University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies |
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Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
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David Mednicoff, J.D., Ph.D. | Contact Information | |||
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Ph.D., Political Science, Harvard University |
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Middle Eastern politics, law and public policy; US foreign policy; international and comparative law and politics; human rights; globalization theory Prof. Mednicoff's research deals broadly with interdisciplinary connections between legal and political ideas and institutions at the national and transnational levels, particularly as these relate to current policy issues in the Middle East. One of these projects, on the meanings and political implications of the rule of law in the Gulf Arab states, was funded by a $1 million grant from the Qatar National Research Fund. He is currently completing a book manuscript on local understandings of the rule of law and their relation to international politics in five Arab societies. He also has published articles and book chapters on Arab constitutional politics and Islam before and after the events of 2011, the legal regulation of migrant workers in the Arab Gulf, human rights in the Middle East, the politics of Arab monarchical stabilization, and humanitarian intervention. He has been invited to present his work at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the US Department of State, the Saudi Arabia Institute of Diplomatic Studies, the American University of Beirut, the National University of Singapore, and Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities, among other places.
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