2010-2011 Fellows

Thematic Fellows

The theme for our second year, 2010 -2011, devised in consultation between Professors J. H. H. Weiler, David Garland and Jim Jacobs, is Questions of Punishment.

Jeffrey Fagan

Professor of Law and Public Health at Columbia University, and Director of the Center for Crime, Community and Law at Columbia Law School.

RESEARCH:

Profiling and Consent

David Green

Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. 

RESEARCH:

Selling Redemption: The Second Chance Act and American Penal Culture

WORKING PAPER:

The Second Chance Act, Penal Optimism, and the Legacies of American Protestantism

Lynne Haney

Professor of Sociology at New York University. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants and was appointed as a Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2004.

RESEARCH:

The Politics of Punishment in Postsocialist Eastern Europe

WORKING PAPER:

The Politics of Punishment in Postsocialist Eastern Europe

Douglas Husak

Received both his Ph.D. and J.D. from Ohio State University in 1976.  He has been teaching philosophy at Rutgers University since 1977. 

RESEARCH:
Lifting the Cloak: Preventive Detention As Punishment
 
WORKING PAPER:

Lifting the Cloak: Prevention Detention as Punishment 

Susanne Krasmann

Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Criminological Research, University of Hamburg.

RESEARCH:

Blurring Boundaries: Governing Security, Democracy, and the Law

WORKING PAPER:

John Pratt

Professor of Criminology and James Cook Research Fellow in Social Science 2009-2011 at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

RESEARCH:

Understanding and Explaining Penal Differences Amongst Western Societies: Scandinavia v. The 'Anglo' Countries

WORKING PAPER:

Explaining Penal Contrasts.  
Scandinavia  V.  The Anglophone Countries.

Sonja Snacken

Professor of Criminology, Penology and Sociology of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), where she held a five year ‘Research Fellowship’ (2006-2011).

RESEARCH:
Resisting Punitiveness in Europe? Welfare, Democracy and Human Rights

Máximo Sozzo

Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral  (Santa Fe, Argentina).

RESEARCH:

The Metamorphosis of Prison in South America

WORKING PAPER:

Transition to Democracy and Penal Policy
The Case of Argentina

Frank Zimring

He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1967 to 1985 and has been at the University of California at Berkeley since 1985. He directed the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at Chicago and the Earl Warren Legal Institute at Berkeley.

RESEARCH:
The City that Became Safe: 
New York and the Future of Crime Control
 

At-Large Fellows

Gary Anderson

Received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1985.  He has taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard and most recently at Notre Dame.

RESEARCH:

Charity: A History

Martin A. Schain

Professor of Politics at New York University.

RESEARCH:

"The Crisis of Immigrant Integration and the Emerging Politics of the Frontier: A Transatlantic Perspective"

WORKING PAPER:

The Border: Europe, The Immigration Dilemma and the State in France

Michael Walzer

Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

RESEARCH:

War and Justice in Global Society

WORKING PAPER:

Global and Local Justice

Jean-Claude Piris

As Legal Counsel of the European Council (Presidents or Prime Ministers of the 27 Member States) and of the EU Council of Ministers, Mr. Piris participated in all important decisions taken over the past 20 years by the EU, notably the adoption of new Treaties (Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, Constitutional Treaty, Lisbon), and the solutions to the problems caused by their non-ratification.

RESEARCH:

The Case for a Two Speed Europe