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Visiting Associate Professor

Lorna Swanson’s research focuses on using law reforms, inclusive processes and emerging technologies to render institutions agile, equitable and effective in responding to changes in climate, technology, demographics and power dynamics. She has advised lawmakers in designing disaster management authorities, establishing multinational health frameworks and improving access to justice. Her current work focuses on increasing the likelihood that development projects serve the public interest. Throughout her career, Lorna has contributed to law reform initiatives in a wide range of areas, including: increasing access to education, health services, and housing; reducing discrimination; facilitating regulatory compliance; combatting corruption; reducing pre-trial detention duration; redesigning lawmaking processes to render them more evidence-based, transparent and inclusive; establishing monitoring processes; and protecting vulnerable ecosystems.

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Lorna’s Colleagues

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

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Amílcar Antonio Barreto

Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor & Interim Director, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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Barry Bluestone

Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Founding Director of the Dukakis Center; Founding Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Christopher Bosso

Professor of Public Policy and Political Science

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Alan Clayton-Matthews

Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy

William Dickens

University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Joan Fitzgerald

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Stephen E. Flynn

Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute

James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

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Brian Helmuth

Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy

Timothy Hoff

Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy

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In Memoriam William Kay

Associate Professor of Political Science

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David Lazer

University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences

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Dietmar Offenhuber

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Art + Design

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Kwamina Panford

Emeritus Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies