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July 2020

THOMAS H. KOENIG

Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Affiliated Faculty Member: Cybersecurity and Law and Public Policy Ph.D. programs

549 Renaissance Place

Northeastern University

Telephone: (617) 373-3854

E-mail: T.Koenig@northeastern.edu

EDUCATION

1979 Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1973 M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa

Barbara (Highest Honors)

1971 A.B., Psychology and Sociology, University of

California, Santa Cruz (Honors in Sociology)

FIELDS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Law and Society; Internet Policy; Civil Law; Ethics

FELLOWSHIPS

2008-09 Fulbright Research and Lecturing Fellow, University of Belgrade Law School

1995-96 Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Sociology, Harvard University Law School

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1977-Present Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University

2002-2008 Chairperson; Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1998 Visiting Professor, Change Management Program, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary—Fall Semester

1989 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Tufts University, Medford MA

1975-76 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, Global Information Technology: Ethics and the Law, West Academic Publications, 447 pages, January 2018. Teacher’s Manual (340 pages); February 2018.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, In Defense of Tort Law, NYU Press; 2001; 345 pp.; paperback edition 2003. Selection reprinted in Canadian Tort Law: Cases, Notes and Materials, (12th Edition, 2004) by Justice Allen M. Linden, Lewis N. Klar and Bruce Feldthusen.

MONOGRAPHS

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Punitive Damages in Products Liability: Plaintiff’s Perspective,” Products Liability Practice Guide, Mathew Bender Publications, 1993, 199 pages.

Thomas Koenig, “Punitive Damages in Products Liability: Defense Perspective,” Products Liability Practice Guide, Mathew Bender Publications, 1992, 163 pages.

ARTICLES

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Creating a Public Health Disinformation Exception to CDA Section 230,” Syracuse Law Review, forthcoming in Vol. 71 (2021).

 

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Deterring Viral Pandemics of COVID-19 Misinformation,” Northwestern University Law Review Online (April 26, 2020) .

Thomas Koenig, “Abusive Terms of Use in Internet-Connected Toy Contracts,” Suffolk University Law Review, Vol 52 No2, Summer 2019, pp. 187-225.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Toward a Global Privacy Standard,” Florida Law Review, Vol. 71 No. 2, March 2019, pp. 365-.453.

Michael Rustad, Wenzhuo Liu, and Thomas Koenig, “Destined to Collide? Social Media Contracts in the U.S. and China” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol .37 No. 2, Winter 2015, pp. 647-739.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Digital Scarlett Letters: Social Media Stigmatization of the Poor & What Can Be Done,” Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 93 No. 3, Winter 2015, pp. 592-635.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Fundamentally Unfair: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media Arbitration Clauses,” Case Western Law Review, Vol. 65 No. 2, Winter 2014, pp. 341-411.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “The Wolves of the World Wide Web: Reforming Social Network’s Contracting Practices,” Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 49 No. 5, Winter 2014, pp. 1431-1517.

Michael Rustad, Thomas Koenig and Erica Ferreira, “Restorative Justice to Supplement Deterrence-Based Punishment: An Empirical Study of the EPA’s Power Plant Enforcement Initiative, 2000-2011,” Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 65 No. 3, Spring 2013, pp. 427-533.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Reconceptualizing the BP Oil Spill as Parens Patriae Products Liability,” Houston Law Review, Vol. 49 No. 2, Spring 2012 pp. 291-392.

Thomas Koenig, "America's Ideological Struggle over Tort Reform," Main Issues of Pedagogy and Psychology, Vol. 2, Fall 2011, pp. 157 - 174.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Reforming Public Interest Tort Law to Address Health & Environmental Catastrophes,” Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, Vol. 14, #2, Spring 2011, pp. 331-373.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Deciding Whether the Death Penalty Should be Abolished,” Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, Winter 2011, pp. 193-209.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Parens Patriae Litigation to Redress Societal Harm from the BP Oil Spill: The Latest Stage in the Evolution of Crimtorts,” UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, Vol. 21, #1, Winter 2011, pp. 40-97.

Thomas Koenig, “Blending U.S. Criminal and Tort Law for Civil Punishment,” Journal of Legal and Social Sciences: Belgrade Law Review, Vol. 3, 2008, pp. 141-158.

Thomas Koenig, “Crimtorts: A Cure for the Hardening of the Categories,” Widener Law Review, Vol. 17 #3, Summer 2008, pp. 733-781.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig “A Hard Day’s Night: Hierarchy, History and Happiness in Law School and Legal Practice,” Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 58 #1, Winter 2008, pp 263-317.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Extending Learned Hand’s Negligence Formula to Information Security Breaches,” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol.3 #2, Fall 2007, pp. 237-272.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “’Hate Torts’ to Combat ‘Hate Crimes:’ Punishing the Organizational Roots of Evil,” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 51 No. 2, October 2007 pp. 302-318.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Negligent Entrustment Liability for Outsourced Data,” Journal of Internet Law, Vol. 10 No. 10, April 2007 pp. 3-6. Reprinted in N. Sudarshan (ed.) Data Privacy – Human Rights Issues, ICFAI University Press (2009) pp. 128-136.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Harmonizing Internet Law: Lessons from Europe,” Journal of Internet Law, Vol. 9 No. 11, May 2006, pp. 3-10.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Competing Visions of Elite Lawyer Angst,” University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2006 No. 2, Winter 2006, pp. 475-498.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “The Tort of Negligent Enablement of Cybercrime” Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 20 No.4, Fall 2005, pp. 1553-1611. Reprinted as Chapter Six in B. Padmashree Rajeshwarrao (ed.) Tortuous Liability, ICFAI University Press (2008).

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Rebooting Cybertort Law,” Washington Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 335-416.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Harmonizing Cybertort Law for Europe and America,” Journal of High Technology Law, Vol. 5 No. 1, May 2005, pp. 13-58.

