Faculty
Michael W. McCann
Office: Gowen 47
(206) 543-2377
mwmccann@u.washington.edu
Michael McCann is Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement
of Citizenship at the University of Washington. A former chair of
the Political Science Department and Adjunct Professor in the Law
School, he is the founding director of both the interdisciplinary
Comparative Law and Society Studies (CLASS) Center and the undergraduate
Law, Societies, and Justice program.
McCann is the author of Taking Reform Seriously: Perspectives on
Public Interest Liberalism (Cornell, 1986), Rights at Work: Pay
Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago, 1994),
and (with William Haltom) Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and
the Litigation Crisis (Chicago, 2004). The last two books together
have won six major book awards from professional academic associations.
McCann is also: the principal co-editor of Judging the Constitution:
Critical Essays on Judicial Lawmaking (Little, Brown, 1989), in
which he authored two chapters; editor and lead author for Law and
Social Movements (Dartmouth/Ashgate, 2006); and co-editor, with
David Engel, of a forthcoming book (Stanford) tentatively titled
Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice. He has published over
forty essays in Law & Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry,
and other social science journals and law reviews as well as in
edited books on numerous subjects, including: the politics of legal
mobilization challenging racial, gender, and class discrimination;
law and democratic social movements; how the U.S. Supreme Court
matters; the politics of cause lawyering; "new property"
rights and environmentalism; everyday disputing and legal resistance;
studies of rights consciousness; the politics of tort reform; popular
folklore and media coverage about civil litigation; and contested
conceptions of citizenship rights in a globalized world.
Among his present research projects is a study of the cultural
backlash against egalitarian rights claiming and public interest
litigation for progressive health-related causes in the U.S., and
its implications for contemporary politics at local, national, and
international levels. McCann teaches a variety of undergraduate
and graduate courses on law and society topics, for which he received
a university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989. He recently
was named a Guggenheim Fellow for the 2007-8 academic year.
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