EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago

RESEARCH FOCUS:
Globalization of law in markets and politics. The research on law and markets uses the area of corporate bankruptcy law to learn how global norms are formulated and what mechanisms and impediments exist that affect their incorporation into the national legal systems of China, Indonesia and Korea. The research on politics involves the study of ways that the legal complex (e.g., lawyers, judges, prosecutors, law faculty) either contribute to the advance of political liberalism or help defend against its decline.

SERVICE AND RECOGNITION

Recipient of National Science Foundation Grant, “The Legal Complex and the Development of the Liberal State.”

Coordinator, Collaborative Research Network on Lawyers and Political Liberalism, Law and Society Association, and Working Group on Legal Professions, International Sociological Association.

Organizer, International Conference on The Legal Complex and Political Liberalism, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, May 1-5, 2005

Chair, International Affairs Committee, Law and Society Association.