DIRECTOR:
Professor Lewis A. Kornhauser

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR:
Associate Professor Jo Dixon

The law and society program offers a Ph.D., a J.D.-Ph.D. dual degree, and a J.D.-M.A. dual degree in law and society. As an interschool program, supported by New York University’s School of Law and the Faculty of Arts and Science, the law and society program serves as an intellectual center for faculty, graduate students, and law students interested in studying law and legal institutions from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Law and Society encourages a wide range of social science perspectives, theoretical frameworks, and empirical methods. In addition to formal course work, the program convenes the NYU law and society colloquium and the law and society workshop, sponsors sociolegal conferences, and hosts visiting scholars.

Faculty

STEERING COMMITTEE

Lewis A. Kornhauser, Alfred and Gail Engelberg Professor of Law, Law; Director, Law and Society (Law/GSAS). Ph.D. 1980 (economics), J.D. 1976, California (Berkeley); M.A. 1972, B.A., Brown.
Microeconomic analysis; litigation; jurisprudence.

Jo Dixon, Associate Professor, Sociology; Associate Director, Law and Society (Law/GSAS). Ph.D. 1989, Indiana; M.A. 1981, Emory; B.A. 1972, North Carolina.
Law and society; law and social policy; courts; punishment; legal profession; gender and law; human rights; criminology; violence; Central Europe; transitional justice.

Vicki L. Been, Elihu Root Professor of Law, Law; Faculty Director, Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program (Law); Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (Law). J.D. 1983, New York University; B.S. 1978, Colorado State.
Environmental justice; land use; property; state and local government.

Oscar G. Chase, Russell D. Niles Professor of Law, Law; Codirector, Institute of Judicial Administration (Law). J.D. 1963, Yale; B.A. 1960, New York.
Civil litigation in social and cultural context; comparative civil procedure.

Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, Law. J.D. 1982, Georgetown; B.A. 1978, Chicago.
Federal courts; public law; criminal procedure; politics of judicial review.

David W. Garland, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law, Law; Professor, Sociology; Codirector, Center for Research in Crime and Justice (Law). Ph.D. 1984, Edinburgh; M.A. 1978, Sheffield; LL.B. 1977, Edinburgh.
Sociology and history of punishment; crime control and criminal justice policy; sociology of law; social theory; history of criminological ideas.

Anna L. Harvey, Associate Professor, Politics. Ph.D. 1995, M.A. 1990, Princeton; B.A. 1988, Ohio.
Political economy; electoral politics; political parties; politics of judicial review.

Bernard Haykel, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. D.Phil. 1997, Oxford; M.Phil. 1991, B.A. 1989, Georgetown.
Islamic law and society; Yemeni society and history.

Sally Engle Merry, Professor, Anthropology, Law and Society; Affiliated Professor, Law. Ph.D. 1978, Brandeis; M.A. 1967, Yale; B.A. 1966, Wellesley College.
Human rights; gender violence; gender and law; law and culture; mediation and conflict resolution; legal consciousness.

Nicola Persico, Professor, Economics, Law and Society; Affiliated Professor, Law. Ph.D. 1996, Northwestern; B.A. 1991, Bocconi.
Law and economics; political economy.

Tom R. Tyler, Professor, Psychology; University Professor; Affiliated Professor, Law. Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1974, California (Los Angeles); B.A. 1973, Columbia.
Organizational/social psychology; social justice; the psychology of authority; legal psychology; survey research/field research.

Jeremy Waldron, Professor, Law; University Professor. D.Phil. 1986, Oxford; LL.B. 1978, B.A. 1974, Otago.
Law and philosophy; rule of law.

CORE FACULTY

Derrick A. Bell, Visiting Professor, Law. LL.B. 1957, Pittsburgh; B.A. 1952, Duquesne.
Civil liberties; racism and American law.

Lauren Benton, Professor, History; Ph.D. 1987, M.A. 1983, Johns Hopkins; B.A. 1978, Harvard.
Legal cultures; social theory; world history; Atlantic history; colonialism.

Jerome Bruner, Professor, Psychology; NYU University Professor; Affiliated Professor, Law. Ph.D. 1941, Harvard; B.A. 1937, Duke.
Cognitive psychology; rules, language, and culture of legal practices.

