Paul Amar
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., M.A., Politics: New York University
B.A., Political Science, Comparative Literature, Arabic Studies: Duke University
Additional Studies:
L’Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris; American University
in Cairo
Universite` de Marrakech; Instituto Universitario de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro
Phone: 1-805-893-2645
Email: amar AT lawso.ucsb.edu |
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Research Interests: Paul Amar is a political scientist and urban ethnographer specializing in
security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian
states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization
as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities
of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations,
and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military
atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.
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Research Interests: Social and legal theory, legal history,
legal pluralism, racism, and issues of sovereignty particularly in
relation to indigenous peoples.
Book Publications:
Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Anglo-American Law (forthcoming, under contract with Hart).
Culture, Custom, Power, Law: Implications of Legal Anthropology for the Study of Law (forthcoming, under contract with Blackwell)
Editor. Ethnography and Law. The International Library of Essays in Law and Society. Series editor: Austin Sarat. Ashgate (2007).
New Capitalists: Law, Politics and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land. Wadsworth (2003). (Case studies in Contemporary Social Issues).
Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe. University of California Press (1999). (Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association, 2000).
Co-editor with Peter Fitzpatrick. Laws of the Postcolonial. University of Michigan Press (1999).
Recent Special Issues, Articles and Chapters
Co-edited Symposium with Nick Buchanan. Law and Indigeneity: The Problematics of Origin and Authenticity. Law & Social Inquiry. (forthcoming)
Editor of Special Issue. Rights and Regulations: New Directions in Socio-Legal Scholarship. Law & Policy (2008, forthcoming).
"Precedents of Injustice: Recovering Historical Context in Law and
Society Scholarship" (Special issue titled, Law and Society Reconsidered). Studies in Law, Politics and Society (2007). (in press)
“Ethnographies of Law”; Blackwell Companion to Law and Society, edited by Austin Sarat. Pp. 545-568 (2004).
“Savage Capitalists: Law and Politics Surrounding Indian Casino Operations in California”; Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Vol. 26:109-140 (2002).
“Beating
the Bounds: Law, Identity and Territory in the New Europe”. (long
version). In Carol Greenhouse, Kay Warren and Elizabeth Merz
(eds.) Ethnography in Unstable Places. Duke University Press. Pp. 249-275 (2002).
“Myths
of ‘East’ and ‘West’: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong
Kong”. In David Theo. Goldberg and Ato Quayson (eds) Relocating Postcolonialism. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 294-319 (2002).
“Putting Law in its Place in Native North America”. Special symposium coedited with Susan Gooding. Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 24(2) (2001).
“Rabies Rides the Fast Train: Transnational Interactions in Post-Colonial Times”. (reprint) In The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space. Edited by Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney and Richard T. Ford (eds). Oxford: Blackwell (2001).
"Structural Inequalities in the Global Legal System". Review essay. Law & Society Review. 34(3): 809-828 (2000).
"Postcolonialism; A Brief Introduction". In Darian-Smith, Eve and Peter Fitzpatrick (eds) Special issue on law and postcolonialism. Social and Legal Studies. 5(3):291-299 (1996).
Current Editorial Positions
Journal of Legal Anthropology. Member, Editorial Advisory Board.
Studies in Law, Politics and Society. Member, Editorial Advisory Board.
Law & Society Review. Associate Editor (2003-2007)
Law & Social Inquiry. Member, Editorial Advisory Board.
Social and Legal Studies. International Board Member
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Editorial Fellow.
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Lisa Hajjar
Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D. Sociology, The American University
M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University
B.A., International Relations, Tufts University
Phone: (805) 893-7006
Email: lhajjar AT lawso.ucsb.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Affiliations at UCSB: Sociology, Religious Studies, Global & International Studies, and
the Center for Middle East Studies.
Research Interests: Human rights, international law, race, gender, sexuality,
nationalism and ethnicity, peace and conflict, contemporary Middle East including
US policy in the region.
Recent Publications:
Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vols. 1-5. Co-edited with Richard Falk and Hilal Elver. Routledge (2008).
Human Rights Law, Executive Powers, and Torture in the Post-9/11 Era. In Alice Bullard, editor, Human Rights in Crisis. Ashgate (2008).
The World and the Academy: New Directions in Human Rights Scholarship (review essay). Contemporary Sociology, in progress.
Rights at Risk: Why the Right Not To Be Tortured Is Important to You. Studies in Law, Politics and Society, forthcoming.
International Humanitarian Law and “Wars on Terror”: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and American Doctrines and Policies. Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 36, no. 1 (2006).
An Army of Lawyers. The Nation (2005).
Torture and the Lawless “New Paradigm.” Middle East Report Online (2005).
In the Penal Colony (review essay). The Nation (2005).
Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and
Gaza. University of California Press (2005).
Towards a Sociology of Human Rights: Critical Globalization Studies,
International Law, and the Future of War. In William Robinson and
Richard Appelbaum, editors, Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics. Routledge (2005).
Torture and the Future. Middle East Report Online, http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/hajjar_interv.html
(2004).
Torture and the Politics of Denial. In These Times, vol. 28, no. 15
(2004).
Our Heart of Darkness. Amnesty Now, vol. 30, no. 2 (2004).
Human Rights. In Austin Sarat, editor, The Blackwell Companion to Law and
Society, Blackwell Publishers (2004).
Domestic Violence and Shari’a: A Comparative Study of Muslim Societies
in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In Lynn Welchman, editor, Women’s
Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform, Zed Press, 2004.
Chaos as Utopia: International Criminal Prosecution as a Challenge to State
Power. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, vol. 31 (2004).
