Charles R Epp

Dr. Epp joined KU  in 1996. His teaching and research focuses on law, social change and administrative reform, with a particular emphasis on rights and racial discrimination. His research has been supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, and he is the author of many journal articles and several award-winning books. Dr. Epp's book "The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective" won the C. Herman Pritchett Award and the Lasting Contribution Award of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and "Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State" was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association. 

He serves as co-editor of the University of Chicago Press's Chicago Book Series in Law & Society, and is a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration. Dr. Epp has served also served as an associate editor of the "Journal of Law & Courts." In addition, he is on the executive committee and board of trustees of the Law & Society Association. Dr. Epp has received a number of teaching awards, including the university-wide Kemper Teaching Award.

Learn more about Charles Epp on the School of Public Administration website.