"Review Essay: Honey We've Shrunk the Common Law," BiMonthly Review of Law Books, September/October 2004 Vol. 15 No. 5, pp. 13-19.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, "Toxic Torts, Politics and Environmental Justice: The Case for Crimtorts,” Law & Policy, Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2004 pp. 189-207.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, "Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice: A New Audit," LNC Resources, Spring 2004, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1, 24.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Internet Torts and Legal Lag,” Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1, Fall 2003 pp. 77-140.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “It’s Hard to Be a Human Being and a Lawyer: Young Attorneys and the Confrontation with Ethical Ambiguity in Legal Practice,” West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 2 Winter 2003 pp.495-524.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, "A Roundup of Torts Scholarship," BiMonthly Review of Law Books, September/October 2003, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 4-5.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Taming the Tort Monster: Civil Actions as a Battleground of Social Theory,” Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 68 No. 1, Fall 2002, pp.1-122. Reprinted in Suffolk University Law School Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Mastering the New Tort Compensation Schemes, November 1, 2002 pp. 343-364.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Retort to Distort[ion]: Torts and Social Justice,” Journal of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, Vol. 9 No. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 12-16.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad “The Public Vision of American Tort Law,” Suffolk University Law School Alumni Magazine, June 2002, pp.6-8.

“The Shadow Effect of Punitive Damages on Settlements,” Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 1998, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 169-209.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “‘Crimtorts’ as Corporate Just Deserts,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 31, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 289-352. selection reprinted in Kevin R. Johnson, Catherine A. Rogers and John Valery White, Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Litigating for Social Change, North Carolina Academic Press (2009) pp. 714-716.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “Can Law School Idealism Survive? Implications for Progressive Lawyers” The Guild Practitioner, Vol. 54, No. 3, Summer 1997, pp. 155-173.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Reconceptualizing Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice: Targeting Amoral Corporations, Not ‘Moral Monsters’,” Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, Spring 1995, pp. 975-1083.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Women, Gender Bias and Tort Reform,” Journal of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, Vol. 2 No. 4, April 1995, pp. 7-15.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “His and Her Tort Reform: Gender Injustice in Disguise,” Washington Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, Winter 1995, pp. 1-90.

“The Law Arises Out of Fact, Even for a ‘Poet Laureate’” Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 1021-1049.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “The Supreme Court and Junk Social Science: Selective Distortion in Amicus Briefs,” North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, November 1993, pp. 91-162.

Thomas Koenig, Michael Rustad and Robert Granfield, “The Myth of the Punitive Damages Explosion: A Response to Martin Connor,” Product Liability & Safety Reporter, Vol. 21, No. 27, July 9, 1993, pp. 737-747.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “The Historical Continuity of Punitive Damages: Reforming the Tort Reformers,” American University Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, Summer 1993 pp. 1269-1333.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “The Quiet Revolution Revisited: An Empirical Study of the Effects of State Tort Reform,” Justice System Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 21-44.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “How Experts View the Significance of TXO Ruling: Punitives Doctrine Likely to Remain Intact,” Product Liability Law and Strategy Vol. 12, No. 1, July 1993 pp. 8-9.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “The Fate of Elite Idealism: Accommodation and Ideological Work at Harvard Law School,” Social Problems, Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 315-331.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “Learning Collective Eminence: Harvard Law School and the Social Production of Elite Lawyers,” Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 503-520. Reprinted in Judith Levy and Helena Lopata (eds.) Social Problems Across the Lifecourse, SSSP Presidential Papers Series volume one, University of California Press 2003, pp.73-91.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “The Truth about Punitive Damages,” Newspaper editorial; distributed through Scripps-Howard; printed in more than 100 U.S. newspapers, October 1992.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “Pathways into Elite Firms: Professional Stratification and Social Networks,” Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 4, 1992, pp. 325-351.

Michael Rustad, Thomas Koenig, and Robert Granfield, “Setting the Record Straight on the Punitive Damages Crisis in Products Liability,” The Advocate, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 1992 pp. 30-39.

Gerald Clark, Thomas Koenig, and Michael Rustad, “Life After Law: A Comparison of Male and Female Suffolk Alumni Who Left the Law,” The Advocate, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 40-49.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Punitive Damages in Products Liability: A Research Report,” Products Liability Law Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, February 1992, pp. 85-94.

Mark Mizruchi and Thomas Koenig, “Size, Concentration and Corporate Networks: Determinants of Business Collective Action,” Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 2, June 1991, pp. 299-311.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “Reproducing the Power Structure: Convincing Harvard Law Student Idealists to Join the Large Firms,” The Critical Criminologist, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1990, pp. 5-6;19.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “The Impact of History on Contemporary Prestige Images of Boston’s Law Schools,” Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 1990, pp. 621-648. Portion reprinted in John H. Langbein, Renee Lettow Lerner and Bruce P. Smith, The History of the Common Law: Sources and Materials on Anglo-American Legal History, Aspen Publishers (2009).

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “An Empirical Examination of a Prestige Image in Transition: Suffolk Law Graduates in Large Firms,” The Advocate, Vol. 21, No. l, Fall 1990, pp. 9-17.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “From Activism to Pro Bono: The Redirection of Working-Class Altruism at Harvard Law School,” Critical Sociology, Vol. 17, No. l, Spring 1990, pp. 57-80.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “From Idealism to Pragmatism: Ideological Change Among Working Class Public Interest Oriented Law Students,” Social Science Perspectives Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1989, pp 167-181.

Mark Mizruchi and Thomas Koenig, “Economic Concentration and Political Cohesion: A Cross-Industry Comparison,” Social Science Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 1988, pp. 287-305.

Mark Mizruchi and Thomas Koenig, “Economic Sources of Corporate Political Consensus: An Examination of Interindustry Relations,” American Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, August 1986, pp. 482-491.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “The Challenge to Hierarchy in Legal Education: Suffolk and the Night Law School Movement,” Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control, Vol. 7, 1985, pp. 189-212.

Thomas Koenig and Tracey Boyce, “Corporate Financing of the Christian Right,” Humanity and Society, Vol. 9, No. l, February 1985, pp. 13-28.

Robert Gogel and Thomas Koenig, “Commercial Banks, Interlocking Directorates and Economic Power: An Analysis of the Primary Metals Industry,” Social Problems, Vol. 29, No. 2, December 1981, pp. 37-50.

Thomas Koenig and Robert Gogel, “Interlocking Corporate Directorates as a Social Network” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 40, No. l, January 1981, pp. 117-128.

Thomas Koenig, Robert Gogel, and John Sonquist, “Models of the Significance of Interlocking Corporate Directorates,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 38, No. 2, April 1979, pp. 173-188.

