Lisa Hahn is a Ph. Her dissertation explores conditions of social change through strategic litigation in Germany.
Besides her primary focus on courts, litigation and social movements, she is further interested in feminist legal studies, migration studies and socio-legal research methods. Lisa is a lawyer by training but was familiarized with research methods in social sciences through her work in an ethnographic research project on migration and German administrative law between and In , she co-founded the graduate network Socio-Legal Lab.
Through workshops, summer schools, film screenings and informal get-togethers, the Socio-Legal Lab provides a space to discuss the challenges of interdisciplinary research on law and society. Later, as a senior staff attorney at the California Appellate Project CAP in San Francisco, her defense work of over two decades centered on legal assistance to California capital appeals and in habeas corpus matters, aiding the ever-growing number of prisoners sentenced to death in challenging their convictions and sentences at the post-conviction stage.
For many years, she has also conducted trainings and workshops on the role of language in capital trials and presented linguistic analysis of courtroom language to U. Currently, having retired from her CAP attorney role, she continues her research and publication on sociolinguistic aspects of criminal cases, particularly as these affect capital proceedings. His scholarly and teaching interests lie in the areas of immigration law, U.
He received his Ph. He was a post doctoral researcher in the Ryukoku Corrections and Rehabilitation Center, the only private academic research center specializing in criminal justice and criminology in Japan. His research interests are Criminology and Criminal Justice. He received his L. He is an author of many articles and books, including two single-authored books on the Japanese saiban-in lay judge system and the theory of deliberative democracy.
