Fellowships
LAPA Announces 2007-2008 Fellows
Record Applications Result in Stellar Class
Robert B. Ahdieh is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and he will be the Microsoft-LAPA Fellow in 2007-2008. A graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School, he served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, before his selection as an Honor's Program trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While still in law school, he published what remains one of the seminal treatments of the constitutional transformation of post-Soviet Russia: Russia's Constitutional Revolution - Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy. His work has also appeared in the Michigan Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review, among other journals. His scholarly interests revolve around questions of regulatory design. His particular emphasis has been the nature and utility of various non-traditional modes of regulation. These include non-coercive forms of state regulation, the influence of groups on the formation and evolution of contracting and other social norms, and other mechanisms of market coordination. He has explored these issues in a variety of transactional areas, including contracts, corporate and securities law, and international trade. While at Princeton, he will work on a book entitled The New Regulation. For more on Professor Ahdieh, see his web page at Emory Law.
Jeffrey L. Dunoff is Charles
Klein Professor of Law & Government and Director, Institute for
International Law & Public Policy at Temple University Beasley
School of Law. His scholarship focuses on public international law,
international regulatory regimes, and interdisciplinary approaches to
international law. He is coauthor (with Steven Ratner and David
Wippman) of a leading casebook, International Law: Actors, Norms,
Process (Aspen), and his writings have appeared in the American
Journal of International Law, European Journal of
International Law, Journal of International Economic Law and
other publications. He has a B.A. from Haverford College, a J.D.
from NYU School of Law, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law
Center, where he served as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public
International Law. In 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow at the
Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at Cambridge
University. While at Princeton, he will work on a book entitled
Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global
Governance, and continue his work on international economic law and
international dispute settlement. For more on Professor Dunoff, see
his web page at Temple Law.
Marci A.
Hamilton is one of the nation’s leading church/state scholars,
as well as an expert on federalism and representation. She will be
the Martin and Kathleen Crane Fellow at LAPA in 2007-2008. Professor
Hamilton holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and is the
author most recently of God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of
Law (Cambridge University Press 2005), and The Religious
Origins of Disestablishment Principles, 81 Notre Dame L. Rev.
1755 (2006). She is also a columnist on constitutional issues for
www.findlaw.com , where her column
appears every other Thursday. Professor Hamilton is frequently asked
to advise Congress and state legislatures on the constitutionality of
pending legislation and to consult in cases involving important
constitutional issues. She is the First Amendment advisor for
victims in many clergy abuse cases involving many religious
institutions, including the federal bankruptcies filed by the
Portland Archdiocese and the Spokane Diocese. She also represents a
number of cities and neighborhoods challenging the constitutionality
of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. She was
lead counsel for the City of Boerne, Texas, in Boerne v. Flores,
521 U.S. 507 (1997), before the Supreme Court in its seminal
federalism and church/state case holding the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act unconstitutional. Professor Hamilton clerked for
Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme
Court and Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit. She received her J.D., magna cum
laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she
served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law
Review. She also received her M.A. in Philosophy and M.A., high
honors, in English from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.A.,
summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University. While at
Princeton, she will begin a new project on the history, theory, and
utility of the Supreme Court’s doctrine under the Establishment
Clause that invalidates government action that “endorses”
particular religious viewpoints. For more on Professor Hamilton,
see her web page at Cardozo Law.
Carol A.
Heimer is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and
Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She received
her BA from Reed College and her PhD from the University of Chicago.
Heimer has written on risk and insurance (Reactive Risk and Rational
Action), organization theory (Organization Theory and Project
Management), the sociology of law and the sociology of medicine (For
the Sake of the Children, winner of both the theory and medical
sociology prizes of the American Sociological Association). A
recipient of the Ver Steeg Award for graduate teaching, she usually
teaches courses on law, medicine, and qualitative methods, though a
recent seminar delved into the sociology of moral experience. During
her year at Princeton, she will write a book from her NSF-funded
comparative study of the role of law in medicine. In recent years,
American medicine has been "legalized” as relatively informal
regulation by professional peers has been supplanted by an
increasingly rule-based system. By no means confined to the US, this
rule-based regulation has diffused widely, sometimes freely adopted
by medical workers eager for the legitimacy conferred by American
medical science, at other times imposed on foreign scientific
colleagues by American funding agencies and research organizations.
The Legal Transformation of Medicine will be grounded in ethnographic
work and interviews on the use of rules (broadly conceived) in
HIV/AIDS clinics in the US, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand. For
more on Professor Heimer, see
her web page at sociolegal.org.
Peter Lindseth is Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has taught since 2000. His research focuses on the relationship between public law and the nation-state in Western Europe and North America, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, and the University of Toronto Law Journal, among other publications. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude in history, and J.D. from Cornell, and a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in European history from Columbia, where he was also Managing Editor of The Columbia Journal of European Law. At Princeton, Lindseth will work on a project comparing European and American debates in public law (particularly constitutional and administrative law, but also aspects of public international law) from the 1870s to the 1930s. His aim is to elaborate a specific historiographical perspective on the relationship of legal, institutional, and social change in the modern nation-state, one that animates much of his recent work. Lindseth’s approach echoes elements in structuration theory in sociology and historical institutionalism in political science, combining functional, political, and cultural dimensions, while also touching on issues raised in recent legal-historical discussions of popular constitutionalism and the relationship of law to historical memory. For more on Professor Lindseth, see his web page at Connecticut Law.
Aidan O’Neill is a Queen’s Counsel (QC) and he will be the inaugural University Center for Human Values (UCHV)/LAPA Fellow in Law and Normative Inquiry. O'Neill is qualified to appear as counsel in Scotland, as well as in the courts of England and Wales. He practices law in both jurisdictions, and over the past twenty years has established a public law/commercial practice involving a significant element of legal advice and court appearances on issues of European law, particularly in the fields of human rights, private international law, commercial contract, and employment and discrimination law. He has appeared as senior counsel before the European Court of Justice, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the House of Lords, the Court of Session (Inner and Outer House), and the High Court of England & Wales. Since taking silk in Scotland in 1999, he has maintained a strong profile in discrimination and employment law issues, while his practice has continued to develop in the area of judicial review, (notably in relation to prisoners’ rights) as well as in issues of constitutional law post-devolution. He has a particular interest in the inter-relationship between EU law, human rights law and domestic law. In addition to law degrees from the universities of Edinburgh (LL.B. (Hons.)(First Class)) and of Sydney, Australia (LL.M. (Hons.)(First Class)), Aidan O’Neill also holds a Masters degree in European and International Law from the European University Institute, Florence. He has written three legal textbooks to date: EC for UK Lawyers, a guide to the continuing impact which EU law has on a wide variety of domestic fields of UK legal practice; Decisions of the European Court of Justice and their Constitutional Implications, a survey of the manner in which the European Court of Justice created the conditions for a European constitution and has transformed the UK constitution; and Judicial Review in Scotland: A Practitioner’s Guide. He has also contributed chapters to a number of legal books, and is the author of many talks and articles in academic journals – including Public Law, Modern Law Review, Common Market Law Review, Edinburgh Law Review, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and Legal Studies – dealing, in the main, with issues of human rights, constitutional law and EU law. While at Princeton, he will be concerned with topics involving more general normative inquiry and, reflecting on his experience in legal practice, will conduct research into the interaction between law, politics and religion, and will concentrate, particularly, on the relationship between Christianity and democracy and on the law-morals debate/divide. For more on Mr. O’Neill, see his web page at Matrix Chambers.
