Pat Lauderdale

Pat Lee Lauderdale (born Washita, Oklahoma, U.S.A. October 19, 1954) received his doctorate in sociology of law from Stanford University and was a professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. In 2008, he was appointed a visiting scholar at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His teaching and research interests include indigenous jurisprudence, racialization, diversity, global indigenous struggles, law and the social science, and international terrorism. In the 1980s he helpedcreate the Herbert Blumer Institute in Costa Rica with the goal of discovering and describing alternatives to violence and criminal law.His seminal book "Law and Society" (with James Inverarity and BarryFeld) has been translated into Japanese.

He is the former Director of the University-wide Ph.D./J.D. program in Justice Studies, Law, and the Social Sciences. Before coming to ASU in1981, Dr. Lauderdale was an Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Minnesota. He previously was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and National President of PhiTheta Kappa Honorary Society. He has received Fulbright Research Fellowships to Costa Rica and Austria and is a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. He also has been a Visiting Scholar and Professor at the University of Lecci, Italy, the University of Austria, and Stanford University. In 2007, he received an invitation to be a Fulbright Senior Specialist for a research project on "Indigenous peoples, minorities and globalization," Departmentof Sociology and UNISA Press, University of South Africa.

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