Sarah Marusek

Dr. Sarah Marusek is Professor of Public Law in the Department of Political Science. She is an active and engaged scholar with an extensive record of publication and scholarly engagement.

Dr. Marusek’s research examines how law happens in everyday life through the fields of visual jurisprudence, legal semiotics, legal landscapes/aesthetics, and the constitutive approach to law and society. Her research focus on ‘everyday jurisprudence’ is developed in many publications throughout her career, including 3 single-authored books, 7 edited/co-edited volumes, and over 50 articles and chapters. Her peer-reviewed articles have been published in Law Text Culture; Law, Culture and the Humanities; Space and Polity; Semiotica; Journal of Civil Law Studies; Land Use Policy; Social Semiotics; Gender, Place and Culture; Lo Squadarno: Explorations in Space and Society; Non-Liquet: The Westminster Online Working Papers Law & the Senses Series; and International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

Dr. Marusek is internationally prominent in the interdisciplinary fields of legal semiotics, legal geography, and automobility and has been invited as visiting faculty at public universities in Italy, France, Sweden, and Australia (Canberra and Brisbane). She serves as Associate Editor for International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vice President of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, and Co-Editor for two law book series: Law and Visual Jurisprudence (Springer) and Living Signs of Law (Springer). She is a contributing member of the Interpretive Methods and Methodologies group of the Western (WPSA) and American Political Science Associations (APSA), and has been active in the Law and Society Association (LSA). She has conducted grant-funded research in Iceland, California, Oregon, and locally on Hawai‘i Island.

She is the 2011 recipient of the student-nominated, faculty-awarded University of Hawai‘i Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and teaches courses that reflect her research in jurisprudence and public law. She also actively mentors students interested in the post baccalaureate study of law as the campus Pre-Law Certificate Advisor, as Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Pre-Law Certificate, and through her connections with faculty and programs at Richardson’s School of Law at UH Mānoa.

NOVEMBER 2024 CV
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