John Sonquist and Thomas Koenig, “Interlocking Directorates in the Top U.S. Firms: A Graph Theory View,” Insurgent Sociologist, Vol. V, No. 3, Spring 1975, pp. 196-229 - reprinted in Bulletin de Methologie Sociologique, Vol. 2 #1, April 1984 pp. 41-73; also reprinted in John Scott (ed.), Research in Social Networks, 2001.

“How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Experiences as a Social Welfare Aide,” Public Journal of the Social Services, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1970, pp. 8-15.

CHAPTERS

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Drafting Social Media Terms of Use” in Michael L. Rustad, Software Licensing, Cloud Computing Agreements, Open Source and Internet Terms of Use:  A Practical Approach to Information Age Contracts in a Global Setting (New York, New York: Lexis/Nexis:  IP Law and Strategy Series, 2016-2017 ed.), Chapter 9, pp. 1067-1191.

Michael Rustad and Thomas H, Koenig, “Mandatory Arbitration in Software Licensing,” in Michael L. Rustad, Software Licensing (New York, New York; Lexis/Nexis) 2015, pp. 927-1074.

Michael Rustad & Thomas H. Koenig, "Social Media Services" Chapter 11A, Internet Issues and Transactions in Michael L. Rustad, Computer Contracts (New York, New York:  Matthew Bender and Co. 2015) (available on LEXIS/NEXIS in Secondary Sources Library).

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Two Worlds of Quickwrap Licensing Collide: Europe versus America,” 2013 Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Volume 35, Kluwer, 2013, pp. 225 – 269.

Michael L. Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Taming the Tort Monster: The American Civil Justice System as a Battleground of Social Theory,” in Galligan et. al. Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives, and Problems (2007).

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig, “Learning Collective Eminence: The Social Production of Elite Lawyers,” Chapter 8 in Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond by Robert Granfield, Routledge, 1992 pp. 123-142.

“Business Support for Disclosure of Corporate Campaign Contributions: An Ironic Paradox,” in Michael Schwartz (ed.), The Structure of Power in America, 1987, pp. 82-96.

John Sonquist and Thomas Koenig, “Studying Interrelations Between Corporations Through Interlocking Directorates,” in Tom Burns and William Buckley (eds.), Power and Hierarchical Control, Sage Publications, 1977, pp. 53-83.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Why We Need to Apply the Law of Products Liability to the Internet of Things,” Minnesota Trial, Vol. 42 No. 1, Winter 2017 pp. 16-19.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Rebooting Cybertort Law for the Internet of Things,” The Harvard Law Record, Vol. 2016-2017 No. 3, November 30, 2016, p. 7.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Driverless Cars Should Not Receive a Liability Free Pass,” Before the Bar (American Bar Association Law Student Discussion Blog), November 17, 2016.

“Crashing the Party: Ralph Nader Defends 2000 Campaign,” Harvard Law Record, March 15, 2002 p. 9.

“Interview with Thomas H. Koenig, co-author with Michael Rustad, In Defense of Tort Law,” Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 12: No. 6, November-December 2001, pp. 1-5.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Rights of Americans Limited,” The Indiana Lawyer, May 9, 2001 p. 4-5.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Interview with Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, authors of ‘In Defense of Tort Law,’” Journal of High Technology Law, November 2001.

“Rent Control,” Magill’s Legal Guide, Salem Press, 1999.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Taking WLF to Task on Social-Science Data in Court,” Legal Times, May 2, 1994 p. 27.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, Editorial “The Advocacy of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics,” Legal Times, March 28, 1994 p. 27; reprinted in more than a dozen legal periodicals under a variety of titles.

“An Interview with Robert Granfield,” Bimonthly Review of Law Books Vol. 4 No. 2, March-April 1993 pp. 6-10.

“Best Congress Money Can Buy?” Northeastern Today, Vol. 7, No.2, November/December 1981, pp. 20-21 (nationally syndicated through Scripps-Howard and widely reprinted).

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Statement of Thomas Koenig, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University and Michael Rustad, Professor of Law, Suffolk Law School,” in Hearings Before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session on H.R. 3030, 1992, pp. 283-310.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “Statement of Dr. Michael Rustad and Dr. Thomas Koenig,” from Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumer of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 640, 1992, (ISBN 0-16-039081-8) pp. 144-153. Reprinted in Demystifying Punitive Damages in Products Liability Cases: A Survey of a Quarter Century of Trial Verdicts by Michael Rustad, Roscoe Pound Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 41-49.

BOOK REVIEWS

Digital data collection and information privacy law by Mark Burdon, Choice, forthcoming.

Recognizing wrongs by John C. P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky. Choice, Vol 57, p. 3806 July 2020.

The conservative case for class actions by Brian Fitzpatrick, Choice Vol. 57, p.3804, July 2020.

 Litigation nation: a cultural history of lawsuits in America by Peter Hoffer, Choice, Vol. 57, p. 2108, February 2020. 

A Research Agenda for Global Crime edited by Tim Hall and Vincenzo Scalia, Choice, Vol. 57, p. 1368, December 2019.

The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff, Choice, Vol. 57, p. 361,

September 2019.

Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime by Jonathan Lusthaus, Choice, Vol. 56, p. 3268, April 2019.

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|Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime by Kevin Steinmetz, Choice, Vol. 54, p. 4960, | |

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Private Wrongs by Arthur Ripstein, Choice, Vol. 54, p. 890, Oct 2016.

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman, Choice, Vol. 52 p. 5068, May 2015.

Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber, Choice, Vol. 51, p. 4740, April 2014.

Dictionary of Environmental and Climate Change Law, by Nicolas Robinson et al.(eds.), Choice, Vol. 51, p. 1834, December 2013.

Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights edited by David Brunsma, Keri Iyall-Smith and Brian Gran (eds.), Choice, Vol. 50, p. 7059, August 2013.

Cyberbullying: Bullying in the Digital Age by Robin Kowalski, Choice, Vol. 50, p. 1536, Nov. 2012.

Identity Theft in Today’s World by Megan McNally, Choice, Vol. 49, p. 6354, July 2012.

The Offensive Internet by Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum (eds.), Choice, Vol. 49, p. 947, October 2011.

Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace by Susan Brenner, Choice, Vol. 48, p. 685, October 2010.

