Unkovic | 2011 | When Dodge v. Ford Meets Ben & Jerry’s: Reconciling 100 Years of Bad Precedent with the Reality of Modern Business |
| Lindsay C. Parham | 2011 | The Logics of Consent: how organizations construct women's risks and responsibilities in prenatal testing |
| Tobias Johnson Smith | 2011 | The Contradictions of Chinese Capital Punishment |
| James D. Hicks | 2011 | New Approaches to Old Questions in Intellectual Property |
| Vasanthi Venkatesh | 2012 | Rethinking the Temporary, Reconstituting the Citizen: Rights Mobilization by Temporary Foreign Workers in Comparative Perspective |
| Johann August Koehler | 2012 | Making crime a science: The rise of evidence-based criminal justice policy |
| Asad A. Rahim | 2012 | Diversity to Deradicalize |
| Chase Smith Burton | 2012 | Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 |
| Alan James Kluegel | 2012 | The Ties That Bind: The Internal Structures Of Law Firms And The Dynamics Of Law Firm Dissolution |
| Mark Andrew Leinauer | 2012 | The Judicial Evaluation of Gay Male and Lesbian Parental Fitness in Custody Matters |
| Minhao Benjamin Chen | 2013 | Essays on the Cost-Benefit Administrative State |
| Brittany Bilder Arsiniega | 2013 | Danger and Data Collection in American Policing |
| Aniket Kesari | 2014 | Essays on U.S. Data Protection Law & Policy |
| Abigail J. Stepnitz | 2014 | Unsettled Truths: Law, Culture, and Credibility in Affirmative Asylum Claims 1989-2018 |
| Gil Rothschild | 2014 | Refusal and Closure: Penal Supervision across Unreconciled Worlds |
| Colin Christensen | 2014 | Lawful Orders: Liberalism and the Birth of Police Discretion |
| Amin Ebrahimi | 2014 | Why Act Legally |
| Kyle DeLand | 2015 | Land Monopoly, Property Law, and the Crises of California Settler Society, 1841-1880 |
| Diana Reddy | 2016 | The Law and Social Movement Dialectic: Labor Unions, Cycles of Protest, and a Critique of (Historically Specific) Rights |
| Elias Lawliet | 2017 | The Provider's Letter: Cisgender Anxieties, Specters of Regret, and Trans Agency as Liberation |
| Eduardo Bautista | 2024 | Du Bois to Defund: Revisioning the History and Future of U.S. Policing |
| Dvir Yogev | 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform: Voting, Policing, and Public Attitudes |
| Meredith Spoto | 2024 |
Working Lawyers: Institutional Barriers and the Gender Attrition Crisis in Large Law Firms, |
| Kyneshawau Herd | 2024 |
3D of Racial Justice: Diversity, Dominance, Discrimination: Implicit Dominance & the Principle-Policy Gap |