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About the Legal Studies FacultyThe faculty of the Legal Studies Program come from a wide variety of disciplines. Except for the Associate Director, all faculty have a primary affiliation with a tenure granting unit such as Law, History, Political Science, or Sociology. The Core Faculty teach a combination of disciplinary courses with a law focus and courses specifically designed to be interdisciplinary. Their teaching includes the gateway courses in the new Legal Studies curriculum (Legal Studies 131 and 217) and the Legal Studies capstone course (Legal Studies 641). The Core Faculty also has primary responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of legal studies curriculum. In addition to the Core Faculty, a number of Associated Faculty, teach a variety of disciplinary courses that have a law or legal institution focus. Donald R. Davis,
Jr.
Donald R. Davis, Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia. He hold a PhD in Asian Languages & Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on law and religion in India, especially in the classical and medieval periods, and on comparative religious law. He was a Fellow at the UW Institute for Research in the Humanities in 2007 and also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities during 2007-08, during which time he completed a book entitled The Spirit of Hindu Law (New York: Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2009). Currently, he is co-editing (with Timothy Lubin and Jayanth Krishnan) Hinduism and Law: An Introduction (also Cambridge UP). Other recent publications include: "Before Virtue: Halakhah, Dharmasastra, and What Law Can Create," Law & Contemporary Problems 71:2 (2008): 99-108; "Law," In Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods. Eds. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby. New York: Routledge, 218-229; "Maxims and Precedent in Classical Hindu Law," Indologica Taurinensia 33 (2007): 33-56; "Hinduism as a Legal Tradition." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75:2 (2007): 241-267; "A Realist View of Hindu Law." Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 19:3 (2006): 287-313.
Robert E. Drechsel drechsel@wisc.edu 5115 Vilas Communications Hall 263-3394 Robert Drechsel is Professor Journalism and Mass Communication and Professor of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Minnesota, and has been a member of the Wisconsin faculty since 1983. He served as director of the Journalism School from 1991 to 1998. In 1999-2000, he served as director of the behavioral science and law major and as director of the criminal justice certificate program. Drechsel teaches courses including Journ. 559 (Law of Mass Communication); Journ 675, Topics in Government and Mass Media; and two graduate seminars in mass communication law and policy. His research has focused on tort law and constitutional law affecting mass communication, and on reporter-source interaction in state trial courts. Most recently, the former has focused on the relationship between law and ethics, and law and professionalism. Drechsel is the author of one book, News Making in the Trial Courts, and articles in a variety of legal and communication journals. return to faculty list Howard S. Erlanger
currently serves as the Director of the Legal Studies Program and the
Criminal Justice Certificate Program. A member of the UW faculty since
1971, he is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, Professor of Sociology, and
Director of the Institute for Legal Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology
from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University
of Wisconsin.. Professor Erlanger is the recipient of a number of awards
for his teaching and research, including the Steiger and Underkofler
awards from the University for excellence in teaching, and is a past-President
of the Law and Society Association. Since 1982 Professor Erlanger has
been Review Section Editor of Law and Social Inquiry, where he has solicited
and edited over 400 article-length essays representing the great diversity
of views in socio-legal studies. His own socio-legal research has primarily
focused on the legal profession -- especially on the careers of lawyers
in public interest practice and the socialization of law students --
and on topics related to dispute resolution and to law and organizations.
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Professor Hendley's research
focuses on legal and economic reform in the former Soviet Union. She
is currently engaged in an inter-disciplinary project aimed at understanding
how business is conducted in Russia and the role of law in business
transactions and corporate governance. This project has been funded
by the World Bank, the National Science Foundation, and the National
Council for Eurasian and East European Research. She teaches Contracts,
as well as courses related to her interest in Russia, such as Russian
Law, International Business Transactions, Comparative
Law, and Transitions to the Market. She has served as a consultant to
the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank in
their work on legal reform in Russia. Professor Hendley is currently
the Director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia,
which receives Title VI funding from the Professor Hendley's
web site can be found at http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/users/hendley Alexandra Huneeus studies the judicialization of politics, the politics of human rights, and legal culture in Latin America. Her Ph.D. dissertation centered on the Chilean judiciary’s changing attitude towards cases of Pinochet-era human rights violations. She teaches sociology of law, human rights, Latin American legal institutions, and international law. Before joining the UW faculty in 2007, Professor Huneeus was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (2006), and her J.D. from Boalt Hall, the Berkeley Law School (2001). As a human rights fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Boalt Hall in 2004, she supervised students bringing a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The successful challenge resulted in a ruling ordering the Dominican Republic to alter its citizenship policies and practices. She also worked on the case against Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Spain, through the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco. Prior to her turn to law, Professor Huneeus worked as an editor and journalist in Santiago, Chile, her native city, and in San Francisco, her home town. If there were more
days in the week, she would spend them dancing (modern/jazz), writing,
reading novels, and with her family.
