CULJP Board of Directors
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jamie Longazel
Communications Coordinator
John Jay College, CUNY
jlongazel@jjay.cuny.edu
Communications Coordinator
John Jay College, CUNY
jlongazel@jjay.cuny.edu
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.
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.
Paul Collins
President
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.
President
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.
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.
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.
Sida Liu
Communications Director
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.
Communications Director
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.