Robert A. Kagan
Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-4677
Office Location: Ctr Law & Soc. 2240 Piedmont, 734 Barrows
Office Hours: Th 10-12
Spring 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term , Political Science 252: Legal Institutions: Field Seminar in Public Law
Professor Kagan received his LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1962 and
his Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University in 1974. His research interests
comprise comparative legal institutions, courts and litigation, and
regulatory politics and enforcement. Kagan teaches courses on legal
institutions and Constitutional law.
His books include Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment (co-authored, Stanford University Press, 2003); Going By the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness (co-authored, Transaction Books, reprinted 2002), Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law (Harvard University Press, 2001), Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (University of California Press, 2000); and Regulatory Justice: Implementing a Wage-Price Freeze (Russell Sage Foundation, 1978). He has also published numerous articles on topics ranging from comparative legal institutions to the role of deterrence in compliance with environmental law, the politics of tobacco regulation, comparative seaport labor relations, and the American legal profession’s impact on law and governance.