Social Justice

Related Faculty

Rawan Arar
Assistant Professor
Angelina Godoy
Professor, LSJ/International Studies; Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights; Director, Center for Human Rights
George Lovell
Professor, Political Science; Adjunct, LSJ
Jamie Mayerfeld
Department Chair, Professor; LSJ, Political Science
Stephen Meyers
Director, Center for Global Studies; Associate Professor, LSJ/International Studies
Morgan P. Vickers
Assistant Professor, LSJ

Latest News

“It’s Not a Classroom, It’s a Community”: LSJ 322 and Its Far-Reaching Effects (May 3, 2023)
State Body Votes To Strengthen Anti-Police Brutality Bill (April 13, 2022)
LSJ sponsored event discusses WTO protests (December 11, 2014)
Alumni Event honors Timothy Wettack (November 17, 2014)
LSJ co-sponsoring Social Justice Film Festival (October 16, 2014)

Related Research

Katherine Beckett, Allison Goldberg, and Marco-Brydolf-Horwitz. 2023. JustCARE: An Analysis of Housing and Other Outcomes. The Public Defender Association.
Meyers, S. (2019) Civilizing Disability Society: The UN Disability Convention and Grassroots Disabled Persons Organizations. Cambridge University Press, Disability Law & Policy Series.
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing in Washington State. Seattle: University of Washington, 2024.
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. 2024. Sentencing Reform in Washington State: Progress and Pitfalls. In partnership with the Seattle Clemency Project.
Nasrulai, Anusha. "Narrowing and Broadening Racial Identity: Exploring Middle Eastern American Immigrants’ Identity Formation Through a Social Race Construction Framework". Law, Societies & Justice, University of Washington, 2021.
Gao, Elizabeth Lu. "Detention Corporations' Influence: Financial Contributions and Contracts Within Politics." University of Washington. Department of of Law, Societies, and Justice, 2023.
Meyers, S. & M. McCloskey (2018). Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. New York: UN Population Fund.
"Life Without Parole Sentences in Washington State". Law, Societies, and Justice Group Honors Report.
Steve Herbert. 2014. “The Policing of Space: New Realities, Old Dilemmas,” in Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing, edited by Michael Reisig and Robert Kane (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Steve Herbert. 2014. “Dis/Order and the Regulation of Urban Space,” [with Tiffany Grobelski] in Cities and Social Change, edited by Ronan Paddison and Eugene McCann (London: Sage Publications).

Social Justice

Rawan Arar

Angelina Godoy

George Lovell

Jamie Mayerfeld

Stephen Meyers

Morgan P. Vickers