[Poscgrad] Fwd: [Law & Society Search] Yüksel Sezgin's visit, Mon. April 27, 2026

[John Cioffi]

Dear grads,

Please sign up for the lunch with our first law & society job candidate, Yuksel Sezgin, on April 27th. We have three slots still open as of Wednesday afternoon. Students with interests in law-related subjects, politics and religion (especially Islamic law and legal pluralism), and/or the Middle East may find Prof. Sezgin’s work particularly interesting.

It is important both for the candidates to meet our job candidates, and for us on the faculty to hear your impressions of them.

Thanks for your efforts to make this search a success!

Best,

John

John W. Cioffi
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Director and Chair, Law & Society Program
Affiliated Faculty in Global Studies and Labor Studies
University of California
2216 Watkins Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
john.cioffi at ucr.edu




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> From: Christina Gnuschke <christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Law & Society Search] Yüksel Sezgin's visit, Mon. April 27, 2026
> Date: April 22, 2026 at 12:08:21 PM PDT
> To: poscfaculty at lists.ucr.edu, poscgrad at lists.ucr.edu
> Cc: John Cioffi <cioffi at ucr.edu>, Marcelina Ryneal <marcelina.ryneal at ucr.edu>, Donald Zarate <donald.zarate at ucr.edu>, Lety Vazquez-Angeleri <letyv at ucr.edu>, Candice Jenkins <candicej at ucr.edu>, Adam Hobbs <adam.hobbs at email.ucr.edu>
> 
> Wow you are all amazing!
> 
> Thank you everyone who was proactive and signing up to meet with our first L&S candidate.
> 
> We have a few more slots left, let's see if we can get them filled by the end of the day!
> Recruitment M <https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true>eeting Schedule <https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true>
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> Monday, April 27th
> 9:30-10am shared meeting 1 slot available
> 1:15-2:15pm Grad Student Lunch with Candidate - We have all four spots open! Who will be the first grad student to volunteer for a beautiful lunch at the Stable!? Talk about when opportunity knocks, fill those spots grads!
> 2:30-3:30pm coffee in chairs office
> 3:30-4pm shared meeting 1 slot available
> 5-5:30pm Drive to Mission inn for dinner (adding one more guest)
> 6pm Dinner at The State 1 slot available, but also hoping we have another person willing to help drive our candidate back to Mission Inn, and stay for dinner.
> 
> Thank you all so much!
> 
> Christina Gnuschke, MBA (she/her/hers)
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> Financial and Administrative Officer
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> CHASS - Economics & Political Science | University of California, Riverside
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> 2122D Watkins Hall
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> Riverside, CA 92521
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> Office: (951) 827-1477 | christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu <mailto:christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu>
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> Contacts for Frequent Inquiries
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> Budgets, Grants, Summer Salary  Rebecca.wu at ucr.edu <mailto:Rebecca.wu at ucr.edu>
> Payroll, Student Awards, International Scholars  lety.vazquezangeleri at ucr.edu <mailto:lety.vazquezangeleri at ucr.edu>
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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM Christina Gnuschke <christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu <mailto:christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu>> wrote:
>> Dear Political Science Faculty and PhD Students,
>> 
>> Please join us for the first job talk in the Political Science Department’s Law and Society search. Professor Yüksel Sezgin will present on Monday, April 27 from 11:40 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. in SSC 125.
>> 
>> If you are unable to attend in person, the talk will also be streamed via Zoom for your convenience. We will also have it recorded and sent out after the talk for those of you unable to attend. That said, we strongly encourage in-person attendance whenever possible. We will be serving lunch during the talk, so bring your appetite. 
>> 
>> Please take this opportunity to sign-up for a time to meet with Professor Sezgin via the linked Recruitment M <https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true>eeting Schedule <https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SaIkLsUECpwc1p6TiDPlHaJP_2BrvnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104434810473685670560&rtpof=true&sd=true>. We are hoping to fill up all slots no later than tomorrow evening (4/22). The three red XXX’s are where you will add your name to sign-up. Please note, we are pending a meeting time with Dean Williams, so there could be a slight shift. However, we will do our best to keep everything as it is.
>> 
>> For individual meetings, Professor Sezgin will occupy Kevin’s office in Watkins 2122A for most of the day (Thank you Kevin!).
>> 
>> Attached please find the job talk based on Professor Sezgin’s forthcoming book, which will be published this summer by Cambridge University Press. The attached paper closely reflects his presentation titled “Judging through Narrative: Muslim Family Laws in Non-Muslim Courts”.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Christina Gnuschke, MBA (she/her/hers)
>> 
>> Financial and Administrative Officer
>> 
>> CHASS - Economics & Political Science | University of California, Riverside
>> 
>> 2122D Watkins Hall
>> 
>> Riverside, CA 92521
>> 
>> Office: (951) 827-1477 | christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu <mailto:christina.gnuschke at ucr.edu>
>>  
>> Contacts for Frequent Inquiries
>> 
>> Travel Request Chasstravel at ucr.edu <mailto:Chasstravel at ucr.edu>
>> Budgets, COA, FFS amy.yin at ucr.edu <mailto:amy.yin at ucr.edu>
>> Budgets, Grants, Summer Salary  Rebecca.wu at ucr.edu <mailto:Rebecca.wu at ucr.edu>
>> Payroll, Student Awards, International Scholars  lety.vazquezangeleri at ucr.edu <mailto:lety.vazquezangeleri at ucr.edu>
>> Purchasing, Reimbursement, Event, Facility candicej at ucr.edu <mailto:candicej at ucr.edu>
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