Professor of Law and Society
Year Joined RCNJ: 2010
Contact Information
- Phone: (201) 684-6251
- Email: mserban@ramapo.edu
- Office: G224
- Office Hours: Monday, Thursday 2 - 3:30 p.m., and Tuesday by appointment
Education
- Ph.D., Law and Society, New York University
- S.J.D.,Ìý LL.M., Comparative Constitutional Law, Central European University, Hungary
- Licenta in Stiinte Juridice (Licentiate in Law), University of Bucharest School of Law, Romania
- Mihaela Serban CV September 2026
Convening Groups
- Law and Society
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (minor)
- Human Rights and Genocide Studies (minor) (convener)
Founding co-editor, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Journal of Law and Society
Courses Taught
- Comparative Legal Systems/Global Legal Order
- Contemporary Issues in Law & Society/Law, Power & Inequality
- Introduction to Law and Justice
- Law and Society
- Law and Culture
- Law and Globalization
- Law and Development
- Transitional Justice
- Global Reproductive Justice
- Moot Court
- Social Issues
- Human Rights
- Famous Trials
- Criminal Law
- Constitutional Law
- Sociolegal Research and Writing
- Ethics in a Global Age
- Field Studies
- Directed Readings
- Thesis Supervision/Senior Capstone
Research Interests
Law and society in Eastern Europe, memory studies, Romanian Studies, human rights, the rule of law, transitional justice
Scholarship
Books:
- 2025, , Routledge, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series (co-edited with Monica Ciobanu).
- 2025, , Polirom.
- 2019, , Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
- 2003 (ed.), Ìý(International Conference on Comparative Constitutionalism, May 17-20, 2001, Warsaw), Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Constitutionalism in Transition Africa and Eastern EuropeÌý(pdf)
Editor,
Series co-editor,
Journal special issues:
- 2020 (with Monica Ciobanu, eds.), , Special Issue of the 2(2).
Recent articles and book chapters:
- 2026, “The Communist Public Sphere: A Sociolegal Analysis,” in , ed. Manuela Ungureanu, Berghahn Books.
- 2025 (with Monica Ciobanu), “Romania,” in (6th ed.), eds. Zsuzsa Csergo, Paula M. Pickering andÌýJennie L. Schulze, Bloomsbury.Ìý
- 2025, “,” inÌý, Routledge, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series (co-edited with Monica Ciobanu).
- 2024, “,” in , eds. Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea, Palgrave Macmillan, Preprint pdf
- 2024, “,” Law, Culture and the Humanities, . Preprint
- 2023, “,” in , Steven A. Boutcher, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Michael W. Yarbrough eds., Edward Elgar Publishing.
- 2021 (with Monica Ciobanu), “,” Memory Studies 14(6): 1285-1300.
- 2020, “,” Journal of Romanian Studies 2(2): 81-108.
- 2020 (with Monica Ciobanu), “,” Journal of Romanian Studies 2(2): 9-22.
- 2018,Ìý“,â€�Ìýin Special Issue: Legal Change in Post-Communist States: Courts, Police and Public Administration, eds. Peter Solomon and Kaja Gadowska, 51(3). Reprinted in , eds. Peter Solomon and Kaja Gadowska, Ibidem, 2019.
- 2018, “,” Law & Social InquiryÌý43(3):732-763. Early preview publication February 10, 2017.
- 2015, “Rule of Law Indicators as a Technology of Power in Romania,” in, Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, and Benedict Kingsbury eds., Cambridge University Press.
- 2015, ““, Europe-Asia Studies 67(3).
- 2014, � Law & Society Review 48(4).
- 2010, in Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation, Studies in Law, Politics, and SocietyÌý51: 29-66, ed. Austin Sarat.
- 2010, (with Peggy Levitt, Sally Merry and Diana H. Yoon),ÌýLaw & Society Review 44(1).
- 2009, (with Diana H. Yoon), Global Networks 9(4): 507-528.
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