|
|
Faculty
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Earl Warren College Provost
The provost is a tenured member of the UCSD faculty who serves as chief executive officer of the college. The provost is responsible for developing college curriculum, evaluating faculty for promotion, and overseeing all aspects of college life. The provost provides leadership for Warren College at UCSD as well as in the community, and serves as a link to college alumni around the nation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Farrell Ackerman
Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Morphological theory, syntactic theory, lexical semantics, Uralic languages, first language acquisition.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Richard Arneson
Professor of Philosophy
His recent current research is on distributive justice. Some of this work explores how one might best incorporate a reasonable account of personal responsibility into a broadly egalitarian theory of justice.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
Barton has published numerous articles and essays dealing with legal and political philosophy, legal sociology, and problem solving. During law school, he was a member of the Cornell Law Review. Barton practiced taxation and antitrust law in New York state before studying the common law as a problem-solving institution at Cambridge.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michal Belknap
Professor of Law, California Western School of Law; Adjunct Professor of History
Belknap is an adjunct professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and taught public law in New Zealand as part of California Western's exchange program with Victoria University. His particular interest is the history of civil rights and civil liberties in 20th century America, an area in which he has written extensively.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Laurence Benner
Professor of Law, California Western School of Law; Visiting Professor of Political Science
Professor Benner has been an active participant, educator, and problem solver in the criminal justice arena for over three decades. His scholarship has been cited in the United States Supreme Court and excerpted in leading textbooks on criminal justice and procedure. THE OTHER FACE OF JUSTICE, which he co-authored, has been nationally recognized as a basic resource on the administration of criminal justice.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Director of Office of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Policy
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor of Philosophy
My research interests in political theory focus on developing a philosophical dialogue between liberal and radical conceptions of social justice and social theory itself. This also involves an interest in explicating Marxism as a distinctive approach to philosophical problems such as that of fact-value, knowledge-ideology, and normative ethics.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor of Law, California Western School of Law; Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies
Finkmoore practiced law for 10 years, including seven years as partner in a law firm handling a variety of civil matters with an emphasis in real estate and land-use law.
Since joining the California Western faculty in 1988, Finkmoore has served as faculty adviser to the Environmental Law Society, performed pro bono work for the Defenders of Wildlife, and taught at the National Judicial College. He also teaches regularly at the University of California, San Diego.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor of Communication
I have been interested in democracy, the state, and political reform.
I also have an abiding interest in American free speech and communication law, and have published a few essays in this area, several of which are listed below. I am currently beginning to work on issues of industry concentration and how to think about the recent spate of mergers and acquisitions in the communications industry.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alan Houston
Associate Professor of Political Science
A political theorist, Houston's research focuses on the development of liberal, republican, and democratic ideas in Europe and America. His interests also include legal theory and constitutional law.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor of Political Science
McCubbins specializes in political economy. His principal works include Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House (1993); Under the Watchful Eye: Managing Presidential Campaigns in the Television Era (1992); The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process (1991); and Congress: Structure and Policy (1987).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Assistant Professor of Sociology
His research interests are in sociology of law, theories of linguistic practice and sociology of religion.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor of History
Focuses on the legal and constitutional history of the United States and twentieth century American political reform trends since the Progressive Era.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Patrick H. Patterson
Assistant Professor of History
Specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, with emphasis on cultural and political history, nationalism and ethnicity, and religion.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, particularly Descartes and Locke, ethics and constitutional law.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
My research, when I was actively teaching as Professor of Linguistics, covered phonological theory, Romance linguistics, language and law, and English orthography. The work in phonology concentrated on feature systems--most notably, particle phonology, a unary feature framework for the description of vowel systems. The research in Romance linguistics dealt with the phonology and morphology of contemporary French and with historical developments within the Romance language family.. I have also carried out linguistic analyses of legal issues, such as the application of speech-act theory to the notion of promise in contract law and to problems of hearsay, and I have looked at the nature of ambiguity and misunderstanding in legal documents.
My current research is devoted to legal studies and to English orthography. I believe that the latter type of research has relevance to the teaching of reading and spelling, and I would like for this work to become accessible to elementary and secondary teachers as well as to lay persons.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Skrentny
Professor of Sociology
His primary areas of research and teaching interest are politics, law, social movements, ethnicity, globalization, and culture. His current research includes a study of globalization and human rights in East Asia and a study of the impact of immigration on discrimination law in the United States.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Glenn Smith
Professor of Law, California Western School of Law; Visiting Professor of Political Science
Professor Smith's background reflects a continuous interest in "the intersection of law, government, and politics."
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
 |