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Mihaela Serban

Professor of Law and Society

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

Education
  • 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
Convening Groups

Founding co-editor, Ramapo Journal of Law and Society

Pre-law advisor

Courses Taught
  • 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
Research Interests

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

Scholarship

Books:

  • 2025, , Routledge, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series (co-edited with Monica Ciobanu).
  • 2025, , Polirom.
  • 2019, , Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
  • 2003 (ed.), (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 andJennie 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.
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