Paulette M. Caldwell, Professor, Law. J.D. 1969, B.S. 1966, Howard.
Real estate transactions; employment discrimination; lawyering; property; race and legal scholarship.

Paul G. Chevigny, Joel S. and Anne B. Ehrenkranz Professor of Law, Law. LL.B. 1960, Harvard; B.A. 1957, Yale.
Relations between the citizen and the state; criminal and civil rights litigation; police abuse in the global South.

Peggy Cooper Davis, John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics, Law; Director, Lawyering Program. J.D. 1968, Harvard; B.A. 1964, Western College for Women.
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.

David F. Greenberg, Professor, Sociology. Ph.D. 1969, M.S. 1963, B.S. 1962, Chicago.
Deviance; sociology of law; criminology; quantitative methods; sociology of sex; sociology of science.

Christine B. Harrington, Associate Professor, Politics, Law and Society; Affiliated Associate Professor, Law; Ph.D. 1982, M.A. 1976, Wisconsin; B.A. 1974, New Mexico.
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.

James B. Jacobs, Chief Justice Warren Berger Professor of Constitutional Law in the Courts, Law; Director, Center for Research in Crime and Justice (Law). Ph.D. 1975, J.D. 1973, Chicago; B.A. 1969, Johns Hopkins.
Criminal law; criminal procedure; sociology of law; state and local government; administration of the criminal justice system.

Benedict Kingbury, Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law; Director, Institute for International Law and Justice (Law). Director, J.D./LL.M. Program in International Law (Law); Director, LL.M. Program in International Law (Law). D.Phil. 1990, M.Phil. 1984, Oxford; LL.B. 1981, Canterbury.
International institutions; theory of international law; indigenous peoples in international law; international courts and tribunals; history of international law.

Sylvia A. Law, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Law; Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Memorial Program (Law). J.D. 1968, New York University; B.A. 1964, Antioch College.
Civil rights issues; social policies; women's and minorities' rights; culture and law; health law.

Steven Lukes, Professor, Sociology. D.Phil. 1968, B.A. 1962, Oxford.
Social theory; political theory; moral philosophy.

Holly Maguigan, Professor, Clinical Law. J.D. 1972, Pennsylvania; M.A. 1969, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1966, Swarthmore College.
Criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence; global public service lawyering; domestic violence.

William E. Nelson, Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, Law. Ph.D. 1971, Harvard; LL.B. 1965, New York University; B.A. 1962, Hamilton College.
Legal history and scholarship; legal history of 20th-century New York; history of common law in America.

Jerome Skolnick, Claire Clements Dean's Chair Emeritus, California (Berkeley); Affiliated Professor, Law; Codirector, Center for Research in Crime and Justice (Law). Ph.D. 1957, M.A. 1953, Yale; B.B.A. 1952, City College (CUNY).
Criminal justice policy; policing and courts.

Frank K. Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, Law. J.D. 1974, Harvard; B.A. 1957, Princeton.
Japanese law and society; urban politics; economic regulations; minorities' and women's rights.

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor, Law. J.S.D. 1980, LL.M. 1977, California (Berkeley); LL.M. 1976, B.Comm. 1976, LL.B. 1972, Melbourne.
International law; international organizations; human rights; children's rights.

Anthony G. Amsterdam, Professor, Law; University Professor. LL.B. 1960, Pennsylvania; B.A. 1957, Haverford College. Honorary degree: LL.D., John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Clinical legal education; evidence; criminal law and procedure; law and psychiatry; lawyering theory.

Jean-Pierre Benoît, Professor, Economics; Affiliated Professor, Law. Ph.D. 1983, Stanford; B.A. 1978, Yale.
Economic theory; game theory; industrial organization; law and economics.

Peter Carnevale, Professor, Psychology. Ph.D. 1982, M.A. 1979, SUNY (Buffalo); B.A. 1977, Delaware.
Decision making in interdependent situations.

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, The Pauline Newman Professor of Law, Law. J.D. 1981, Columbia; M.S. 1970, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1968, Wellesley College.
Intellectual property; law and science; civil procedure.

Khaled Fahmy, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. D.Phil. 1993, Oxford; M.A. 1988, B.A. 1985, American (Cairo).
Social history of the modern Middle East; gender studies; Egypt.

