Robert A. Kagan joined Berkeley’s Political Science Department in 1974, and in 1988 he also became a member of the Berkeley Law faculty, teaching in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. From 1993 to 2004, with an interval in 2001, he was Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society. From 2008 through 2011, he served as co-editor of Regulation & Governance. Kagan is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of both a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Mentoring and Teaching Award from the Law-Courts Section of the American Political Science Association; and recipient of the Law & Society Association’s Harry Kalven Prize for distinguished sociolegal scholarship and its Stanton Wheeler Award for teaching and mentorship.
Kagan’s recent publications include “Scenes from a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir” Regulation & Governance (2024); “ The Political Vulnerability of the American Administrative State, ” in Socio-Legal Generation (2024); “Administrative Justice and Cultures of Rule-Application.” in The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice (2022); and Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, Second Edition (2019).
Education
A.B., Harvard University (1959)
LL.B., Columbia University (1962)
Ph.D., Yale University (1974)