Jamie Rowen
Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science | Director Center for Justice, Law, and Societies
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Location
Thompson 224
Office Hours:
Spring 2025: by appointment
Office Hours:
Spring 2025: by appointment
Field Clerk
Law, Politics and Society
Degree
- PhD, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley;
- JD, Berkeley School of Law;
- BA, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Bio
Dr. Rowen's research focuses on the use of law to redress mass atrocity and aid vulnerable groups. She is the founding director of UMass' Center for Justice, Law, and Societies.
Dr. Rowen's most recent book, Worthy of Justice: the Practices and Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts (Stanford University Press 2025), was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Her first book, Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement (Cambridge University Press 2017), focuses on the emergence of transitional justice as an idea in international and domestic scholarship, policy making, and advocacy. In the book, she examines efforts to make truth commissions in the Balkans, Colombia, and the United States to reveal the appeal and the dilemma of pursuing quasi-judicial interventions in the wake of mass violence.
Dr. Rowen's scholarship on domestic and international law has been published in Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Law and Policy, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of International Law and International Relations, Encyclopedia of Law and Behavioral Science, among other outlets. Dr. Rowen is also a regular contributor to The Conversation, WWLP radio, WBAI, and “The Attitude with Arnie” podcast/radio series.
Research Areas
Legal Studies