Howard Schweber
joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 1999. He received
his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1999 and an MA in History
from the University of Chicago after spending five years practicing
law. He teaches courses focusing on constitutional law and legal and
political theory. He is the author of Speech, Conduct and the First
Amendment (Peter Lang Press, 2003), The Creation of American
Common Law, 1850-1880: Technology, Politics, and the Construction of
Citizenship (Cambridge 2004), and The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism
(Cambridge 2007), as well as articles, essays, and book chapters on
a variety of related topics. His current areas of research include comparative
analyses of different constitutional systems and the construction of
"public" and "private" as categories of legal and
political discourse. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy and in the past
has been actively involved with the Center for Civic Education's We
the People program. In addition, Schweber was the coach of the UW-Madison's
College Mock Trial Team from 1999-2002, but has retired, according to
a spokesman, "to spend more time with his family." Profesoor
Schweber is regularly featured on Wisconsin Public Radio programs and
gives frequent newspaper and television interviews. In 2004 he was the
recipient of the William H. Kiekhoffer Award for Distinguished Teaching.
He has also twice been selected as the Pi Sigma Alpha Professor of the
year, and received the Stephen and Marjorie Russell Award for Outstanding
Teaching at Cornell University. Mitra Sharafi joined the Legal Studies Program and UW Law School in Fall 2007. She holds two law degrees and a doctorate in history. Her PhD dissertation is a study of law and identity in the Parsi or Indian Zoroastrian community of colonial India and Burma, and was awarded the 2007 South Asia Council’s Dissertation Prize. Having grown up in Canada with an Iranian father and American mother, Sharafi’s personal interest in comparative cultures led her to India, where the personal law system combines the common law with the religious legal traditions of Hindu, Muslim, and other communities. Sharafi first travelled to India during law school on the fiftieth anniversary of Indian independence in 1997. She has returned many times since, particularly for archival research at the Bombay High Court in Mumbai. In 2006-7, she spent six months in India, during which time her work also took her to Pakistan and Myanmar (formerly Burma). Sharafi’s
research interests include the legal history of marriage, divorce, and
trusts in colonial South Asia; Parsi and Zoroastrian studies; legal
pluralism; and the history of the legal profession in the British Empire.
She is an organizer of the Law and Society Association’s International
Research Collaborative on South Asian Colonial Legal History. Sharafi
joins UW following a two-year research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge University and a brief visiting fellowship at Griffith University’s
Socio-Legal Research Center in Australia. Karl Shoemaker kbshoemaker@wisc.edu 4046 Humanities 263-1830 Karl Shoemaker is Assistant Professor of History and Law. He holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Cumberland School of Law. He is a legal historian, with particular focus on pre-modern legal traditions. His research and teaching interests include the history of criminal law and punishment, and historical and philosophical approaches to the institutions of modern criminal justice. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Law Culture and the Humanities. In 2006-07, Professor Shoemaker was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has also held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the North American Conference on British Studies. He is currently working on the history of the right to sanctuary as well as a set of medieval texts which imagined the devil as a litigant. Recent publications include (with William Courtenay) "The Tears of Nicholas: Simony and Perjury by a Parisian Master of Theology in the Fourteenth Century," Accepted by Speculum (forthcoming, 2008); "Revenge as a 'Medium Good' in the Twelfth Century" in 1 Law, Culture, and Humanities, 333-358 (2005); "The Birth of Official Criminal Prosecutions in American Law" in Rechtssystem im Vergleich: Die Staatsanwaltschaft (2005), The Problem of Pain in Punishment: A Historical Perspective," in Pain, Death, and the Law (A. Sarat, ed., 2001); and "Criminal Procedure in Medieval European Law: A Comparison Between English and Roman-Canonical Developments after the IV Lateran Council," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte - Kanonistische Abteilung (1999). return to faculty list |
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