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What excites you most about joining the UCI Law faculty?
I am very excited to join both the terrific law faculty and the wonderful interdisciplinary community at UCI, and I would like to contribute to realizing the ambitions of a truly unique new law school.
Describe your scholarship, or a favorite pro bono or service project.
Much of my scholarship focuses on the processes and people that are behind legal globalization. A key question is whether these processes are strengthening the position of law and lawyers in the governance of the state and the economy in countries where the law has not traditionally played a strong role. Another key topic for investigation is how the role of law and lawyers relates to contested domestic and transnational power arrangements.
What would you like to accomplish at UCI Law?
I look forward to returning to teaching after a long period of administration, and I look forward very much to being part of a vibrant interdisciplinary community.
- European University Institute, Florence, Ph.D. (European Doctorate in Law), 1979
- Stanford Law School, J.D., 1975
- Yale University, B.A., American Studies, magna cum laude, with highest honors, 1972
- Southwestern Law School, Dean, CEO, and Professor of Law, 2005-2012; Professor of Law, 2012-13
- American Bar Foundation, Director, 1990-2004; Senior Research Fellow, 2004-05; Affiliated Research Professor, 2012-
- Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington), Dean, 1987-90 (Assistant Professor, 1979-82; Associate Professor, 1982-85; Professor, 1985-92; Acting Dean, 1986-87; on leave 1990-92)
- Legal profession, globalization, dispute resolution
- Author and editor of a number books, including The Internationalizattiion of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States (2002, University of Chicago Press), Lawyers and and the Construction of Transnational Justice (edited volume, 2011, Routledge), Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization (edited volume, 2011, Routledge) and Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire (2010, University of Chicago Press), all with Y. Dezalay, and How Does Law Matter? (Northwestern University Press, 1998), and Justice and Power in Socio-Legal Studies (Northwestern University Press, 1998), both with co-editor A. Sarat.
- He has also published in numerous law reviews, journals and other publications, including Fordham Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Law and Social Inquiry, Law and Society Review, Northwestern Law Review, Southwestern Law Review, and Wisconsin Law Review.
- On the Executive Coordinating Committee of the ABF/NALP "After the J.D." study of lawyer careers, 1998-
- Co-editor, Journal of Legal Education, 2010-2015
- Chair, Law School Survey of Student Engagement Advisory Committee, 2003-
- Recipient of nine grants from the National Science Foundation
- 2011 Winner (with co-author Yves Dezalay) of the Herbert Jacob Book Award from the Law and Society Association for the best book in the field of law and society published in 2010. For Asian Legal Revivals.
- 1998 Winner (with co-author Yves Dezalay) of the Herbert Jacob Biennial Book Award from the Law and Society Association for the best book in the field of law and society published in 1996 and 1997; also winner of the book prize of the Law and Social Science Section of the American Sociological Association. For Dealing in Virtue.
- Member, American Law Institute
- Honored as one of three Metropolitan News (a Los Angeles legal newspaper) "Persons of the Year," at dinner January 21, 2011