Policy — ϲ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:22:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 A. Joseph Warburton /faculty-experts/a-joseph-warburton/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:54:21 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125836 Professor Warburton researches corporate finance, financial regulation, mutual funds, and bankruptcy. His research is largely empirical, and focuses on areas where finance and law intersect. He has published his research in leading journals in finance and law. Warburton’s research has attracted significant outside funding, including major research grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the World Bank. He teaches courses in financial management, corporate financing transactions, and commercial transactions, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to his academic career, he was a banking and finance attorney. In addition to his position at the Whitman School, Warburton also holds an appointment at ϲ’s College of Law.

 

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Lauryn P. Gouldin /faculty-experts/lauryn-p-gouldin/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:03:19 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125816 Professor Lauryn Gouldin teaches constitutional criminal procedure, criminal law, evidence, constitutional law, and criminal justice reform. Her scholarship focuses on the Fourth Amendment, pretrial detention and bail reform, and judicial decision-making.

In 2015, in recognition of her excellence in teaching, Professor Gouldin was selected by the ϲ Meredith Professors to receive the Teaching Recognition Award. In 2014 and in 2015, the College of Law Student Bar Association honored Professor Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award.

In 2017, the AALS Criminal Justice Section recognized her article, “Defining Flight Risk,” as the first runner-up in the Section’s Junior Scholars Paper Competition. In 2015, in recognition of her excellence in teaching, Gouldin was selected by the ϲ Meredith Professors to receive a Teaching Recognition Award. In 2014 and 2015, the College of Law Student Bar Association honored Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award. At their commencement, the Class of 2018 awarded her the College of Law’s Res Ipsa Loquitur Award for outstanding service, scholarship, and stewardship.

Her research can be seen here,

 

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Kristen Patel /faculty-experts/kristin-patel/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:57:41 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=173833 Kristen (Kris) Patel is the Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Practice in Korean and East Asian Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is a distinguished alumna of the Maxwell School (’90 B.A. in Econ, PSt) with more than 25 years of experience leading intelligence and analytics programs in the public and private sectors.

In her role, Patel serves as a faculty member in the Policy Studies Program and teaches undergraduate courses in policy studies and graduate courses in public administration and international affairs. In addition, Patel is a research associate in Maxwell’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) and contributes to ϲ’s Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence.

Patel most recently served as regional head of research & analytics in Asia-Pacific for HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks, where her responsibilities included building and managing a regional financial crime intelligence capability based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining HSBC in 2017, Patel served as the deputy director of intelligence at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the U.S. Department of Treasury. In addition to directing strategic support for a wide range of US Government customers and foreign partners on high priority issues, she co-led the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units multilateral analytic effort against foreign terrorist fighters, including co-authoring analytic products with several international partners.

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Samuel Gorovitz /faculty-experts/samuel-gorovitz/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:12:58 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=124396 Samuel Gorovitz, former dean of Arts and Sciences, led in the development of the field of medical ethics. He has also published extensively on other topics in philosophy and public policy. His advice on college governance and on health policy has been widely sought, and he has given more than 200 invited lectures in many countries on five continents.

His publications include more than 130 articles, reviews and editorials in philosophical journals, medical journals, public policy journals, and newspapers. He is a co-author of(Random House, 1964, 1969, 1979), an editor of several anthologies, and author of(Oxford, 1985) and(Oxford, 1991; Temple 1993).

Since 1988 he has served, by gubernatorial appointment, on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. He was Dearing-Daly Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the SUNY Upstate Medical University from 2001-2004. He is Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program at ϲ, and for 2004-05 was Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist in Residence at Yale. In 2007 he was appointed by New York’s governor to the new Empire State Stem Cell Board, which oversees a $600 million commitment to stem cell research in New York State.

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Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett (Ret.) /faculty-experts/vice-adm-robert-b-murrett-ret/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:43:39 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=122341 Robert B. Murrett serves the Deputy Director of the , and is a faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He holds a courtesy faculty appointment with theand is on the Advisory Board of the, both at the University.

A specialist in defense analysis, military intelligence, national security, and international relations, Murrett teaches popular courses in the Maxwell School on the “US Intelligence Community: Governance and Practice” and “US Defense Strategy, Military Posture, and Combat Operations”; leads capstone projects for the Veterans Administration, Rand, and IDA; and organizes legendary “staff rides” for students to discuss military leadership and strategy at Fort Stanwix and Oriskany in Upstate New York and the Gettysburg, PA, National Military Park.

Before joining ϲ, Murrett was a career intelligence officer in the US Navy, serving in assignments throughout the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East through 34 years of duty, retiring as a Vice Admiral.Murrett was the fourth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from July 2006 through July 2010. Prior to his appointment, heserved as the Director of Naval Intelligence from April 2005 until July 2006.

Following his commissioning, Murrett was assigned as an afloat intelligence officer, including Mediterranean, North Atlantic, and western Pacific deployments aboard USS Kitty Hawk, USS America, and USS Independence.He was assigned to Defense Intelligence College in 1980, then detailed to the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot as a watch stander and briefing officer for Navy civilian and military leaders. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Assistant Intelligence Officer for Commander, Second Fleet. In 1989, Murrett reported to Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, where he was assigned as Operational Intelligence Officer. From 1992 to 1995, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Commander, Carrier Group Eight, and deployed to the European and Central Command theaters.

