Pat Lauderdale
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Pat Lee Lauderdale received his doctorate in the sociology of law
Sociology of law
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 from Stanford University
Stanford University
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 and was a professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University
Arizona State University
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. In 2008, he was appointed a visiting scholar at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His teaching and research interests include indigenous jurisprudence, racialization
Racialization
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, diversity, global indigenous struggles, law and the social science, and international terrorism
Terrorism
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. In the 1980s he helped create the Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer
Herbert George Blumer was an American sociologist. Continuing the work of George Herbert Mead, he named and developed the topic of symbolic interactionism. According to Blumer himself, his main post-graduate scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methodological problems...

 Institute in Costa Rica
Costa Rica
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 with the goal of discovering and describing alternatives to violence and criminal law
Criminal law
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. He also is known internationally for his research on the relationship between social deviance, law and diversity, and is a former editor of the International Studies Quarterly.

His seminal book "Law and Society" (with James Inverarity and Barry Feld) has been translated into Japanese. His related research has been published in Spanish, German, and Italian (including the Calabrian dialect).

He is the former Director of the University-wide Ph.D./J.D. program in Justice Studies, Law, and the Social Sciences
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. Before coming to ASU in 1981, Dr. Lauderdale was an Associate Professor
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 of Sociology and Law at the University of Minnesota. He previously was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
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. He has received Fulbright Research Fellowships to Costa Rica and Austria. He also has been a Visiting Scholar and Professor at the University of Lecci, Italy, the University of Austria, and Stanford University. In 2007, he received an invitation to be a Fulbright Senior Specialist for a research project on "Indigenous peoples, minorities and globalization," Department of Sociology and UNISA Press, University of South Africa
University of South Africa
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. He was a National President of Phi Theta Kappa
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 Honorary Society
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 and a Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
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 Scholar.

Works

Oliverio, Annamarie and Pat Lauderdale, editors
2006. Terrorism: A New Testament. London: Sage UK and de Sitter

Inverarity, James and Pat Lauderdale
Forthcoming, Law, Justice and Society (revised version of Law and Society). New York: General Hall.

Zegeye, Abebe, Richard Harris
Richard Harris
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 and Pat Lauderdale, editors
2005. Globalization and Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa
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. Willowdale
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, Canada: de Sitter Publications.

Lauderdale, Pat, editor
2003. A Political Analysis of Deviance, New Edition. Toronto, Canada: de Sitter Publications.

Toggia, Pietro, Pat Lauderdale and Abebe Zegeye, editors
2000. Terror and Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy, Human Rights
Human rights
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, and Freedom. London: Ashgate.

Lauderdale, Pat and Randall Amster
Randall Amster
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, Special Issue Editors
1997. Lives in the Balance: Perspectives on Global Injustice and Inequality. Leiden, the Netherlands: E. J. Brill.

Lauderdale, Pat and Michael Cruit
1993. The Struggle for Control: A Study of Law, Disputes and Deviance. New York: SUNY Press.

Altheide, David et al.
1990. School of Justice Studies, Lauderdale, Pat, co-editor New Directions in the Study of Justice, Law and Social Control
Social control
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. New York: Plenum.

Inverarity, James, Pat Lauderdale and Barry Feld
1983. Law and Society. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company
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.

1994-95. Japanese translated version (Law & Society by Setsuo Miyazawa), Rokko, Kobe, Japan
Kobe
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.

Lauderdale, Pat, editor
1980. A Political Analysis of Deviance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
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Press.

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