Public Law
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy seeks outstanding graduate students to apply for the Dean’s Scholar Award in Public Law. This field includes course work and research in courts, the judicial process, constitutional law, judicial behavior, law and society, law and public policy, and historical and institutional studies of law. Public Law is an independent subfield and unlike the situation in many departments it is possible to concentrate one’s doctoral studies in that area. The commitment of four full-time faculty members to the subfield is also almost unique nationally, as is the emphasis on methodological diversity. Graduate students in the department can also draw upon the resources of the School of Criminal Justice and Albany Law School.
Current faculty members include:
Scott Barclay
Law and policy, judicial processes, law and gender/sexual orientation |
Thomas Church
Law and public policy, courts and local justice, judicial administration |
Julie Novkov
Legal development, American political development, women and the law |
Udi Sommer
Judicial behavior, comparative legal studies, quantitative methods |
Selected Publications in Public Law:
Scott Barclay, An Appealing Act: Why People Appeal in Civil Cases (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999)
Thomas Church and Milton Heumann (eds.), Hate Speech on Campus, Cases, Case Studies and Commentary (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997)
Robert Nakamura and Thomas Church, Taming Regulation: Superfund and the Challenge of Regulatory Reform. (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2004)
Julie Novkov, Racial Constructions: Regulating Interracial Sex and Building the White State in Alabama, 1965-1954 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007)
Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001)
Joseph Zimmerman, Interstate Disputes: The Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006)
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