Student

Jenae Carpenter

Jenae Carpenter is a PhD student in Sociology. Her dissertation project combines historical and ethnographic methods to parse hyperincarceration in settler colonies, where different mechanisms and forces have produced similar spikes in criminal confinement (eg, Aboriginals in Australian, Native Americans in the US, métis in Canada). As part of this project, she is midway through an ethnographic study of a small town on the Northern tip of Australia, following public defenders and using the court as a window into the penal state. As a BELS...

Joanna Cardenas

Joanna Cardenas is a doctoral student in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, she received a dual B.A. in African American Studies and Legal Studies with honors from Cal. Her research interests are situated at the nexus of critical carceral studies, Disability Studies, and Black Feminist Thought, with an emphasis on the intersection of race, class, and gender. Through a close analysis of contemporary California prisons, Joanna’s current work broadly focuses on how...

Krisztina Petra Gula

CSLS Visiting Student Researcher

Krisztina Petra Gula is a Ph.D. candidate in criminal justice at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary and works as a legal and financial expert. She arrived at CSLS as a visiting researcher with Fulbright and Rosztoczy scholarships. Her experience stems from the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the edition of Lawyr.it, an international project and journal of law and political science students in Central and Eastern Europe. She graduated from ELTE Law and holds a postgraduate degree in economics from the Corvinus University of...

Kyneshawau Hurd

Kyneshawau Hurd is a PhD candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy graduate program in, and JD graduate of University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She studies the intersections of Dominance, Diversity, and Discrimination and the implications for various arenas such as education and tech. In addition to her graduate studies and research, she applies her social science expertise to real-world organizational contexts as a DEI researcher, facilitator, and practitioner.

George Lambeth

JSD Candidate
Law

George Lambeth is a JSD candidate from the Law School. His work stands at the intersection of law, political economy, financial regulation, comparative law in developing countries, and institutional change. His dissertation deals with the relationship between the development of financial systems in Latin America and their institutional framework over the last hundred years. Traditionally, the comparative legal analysis of finance is frequently dissociated with its institutional origin. In contrast, the research shows that a meaningful comparative account of legal change needs to consider...

Lara Schiffrin-Sands

Laura Ramirez

Lauren Chambers

Lauren Chambers is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information where she studies the intersection of data, technology, and sociopolitical advocacy with Prof. Deirdre Mulligan. Previously Lauren was the staff technologist at the ACLU of Massachusetts where she explored government data in order to inform citizens and lawmakers about the effects of legislation and political leadership on civil liberties. Lauren received her Bachelor's degree from Yale in 2017 where she double-majored in astrophysics and African American studies, and she spent two...

Lawrence Liu

Lawrence J. Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at Berkeley Law. His research interests include regulatory politics and administrative law, globalization and trade, state-society relations, the legal profession, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. His research has been published by or is forthcoming in the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, the Yale Journal of International Law, The China Quarterly, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Previously, Lawrence served as a law...

Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee (she/her/hers) is a third year PhD candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley and is a spatial historian of rural California. She received her Bachelors in History from the University of California, Merced in 2020, where her research focused on the development of Merced’s first professional police department from 1870 to 1890 and its impact on local understandings of race, class, and space. Her dissertation expands on this, exploring the interconnected histories of police professionalization and racial segregation in California’s Central Valley from the late...