Field-Of-Study: Law

Lee Epstein is the Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and the Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Before moving to USC, she held the Henry

Laura F. Edwards received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is now Professor of History at Duke University.  Her interests focus on race, gender, labor, and law, especially in the nineteenth-century U.S. South.  She is currently working on a legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction tentatively titled A

Catherine Sharkey is the Crystal Eastman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.  She is one of the nation’s leading authorities on punitive damages and federal preemption in the realm of products liability. She has published more than thirty articles, essays, and book chapters in the fields of tort, administrative law, class

Karen J. Alter is Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University, specializing in the international politics of international organizations and international law. She has Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T. (1996). Over time her work has become increasingly interdisciplinary, bringing together political science, historical institutional approaches, sociology, and law to understand how international

Katherine Franke is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches courses on Gender Justice, Queer Theory, Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Legal Thought, Gay Marriage, and The Law of Occupation. She also serves on the Executive Committee of

John Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of widely acclaimed work in the history of American law, including Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Harvard UP, 2007), which explores law and nationhood at key moments in American history

Educated at Yale University (B.A., 1980; J.D., 1988), Columbia University (M.A., 1982), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1987), James Q. Whitman returned to his alma mater’s law school in 1994 as a Professor of Law and is currently Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law there. Previously he served as Judicial Clerk (1988-89)

Jeannie Suk is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Senior Fellow of the Humanities Center at Harvard. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for