Between 1995 and 1997, Murrett was Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Commander, Second Fleet, and served concurrently as N2 for NATO’s Striking Fleet Atlantic. From June 1997 until September 1998, he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations Staff as Executive Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. He was then assigned as Director, Intelligence Directorate, Office of Naval Intelligence in September 1998. He assumed the duties of Commander, Atlantic Intelligence Commance August 12, 1999.Murrett served as the Director for Intelligence, U.S. Joint Forces Command, from August, 2000 through January 2002. From February 2002 through March 2005, Murrett was assigned as the Vice Chair Director for Intelligence, on the Joint Staff.

Murrett received a B.A. in history from the University of Buffalo and a M.A. in government and strategic intelligence from Georgetown University and the Defense Intelligence College.

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Frederick Carriere /faculty-experts/frederick-carriere/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:20:07 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=120984 Frederick Carriere teaches seminars on contemporary foreign policy and Track II diplomacy related to Korea. Currently, he also is a consulting professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. All of Carriere’s professional experience is Korea-related, including a fifteen-year career (1994-2009) as the executive vice president of The Korea Society in New York City. Prior to assuming that position, Carriere lived in Korea for a period of over twenty years (1969-1993). During most of those years he was employed by the Korea Fulbright Commission (Korean-American Educational Commission), initially as its educational counseling officer (1979-83) and later as its executive director (1984-1993). In the latter role, Carriere was also responsible for all the Korea-based programs of the East West Center, the Humphrey Fellowship Program and the Educational Testing Service. He also was president of the Royal Asiatic Society–Korea Branch for two years (1989-91) and a councilor for over a decade. Other relevant professional activities include service as an instructor in the overseas division of the University of Maryland (1980-1982) and a translator at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (1977-1980).

Interests and expertise: educational and cultural diplomacy; moral/ethical issues in foreign policy; politics of East Asia; Christianity in Asia (especially Korea); the emergence of Korean nationalism.

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Maria Minniti /faculty-experts/maria-minniti/ Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:44:19 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=114009 Minniti is the Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and serves as director of the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society.

Her primary research interests include entrepreneurship and economic growth, institutions, government and organizational emergence.

Prior to joining the Whitman School, Minniti was professor and Bobby B. Lyle Chair of Entrepreneurshipinthe Cox School of Businessat Southern Methodist University. Minniti has previously taught at Babson College, Skidmore College and New York University, and has held visiting positions at the London Business School, the Max Planck Institute, Humboldt University, and the Copenhagen Business School.

Since 2015, Minniti is also Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Department of Management at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.

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David M. Van Slyke /faculty-experts/david-van-slyke/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:29:29 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=113723 David M. Van Slyke is Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at ϲ and the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy. Prior to becoming Dean, Van Slyke was Associate Dean and Chair of Maxwell’s department of public administration and international affairs, home to the country’s #1 ranked graduate degree in public affairs.

Van Slyke is a leading international expert on public-private partnerships, public sector contracting and contract management, and policy implementation. He is Director and Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.He sits on the editorial boards of several top-ranked public affairs journals. He has provided expert guidance to the Office of Management and Budget, the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Coast Guard and the World Bank. As part of his work and research he has worked extensively with senior leaders in government, nonprofit and business organizations in China, India, Peru, Singapore, Thailand and many other countries through the Maxwell School’s Executive Education program.

Van Slyke’s most recent book, Complex Contracting: Government Purchasing in the Wake of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is the recipient of the American Society for Public Administration Section on Research Best Book Award for 2014 and honorable mention for the Public and Nonprofit Section of the Academy of Management best book award for 2016.

 

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Jennifer Karas Montez /faculty-experts/jennifer-montez/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:29:02 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=111437 Jennifer Karas Montez is a Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies at ϲ. Montez is also theCo-Director of the and is a Faculty Associate for the Aging Studies Institute.

Montez’s research examines the large and growing inequalities in adult mortality across education levels and geographic areas within the United States. She is particularly interested in why the growing inequalities have been most troublesome among women. Her current work on this topic blends perspectives from social demography and feminist geography to investigate the role of U.S. states in shaping women’s and men’s mortality in unique ways. In another line of research she examines whether and why experiences in childhood, such as poverty and abuse, have enduring consequences for health during later life.

She received her PhD in Sociology with a Demography specialization at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. Afterwards Montez spent two years at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar, and then two years at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor of Sociology.

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William Banks /faculty-experts/william-banks/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:21:16 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=110699 A highly regarded andinternationally recognized scholar,topics of Banks’ wide-ranging research include national security and counterterrorism law; laws of war and asymmetric warfare; drones and targeted killing; transnational crime and corruption; cybersecurity, cyberespionage, and cyber conflict; human security; emergency and war powers; emergency preparedness and response; prosecuting terrorists; civilian-military relations; and government surveillance and privacy.Banks is most recently the co-author (with Stephen Dycus) of(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016). He is the author, co-author, and/or editor of numerous other titles, including National Security Law (Aspen, 2016) and Counterterrorism Law (Aspen, 2016)—books that havehelped set the parameters for these fields of study—as well asCounterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare(Oxford UP, 2012) and New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare (Columbia UP, 2011).

