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Katherine Beckett
Professor, LSJ/Sociology
Rachel Cichowski
Professor, LSJ/Political Science
Megan Ming Francis
Associate Professor, Political Science; LSJ
Ann Frost
Associate Teaching Professor, LSJ/ Sociology
George Lovell
Professor, Political Science; Adjunct, LSJ
Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis
Assistant Professor, LSJ

Latest News

LSJ Celebrates Its First 25 Years (March 20, 2026)
State Body Votes To Strengthen Anti-Police Brutality Bill (April 13, 2022)
UW human rights report questions compliance with state law restricting cooperation with immigration officials (August 12, 2021)
An unusual internship: LSJ student works with cannabis law group (January 14, 2015)

Related Research

"Listening for the Songs of Others: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Legal Marginalization of the Laboring Underclass in America.” In Mary Nell Trautner, ed., Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, & Law: Revisiting "The Oven Bird’s Song." New York: Cambridge University Press. 2018
Jamie Mayerfeld. Why Constitutional Democracy Requires International Human Rights Law,” Human Rights Review 19 (2018): 369-71.
George Lovell. 2017. "Reflections on a Funhouse Mirror—Racist Violence, the Protection of Privilege, and the Limits of Tolerance." Law & Social Inquiry, 42(2), 571-576.
Steve Herbert. 2014. "Fear and Loathing in the San Juan Islands: Endangered Orcas and the Legitimacy of Environmental Law," Environment and Planning A, 46(8), 1781-1796.
Naomi Murakawa and Katherine Beckett. 2024. “Reflections on the Shadow Carceral State.” Theoretical Criminology 28, 4: 424-36.
Rubiano-Galvis, Sebastian (ed.). 2025. Saberes, tecnologías y derecho en América Latina: perspectivas desde los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes Press.
Katherine Beckett and Kaitlyn Laibe, Left Behind: Juveniles and Emerging Adults Serving Long and Life Sentences in Washington State. The Seattle Clemency Project, 2025.
Vierra, Sofia. “Of Love and Longing: The Role of Emotion in Family Reunification Based Immigration." University of Washington. Department of Law, Societies, and Justice, 2025.
Meyers, S. (2024). Disability rights and disability justice in prison: the limits of state-protected rights and the possibilities of mutual support. Disability & Society, 1-22.
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing in Washington State. Seattle: University of Washington, 2024.

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Katherine Beckett

Rachel Cichowski

Megan Ming Francis

Ann Frost

George Lovell

Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis