Daniel Epstein
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Daniel Epstein is a PhD candidate in political science with research and teaching interests in modern and contemporary political theory, legal theory, critical theory, social movements, and carceral studies. His dissertation, An Abolitionist Theory of Law, seeks to recover the emancipatory core of law as a political category by reimagining it in dialogue with the visions and activities of contemporary police and prison abolitionists.

Daniel also holds an MLS (Master of Legal Studies) from the University of Chicago Law School, as well as a graduate certificate in Human Rights. The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights have supported his dissertation research, and he is a 2025-2026 Residential Fellow at the UChicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. His scholarship has previously appeared in The Journal of Law and Political Economy ("Commodified Justice and American Penal Form," Volume 2, no. 1 (2021): 70-93).

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