Experts Directory: Law and Legal Issues

Elizabeth Blakey

Department of Journalism 
work: (818) 677-3144
email: elizabeth.blakey@csun.edu

  • First Amendment
  • Civil liberties
  • Social movements
  • Media law
  • Copyright
  • Libel

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Rafi Efrat

Department of Accounting and Information Systems
Bookstein Institute for Higher Education in Taxation
work: (818) 677-3967
email: rafi.efrat@csun.edu
Also speaks: Hebrew

  • Personal bankruptcy law

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Ellis Godard

Department of Sociology
work: (818) 677-4050
email: egodard@csun.edu

  • Statistical, survey and applied methods
  • Crime
  • Law
  • Deviancy
  • Social control
  • Media
  • Social movements and cyberspace

 

Jeffrey Izzo

Department of Music
Music Industry Studies
work: (818) 677-3184
email: Jeffrey.izzo@csun.edu

  • Entertainment law
  • Music business
  • Music composition
  • Contributing author, "Music Entrepreneurship"

 

Vickie Jensen

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-3293 / 3591
email: vickie.jensen@csun.edu

  • Gender and crime
  • Domestic violence
  • Violence
  • Homicide
  • Sibling violence
  • Masculinities and crime
  • Parenting in jail and prison
  • Adaptations to jail and prison
  • Gender and corrections
  • Author: “Why Women Kill: Gender Equality and Homicide”

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G. Michael Phillips

Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
work: (818) 677-2409
email: profmike@profmike.com

  • Econometrics
  • Financial analysis
  • Statistics
  • Applied economics
  • Online education
  • Internet commerce
  • Law and economics

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Craig Renetzky

Department of Political Science
Department of Criminology and Justice Studies  
work: (818) 677-3488 / 3591
email: renetzky@csun.edu

  • Criminal law and procedures, particularly drug offense
  • Former prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
  • Experiences criminal defense attorney

 

Kurt M. Saunders

Department of Business Law
work: (818) 677-4597
email: kurt.saunders@csun.edu

  • Intellectual property law
  • Internet law
  • Antitrust law
  • Entertainment intellectual property law
  • Academic copyright issues
  • Intellectual/antitrust issues
  • Publicity rights

 

Victor N. Shaw

Department of Crime and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-7311
email: victor.shaw@csun.edu
Also speaks: Chinese

  • Drug abuse
  • AIDS
  • Crime
  • Deviancy
  • Criminal justice
  • Social control
  • Organizational behavior
  • Academic careers
  • Teaching research
  • Public policy
  • Economic reform
  • China/Asia issues
  • Social control in China
  • Chinese work units

 

J. Stephen Sinclair

Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
work: (818) 677-2852
email: Steve.sinclair@csun.edu

  • Hearing loss
  • Occupational and non-occupational hearing disability
  • Amplification and auditory rehabilitation
  • Noise
  • Expert witness in audiology
  • Industrial noise exposure
  • Head trauma and hearing loss
  • Discrimination against deaf and hearing impaired under Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Worker compensation for occupational hearing loss

 

Melanie Williams

Department of Business Law
work: (818) 677-2905
email: melanie.williams@csun.edu

  • Law
  • Antitrust law
  • Intellectual property (trademark) issues
  • Small business issues

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Bruce Zucker

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-3964
email: bruce.zucker@csun.edu

  • Parole
  • Probation
  • Criminal appeals
  • Prison conditions
  • Prison rights
  • Parole hearings
  • Habeas corpus
  • Factual and actual innocence

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