It’s comp and qualifiers season! In this episode we speak with Doctoral Student and Juris Doctorate Ilana Friedman and Professor Theodore Lentz about their experiences preparing for, taking/writing, and passing comprehensive examinations or qualifying papers.
Ilana is a 3rd year PhD student in the school of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Ilana is a socio-legal scholar of American criminal and constitutional law, specifically in regards to search and seizure doctrine, police powers, the history of American policing and surveillance, civil rights litigation, and American legal history as contained in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution. Her research focuses on American policing, specifically local patrol officers. Ilana has published in the Saint Louis University Law Journal.
Ted is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a 2020 doctoral graduate of the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. His dissertation was about how individuals choose crime locations and how those choices generate aggregate crime patterns. Ted’s research focuses on the geography of crime and justice, decision-making, and crime networks. Ted’s work has been published in Justice Quarterly, Homicide Studies, and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. He also has two children younger than 3 years old that keep him and his wife very busy and very tired.
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Get in touch with Ilana and Ted:
Ted: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Website // lentzt AT uwm.edu // Twitter
Ilana: University of Texas at Austin Website // ifriedman AT utexas.edu // Twitter