海角社区

• Ph.D., Law and Society, New York University
• S.J.D.,听 LL.M., Comparative Constitutional Law, Central European University, Hungary
• Licenta in Stiinte Juridice (Licentiate in Law), University of Bucharest School of Law, Romania
• Mihaela Serban CV May 2026

• Law and Society
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (minor)
• Human Rights and Genocide Studies (minor) (convener)

Founding co-editor, 海角社区 Journal of Law and Society

Pre-law advisor

• Comparative Legal Systems/Global Legal Order
• Contemporary Issues in Law & Society/Law, Power & Inequality
• Introduction to Law and Justice
• Law and Society
• Law and Culture
• Law and Globalization
• Law and Development
• Transitional Justice
• Global Reproductive Justice
• Moot Court
• Social Issues
• Human Rights
• Famous Trials
• Criminal Law
• Constitutional Law
• Sociolegal Research and Writing
• Ethics in a Global Age
• Field Studies
• Directed Readings
• Thesis Supervision/Senior Capstone

Law and society in Eastern Europe, memory studies, Romanian Studies, human rights, the rule of law, transitional justice

Books:

• 2025, , Routledge, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series (co-edited with Monica Ciobanu).
• 2025, , Polirom.
• 2019, , Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
• 2003 (ed.), 听(International Conference on Comparative Constitutionalism, May 17-20, 2001, Warsaw), Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Constitutionalism in Transition Africa and Eastern Europe听(pdf)

Editor,

Series co-editor,

Journal special issues:

• 2020 (with Monica Ciobanu, eds.), , Special Issue of the 2(2).

Recent articles and book chapters:

• 2026, “The Communist Public Sphere: A Sociolegal Analysis,” in , ed. Manuela Ungureanu, Berghahn Books.
• 2025 (with Monica Ciobanu), “Romania,” in (6th ed.), eds. Zsuzsa Csergo, Paula M. Pickering and听Jennie L. Schulze, Bloomsbury.听
• 2025, “,” in听, Routledge, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series (co-edited with Monica Ciobanu).
• 2024, “,” in , eds. Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea, Palgrave Macmillan, Preprint pdf
• 2024, “,” Law, Culture and the Humanities, . Preprint
• 2023, “,” in , Steven A. Boutcher, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Michael W. Yarbrough eds., Edward Elgar Publishing.
• 2021 (with Monica Ciobanu), “,” Memory Studies 14(6): 1285-1300.
• 2020, “,” Journal of Romanian Studies 2(2): 81-108.
• 2020 (with Monica Ciobanu), “,” Journal of Romanian Studies 2(2): 9-22.
• 2018,听鈥�,鈥澨齣n Special Issue: Legal Change in Post-Communist States: Courts, Police and Public Administration, eds. Peter Solomon and Kaja Gadowska, 51(3). Reprinted in , eds. Peter Solomon and Kaja Gadowska, Ibidem, 2019.
• 2018, “,” Law & Social Inquiry听43(3):732-763. Early preview publication February 10, 2017.
• 2015, “Rule of Law Indicators as a Technology of Power in Romania,” in, Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, and Benedict Kingsbury eds., Cambridge University Press.
• 2015, ““, Europe-Asia Studies 67(3).
• 2014, 鈥� Law & Society Review 48(4).
• 2010, in Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society听51: 29-66, ed. Austin Sarat.
• 2010, (with Peggy Levitt, Sally Merry and Diana H. Yoon),听Law & Society Review 44(1).
• 2009, (with Diana H. Yoon), Global Networks 9(4): 507-528.