Kelly Kennington (2009-10)
Kelly Kennington, who holds a Ph.D. in history from Duke
University, has been selected as the 2009-10 Law and Society Fellow
at the Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Law
School. Dr. Kennington holds an M.A. in history from Duke (2004)
and a B.A. from Tulane University (2002). Her dissertation is
entitled, "River of Injustice: St. Louis’s Freedom Suits and the
Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America.”
Dr. Kennington has received numerous awards for her work, including
the Anne Firor Scott Research Award, the Price Research Fellowship,
and the Bass Fellowship at Duke, and has presented several papers,
including "'In Contempt and Defiance of the Ordinance': The Nature
of Freedom in a Border Community," at the American Society for
Legal History. She was a co-organizer of the First Annual North
Carolina History Thesis Writers Conference in 2006 and the Duke-UNC
Southern Studies Seminar, 2005-06.
Dr. Kennington’s next project will examine the complex
relationships between slavery and freedom across the Border States.
After completion of the fellowship, she will join the faculty of at
Auburn University as an assistant professor of history.
Dr. Alexei Trochev was selected as the first Law & Society
Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He holds
doctorate in political science from the University of Toronto and
Masters in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. He
has taught federalism at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada,
and Russian and comparative constitutional law at Pomor State
University Law School in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Dr. Trochev is the author of "Judging Russia: The Constitutional
Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006" (Cambridge University Press,
2008). In addition to several book chapters on the informal
dimensions of Russian judicial politics, his articles on
post-Soviet courts have appeared in American Journal of Comparative
Law, Law & Society Review, I-CON International Journal of
Constitutional Law, and East European Constitutional Review.
Dr. Trochev's current project explores the interplay between
political fragmentation and judicial disempowerment in
post-communist countries.
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