Law & Policy

Laura Bakkensen

Associate Professor

Director of MPA & MPP Programs

• Environmental economics
• Natural disaster policy
• Risk and adaptation

Elizabeth Baldwin

Associate Professor

• Environmental policy
• Energy policy
• Institutional analysis

Bradley Bartos

Assistant Professor

• Criminal justice policies
• Crime and mortality statistics
• Time-series quasi-experiments

Anne Boustead

Assistant Professor

• Law and policy
• Drug policy
• Surveillance and privacy

Jennifer Carlson

Associate Professor, Sociology

• Gun politics
• Policing and public law enforcement
• Politics of race and gender

Jeff Kucik

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

• International relations
• Global trade and investment
• International organizations

Tommaso Pavone

Assistant Professor

• Law and courts
• Comparative politics
• European integration

Michael Polakowski

Associate Professor

• Criminal justice policies
• Crime statistics
• Inequality

Lisa Sanchez

Assistant Professor

• Racial and ethnic politics
• Legislative politics
• Immigration policy

Edella Schlager

Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Leadership Chair

Director of SGPP

• Institutional analysis
• Multi-level governance
• Water policy/politics

Chad Westerland

Associate Professor

• American politics
• Law and courts
• Methodology