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Ron Levi

Ron Levi

Recent Papers

  • Levi, Ron and John Hagan. Forthcoming. "Lawyers, Humanitarian Emergencies, and the Politics of Large Numbers." In Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice, edited by Y. Dezalay & B. Garth. New York: Routledge.
  • Dinovitzer, Ronit, John Hagan and Ron Levi. 2009. "Immigration and Youthful Illegalities in a Global Edge City." Social Forces 88: 337-372.
  • Levi, Ron. 2009. "Gated Communities in Law's Gaze: Material Forms and the Production of a Social Body in Legal Adjudication." Law & Social Inquiry 34: 635-669.
  • Levi, Ron. 2009. "Making Counter-Law: On Having No Apparent Purpose in Chicago." British Journal of Criminology 49: 131-149.
  • Levi, Ron. 2008. "Auditable Community: The Moral Order of Megan's Law." British Journal of Criminology 48: 583-603.
  • Levi, Ron and John Hagan, with the collaboration of Sara Dezalay. Guest editor for Volumes 173 and 174 of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales on "Pacifier et Punir [Les crimes de guerre et l'ordre juridique international" ("War Crimes and the International Juridical Order") (June 2008), and La force du droit international et le marché de la paix ("The Force of International Law and the Peace Market") (September 2008)].
  • Levi, Ron and Heather Schoenfeld. 2008. "Médiation et droit pénal international: Le façonnage des outils de poursuite des crimes de guerre." Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 174: 4-23.
  • Levi, Ron and Mariana Valverde. 2008. "Studying Law by Association: Bruno Latour Goes to the Conseil d'Etat." Law & Social Inquiry 33:805-825.
  • Levi, Ron and John Hagan. 2008. "Penser les 'Crimes de Guerre'." Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 173: 6-21.
  • Levi, Ron. 2008. "Loitering in the City that Works: On Circulation, Activity, and Police in Governing Urban Space." Pp. 178-199, 254-262 in Police and the Liberal State, edited by M.D. Dubber & M. Valverde. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Hagan, John, Ron Levi and Ronit Dinovitzer. 2008. "The Symbolic Violence of the Crime-Immigrant Nexus: Migrant Mythologies in the Americas" (policy essay). Criminology & Public Policy 7:95-112.
  • Schoenfeld, Heather, Ron Levi and John Hagan. 2007. "Crises extremes et instiutionalisation du droit penal international." Critique internationale 36(3):37-54.
  • Hagan, John and Ron Levi. 2007. "Justiciability as Field Effect: When Sociology Meets Human Rights." Sociological Forum 22:372-380.
  • Levi, Ron and Mariana Valverde. 2006. "Freedom of the City. Canadian Cities and the Quest for Governmental Status." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 44:409-461.
  • Hagan, John, Ron Levi and Gabrielle Ferrales. 2006. "Swaying the Hand of Justice: The Internal and External Dynamics of Regime Change at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia." Law and Social Inquiry 31:585-616.
  • Levi, Ron and John Hagan. 2006. "International Police." pp. 207-247 in The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance, edited by M.D. Dubber and M. Valverde. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Valverde, Mariana and Ron Levi. 2006. "Gobernando la communidad, gobernando a traves de la communidad." Delito y Sociedad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 22:5-30.
  • Hagan, John and Ron Levi. 2005. "Crimes of War and the Force of Law." Social Forces 83:1499-1534.
  • Valverde, Mariana, Ron Levi and Dawn Moore. 2005. "Legal Knowledges of Risks." pp. 86-120 in Law and Risk, edited by the Law Commission of Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
  • Hagan, John and Ron Levi. 2004. "Social Skill, the Milosevic Indictment, and the Rebirth of Inernational Criminal Justice." European Journal of Criminology 1:445-475.
  • Levi, Ron and Mariana Valverde. 2001. "Knowledge on Tap: Police Science and 'Common Knowledge' in the Legal Regulation of Drunkenness." Law and Social Inquiry 26: 201-228.
  • Levi, Ron. 2000. "The Mutuality of Risk and Community: The Adjudication of Community Notification Statutes." Economy & Society 29:578-601.

Ongoing & Future Research

Professor Levi's research focuses on the sociology of law, with particular emphasis on law and internationalization. His present research focuses on:

  1. How the fields of international criminal law, human rights, and rule of law reform have developed.
  2. The extent to which legal, urban, and criminal justice policies reflect broader governmental rationalities, such as 'advanced liberalism.'
  3. Transnational experiences of legality, crime, citizenship and the state.

He is also a Scholar in the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Criminology Courses Taught

  • CRI 1020. Law and Society: Theoretical Perspectives