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Sidney L. Harring, Professor, earned his B.A. from Macalester College and
his M.S., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Besides
teaching undergraduate sociology and law, he has done extensive research and
scholarship on juries, police, American Indians, and the social history of
American law. These wide-ranging interests have taken him around the world; he
has been a visiting scholar in India and Australia, and a visiting professor in
Namibia, Canada, Malaysia, and Russia. He also served as Visiting Professor of
Law at West Virginia University College of Law in 2001. The author of more than
80 articles, chapters, and book reviews on such subjects as American and British
colonial history, Native American law, indigenous rights, and criminal law, he
has written four books, the third of which, White Man's Law: Native People in
Nineteenth Century Canadian Jurisprudence, was a finalist for the Donner
Prize as the best book on Canadian public policy published in 1998. During the
course of his career, he has received three Fellowships in Legal History from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fulbright Fellowship, and was a
Rockefeller Fellow at the McNickle Center for the History of the American
Indian. He has also been awarded numerous research grants to study issues of
criminal justice, Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada, and legal issues
facing Australian Aborigines and Namibians.
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