The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services by Richard Susskind, Trial, Vol. 45 No. 10, pp. 53-54, October 2009.

The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz by Richard Gendron and G. William Domhoff, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 38 No. 6 pp. 587-588, November 2009.

Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine by Lu-in Wang, Choice, Vol. 44,

p. 2773, January 2007.

The Law and Economics of Cybersecurity by Mark F. Grady and Francesco Parisi (eds), Law & Politics Book Review Vol. 16 No. 9 (September 2006) pp.657-659.

Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s by Michael W. Flamm, Choice, Vol. 43, p. 4223, March 2006.

Mexican Law, by Stephen Zamora, José Ramón Cossío, Leonel Pereznieto Castro, José Roldan-Xopa, David Lopez, BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp.3-7 September/October 2005.

International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology: Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime by Keith Maskus and Jerome Reichman (eds.), BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp.13-14, September/October 2005.

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy, by Peter F. Lau (ed.), BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp6-7, January/February 2005.

The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene by Jonathan L. Zittrain and Jennifer K. Harrison, BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp 2-4 November/December 2004.

Superhighway Robbery: Preventing e-commerce crime by Graeme R. Newman and Ronald V. Clarke, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 184-186 Winter 2004.

Social Inequality and Social Injustice by Evelyn Kallen, Choice, Vol. 42, pp. 2518, December 2004.

David v. Goliath: ATLA and the Fight for Everyday Justice by Richard S. Jacobson and Jeffrey R. White, BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 15 No. 5, pp. 7-9 September/October 2004.

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture by Lawrence Lessig, BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 12-13 July/August 2004.

Justice at the City Gate: Social Policy, Social Services and the Law by Susan G. Neisuler, Choice, Vol. 41, pp.4343, March 2004.

A Measure of Endurance: The Unlikely Triumph of Steven Sharp by William Mishler, BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 21-23, Spring 2004.

Tort Law and Practice by Dominick Vetri, Lawrence Levine, Lucinda Finley & Joan Vogel, BiMonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 14, No. 5, p. 6, September/October 2003.

William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America by David Langum, Contemporary Justice Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 205-206, June 2003.

Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography by Tema Nason, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 13, No. 5, p. 4-5 September/October 2002.

Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President by Ralph Nader, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 13, No. 3 p. 24 May/June 2002.

Power by John Scott, Choice, Vol. 40 p.1242, October 2002.

Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory by Don Slater and Fran Tonkiss, Choice, Vol. 39 p. 1638, November 2001.

Industrialization and Society: A Social History 1830-1951 by Eric Hopkins, Choice, Vol. 38, p. 4178 March 2001.

Boycott in America: How Imagination and Ideology Shape the Legal Mind by Gary Minda, Choice, Vol. 37, p. 6867, June 2000.

The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies by Robert Lane, Choice, Vol. 37 p. 6327, July 2000.

The Limits of Privacy by Amitai Etzioni, Choice, Vol. 37, p. 1299, October 1999.

The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and the Law by Robert Hayman, Choice, Vol. 36 No. 2 October 1998.

A Critique of Adjudication: fin de siecle by Duncan Kennedy, Bimonthly Review of Law Books Vol. 9, No. 21, pp. 8-10 July-August 1998.

Understanding Environmental Pollution by Marquita Hill, Choice Vol. 35, p. 5100, May 1998.

Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge by Steve Kroll-Smith, Choice Vol. 35, p. 3344, February 1998.

Conflict Resolution: Theory, Research and Practice by James Schellenberg, Choice, Vol. 35 No. 3 December 1997.

The Politics of Gun Control by Robert Spitzer, Choice, Vol. 34 No. 7, March 1997.

The Handbook of Economic Sociology edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, Choice, Vol. 32 No. 7, March 1995, p. 4200.

The Social Meaning of Money by Viviana Zelizer, Choice, Vol. 32, No. 3, November 1994, p. 1845

Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules by Mona Harrington, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 5, No. 5, September-October 1994, p. 16.

The Age of Paradox by Charles Hardy, Choice, Vol. 32, No. 2, October 1994, p. 1034.

Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity by Mike Savage and Alan Warde, Choice, Vol. 31, No. 8, April 1994, p. 4460.

Social Contracts and Economic Markets by Judith Blau, Choice, Vol. 31, No. 5, January 1994, p. 13915.

Lawyers’ Ideals/Lawyers’ Practices: Transformations in the American Legal Profession edited by Robert Nelson, David Trubek and Rayman Solomon, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 99, No. 3 November 1993, p. 808.

Justice for Children: The Right to Counsel and the Juvenile Courts by Barry Feld, Choice, Vol. 31, No. 3, November 1993, p. 1788.

In Defense of Trial by Jury edited by Kenneth Few, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 4, No. 4 July-August 1993, p. 8.

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law edited by Kenneth Foster, David Bernstein and Peter Huber, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 4, No. 4, July-August 1993, pp. 15-16.

Training Elite Lawyers: Visions of Life At Harvard Law School and Beyond by Robert Granfield, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 4, No. 2, March-April 1993, pp. 3-4.

Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School by Richard Kahlenberg, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 3, No. 5, November-December 1992, p. 1.

Law For the Layman: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-Help Law Books by Frank Houdek, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 3, No. 2, March-April 1992, p. 6-7.

The Goals and Missions of Law Schools by W. Scott Van Alstyne, Jr., Joseph R. Julin and Larry D. Barnett, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. 2 No. 3 May-June 1991, p. 12.

Lost Promises: Debt, Austerity, and Development in Latin America edited by William Canak, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 35-36.

Devil’s Advocate: The Unnatural History of Lawyers by Andrew Roth and Jonathan Roth, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. l, No. 4, July-August 1990, p. ll.

Corporate Crime and Deviance by Russell Mokhiber, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Vol. l, No. l, January 1990, pp. 8-9.

Judging the Jury by Valerie Hans and Neil Vidmar, Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 60, No. 3, Summer 1990, pp. 326-328.

Who Rules America Now? by G. William Domhoff, Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 4, January 1986, pp. 394-395.

Mass Media Christianity: Televangelism and the Great Commission by Jerry D. Cardwell and

The Gospel Time Bomb: Ultrafundamentalism and the Future of America by Lowell Streiker, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 6, November 1985, pp. 772-773.

