I am the assistant chair of the Justice Studies department and the faculty coordinator for the International Justice program. I have taught in Korea, been on a business school program in China, and studied civil conflicts through Yale's Program on Order, Conflict and Violence in Greece. I also have extensive experience in Israel and knowledge of the Middle East as my family emigrated from Libya to Israel after the Second World War.

I came to Montclair State from MIT with specialties in terrorism and political theory. Today, I study the effects of current world issues--state failure, civil conflicts, terrorism--on human migration. I teach courses on a few of these issues including International Civil Conflicts, Terrorism and Social Justice, and Justice in World Migration.

My book Freedom and Order: How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks--and Why Sometimes They Don't (Lexington Books 2011) explains variation in government legislative responses to terrorism. It includes an extensive description of how the Patriot Act was passed (and its contents). It also employs the cases of Israel and the United Kingdom to show that legislative responses to terror attacks vary greatly and that counterterrorism legislation is not always proposed--even sometimes being blocked by the legislature after being proposed.

I have also published work on international human rights, terrorism and globalization, terrorist radicalization in prisons, and state failure.