2023-2024 University Catalog 
    
    Oct 14, 2024  
2023-2024 University Catalog archived

Law, Justice, and Society (LJS)


Law, Justice, and Society

The Law, Justice, and Society Program engages students in an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of law and justice, challenges students to think freely, critically, and humanely about the role of law at a variety of levels (local, national, regional, global), and equips students to critically examine law and justice across cultural, chronological, topical, and institutional settings.

Program Head: Timothy Lubin

Core Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular-faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
 

Adedayo O.L. Abah, Ph.D.—(2002)-2017
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia

Carlys Elizabeth Belmont, J.D.—(2001)-2010
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Legal Practice Center
J.D., Loyola University

Matthew S. Boaz J., J.D.—(2019)
Visiting Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic and Professor of Practice
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Kevin M. Crotty, J.D., Ph.D.—(1999)-2004
J. Donald Childress Professor of Classics and Professor of Law
Ph.D., Yale University

Nathan Dean, J.D., Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of Law, Justice, and Society
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J.D., University of Virginia

Mark Drumbl, LL.M., J.S.D.—(2001)-2006
Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law; Director, Transnational Law Institute; and Alumni Faculty Fellow
LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University

Toni Locy, M.S.L.—(2008)-2013
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
M.S.L., University of Pittsburgh

Timothy Lubin, Ph.D.—(1997)-2009
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
Ph.D., Columbia University

Russell A. Miller, J.D., M.A., LL.M.—(2008)-2008
Associate Professor of Law and Lecturer in Literature
J.D., Duke University
M.A., LL.M., J.W. Goethe University

Mark E. Rush, Ph.D.—(1990)-2002
Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Professor of Politics and Director, Center for International Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Melissa E. Vise, Ph.D.—(2018)-2023
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Northwestern University

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Minor

Courses