The department of Political Science is proud to host the 2009 Photography Competition. Details can be viewed here.
Carl Q. Christol, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, has published his latest book, The American Challenge: Terrorists, Detainees, Treaties, and Torture-Responses to the Rule of Law, 2001-2008. The book is a sequel to International Law and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2nd ed, 2006).
The Samuel S. Leibowitz Award for Excellence In Trial Advocacy ceremony was held May 7, 2009. The USC Mock Trial (taught by political science Adjunct Professor Atty Olu Orange) team members were nominated for the award based upon their demonstration of extraordinary advocacy skills, leadership and commitment to public interest legal work. The winner was MiRi Song. The other nominees (in alphabetical order) were: Marina Braverman, Mercedes Cook, Catherine Ngo (BA, Political Science, 2009), Christina Paquette, Jeffery Skinner and Christine Sihn.Professor
Alison Dundes Renteln's new book, Multicultural Jurisprudence: Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defense (Hart Publishing), has been published. The book analyzes how culture is treated in a range of legal systems. Read the interview of Professor Renteln in the University of Southern California Chronicle.Professor
Ange-Marie Hancock has been selected Director of the Center for Feminist Research "New Directions Seminar" for 2009-2010. The CFR Steering Committee was both impressed and enthused by her proposal for a seminar entitled Intersectional Solidarity. The seminar seeks to ". . .integrate issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexualities," and ". . .'encourage(s) conversations about solidarity into an institution where GS scholarship is so widely dispersed'."