About
Zoe Chanin is a PhD student in the University of Michigan Department of Sociology. She specializes in the sociology of law and political economy, with a focus on the international investment regime. She also conducts socio-legal research for University Responses to Sexual Assault (URSA). She is the founding Executive Content Editor of Sociology for the Michigan Journal of Law & Society. Prior to graduate school, she coordinated the public policy arm of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, a legal think tank specializing in international commercial arbitration. In the past, her work has revolved around activist and policy responses to the US opioid epidemic from a historical institutionalist perspective. In the words of her closest friends, Zoe is a doting plant mom with far too much enthusiasm for 80s goth rock.