Legal Studies Program

Faculty

Core Faculty

Rosalind Kabrhel
Rosalind E.W. Kabrhel, JD
Chair of Legal Studies
Associate Professor of the Practice in Legal Studies
 781-736-3027 Brown Social Science Center 311
  • Expertise: Attorney. Anti-discrimination law and policy, civil rights, litigation, criminal justice and prison reform, juvenile justice, wrongful convictions, institutional investigations and policy analysis and reform.

Melissa Stimell
Melissa Stimell, JD
Professor of the Practice in Legal Studies
Director, Center for Ethics, Justice & Public Life and Academic Program Director of ENACT, The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation
781-736-8577 Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex 308
  • Expertise: Attorney; international law, conflict resolution, legislative advocacy at the state level, represented vulnerable populations in such areas as: criminal law, discrimination of individuals with disabilities and child welfare.

Daniel Breen
Dan Breen, JD, PhD
Associate Professor of the Practice in Legal Studies
Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH) and Study Abroad Liaison (SAL) for Legal Studies
781-736-3024 Brown Social Science Center 324
  • Expertise: American law, history of the Early Republic

Sarah Curi
Sarah Elisabeth Curi, JD, MPH
Associate Professor of the Practice in Health: Science, Society & Policy and in Legal Studies
Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH) and Study Abroad Liaison (SAL) for HSSP
781-736-3654 Rabb Graduate Center 258
  • Expertise: Practicing attorney; American health care law and policy, health care reform, public health, biomedical ethics, business law

Alice Noble
Alice A. Noble, JD, MPH
Senior Lecturer in Health: Science, Society & Policy, in Legal Studies, and at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management
781-736-2764 Rabb Graduate Center 260
  • Expertise: Law practice, health care reform and the Affordable Care Act, health law and policy, medical ethics, genetics and the law, public health and the law, medical malpractice, managed care

Doug Smith, JD
Lecturer in Legal Studies
781-736-3029 Brown Social Science Center 320
  • Expertise: Legal pedagogy, lawyers' socialization, experiential learning, law and social movements, law and economics, conflict resolution, lawyering, movement lawyering, immigration, human rights, comparative legal systems, Indigenous and Chthonic legal systems, Native American tribal law, federal Indian lLaw, emergent legal ordering, storying, policy analysis.

Aaron Bray
Aaron Bray
Lecturer in Legal Studies
781-736-3021 Brown Social Science Center 317
  • Expertise: Criminal law, criminal justice reform, civil rights, carceral law

James Pollack
James Pollack
Lecturer in Legal Studies
781-736-3029 Brown Social Science Center 320
  • Expertise: Administrative law, attorney, environmental law and policy, federal Indian law, natural resources law, public land law

Arnulf Becker Lorca
Arnulf Becker Lorca, LLB, SJD
Lecturer in Legal Studies
781-736-3029 Brown Social Science Center 320
  • Expertise: International law, human rights, legal history

Affiliated Faculty

Anita Hill
Anita Hill, JD
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
781-736-3896 Heller-Brown Building 374
  • Expertise: Anti-discrimination law and policy (gender and race)

Chandler Rosenberger
Chandler Rosenberger, MST, PhD
Assistant Professor of International & Global Studies and in Sociology
781-736-2638 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities 106
  • Expertise: Nationalism, sociology of religion, comparative and historical sociology

Michael Willrich
Michael Willrich, PhD
Leff Families Professor of History
781-736-2292 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center 217
  • Expertise: United States social, legal and political history