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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. Core Faculty Donald Downs Robert E. Drechsel Howard S. Erlanger Kathryn Hendley Alexandra Huneeus Irene B. Katele Mitra Sharafi Karl Shoemaker Mark Suchman Donald Downs dadowns@wisc.edu 306 North Hall 263-2295 [on sabbatical 2007-2008] Donald Downs is a Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism. His primary interests are constitutional law and civil liberty; criminal law and justice; law and society broadly defined; political theory and jurisprudence; and legal, normative, and political issues in higher education. Downs has taught a wide variety of courses related to law and politics. He has published four books, two of which have won national awards: Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment; The New Politics of Pornography; More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law; and Cornell `69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. He is currently finishing a book on the politics and law of civil liberty struggles on campus, an area in which he has also been active. return to faculty list Robert E. Drechsel drechsel@wisc.edu 5115 Vilas Communications Hall 263-3394 Robert Drechsel is Professor Journalism & 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 U.S. Department of Education. 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. Irene B. Katele ikatele@ssc.wisc.edu 8137 Social Science Building 262-2083 Irene B. Katele is Associate Director of the Legal Studies Program. She earned a J.D. at the University of Wisconsin Law School, a Ph.D. and A.M. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in History from Northwestern University. Katele taught history for four years, first at The Ohio State University and then at the University of South Carolina. As an historian, she researched the impact of piracy on Venice during the Crusades. While in law school, Katele served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review, was a member of the Moot Court Board, and worked as a judicial intern to Judge John L. Coffey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She also received the Abner Brodie Award for Outstanding Contribution to Life at the Law School. After law school, she clerked for Justice David Prosser, Jr. of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and then was an associate in the estate planning practice area at the Madison office of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Katele is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin. return to faculty list 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 [on leave Fall 2007] Karl Shoemaker is Assistant Professor of History and Law. He holds a Ph.D. 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 Mark Suchman suchman@ssc.wisc.edu 3460 Social Sciences 262-6261 [on leave] Mark C. Suchman is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Law. He holds a JD from Yale Law School (1989) and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University (1994). His primary research interests center on the legal environments of organizational activity in general, and on the legal environments of entrepreneurship and technological change in particular. He is currently completing a book on the role of law firms in Silicon Valley, and he is launching a multi-year project on the organizational, professional and legal challenges of new information technologies in health care. He has also written on organizational legitimacy, on the relationship between economic and sociological explanations of legal phenomena, on the impact of changing professional structures on corporate litigation ethics, on the organizational "internalization" of law, and on social science approaches to the study of contracts. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University, and in 2002-2003 he is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California. He is an active member of the Law and Society Association, the Academy of Management, and the American Sociological Association, and his research has received funding from both the National Science Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. At UW, he chairs the Sociology Department's Deviance, Law and Social Control faculty, and he serves on steering committees for the Institute for Legal Studies, the Legal Studies Program, and the Industrial Relations Research Institute. return to faculty list |
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