1. Dissertation Title: "Language Access in the Criminal Legal System: The Bureaucratic Interpretation, Organizational Construction, and Administrative Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"
2. Dissertation Committee: Mona Lynch (Chair), Bryan L. Sykes (Cornell University), Shauhin Talesh (UCI Law)
3. Research Interests: Law & Society, Access to Justice, Race & Justice, Civil Rights, Language Rights, Inequality/Social Stratification, Criminology, Research Methodology
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/mmballard/
1. Dissertation Title: "Understanding Police Reform: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)"
2. Dissertation Committee: Mona Lynch (Chair), Kirk Williams, Richard McCleary
3. Research Interests: Criminal Justice Policy, Program Evaluation, Policing, Organizational Cultures, Criminal Law/Criminal Procedure
4. CV: here
5. Website: sites.uci.edu/mattbarno/
1. Dissertation Title: "Freeing Los Angeles: Un/forgotten Spaces and Abolitionist Education in the Carceral-Education Landscape"
2. Dissertation Committee: Nancy Rodriguez (Chair), Susan Coutin, Sabina Vaught (University of Pittsburgh, Education)
3. Research Interests: Schools and Prisons; Race, Gender and Carcerality; Juvenile Justice; Youth and Family Criminalization; Legal Decision-Making; Anti-Carceral Feminisms; Abolition; Critical Criminology; Community-Based Research
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/margaretgoldman/
1. Dissertation Title: “Queering Law and Safety: Opportunities for Change and Transformation in Queer Spaces”
2. Dissertation Committee: Ana Muñiz (Chair), Swethaa Ballakrishnen (Law), Elliott Currie, Chris Seeds, and Jeanne Scheper (Gender and Sexuality Studies)
3. Research Interests: queer safety, abolition, policing, police militarization, legal pluralism, critical criminology, securitization, pedagogy and university teaching
4. CV: here
5. Website: jordangrasso.com
1. Dissertation Title: "Cannabis Legalization in California Cities: A Critical View on Socio-Legal Change"
2. Dissertation Committee: Christopher Seeds (chair), Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Mona Lynch
3. Research Interests: Critical Theory, Legalization, Social Change, Economic Sociology, Law and Inequality, Market Regulation, Mixed Methods
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/emoiseeva/
1. Dissertation Title: "Reasonably Unreasonable": Critically Engaging the Limits of Legal Rationality as it Relates to State Violence
2. Dissertation Committee: Sora Han (Chair), Keramet Reiter, Ana Muñiz
3. Research Interests: Critical Theory, Legal Reasonableness, State Sanctioned Violence, Police Culture, Criminological Theory
4. CV: here
5. Website: https://sites.uci.edu/anthonytriola/