The New Christian Right edited by Robert Liebman and Robert Wuthnow, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 13, No. 3, May 1984, pp. 372-373.

The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 by Paul Barrett, Sociology: Review of New Books, September/October 1983, pp. 14-15.

The Love Canal by Adeline Levine, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 89, No. 2, March 1983, pp. 1073-1075.

Economic Foundations of Political Power by Randall Bartlett, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 80, No. 6, May 1975, pp. 1475-1477.

Youth and Sociology edited by Marcella Truzzi and Peter Manning, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. IV, No. 2, March 1975, pp. 153-154.

PAPERS DELIVERED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

Thomas Koenig, “Torts of the Future,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, August 2019.

Thomas Koenig, “Abusive Terms of Use for Internet-Connected Children’s Playthings,” Suffolk University Internet of Things Conference, Boston, October 2018.

Thomas Koenig, “Ethical Issues in the Internet of Things,” Computer Ethics Conference, Warsaw, May 2018.

Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, “An Empirical Examination of Social Media Contracting Practices,” American Association of Law Schools 10th International Conference on Contracts, Las Vegas, February 2015.

Thomas Koenig, “Fundamentally Unfair: An Empirical Examination of One-Sided Social Media Terms of Use and Privacy Policies,” Suffolk University Continuing Legal Education, Boston, November 2014.

Thomas Koenig, “What Did You Agree to When You Clicked on ‘I Agree?’” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2014.

Thomas Koenig, “Calibrating Compensation for the BP Oil Spill,” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 2013.

Thomas Koenig “Blending Criminal and Civil Legal Principles to Redress Corporate Environmental Wrongdoing,” American Society of Criminology, Washington D.C., November 2011.

Chris Gibson and Thomas Koenig, “Domain Names, Trademarks, Intellectual Property and International Disputes on the Internet,” Presentation to the Central Iranian Bar Association, Tehran, June 2009.

Thomas Koenig, “Crimtorts: A Cure for the Hardening of the Categories,” Widener Law Journal Symposium on Crimtorts, Harrisburg, PA., February 2008.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “’Hate Torts’ to Combat ‘Hate Crimes: Punishing the Organizational Roots of Evil,” American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007.

Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad, “Tort Litigation against Organized Oppression,” International Law and Society Association, Berlin, May 2007.

“Gender Oppression in Cyberspace,” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, February 2006.

“Harmonizing European and U.S. Cybertort Law,” Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, June 2005.

“Rebooting Cybertort Law,” Sophisticated New Tort Theories Conference, Boston, October 2004.

"Toxic Torts as 'Crimtorts'," American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.

“Taming the Tort Monster: Ideology & Utopia in the American Civil Justice System,” Law and Society Association, Vancouver, May 2002.

“Torts in Cyberspace,” International Law and Society Association, Budapest, July 2001.

“’Crimtorts’ to Control White Collar Crime,” American Criminal Justice Association, San Francisco, November 2000.

“O.J. Simpson, Monica Lewinsky and American Ethnicity,” Conference on Ethnic Studies, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, December 1999.

“The Impact of Punitive Damages on Settlements: The Empirical Evidence,” Law and Society Association, St. Louis, May 1997.

“Death at an Early Age: The Role of Punitive Damages Claims in Settlement,” American Bar Association Torts and Insurance Practice Section, Madison, WI, October 1996.

“The Facts Behind the Tort Reform Rhetoric: Is There Really a Litigation Crisis?,” American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1995.

“An Empirical Study of Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice,” with Michael Rustad, American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1995.

“Reconceptualizing Punitive Damages in Medical Malpractice: Punishing Amoral Corporations Not ‘Moral Monsters’,” with Michael Rustad, Law and Society Association, Toronto, June 1995.

“The Disparate Gender Impact of Tort Reform,” Keynote speaker at Symposium on Women and Tort Law, Boston, February 1995.

“The Co-optation of Ethics by the Doctrine of Professional Responsibility,” with Robert Granfield, American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994.

“Does Ethical Training Matter? The Disjunction Between Ethics in the Books and Ethics in Practice,” with Robert Granfield, Law and Society Association, Phoenix, June 1994.

“His and Her Tort Reform: Gender Injustice in Disguise,” with Michael Rustad, Law and Society Association, Phoenix, June 1994.

“The Quiet Revolution Revisited: An Empirical Study of the Effects of State Tort Reform,” with Michael Rustad, American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993.

“Depoliticalization through Elite Legal Education,” with Robert Granfield, American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993.

“Who Benefits from Deadlock? An Examination of Fifteen Years of Congressional Tort Reform,” with Michelle Eayrs, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Miami, August 1993.

“Learning Collective Eminence: Harvard Law School and the Social Production of Elite Lawyers,” with Robert Granfield, American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

“Pathways Into Elite Firms: Professional Stratification and Social Networks,” with Robert Granfield, American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

“Reforming Tort Reform: A Defense of Punitive Damages,” with Michael Rustad, Law and Society Association, Philadelphia, May 1992.

“The Fate of Elite Idealism: Accommodation and Ideological Work at Harvard Law School,” with Robert Granfield, Law and Society Association, Philadelphia, May 1992.

“Turning Women into Elite Lawyers: Creating a New Gender Identity,” with Robert Granfield, American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August 1991.

“Demystifying Punitive Damages in Products Liability: A Post-Verdict Analysis,” with Michael Rustad, Law and Society Association, Amsterdam, June 1991.

“The Contradictions of Gender: Contested Identities at Harvard Law School,” Eastern Sociological Society, Providence, April 1991.

“Learning Collective Eminence at Harvard Law School,” American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 1990.

“Reproducing the Power Structure: The Cooptation of Working-Class Public Interest Oriented Law Students,” with Robert Granfield, Law and Society Association, Berkeley, June 1990.

“Raising Prestige But Limiting Access: The Harvardization of Suffolk Law School,” with Michael Rustad, Law and Society Association, Berkeley, June 1990.

“Class and Social Networks in the Legal Profession,” with Michael Rustad, International Sociological Association, Boston, April 1990.

“The Informal Curriculum at Harvard Law School,” with Robert Granfield, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 1990.

“From Idealism to Pragmatism in Law Students,” with Robert Granfield, National Social Science Association, Cambridge, Mass., November 1989.

“Learning Collective Eminence: The Hidden Curriculum at Harvard Law School,” with Robert Granfield, Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 1989.

“Determinates of Collective Political Action within Industries,” Sunbelt Conference of Network Analysts, Bay Harbor, February 1989.

“Training Elite Lawyers,” with Robert Granfield, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 1988.

“Political Contributions from Elite Social Networks: A Graph Theory Analysis,” Conference on Interlocking Directorates, Devilskill Beach, North Carolina, November 1987.

“Economic Concentration and Political Cohesion: A Cross-Industry Comparison,” with Mark Mizruchi, American Sociological Association, New York, August 1985.

“Interdependence, Interlocking, and Corporate Political Behavior,” with Mark Mizruchi, American Sociological Association, New York, August 1985.

“The Origins of Hierarchy in American Legal Education,” with Michael Rustad, American Sociological Association, San Antonio, August 1984.

“Inside Boston’s Law Schools: Class Struggle in the Legal Profession,” with Michael Rustad, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 1984.

“Political Action Committees of the Old and New Rights,” with Tracey Boyce, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 1984.

“Corporate Financing of New Right Congresspeople,” with Tracey Boyce, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Knoxville, November 1983.

“The Effects of Marijuana Cultivation on Community Solidarity,” Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, March 1983.

“Who Finances the Right Wing?” with Tracey Boyce, Association of Humanist Sociologists, Washington, D.C., October 1982.

“PACs and Power,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 1982.

“Big Money in Elections: The Growing Power of Political Action Committees,” Massachusetts Sociological Association, Boston, April 1982.

“Political Action Committees and Political Power,” American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1981.

“Political Activities of the Corporate Rich,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, August 1981.

“Level of Analysis Problems in the Study of Corporate Political Contributions,” Canadian Sociological Association, Halifax, May 1981.

“Commercial Banks, Interlocking Directorates and Economic Power,” Working Conference on Corporate Ownership and Control, Santa Cruz, May 1981.

“Corporate Support for the New Political Contribution Reforms,” American Sociological Association, New York City, August 1980.

“Studying the Powerful,” keynote speech, 8th Annual Santa Clara National Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara, California, April 1980.

“Business Interests and Ideology During the New Deal,” with Yale Magrass, Association of Humanistic Sociologists, South Bend, Indiana, October 1978.

“A Network Interpretation of Political Contribution Patterns,” International Network of Network Analysts, Toronto, March 1978.

“The Corporate Elite and Political Contributions,” American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1977.

“Interlocking Directorates in the Top U.S. Firms: A Graph Theory View” with John Sonquist, International Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1974.

“An Investigation into the Significance of Corporate Interlocks in the American Economy,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Irvine, California, June 1974.

“Corporate Interlocks and Social Class,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Jose, March 1974.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2018-Present National Board Member; Each One Teach One.

2016-Present National Science Foundation On-Site Grant Review Panelist.

2008-Present Member, Editorial Board, Belgrade Law Review.

2015 Principal Investigator, “Securing Anonymous Communication Systems Against National Level Adversaries,” $500,000; recommended but not funded.

2014 Campus-Wide Speaker for Conference on Diversity, “The Truth About George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin,” Gordon College, January 24.

2009-2011 Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Law and Policy

2007-2012 Executive Board Member, International Association of Law and Policy

2008 Member, Selection Committee for Fulbright Grant Fellowships from Serbia

2008 Organizer, On-line Cyberlaw Educational Conference, Belgrade Law School, December 2008

2008 Chair, Presentation Panel on “Class, Gender and Inequality in Boston,” American Sociological Association annual meeting, August 2008

2008 Keynote speaker, Symposium on my concept of “Crimtorts,” Weidner Law School, Feb. 2008

2007-2008 Chair, Local Spotlight Committee for American Sociological Association 2008 annual meeting

2006-2007 Organizer of American Sociological Association panels on “Sociology of Law”

2006 Accreditation Reviewer, Dept. of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, May.

2005 “Interview with Marc Galanter” on his new book “Lowering the Bar,” BiMonthly Review of Law Books, November/December 2005 pp. 1-4.

2005 Moderator and Discussant, “Current Challenges to the Civil Jury,” Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, June.

2005 Moderator, “Directions for Future Research,” International Conference on Hate Crimes, April.

2004-2005 Consultant, Pro Bono Legal Education Project (Law School Admission Council Grant).

2004 Moderator and Discussant, Conference on Sophisticated New Tort Theories, Boston, October.

2003-2004 Boston Drug Assessment Project (National Institute of Justice Grant).

2004 "Managing the Joint Department," Presentation to Departmental Chairs, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August

2003 Keynote Speaker to Massachusetts Trial Court, Office of Community Corrections Conference June 12.

2003 Member, Boston Citizen’s Council, Federal Bureau of Investigation

2002 Reviewer of Sociology/Anthropology Dept. Univ. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

2000-2001 Consultant to Calif. Community College Mathematics Education Committee

1993-2008 Member, Editorial Board, Bimonthly Review of Law Books

1993-95 Member, Justice Studies Advisory Board, Curry College, Milton, MA

1993-95 Member, Planning Board, Thomas Lambert Foundation

1991-93 Member, Editorial Board, Sociological Inquiry

1993 Invited Participant, “Conference on Tort Litigation,” National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, VA

1990-2005 Analysis of Punitive Verdicts for numerous legal cases including five before U.S. Supreme Court

1986 Invited Participant, Shell Oil Corp. Faculty Forum1982-85 Board of Directors, Common Cause (Massachusetts)

1982-84 Computer analysis on political contribution patterns in Massachusetts for Common Cause

1983-84 Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Eastern Sociological Society

1982-83 First Vice President, Massachusetts Sociological Association

1981-82 Headquarters Liaison Officer, Massachusetts Sociological Association

1981-82 Chair, Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems

85. Affiliated Faculty, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Education

REVIEWING FOR FOUNDATIONS AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS

American Sociological Review

Belgrade Law Review

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Critical Sociology

Global Journal of Political Science and International Relations

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Journal of Internet Law

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Jurimetrics

Justice System Journal

Law and Society Review

Law and Social Inquiry

National Science Foundation: Sociology Division, Law and Social Sciences Division, and Supercomputing Challenge Grant Program

