Assistant Professor (beginning September 2013)
Sturm Hall, Room 466
Email: jcwilson@jjay.cuny.edu
Areas of expertise/research interests
Law, politics, and society
Professional biography
Professor Wilson's research concerns the varying abilities of political and social movements to use law—broadly defined—in the pursuit of political ends. Portions of his work have been published in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and Studies in Law, Politics, & Society, and his research has been discussed in Time Magazine and NPR's The Morning Shift. His book, The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars (Stanford University Press), will be released in Fall of 2013. His next project focuses on Christian law schools and the developing New Christian Right legal movement.
Education
PhD, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley, 2006
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies and English, UC Berkeley, 1998
Recent Publications
The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars. Under Contract at Stanford University Press. Expected Publication Date, October 2013.
"'Tort Tales' & TV Judges: Amplifying, Modifying, or Countering the Anti-Tort Narrative." Law & Society Review, 46, 105-135, March 2012 (Co-Authored with Erin Ackerman).
"Sustaining the State: Exploring the Construction of Legality in Pro and Anti-Abortion Activists' Post-Litigation Narratives." Law & Social Inquiry, 36, 455-483, Spring 2011.
"It Takes All Kinds: Observations from an Event-Centered Approach to Cause Lawyering." Studies in Law, Politics, & Society, 50, 169-206, 2009.
"Anti-Abortion Protests and the Ideological Dilemma in Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo, Inc. v. Williams." Studies in Law, Politics, & Society, 35, 145-190, 2005.