Faculty
Rachel A. Cichowski
Office: Gowen 127
(206) 543-4949
rcichows@u.washington.edu
(PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2001) is Assistant Professor
of comparative law in the Department of Political Science with a
joint appointment in the Law, Societies and Justice program. Her
visiting research positions include Visiting Research Fellow at
the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1998-99) and
Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany (2000).
Her primary research interests include comparative law and politics,
empirical democratic theory and European integration with an emphasis
on the role of courts and public participation in the processes
of integration and democratization in Europe. Her current research
focuses on the interactions between the European Court of Justice,
transnational activists and the expansion of European Union governance
in the areas of women's rights and environmental protection. This
project is presently being prepared as a book manuscript entitled
Litigation, Mobilization and Governance in Europe. Her research
has been published in edited volumes and in various journals, including
Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy,
and Women & Politics. Rachel teaches classes in comparative law
and politics, European legal institutions and EU integration, law
and democracy, and the politics of women's rights in comparative
perspective.
Web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/rcichows/
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