Rose Monograph Series

Sage Open Source

Social Problems

Social Science Quarterly

Sociological Forum

Sociological Inquiry

Sociological Quarterly

Sociological Perspectives

Sociological Spectrum

SERVICE

DEPARTMENT

2009-2010 Advocate, Luis Falcon Full Professor Promotion Case

2002-2008 Chairperson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1996-2000 Executive Officer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1993-96; 2000-01 Member, Executive Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1992-93 Deputy Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1988-93; 1999 Head Advisor for Undergraduate Sociology Majors

1988-93; 1999 Chair, Undergraduate Committee

1987-90 Advisor for Sociology Juniors

1986-87 Chair, Undergraduate Committee; Acting Chair, Faculty Development Committee

1982-86 Associate Chair, Faculty Development Committee

1982-86 Freshman Advisor for Sociology Majors

1980-82 Faculty Advisor to Undergraduate Sociology Club

1980-82 Faculty Advisor to Northeastern University Chapter of AKD (Sociology Honor Society)

OTHER UNIVERSITY

2018- Present Affiliate, Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute

2013- 2017 Member, Academic Council, College of Continuing and Professional Studies

2015 Fulbright Undergraduate Student Applicant Mentor (6 of the 8 students won awards)

2011 Member, Review Committee for the GPSA Outstanding Graduate Student Awards

2010-2012 Agenda Committee, College Council, College of Social Sciences and Humanities

2010 Search Committee for Chair of Dept. of Criminal Justice

2009-2011 Member, Information Assurance Ph.D. Planning Committee

2009-2011 Member, NU Tenure Appeals Committee

2007-2011 Member, Academic Council, College of Continuing and Professional Studies

2007 Member, Co-op Advisors Promotion Evaluation Committee

2005-2011 Core faculty member: Law and Policy Executive Doctorate Program

2006-2008 Member, Sabbatical Proposal Evaluation Committee

2006-2007 Chair, Dean of School of Social Sciences, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy Search Committee

2006-2007 Member, Director of Law, Policy and Society Program Evaluation Committee

2005-2008 Member, Dept. of African-American Studies Faculty Search Committee

2005-2008 Faculty Advisor, Law, Policy and Society program student organization

2005 Member, Chair of Economics Evaluation Committee

2005 Member, Dean of College of Health Sciences Evaluation Committee

2003-2005 Member, Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee

2003-2005 Member, Committee to Establish the School of Social Sciences, Public Policy and Urban Studies

2003-2004 Member, Dean of Criminal Justice Evaluation Committee

2003-2005 Member, A & S Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee

2003 Member, History Department Chair Search Committee

2002-2003 Member, Northeastern University Research Council

2001-2002 Member, Committee to Review Directors of Law, Policy and Society program

2001 Member, Arts and Sciences, Sabbatical Release Proposal Evaluation Committee

2000-2009 Member, Law, Policy and Society Curriculum Committee

2000-2003 Member, Law, Policy and Society Admissions Committee

2000 Chair, Committee to Review Psychology Department Chair

1996-97 Member, Legal Studies major planning committee

1995 Associate Dean Search Committee, Arts and Sciences

1992-94 Undergraduate Program Planning Committee, Arts and Sciences

1986-89 One-third of load in Business School

1987-89 Member, Honors Committee, Arts and Sciences

1987-88 Member, Law, Policy and Society, Director Search Committee

1984-Present Member, Law and Public Policy Doctoral Program Board of Studies

1985-87 Chair, Undergraduate Program Development Committee; Law,

Policy and Society

1982-85 Chair, Publicity and Placement Committee; Law, Policy and Society

1979-98 Member, Northeastern University Human Subjects Review Committee

1977-79 Member, Northeastern University, Computer Advisory Committee

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow, University of Belgrade Law School

1995-96 Faculty Development Grant, Northeastern University

1994-95 Research and Scholarship Development Grant, Northeastern University

1993 Northeastern University Service to Students Award

1991-92 Research and Scholarship Grant, Northeastern University

1986, 1983 Faculty Development Grant, Department of Sociology

1983 Mellon Grant for Undergraduate Curriculum Development

1982 Program of Research Appointments Pre-tenure Grant

1981 Liberal Arts Division Research Grant

COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (*=chair)

*Frank J. Addivinola, Jr., The Effects of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 on Biopharmaceutical Research and Development (2018).

*Sarah Cortes, “Jurisdictional Arbitrage: Quantifying and Counteracting the

Invisible Web of Lawful Intercept Cartel Threats in the Tor Anonymous Communications Network” (2017).

*Christopher Hovey, “Diversity and Attrition in Computer Science University Education,” (2017).

*Marina Draper, “Adult Vaccination: Legal and Public Policy Reforms to Address Herpes Zoster Vaccination Uptake” (2016).

Mohammad Alwaheed, “The Innocence of Muslims” Controversy: An Analysis of Legal and Culural Conflict” SJD Degree, Suffolk University Law School (2016).

*Eric Bellone, “Videoconferencing in the Courts: An Exploratory Study of Videoconferencing Impact on the Attorney-Client Relationship in Massachusetts” (2015).

*Amanda Crabb, “The Struggle for Special Visa Allotments for Irish: The Irish Immigration Reform Movement and the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform” (2015).

Mark Hengen, “REACH– Political Opportunities for Transforming EU Chemical Policies” (2015).

*Colin Maclay, “An Improbable Coalition: How Businesses, Non-Governmental Organizations, Investors and Academics Formed the Global Network Initiative to Promote Privacy and Free Expression Online” (2014).

*Fabio De Sa e Silva, “Lawyers and Governance in a Globalizing World: Narratives of ‘Public Interest Law’ Across the Americas” (2012).

Lora Karaougu, “Globalization, Unequal Ecological Exchange, and Climate Justice: The Case of Turkey and the European Union” (2011).                                           

Maria Andia, “Disadvantaged Groups, the Use of Courts and Their Impact: A Case Study of Legal Mobilization in Argentina (2011).

*Alice Perry, “The Evolution of Police Organization and Leadership in the United States: Potential Political and Social Implications” (2010).

Yitayew Taye, “The State, Nongovernmental Organizations and the Making of the Charities and Societies Proclamation No. 621 of 2009 in Ethiopia – Institutional and Legal Perspectives” (2010).

