Varieties of Legal Order ─ The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism

Across the globe law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy and everyday life. Top sociolegal scholars use Kagan's concepts and methods to examine the politics of litigation and regulation around the world.

Jeb Barnes is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California and a former Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research. He is the author of five books and numerous peer-reviewed articles on the intersection of law, politics and public policy and mixed-methods research strategies, most recently How Policy Shapes Politics (2015), co-authored with Thomas F. Burke, and Finding Pathways: Mixed-Method Research for Studying Causal Mechanisms (2014) with Nicholas Weller.

Thomas F. Burke is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. His research focuses on the place of rights and litigation in public policy, and the ways in which organizations respond to rights laws. His most recent books are How Policy Shapes Politics (2015), co-authored with Jeb Barnes, and the 9^th edition of Reason in Law (2016) co-authored with Lief Carter. In a stroke of extraordinary good luck, his Ph.d. dissertation, Litigation and its Discontents, was supervised by Bob Kagan. It won the 1996 Edwin S. Corwin Award for best dissertation in public law.