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Jules Lobel
Professor of international and constitutional law, School of Law
office: 412-648-1375
cell: 412-334-1379
jll4@pitt.edu
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Patricia Lomando White
office: 412-624-9101
cell: 412-215-9932
laer@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

International and constitutional law, First Amendment

Background
Jules Lobel is a professor of international and constitutional law in Pitt’s School of Law and vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a national civil and human rights organization.

Through the CCR, Lobel has litigated important issues regarding the application of international law in the U.S. courts. Lobel can address First Amendment issues, including the right to protest. He is editor of a text on civil rights litigation and of a collection of essays on the U.S. Constitution, A Less Than Perfect Union (Monthly Review Press, 1988); author of Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America (New York University Press, 2004); and coauthor of the award-winning Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (The New Press, 2007).

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Keeler

John T. S. Keeler
Professor and dean,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
office: 412-648-7600
keeler@pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

Comparative public policy, EU politics, transatlantic relations, American foreign policy, Seattle’s WTO protest

Background
A widely recognized scholar of European politics, John T. S. Keeler is dean of Pitt’s Graduate School for Public and International Affairs. He previously served as chair of the European Union Studies Association and was a professor of political science at the Center for West European Studies and European Union Center of Excellence, University of Washington at Seattle.

Keeler has published broadly in such notable publications as Defending Europe: NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, 1996); Agricultural Policy (2 volumes, Cheltenham and Edward Elgar, 2000); The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic (Oxford University Press, 1987); and Réformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1994). He has published articles in numerous professional journals, including Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, and French Politics and Society. He is currently at work on a book that examines terrorism and transatlantic relations. Keeler was witness to the “Battle of Seattle” in 1999, when the World Trade Organization Summit generated violent confrontations between protesters and police.

Department of Sociology

Mohammed Bamyeh

Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences
office: 412-648-7591
mab205@pitt.edu

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Sharon Blake
office: 412-624-4364
cell: 412-277-6926
blake@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise
Globalization, Islam, anarchy

Background
Mohammed Bamyeh, professor of sociology, has conducted research and taught courses in globalization, Islamic studies, and the sociology of religion, civil society, and social movements.

He is the author of Anarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), which argues that anarchy can be a humane and stable form of order in a chaotic world. Other books include Of Death and Dominion: The Existential Foundations of Governance (Northwestern University Press, 2007), The Ends of Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse (University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

Bangs

Kathleen Blee

Professor and chair, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences
office: 412-648-7580
kblee@pitt.edu

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Sharon Blake
office: 412-624-4364
cell: 412-277-6926
blake@pitt.edu

Background

Kathleen Blee, a professor and chair of Pitt’s sociology department, has expertise in racist, anti-Semitic, and right-wing movements as well as global feminism. Her book, No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest (New York University Press, 1997), explores women’s role in labor, racial, and environmental movements. Blee is studying new and emerging social movement groups in Pittsburgh. Protests generated by the G20 Summit will be laboratories for Pitt sociologists, several of whom will be conducting research on-site, Blee says.