Jaronda Miller, “Exploring ‘Ethnic Money Knowledge’ as an Aspect of Financial Literacy Among Middle Class African Americans” (2010).

Patricia Morris, “Encounters with ‘Death Work’ in Veterinary Medicine: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Medical Practice of Euthanasia” (2009).

*Neenah Estrella-Luna, “Environmental Review in Massachusetts: The Relationships, The Decisions and the Law” (2009).

Mbosonge Mwenechanya, “The De-Africanization of African Development: International Development Programs and Political Economy of the Local in Zambia” (2009).

*Sebastian Albuja, “Law without Borders: Global Socialization and the Adoption of Policy Frameworks in Ecuador” (2008).

Alyssa Scott, “Caged Lives and Caged Minds? The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process: A Secondary Analysis of the Nebraska Inmate Survey” (2008).

Marci Gerulis, “Vulnerability and the Social Production of Disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Posoltega, Nicaragua” (2008).

Todd Leach, “The Impact of For-Profit Privatization on Higher Education in the State of Massachusetts,” (2008).

Beatriz Larrain, “The Expansion of Judicial Power in Chile: A Case Study,” (2007).

Francis Williams, “Student Assistance Programs (SAP): An Organizational and Theoretical Perspective on Building Bridges for Healthy Youth,” (2007).

*Lorenzo Boyd, “Correlates of Attitudinal Differences Between Black and White Police Officers: A Study of the Indianapolis, Indiana and St. Petersburg, Florida Police Departments,” (2005).

*Philip Howard, “We’ve Been Framed: Progressive Cause Lawyer Leadership in Florida Tobacco Litigation,” (2005).

Donna McKenzie-Cole, “Race and Perception of Race in a Post Colonial Private School in Botswana,” (2005).

Nahide Konak, “Environmentalism and Environmental Activism in Bergata, Turkey” (2004).

Jasmine Martirossian, "Community Association and Condominiums: Community, Governance and Group Dynamics," (2004).

*Toni Lester, "Assessing the Effectiveness of Sexual Orientation Discrimination Law," (2004).

Jodi H. Cohn, "The Successes and Limitations of Single-Sex Math Classrooms in American Public Schools," (2004).

Demetrius A. Lamar, "When Meritocracy Prevails in Higher Education: An Empirical Study of Black Social Mobility," (2003).

*Sybil Martin Marberg, “Judging at Night: An Empirical Study of Massachusetts’ Emergency Judicial Response System,” (2003).

Maurizio Marroni, “Italy’s Northern League and its Impact on the Post-Industrial Stages of Italian Society: A Case Study,” (2003).

Eric Bourgeois, “Merging Environmental Justice and Brownfields Policy in Massachusetts: Opportunities and Obstacles to the Revitalization of Urban Communities,” (2003).

Felicia Wiltz, “Welfare to Work: The Impact of Training and Education on Social Mobility,” (2001).

Rosaria Pisa, “Restructuring the Agrarian Sector: Property and Citizenship in Mexico,” (2001).

*Augusto Diana, “Youth at Play: Preventing Youth Problem Behavior Through Sports and Recreation,” (2000).

Michael Manocchia, “The Relationship Between Attainment and Health Related Quality of Life,” (2000).

Benjamin Steiner, “Race, Ideology and Legal Action: The Case of Capital Juror Sentencing,” (1999).

Nianwen Shi, “Survival and Mobility in Urban Labor Markets: A Case Study of Migrant Domestic Workers in Guangzhou City, People’s Republic of China,” (1999).

*Norman Hansen, “The Attitudes of Bankruptcy Judges Regarding Bankruptcy Process, Law and Proposed Changes to the Law,” (1998).

*Christine Payne, “The Massachusetts Community Health Network Area Initiative: A Community-Government Partnership,” (1998).

Margorie Engel, “Pockets of Poverty: The Second Wives’ Club: Examining the Financial [In]security of Women in Remarriages,” (1998).

Kristin Moag, “Unequal Risks: Excess Fire Mortality Among African Americans, 1949-1992,” (1998).

Francena Warden, “A Framework for the Development of Organizational Electronic Privacy Policy,” (1998).

Douglas Pasino, “A Study of Regulatory and Operational Coping Behaviors Used by Massachusetts Community Pharmacists,” (1997).

Zhao Sun, “Family Caregivers and Their Experiences Helping Elderly Relatives,” (1995).

Wilbert Kapinga, “The Role of Law and Public Policy in Workers’ Participation in Tanzania,” (1995).

Daniel Gilbarg, “Divergent Experience: Economic Status of White, Black and Latino Mothers in Boston,” (1995).

Eric Kreig, “Race, Class and Toxic Waste Sites: The Case of Greater Boston,” (1995).

*Maureen Norton-Hawk, “When Bad Laws Happen to Bad People: The Decision to Prosecute Pregnant Drug Addicts,” (1994).

*Morris Jenkins, “Fear of the ‘Gangsta’: Policy Responses to Gang Activity in the City of Boston,” (1994).

Said Bhyer, “A Comparative Study of Moroccan Mental Healing and Psychiatry,” (1993).

*Kwamina Panford, “The Influence of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on African Workers’ Union and Collective Bargaining Rights: A Case Study of Ghana,” (1989).

*Robert Granfield, “Making the Elite Lawyer: Culture and Ideology in Elite Education,” (1989).

*Tracey Boyce Gayle, “PAC Power, Campaign Financing and Democratic Decision Making,” (1988).

Henry Chukwuezi, “Nigeria: Basic Problems of Development Administration and Policy Priorities for the Rural Sector,” (1986).

Ellia Mohammed, “The Problem of Development and Underdevelopment: A Case Study of the Daour Doum Shantytown, Rabat, Morocco,” (1983).

Kenneth MacDonald, “A Class Analysis of Perceptions and Explanations of Opportunities in America: An Empirical Test of William Ryan’s Blaming the Victim Thesis,” (1983).

William Kladky, “The Playwright as Social Activist: Bjorson, Ibsen, Hauptmann and the German Social Theater Movement,” (1983).

MEMBERSHIPS

American Sociological Association; Southeastern Association of Law Schools; Law and Society Association.

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