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Dr. Richard Ashby Wilson is a Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Anthropology and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He has authored or edited 11 books on transitional justice, truth and reconciliation commissions, and international criminal tribunals. His latest book is Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. He serves on the Hate Crimes Advisory Council of Connecticut, and he is currently working on a book about the challenge of investigating and prosecuting bias 16 motivated crimes in the United States titled, “United Against Hate? The Nonenforcement of Hate Crime Laws.”
In the latest NLR episode, Professor Wilson discusses his current research on the enforcement of hate crimes statutes in the US, his methodological approach, translating research to policy, how his work connects with NLR, and teaching.
Amy Cohen is the inaugural holder of the Robert J. Reinstein Chair in law. Before joining Temple, she was the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law at The Ohio State University and Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney, where she remains involved in collaborative research projects as an honorary professor. Professor Cohen holds a BA, summa cum laude, from Rutgers University and a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
Professor Cohen’s research focuses on two areas of sociolegal scholarship—informal justice, including among people building alternatives to the criminal legal system, and law and economic development, including the law and political economy of agriculture and food. She has taught a range of classes including property law, family law, mediation, negotiation, international dispute resolution, law and development, food law, and experimentalist legal theory. She has held visiting professorships at Harvard Law School, Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of Turin Faculty of Law, and the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. She has also held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the American Institute of Indian Studies at the University of Chicago, the Fulbright Program, and the Collegio Carlo Alberto. She used several of these fellowships to develop a multi-year project on smallholder farmers and economic justice in India.
In this episode, Professor Cohen discusses her research, methodological approaches, translating her research to policy changes in the world, and her connection with NLR.
John Bliss is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and an affiliate faculty member at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession where he previously spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow. Before joining the Denver Law faculty, he completed his J.D. and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley.
Professor Bliss’ research empirically examines the relationship between lawyers’ professional identities and their public-interest values. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative analysis, he has studied how law students adopt professional selves while “drifting” away from initial aspirations to work in public-interest practice settings. He also takes this inquiry further into lawyers’ careers, examining civic professionalism among young lawyers in the U.S. and China, pro bono in large law firms, and movement lawyering in the contexts of fair housing, animal rights, and the protection of future generations. His work is published or forthcoming in leading legal and interdisciplinary outlets, including Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Wisconsin Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, and edited volumes on global pro bono and the emerging Chinese bar.
In this podcast, Professor Bliss discusses his research, the methods he uses, how he is translating the results of his work into policy changes, and how his research fits in the NLR tradition.
Alexandra Huneeus is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her PhD, JD and BA from…
Deepa Das Acevedo is Assistant Professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law. In addition to being a legal anthropologist,…
This episode presents an interview with Professors Riaz Tejani and Emily Taylor Poppe, who recently became co-chairs of the Law and Society Association’s…
Season two of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars. This third episode presents an interview with Professor…
Season 2 of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars. This second episode presents an interview with Professor Bernadette Atuahene, who has…
Season 2 of our podcast highlights the work of a new generation of NLR scholars, kicking off with April Faith-Slaker’s interview of Thomas…
In the fourth episode of our NLR podcast series, April Faith-Slaker talks with Stewart Macaulay (Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of…
In our third NLR podcast, Elizabeth Mertz interviews Sally Engle Merry, Silver Professor of Anthropology at NYU and former President of the Law…
In the second of our NLR podcast series, April Faith-Slaker talks with Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law…
Michael McCann, former President of the Law & Society Association, leads off our podcast series – just as his preface led off both…