My work has been on epistemologies and law. I have argued that we should look at law as a language, the Supreme Court as an institution and social movements in terms of the laws that constitute them. Currently I have written on what it means to see law and the ethnographic dimensions of local politics. My course in the Spring of 2008 will focus on rights, the federal death penalty, racial liberalism and the fear of crime.
Courses
Jurisprudence
Celebrity as Authority in Law (with Jill Meyers), Contemporary Issues in the Semiotics of Law (2005)
The Supreme Court & the Closet, The Future of Gay Rights in America (2004)
This chapter is about the Supreme Court learning what it means to be gay. This...
The Constitution of Interests: Institutionalism, Critical Legal Studies and New Approaches to Sociolegal Scholarship, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (1998)
Realism and Its Consequences (with Christine B. Harrington), International Journal of the Sociology of Law (1989)
Realism, offered as a critique, has become the dominant paradigm for law.
Material Law
Policy
Anti, Anti Terror and the Joke of Homeland Security, Criminology Department, University of Barcelona (2005)
Landscapes of Fear in Springfield (2005)
This is an English version of a paper I published in Spanish as part of...
Sociology of Law
The Constitution of Interests: Institutionalism, Critical Legal Studies and New Approaches to Sociolegal Scholarship, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (1998)
The Constitution
Sex in Context: The Constitution of Images (2008)
This paper examines the changing context for sexual images and the details that give law...
Unusual Punishment, Journal of Law and Policy (2004)
This paper examines the way state and federal authority is constituted in the United States...