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

Inside the LSJ Book Club at Washington’s Correctional Facilities: An Interview with Professor Ann Frost (February 6, 2025)
“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)

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