SPA: Justice, Law & Society
(202) 885-2948
djls@american.edu
Ward Circle Building, Room 270
Faculty in the Department of Justice, Law & Society are leading scholars in the fields of criminal justice, terrorism, law and society, among other areas.
SPA’s Department of Justice, Law & Society offers courses of study at the doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels.
Through SPA’s Justice Programs Office, JLS faculty scholarship is shared with the AU and Washington communities, and across the nation.
Rita Simon is a well-known authority on transracial and intercountry adoption, immigration, justice and women’s issues. The author or editor of 63 books, she also writes and comments extensively for major media about the U.S. jury system, the insanity defense, social and political issues, and human rights.
PhD Candidate’s Award-Winning Work Takes on Cigarette Trafficking
“I didn’t want to bore them with sentencing and cigarettes, but the students’ feedback was that they would rather hear about my work.”
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