Noah Feldman, Cecelia Goetz Professor, Law. J.D. 1997, Yale; D.Phil. 1994, Oxford; B.A. 1992, Harvard.
Administrative law; constitutional law; law and religion; comparative law; intellectual history of legal theory.

Linda Gordon, Professor, History. Ph.D. 1970, M.A. 1963, Yale; B.A. 1961, Swarthmore College.
Twentieth-century U.S. social, political, and social policy history; women and gender; family; U.S. Southwest.

Sanford Clark Gordon, Associate Professor, Politics. Ph.D. 1999, M.A. 1996, Princeton; B.A. 1994, Cornell.
American politics; bureaucratic and administrative politics; political economy of regulation; elections; law and public policy; quantitative political methodology.

Douglas Guthrie, Professor, Sociology. Ph.D. 1997, M.A. 1994, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1992, Chicago.
Courts; labor; organizations.

Bernard Haykel, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History. D.Phil. 1997, M.Phil. 1991, Oxford; B.A. 1989, Georgetown.
Islamic law and society; Yemeni society and history.

Lynne Haney, Associate Professor, Sociology. Ph.D. 1997, M.A. 1992, California (Berkeley); B.A. 1990, California (San Diego).
Sex and gender; qualitative methodology; social psychology.

Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, Law; Professor, Politics. Ph.D. 1976, M.Phil. 1975, M.A. 1974, Yale.
History of European liberalism; disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism.

John T. Jost, Associate Professor, Psychology. Ph.D. 1996, M.Phil. 1993, M.S. 1992, Yale; M.A. 1993, Cincinnati; B.A. 1989, Duke.
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.

Linda G. Mills, Professor, Social Work; Affiliated Professor, Law; Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and University Life. Ph.D. 1994, Brandeis; M.S.W. 1986, San Francisco State; J.D. 1983, California (Hastings); B.A. 1979, California (Irvine).
Bias in the legal system; intimate violence; psychodynamics of the legal system.

Rebecca B. Morton, Professor, Politics. Ph.D. 1984, Tulane; M.P.A. 1977, B.S. 1976, Louisiana State.
American politics; political methodology; political economy.

Fred R. Myers, Professor, Anthropology; Silver Professor; Chair, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. 1976, M.A. 1972, Bryn Mawr College; B.A. 1970, Amherst College.
Social anthropology; hunters and gatherers; kinship and social organization; symbolic systems; dispute processes; art and material culture; Fourth World peoples; Australia.

Richard S. Randall, Professor, Politics. Ph.D. 1966, M.A. 1962, Wisconsin; B.A. 1956, Antioch College.
American politics; civil liberties; prescriptive and operating freedoms of speech; theory of tolerance in mass liberal democratic society; censorship and social control.

John Phillip Reid, Russell D. Niles Professor of Law Emeritus, Law. J.S.D. 1962, LL.M. 1960, New York University; M.A. 1957, New Hampshire; LL.B. 1955, Harvard; B.S.S. 1952, Georgetown.
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.

David A. J. Richards, Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law, Law. J.D. 1971, Harvard; Ph.D. 1970, Oxford; B.A. 1966, Harvard.
Ethics; philosophy of law; philosophy and social theory; justice, gender, and sexual preference.

Mario Rizzo, Associate Professor, Economics. Ph.D. 1977, Chicago; M.A. 1973, B.A. 1970, Fordham.
Austrian economics; law and economics; microeconomics.

Bambi B. Schieffelin, Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D. 1979, M.A. 1977, B.S. 1967, Columbia.
Linguistic anthropology; discourse analysis; language and gender; language socialization; language ideology; language and the legal process; Papua New Guinea and the Caribbean.

Stephen J. Schulhofer, Robert B. McKay Professor of Law, Law. LL.B. 1967, Harvard; B.A. 1964, Princeton.
Criminal procedure; criminal justice; juvenile crime and sentencing; sexual harassment; Fifth Amendment principles.

Diane L. Zimmerman, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, Law. J.D. 1976, Columbia; B.A. 1963, Beaver College.
First Amendment issues; civil liberties; women's rights.

FACULTY EMERITUS

Wolf V. Heydebrand.