Dr. Sarah Staszak

Biography

Sarah Staszak received her PhD in Politics from Brandeis University. She serves as an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where her research and teaching interests intersect public law and policy, particularly within American political development. Staszak is the author of the book 'Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment,' published by Oxford University Press in 2015, which was co-winner of the 2017 J. David Greenstone Book Award by the American Political Science Association. This work examines the political implications of efforts to constrain access to courts in response to the dramatic expansions of the Civil Rights era. Her forthcoming book, 'Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and Litigation Reform in the U.S.,' under contract with the University of Chicago Press, investigates the institutional, legal, and political developments surrounding the expanding use of private arbitration. Staszak is also engaged in ongoing research projects focused on medical malpractice reform, the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act that protect the rights of the mentally ill, gender in campaign finance, and the politics of informal bureaucratic rulemaking. She has previously been a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University and a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Governance Studies program.

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