Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Service learning is growing in popularity in classrooms, but not a lot is known about the kinds of outcomes associated with such use. This study considers service learning's effects in an advertising class by comparing academic, civic, career, and personal empowerment outcomes in a service-learning class, an experiential learning class, and a control group. While service learning is shown to have some positive effects, certain outcomes typically associated with service learning are also found in the experiential learning condition.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: How do lawyers decide what constitutes a “good” client? How does that definition change across legal environments? This paper explores the social construction of clients and their claims through an analysis of the processes by which plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers screen potential cases and clients. Whereas previous research has focused nearly exclusively on individual-level cost-benefit analyses associated with the screening process, this project considers the impacts that broader, state-level legal cultures have on the decisions lawyers make about which cases they will accept and which clients they will represent. I explore these questions, and their implications for citizen justice claims, in a comparative study based on in-depth qualitative interviews and ethnographic field observations of 80 products liability and medical malpractice lawyers in four U.S. states, representing two types of state-level legal cultures.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper analyzes the interaction of careers in the mental health professions and client processing practices through the examination of negative cases, clinics that do not follow professionally normative client sorting and labeling practices. It is based on a comparative study of two innovative mental health clinics serving low income, predominantly Black and Latin families affected by HIV. The study focuses on the organization of work, examining how the clinics and staff manage the competing pressures of non-traditional service models and professional status systems. The alterations in work routines required by lack of screening reveal how the normative screening and labeling practices are a central component of institutional support for professional careers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Political clientelism offers IR scholars a unique opportunity to test the economic theory of alliances by examining the relationship between the trustworthiness of patron promises to defend clients and the amount of effort clients put into defending themselves. In short, if security relations between closely-aligned states look like insurance markets then moral hazard comes into play and formal alliances and organization reduce client-state military spending. If security relations are more like the traditional public-goods interpretation of alliances, then formal alliances and organization, by helping overcome the collective-action problem, increase client-state military spending. I present evidence that security relations between patron states and client states more accurately reflects the dynmaics of insurance markets than public-goods producing collectives, suggesting our current understanding of US strategic hegemony may be deeply flawed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: There has been substantial empirical research on what clients want from their lawyers, but most of this research relates to what might be called "personal plight clients," typically clients of small law firms or legal aid organizations. What empirical evidence do we have about clients of large law firms and how might we learn more?