Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs
  • About
    • Membership
    • Board of Directors
    • Bylaws
    • FAQs
    • Contact
  • Resources
    • Programs
    • Syllabi
    • Teaching Resources
    • Advising Resources
    • Undergraduate Research Prizes and Publishing Resources
    • Organizations & Research Institutes
  • Awards
    • 2022 Awards Recipients
    • 2021 Awards Recipients
    • 2020 Awards Recipients
    • 2019 Awards Recipients
    • 2017 Awards Recipients
    • 2016 Award Recipients
  • Meetings
    • Pre-Conference Workshop Schedule
    • Pre-Conference Workshop RSVP
    • Past CULJP-sponsored Conference Panels
    • CULJP Meetings
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Virtual

CULJP Board of Directors

Picture
  Haley Duschinski 
  President
  Ohio University 
  duschins@ohio.edu


Haley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University. She is a legal and political anthropologist with research specializations in law and society; violence, war, and power; and human rights, militarization and impunity. She co-edited Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (UPenn Press 2018), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (Routledge 2022), and The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (Palgrave forthcoming) as well as special issues of The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (2018), Critique of Anthropology (2020), and Himalaya (2020). She is the recipient of Ohio University's Presidential Teacher Award, Grasselli Brown Teaching Award, and University Professor Award. She served as Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture from 2013-2020 and Graduate Director of the MA in Law, Justice & Culture from 2018-2022. Since 2014, she has directed OU’s study abroad program on Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland.​

Picture
Raul Sanchez Urribarri
Vice President 
La Trobe University
R.SanchezU@LaTrobe.edu.au


Raul is Associate Dean (Academic and International Partnerships) at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. His research focuses on constitutionalism, judicial politics, and the rule of law in comparative perspective, with an emphasis on contexts of democratic deterioration. His work has been published The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, International Political Science Review, and the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Latin American Research Review, among others. He is co-editor at Thesis Eleven (SAGE), and past Chair of the Section on Venezuelan Studies at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Raul also has a strong interest in the internationalization of higher education, particularly on international mobility and intercultural teaching. He leads a research-intensive international study tour to New Orleans and Mississippi, focused on reflective experiential learning.​

Picture
Aaron Lorenz 
Treasurer
Ramapo College 
alorenz@ramapo.edu

Aaron Lorenz is Dean of the School of Social Science and Human Services and Associate Professor of Law & Society at Ramapo College.  He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  His research addresses constitutive theory with particular attention on popular culture.

Picture
Jamie Longazel
Communications Coordinator
John Jay College, CUNY
jlongazel@jjay.cuny.edu

Jamie is Associate Professor of Law & Society in the Political Science Department at John Jay College. He’s also affiliated with the International Migration Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches in John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program. Much of his research focuses on immigration law and politics, although he’s also written about mass incarceration and the politics of policing. Jamie is the author of the award-winning book Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple University Press); co-editor of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple University Press); and co-author of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge). He’s also the founder of Anthracite Unite, an education and advocacy collective working on issues of racial and economic                                                         justice in Northeast Pennsylvania. 


Picture
Steve Boutcher
Board Member
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Boutcher@umass.edu

Steve is currently the Executive Officer of the Law & Society Association and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Steve’s research lies at the intersection of law, organizations, and social change, particularly focusing on social movements and the legal profession. He is currently co-PI on two NSF-funded projects: one focusing on LGBT employment discrimination in large private workplaces and the other on race and gender discrimination in local and state workplaces. His research has been published in the                                                                         American Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Law & Social Inquiry, Mobilization, and other outlets.                                                               He is currently co-editing the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change (with Michael                                                                       Yarbrough and Corey Shdaimah), which is under contract with Edward Elgar Press.

Picture
  Paul Collins
  Board Member
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  pmcollins@legal.umass.edu


Paul is Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research and teaching interests focus on understanding the democratic nature of the judiciary, interdisciplinary approaches to legal decision making, and social movement litigation. He has published more than two dozen academic articles and he is the author of Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making (Oxford University Press), coauthor of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change (Cambridge University Press), and coauthor of The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump (Cambridge University Press). His courses include Introduction to Legal Studies, Judges and Judging, and Law and Social Activism. Paul previously served as the Vice President of                                                           CULJP.

Picture
Renee Cramer
Board Member
Drake University 
renee.cramer@drake.edu

Renee Ann Cramer is associate professor and chair of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. She earned her PhD in Politics from New York University in 2001, with a dissertation and book that focused on federal acknowledgement for American Indian tribes. Her second book, on our obsession with celebrity pregnancy, was published in 2015 by Stanford University Press; she is currently working on a third project mapping the regulation of homebirth midwifery.  Professor Cramer teaches a wide range of courses, including Law and Social Change, Reproductive Law and Politics; Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory; and Contemporary American Indian Law and Politics.

Picture
Sida Liu 
Board Member
University of Toronto
sd.liu@utoronto.ca

 Sida Liu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is an active faculty member in the Criminology, Law and Society (CLS) program at the University of Toronto Mississauga, one of the largest undergraduate law & justice programs in Canada. Dr. Liu’s research interests focus on the legal profession and sociolegal theory. He has taught courses on several sociolegal topics, including the sociology of law, the legal profession, and research projects in criminology, law and society. Dr. Liu has provided many services to the law and society community over the years and served                                                               on the board of the Law & Society Association, the Asian Law & Society Association, and the Canadian Law &                                                             Society Association.

Picture
    John McMahon    
    Board Member   
    SUNY Plattsburgh
    jmcmao04@plattsburgh.edu


John McMahon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in political thought, feminist politics, and Black politics and was one of the two leads in designing a new interdisciplinary Law and Justice major. His research interests include political theories of work and labor, Black political thought, feminist political thought, critical legal studies, and political science pedagogy. His scholarship has been published in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, New Political Science, and the Journal of Political Science Education, among other venues. He is also one of the hosts of the Always Already critical theory podcast.
​                                              

Picture
​Sanghamitra Padhy
Board Member
Ramapo College of New Jersey

spadhy@ramapo.edu

Sanghamitra Padhy is Associate Professor of Law and Society, and Sustainability at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California. Her teaching and research focus on law and public policy with a particular interest in environmental justice, human rights, international law, and sustainability. 

Picture
    Danielle Rudes
    Board Member 
    George Mason University
    drudes@gmu.edu


Danielle S. Rudes is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and the Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University. She is a qualitative researcher with experience working with corrections agencies including prisons, jails, probation/parole and courts. She is recognized for her work examining how social control organizations, middle managers and street-level workers understand, negotiate, and at times, resist change. Dr. Rudes serves as Associate Editor of Victims & Offenders and publishes regularly in journals such as Law & Policy. Dr. Rudes is also the winner of GMU’s Teaching (2012) and  Mentoring (2015) Excellence Awards.


Michael Gonzalez
Communications Assistant
John Jay College, CUNY
Michael.Gonzalez87@jjay.cuny.edu

Michael is a junior undergraduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also a participant in Fordham University’s Increasing Diversity In Education And the Law (IDEAL) program, and he is pursuing a career as an attorney.
Proudly powered by Weebly