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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
Arzoo Osanloo
Professor, LSJ; Director, University of Washington Middle East Center

Latest News

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.
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing in Washington State. Seattle: University of Washington, 2024.
Gao, Elizabeth Lu. "Detention Corporations' Influence: Financial Contributions and Contracts Within Politics." University of Washington. Department of of Law, Societies, and Justice, 2023.
Chang, Matt. “The European Court of Human Rights and Participation in Judicial Rule-Making,” University of Washington. Department of Law, Societies, and Justice. 2021.
Arzoo Osanloo. 2020. Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran. Princeton University Press.
William Haltom and Michael McCann, “When Might Claims of ‘Too Much Litigation’ Be Other than Political Sloganeering?”. With William Haltom. Forthcoming in Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2020
Katherine Beckett and Marco Brydolf-Horwitz. 2020. “A Kinder, Gentler Drug War? Race, Drugs, and Punishment in 21st Century America.” Punishment and Society. DOI: 10.1177/1462474520925145

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Katherine Beckett

Rachel Cichowski

Megan Ming Francis

Ann Frost

George Lovell

Arzoo Osanloo