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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change, coauthored by Director of Legal Studies and 2015 Public Engagement Project Fellow Paul Collins (with Lori Ringhand), was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014. 

Paul M. Collins, Associate Professor and Director of Legal Studies, has been namned a 2015 Fellow of the Public Engagement Project.  Paul is one of nine scholars across the University to receive the fellowship.

"We are excited and honored to work with such an accomplished group of scholars," said Amy Schalet, director of the Public Engagement Project. "We were happily overwhelmed by the number and high quality of applicants. There is clearly demand for this new fellowship opportunity." 

Former US Congressman and UMass alumnus Peter G. Torkildsen will return to campus this spring as a professor of practice in the Department of Political Science.

Congressman Torkildsen’s course, POLISCI 292P Political Leadership, provides a broad overview of public sector leadership as a process.

For the second year in a row, Professor and Ambassador Armen Baibourtian hosted a group of students at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. 

"For many of us this was the first time visiting the United Nations," says Shea Kelly.  "With Professor Baibourtian’s first hand experience working in the UN alongside meetings we were offered an insider’s perspective."

Ethan Katsh, Emeritus Professor of Legal Studies and founding director of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, was this quarter's cover feature of Resolver magazine.

“Words are a lawyer’s tools,” says Stacy Slotnick ’05 (Legal Studies/History), a New York-based entertainment attorney and public relations specialist. “Fortunately, my passion is writing, and as a result, I never tire of drafting proposals, contracts, talking points, press releases, or pithy social media entries to highlight a client's accomplishments.” 

Following this passion has led Slotnick to a varied and successful legal career.

PhD student Michael Kowal has been awarded a Dissertation Research Grant from the UMass Amherst Graduate School to support his research on the causality of corporate ties on political activity within Fortune 500 companies.

Michael Fox '11 (Political Science) remembers the first time he heard about Root Capital; it was during his senior year at UMass. Having recently added an economics minor, Fox recognized Root Capital as a place where his interest in finance and political ideals could be married.

“Political Science is a field for people who want to make a difference, and the value fades away if you don’t figure out the impact you want to make,” said Fox.

Political Science Assistant Professors Kevin L. Young and Bruce Desmarais have received a $77,658 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study "the Revolving Door in Financial Regulation: Elite Networks and the Consequences of Unequal Access on Policymaking."

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