School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS)

Assistant Professor

Year Joined RCNJ: 2007

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7732
• E-mail: alorenz@ramapo.edu
• Office: G-426
• Office Hours: TF 1:00-2:00; W By Appointment
• Personal Website

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Political Science, 2005
• M.A., San Diego State University, Political Science, 1996
• B.S., California State University, Chico, Political Science, 1993

Convening Group:

• Law & Society

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to Law & Society
• Contemporary Issues in Law & Society
• Death Penalty in America
• Issues in Criminal Justice
• Constitutional Liberties
• American Legal History
• Directed Readings
• Thesis Supervision

Teaching Interest:

• Legal culture, music and law, constitutive theory, critical race theory, constitutional law, capital punishment.

Research Interest:

• Legal culture, music and law, constitutive theory, critical race theory, constitutional law, capital punishment.

Recent Publications:

• (Forthcoming) Judge Not: The Juridical Impact of Music on Television
  (submitted for publication to Law and Social Inquiry)
• (Forthcoming) Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance: Due Process Denied
  (submitted for publication to the NEA Higher Education Journal)
• (Forthcoming) Chanting for Recognition: Critical Race Feminist Legal Theory and the Performance of Law
  (submitted for publication to IASPM - Women, Hip Hop, and Popular Music)
• (Forthcoming) Death By Law: Critiquing the Role of Race in Capital Punishment Cases Involving Harmless Error
  (submitted for publication to Hendrick's Symposium Journal, University ofNebraska)
• (2007) Lyrics and the Law: The Constitution of Law in Music.  Van De Plas Publishing, 2007.
• (2005) "Critical Race Reggae: The Sound of a Narrative," in Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law.  Eds.  Anne Wagner, Tracy Summerfield, and Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas. Hart Publishing, 2005.