The subjects of Banks’ more than 100 publishedbook chapters and articles range from the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles, to terrorism in South America, to the role of the military in domestic affairs. Recent writing includes “Regulating Cyber Conflict;” “Regulating Drones: Military Law and CIA Practice and the Shifting Challenges of New Technologies;” “Exceptional Courts in Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA);” and “Programmatic Surveillance and FISA: Of Needles in Haystacks.”Additionally, Banks has spearheaded numerous interdisciplinary research projects for INSCT, including ; ; and , a collaboration with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UN CTED).

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Keith Bybee /faculty-experts/keith-bybee/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:18:19 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103959 Professor Bybee is Vice Dean and Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor at the College of Law. He holds tenured appointments in the College of Law and in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

He also directs the (IJPM), a collaborative effort between the College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Bybee’s areas of research interest are the judicial process, legal theory, political philosophy, LGBT politics, the politics of race and ethnicity, American politics, constitutional law, codes of conduct, and the media.

His books include(Princeton, 1998; second printing, 2002),(Stanford, 2007), andAll Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law(Stanford, 2010). His most recent book is(Stanford, 2016). He is currently at work on a grant-funded project examining the positive uses of fake news.

 

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Sean O’Keefe /faculty-experts/sean-okeefe/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:07:44 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103956 Sean O’Keefe is a University Professor at the Maxwell School of Citizen and Public Affairs and the Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair of Strategic Management and Leadership.Concurrently, he is a Distinguished Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a partner institution with the ϲ Maxwell School in Washington, D.C..

Professor O’Keefe is the 17th person in ϲ history to hold the title of University Professor. A longtime public administrator, national security expert and aerospace industry executive, Professor O’Keefe has served in several top leadership positions in the U.S. government, higher education and industry.

Along with the faculty appointments, Professor O’Keefe will play a leadership role in building Maxwell’s partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), including research collaboration, expanding programming and executive education.

Professor O’Keefe’s expertise ranges over a variety of subjects like public management, national security policy and strategy, public finance and public budgeting, financial management, technology development and innovation management, executive leadership, looking ahead with military spending, threat of foreign affairs and terror, space and aviation, and procurement policies.

He is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Airbus Group Inc. Immediately prior to joining Airbus, O’Keefe served as a vice president of the General Electric Company following his service as chancellor of Louisiana State University. On four separate occasions, O’Keefe served as a presidential appointee. Prior to leading LSU, he was administrator of NASA. Earlier, he was deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. He also served as secretary of the Navy, following service as comptroller and CFO of the Defense Department. He began his career after graduate studies at Maxwell as a member of the inaugural class of Presidential Management Intern program, and later joined the US Senate Appropriations Committee staff.

 

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Christopher Faricy /faculty-experts/chris-faricy/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:26:21 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103952 Christopher Faricy is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of ϲ.

He specializes inAmerican politics, social policy, political economy, income inequality and public opinion and teaches courses inAmerican Politics, The Politics of Income Inequality, Introduction to Political Analysis, Social Welfare Seminar, Political Parties and Elections Seminar,

Dr. Faricy’s expertise lie in a variety of issues like public policy, political economy, political institutions, and public opinion. He is the author ofand is currently working on a new manuscriptPublic Opinion, Race, and Social Spending in Americacoauthored with Christopher Ellis and funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. This research explores how citizens form opinions toward social spending issues, and how policymakers respond to such opinions when crafting policy.

 

 

 

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Shana Kushner Gadarian /faculty-experts/shana-gadarian/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:16:08 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103950 Shana Kushner Gadarian is a professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School in ϲ. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

Professor Gadarian specializes in American politics, political psychology, political communication, public opinion and experimental methods. Her interests lie in American politics, political psychology, political communication, public opinion, experimental methods.

Gadarian was recently named a 2021 Carnegie Fellow for her quantitative research during the pandemic. Her project, “Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of Partisan Polarization,” will investigate the long-term impacts of the pandemic on health behaviors and evaluations of government performance.

She is the author of and was awarded 2016 APSA Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology. The book explores how anxiety over policy issues like immigration, public health, terrorism, and climate change affects people.

 

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Thomas M. Keck /faculty-experts/thomas-m-keck/ Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:54:22 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=56105 Thomas M. Keck is the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and Professor of Political Science at ϲ’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Dr. Keck is the author of and , as well as articles in the , ,, and . He is currently leading an NSF-funded project on the political beneficiaries of free expression jurisprudence worldwide.

As holder of the Sawyer Chair since 2009, he directs the (SLAPP), an interdisciplinary initiative devoted to advancing teaching and research in the field of law and politics. SLAPP hosts a regular seminar series in which leading law-and-politics experts from around the country present their current research, and it also provides funding for doctoral students in the Maxwell School’s political science program who are pursuing law-and-politics research of their own.

He is also aSenior Research Associate at the .

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