Religion, State Power and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework
for Comparative Analysis. Law and Social Inquiry, vol. 29 (2004).
From Nuremberg to Guantanamo: International Law and American Power Politics.
Middle East Report, no. 229 (Winter 2003).
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Elvin Hatch
Professor Emeritus
Education:
PhD, Anthropology, UCLA
Email:ehatch4091 AT aol.com
Research Interests: History of anthropology, anthropological theory,
the cultural dimension of rural communities in the US and New Zealand; current
research focuses on the processes of modernity as a cultural force in the mountain
South (US).
Recent Publications:
Theories of Man and Culture. (1973) Columbia University Press, New York.
Biography of a Small Town. (1979) Columbia University Press, New York.
Culture and Morality: The Relativity of Values in Anthropology. (1983)
Columbia University Press, New York.
"Theories of Social Honor." American Anthropologist, 91:341-53. (1989)
Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand. (1992) University
of California Press, Berkeley.
"A Humanistic Theory of Theory." (1997) Cultural Dynamics, 9:301-24.
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Kathleen M. Moore
Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Phone: (805) 893-7537
Email: kmoore AT lawso.ucsb.edu
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Research Interests: Immigration, Muslim communities in the West (e.g.,
U.S., U.K.), religion and law, Islamic law, civil rights and liberties, cultural
pluralism, cultural studies.
Recent Publications:
"'United We Stand': American Attitudes toward (Muslim) Immigration Post-
September 11th." Muslim World vol. 92, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring 2002), pp.
39- 58.
"A Part of US or A Part from US? Post September 11th Attitudes towards Muslims
and Civil Liberties in the United States." MERIP vol. 32, no. 3 (Fall
2002), pp. 32-35.
"The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International
Religious Freedom Act of 1998." In Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith (eds.),
Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Lanham, MD: AltaMira
Press, 2002.
"The Hijab and Religious Liberty: U.S. Anti-Discrimination Law and Muslim
Women in the United States." Yvonne Y. Haddad and John L. Esposito(eds.).
Muslims on the Americanization Path?: 129-158. Atlanta: Scholars Press
(cloth, 1998) and Oxford University Press (paper 1999).
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Jacqueline Stevens
Professor
Visiting Scholar, 2009-10 Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley School of Law, UC Berkeley
Education:
PhD Political Science, University of California at Berkeley 1993
MA Political Science, University of California at Berkeley 1985
AB Government, Smith College 1984
Voicemail: (805) 893-7477
Email: jstevens AT lawso.ucsb.edu
Web: www.jacquelinestevens.org and
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Research Interests: Jacqueline Stevens writes about how laws create
hereditary membership groups that seem to be natural. Her most recent book States without Nations: Citizens for Mortals (Columbia University Press) will be available in November, 2009. It considers eliminating four laws responsible for most of the world's violence and inequality and explores the psychological grounds for their persistence in light of copious evidence that they are irrational and unjust. The four laws are: birthright citizenship, inheritance, marriage, and private ownership of land.
Stevens' current research is on law-breaking by law enforcement agencies attempting to deport U.S. residents, including U.S. citizens. (For more, click here). A unifying theme running throughout her writing is law's role in constituting the nation, ethnicity, race, family, kinship, and
sexuality. These groups inspire passionate attachments causing systemic violence
and inequality, seen especially in crises of war, restrictions of movement among
states, inheritance, marriage, and private ownership of land. Stevens also writes
about the role of government research in constituting taxonomies of race and
ethnicity through the research done on the Human Genome Project. She is also working on a book manuscript "The
Human Being Project." Professor Stevens was a Robert Wood Johnson Health
Policy Scholar at Yale University, 1997-1999. Another major research commitment
is coordinating the development of an online global politics game through the
website www.agoraxchange.net.
NOTE: Beginning Fall, 2009 Professor Stevens will be a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the Berkeley School of Law. She can be reached at the email address above or by voice mail. When she is not in Berkeley she will be traveling in and out of the United States for research and checking email.
Selected Publications
Books
States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals
States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals (Columbia University Press, forthcoming, 2009).
International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice, edited with Richard Falk and Balakrishnan Rajagopal
(Routledge, 2008).
Reproducing the State (Princeton University Press, 1999).
Articles
"Thin ICE," The Nation, June 23, 2008.
Recreating the State, Third World Quarterly 27 (2006): 755-766.
Sigmund Freud and International Law, Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities 2 (2006): 201-217.
Pregnancy Envy and the Politics of Compensatory Masculinities, Gender and Politics 1 (2006): 265-294.
Racial Meanings and Scientific Methods: Policy Changes for NIH-funded Publications Reporting Human Variation Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, 28 (6) (December 2003): 1033-1098.
The Morals of Genealogy, Political Theory 31 (4) (August 2003): 558-588. If not a subscriber, click here.
Symbolic Matter: DNA and Other Linguistic Stuff, Social Text 20 (1), (Spring, 2002): 106-140.
agoraXchange, with Natalie Bookchin and Zeljko Blace. Commissioned by Tate Online. Launched March 15, 2004, available at www.agoraxchange.net.
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Heidi Hoechst
Lecturer
Education:
Ph.D., Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, San Diego
M.A., Literature in English, University of California, San Diego
B.A., English and Women's Studies, University of Minnesota at Morris
Email: hhoechst AT lawso.ucsb.edu |
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Robin Unander
Lecturer
Education:
J.D., Southwestern University, School of Law
B.A., Law and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: unander AT lawso.ucsb.edu |
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