Sheldon Lyke

Phone: (312) 503-5653
E-mail: lyke@law.northwestern.edu

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Sheldon Bernard Lyke uses empirical methods and sociological theory to study the role of law and its institutions in the stratification of racial and sexual minorities within society. Generally, he is interested in how criminal laws and property laws construct and marginalize minorities as strangers. Professor Lyke has written a dissertation examining the globalization of law and how courts around the world communicate with each other on civil and human rights issues. A chapter of his dissertation is forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 

Professor Lyke has served as a lecturer at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology where he has taught a variety of courses including: Race as Property, Contemporary Global Issues, Sexuality & Human Rights, and Contemporary Constitutional Issues.  His current work examines race and sexuality as forms of property in the context of affirmative action.