I am pleased to announce (a little belatedly) that Sheldon Lyke, who is a professor at Whittier Law School, is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell. Sheldon was educated at Princeton and Northwestern Law School, and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He teaches property and trusts and estates. Cribbing now a little from his webpage:
Professor Lyke uses empirical methods, comparative law, and property theory to study the role of law and its institutions in the stratification of marginalized people He particularly studies racial and sexual minorities in a comparative context. At the heart of his scholarship is a desire to identify the social collective action problems associated with shared resources (i.e., commons) and understand their links to oppression. His dissertation project examined cosmopolitanism and how foreign high court judges use and share foreign legal authority in their civil and human rights decisions. Professor Lyke’s current research explores anti-affirmative action practices in higher education as a shared commons problem. His work is increasingly observing commons property law institutions (e.g., charitable trusts, estates, and organizations) and their role in creating and ameliorating social inequality.
Welcome to the lounge! I'm very much looking forward to your posts.
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