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Dr. Cary Federman, associate professor, received a PhD from the University of Virginia, Department of Government & Foreign Affairs. His research interests include: law and jurisprudence, free speech, democratic theory, prisons and prisoners’ rights, psychology and law, ancient and modern political philosophy and the history of the social sciences. Dr. Federman teaches courses on Theories of Justice, Serial Killers, and Prisons and Punishment. He is the author of The Assassination of William McKinley: Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences (Lexington Books, 2018) and The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence (SUNY Press, 2006) and is the recipient of two Fulbright scholarships.
Research interests
Law and jurisprudence, free speech, democratic theory, prisons and prisoners’ rights, psychology and law, ancient and modern political philosophy and the history of the social sciences.
Scholarly Interests
Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, American Political Thought, Modern Political Theory, Free Speech, Democratic Theory, Theories of Punishment and Capital Punishment, Political Violence, Criminal Law, and Law and Insanity.
Teaching
Theories of Justice, Serial Killers, and Prisons and Punishment.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Nazis in Skokie: Tolerance, democracy, and the deliberative sense of the community
Federman, C., 2023, In: Communication and Democracy. 57, 1, p. 52-70 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Democracy and deliberation: The law and politics of sex offender legislation
Federman, C., 15 Jun 2021, University of Michigan Press. 301 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Varieties of censorship: Hate speech, pornography, and the First Amendment
Federman, C., 2021, In: First Amendment Studies. 55, 2, p. 126-147 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fearing Sex: Toxic Bodies, Paranoia and the Rise of Technophilia
Holmes, D. & Federman, C., 1 Jan 2016, Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work. Taylor and Francis, p. 67-80 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Mentally Ill and Civil Commitment: Assessing Dangerousness in Law and Psychiatry
Federman, C., 1 Jan 2016, (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach. Taylor and Francis, p. 297-314 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review