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Many Macalester graduates have gone on to study law at, among others,
Harvard
Stanford
Cornell
Columbia
University of Michigan
Georgetown University
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Faculty
- Martin Gunderson, pre-law program adviser, philosophy professor and chair, specializes in ethics with a special interest in philosophy of law. Most of his publications concern civil liberties issues that arise in the context of healthcare. He is co-author of AIDS: Testing and Privacy and has published articles on such topics as informed consent, physician-assisted suicide and the ethics of managed care. He is currently writing a book on stoicism and suicide.
- Eric Larson, associate professor, pursues research interests at the intersection of economic sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of law, examining the processes through which economic institutions and actors are constructed in a global environment and how these constructions shape subsequent economic activity. He has been engaged in two research projects: a study of small, new stock exchanges in Fiji, Ghana, and Iceland and an examination of affirmative action policies targeted toward groups identified as indigenous.
- Norman Rosenberg, DeWitt Wallace Professor of History, specializes in legal history and has taught a variety of courses in 20th century U.S. history. He serves as head of Macalester?s Legal Studies Program and is on the editorial board of the Legal Studies Forum Journal. His research interests are in the area of 20th century legal culture, with an emphasis on first-amendment issues and post-structural theory. He is writing an interpretive essay on 20th century legal culture and working on a book The Reconstruction of Free-Speech Discourse, 1940 ? 1964.
- Paul Solon, professor of history, is primarily concerned with the period prior to the Industrial Revolution, offering a range of chronologically-based courses in European history with a particular emphasis on law, politics and warfare. His research focuses on the social organization, institutional structure and political usage of armed force in Valois, France, between the eras of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion.
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