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LISA CONANT Department of Political Science Email [email protected] 2000 Asbury Avenue # 466 University of Denver Denver, CO 80208 ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS Department Chair (Elected, three-year term) Department of Political Science, University of Denver, 1 August 2017 – present (extending normal term by one academic year), 1 August 2009 – 31 August 2012, and as Interim Chair: 1 January – 31 August 2008. Professor Department of Political Science, University of Denver, 1 September 1, 2016 – present. For online bios, see http://portfolio.du.edu/conant https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/lisa-conant and http://www.du.edu/ahss/polisci/facultystaff/conant_lisa.html Associate professor Department of Political Science, University of Denver, 1 September 2004 – 31 August 2016. Assistant professor Department of Political Science, University of Denver, 1 September 2000 – 31 August 2004. Department of Political Science, Ohio University, 1 September 1998 – 30 June 2000. EDUCATION AND HONORS Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, August 1998 Dissertation: “Contained justice: The politics behind Europe’s rule of law” Dissertation Advisors: James Caporaso (chair), Christine Ingebritsen, and John T. S. Keeler Awarded Overall Distinction for General (Comprehensive) Examination in the Fields: Comparative politics, European politics, and international relations M.A., Political Science, University of Washington, June 1993 Master’s Essay of Distinction: “Bowing to the European Court: Shame, shelter, and institutional innovation” B.A., International Relations, Summa Cum Laude, University of Minnesota, July 1990 John E. Turner Award for the Best Undergraduate Thesis in the College of Liberal Arts: “Those who throw stones: A theoretical study of the sustenance of the Intifadeh” Minors: Political Science and German CONANT • CV Honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, University of Denver faculty chapter, June 2017 PUBLICATIONS Book Justice contained: Law and politics in the European Union (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002). Journal articles and peer-reviewed book chapters Conant with Andreas Hofmann, Dagmar Soennecken, and Lisa Vanhala, “Patrolling the boundaries of belonging? Courts, law, and citizenship,” in Law and courts research handbook series, eds. Susan Sterett and Lee Walker, Edward Elgar (October 2019). “Missing in action? The rare voice of international courts in domestic politics,” in International courts and domestic politics, ed, Marlene Wind, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 11-42. Conant with Andreas Hofmann, Dagmar Soennecken, and Lisa Vanhala, “Research agenda: Mobilizing European law,” Journal of European Public Policy 25, 9 (May 2017), 1376- 1389 available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1329846 “Who files suit? Legal mobilization and torture violations in Europe,” Law & Policy 38, 4 (October 2016), 280-303. “Compelling criteria? Human rights in the European Union,” Journal of European Public Policy 21, 5 (May 2014), 713-729. “The politics of legal integration,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 45 Annual Review of the EU (August 2007), 45-66. “Individuals, courts, and the development of European social rights,” Comparative Political Studies 39,1 (February 2006), 76-100. “Contested boundaries: Citizens, states, and supranational belonging in the European Union,” in Boundaries and belonging: States and societies in the struggle to shape identities and local practices, ed. Joel Migdal, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 284-317. “Europeanization and the courts,” in Transforming Europe: Europeanization and domestic change, eds. Maria Green Cowles, James Caporaso, and Thomas Risse, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), 97-115. Book chapters and working papers “Court of Justice of the European Union,” in Handbook on EU crisis: Crises, resilience, and the future of the EU, eds. Akasemi Newsome, Marianne Riddervold, and Jarle Trondal (London: Palgrave Forthcoming December 2020). 2 CONANT • CV “Whose agents? The interpretation of international law in national courts,” Interdisciplinary perspectives on international law and international relations: The state of the art, eds. Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack, (Cambridge University Press 2013), 394-420. “Compliance and what EU member states make of it,” Compliance and European law, ed. Marise Cremona, from the series Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. (Oxford University Press, 2012), 1-30. “Rights and the limits of transnational solidarity in Europe,” Globalizing justice: Critical perspectives on transnational law and the cross-border migration of legal norms, eds. Michael Tolley, Donald Jackson, and Mary Volcansek, (SUNY Press, 2010), 141-159. “Regional legal frameworks for human rights and social policy in Europe,” Human rights and social policy: A comparative analysis of values and citizenship in OECD countries, ed. Ann Nevile, (Edward Elgar press, 2010), 47-64. “Law and justice,” Handbook of European studies, ed. Chris Rumford, (Sage, 2009), 155-172. “Courts,” European politics, eds. Colin Hay and Anand Menon, (Oxford University Press, 2007), 256-68. “Judicial politics,” Handbook of European Union politics, eds. Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark Pollack, and Ben Rosamond, (Sage, 2007), 213-229. “Europe’s no fly zone? Rights, obligations, and liberalization in practice,” in State of the European Union volume 6: Law, politics and society, eds. Rachel Cichowski and Tanja Börzel, (Oxford University Press, 2003), 235-250. “European judicial review and national institutional change,” in Altered states: International relations, domestic politics, and institutional change, eds. Andrew Cortell and Susan Peterson, (Lanham: Lexington Press, 2002), 27-62. “Contested boundaries: Citizens, states, and supranational belonging in the European Union,” EUI Working Paper RSC No. 2001/27 (2001), 1-38. Articles in progress “Failing forward until it falls apart? EU citizenship, the Court of Justice, and Brexit,” part of an accepted proposal for a special issue with the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) on the “Failing Forward” framework to explain the process of European integration, with special issue editors Professors Sophie Meunier, R. Daniel Kelemen, and Erik Jones. Article manuscript submitted for peer review on 2 September 2020 (each contribution must independently clear peer review for inclusion). “Canaries in the mine? European legal mobilization and its implications for democracy,” article manuscript near completion after presentation at the APSA meeting in 3 CONANT • CV August/September 2019, with plans to finalize and submit to the journal International Organization or submit with the research network project “Activism in International Courts,” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant, for a special issue proposal to a journal. Book reviews and short invited articles Book note of The European Court of Justice & the policy process: The shadow of case law, Susanne Schmidt, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, in Public Administration (20 August 2018), DOI: 10.1111/padm.12536. “When courts decide: Foreigners’ rights and social citizenship in Europe and the US,” European Political Science 7,1 (March 2008), 43-51. “Courts and the Americanization of social rights in Europe?” European Politics and Society Newsletter, American Political Science Association (Fall/Winter 2007), 8-12. Book note of EC Membership and the judicialization of British Politics, Danny Nicol, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 6,3 (December 2004), 311-313. “Instituting justice? Organizational capacity and access to EU rights,” European Politics and Society Newsletter, American Political Science Association (Winter 2004). Book note of Establishing the supremacy of European law: The making of an international rule of law in Europe, Karen J. Alter, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 in EUSA Review 15,2 (Spring 2002), the quarterly publication of the European Union Studies Association. Book note of The European Court of Justice, Renaud Dehousse, New York: St. Martin’s, 1998 in International Politics 37, 2 (2000). “The politics behind judicial policy innovation,” Diplomacy (Spring 1995) University of California, Berkeley. Book note of The European Community: To Maastricht and beyond, ed. Pierre-Henri Laurent, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1994) in the European Community Studies Association Newsletter (Autumn 1994). INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND STUDY (Extended periods) Collaborator in International Research Network “Activism in International Courts,” Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant (2019-2022). Principal Investigator: Lisa Sundstrom, University of British Columbia, with network information available at https://lmic.arts.ubc.ca 4 CONANT • CV Visiting Researcher European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France (February 2013, November 2008, February 2006). Visiting Researcher Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, San Domenico di Fiesole, European University Institute (EUI), Italy (May 2012, January – February 2006, September 2004). Postdoctoral Fellow European University Institute (EUI), San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy (2000-2001). I participated in the European Forum: “Between Europe and the Nation-State: The Reshaping of Interests, Identities, and Political Representation.” Doctoral Fellow Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Federal