Nehal Patel
Associate Professor
Criminal Justice and Sociology
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Patel has an interdisciplinary background in Law (J.D.), Sociology (Ph.D.), and Zoology (B.S.). He is interested in multi-method scholarship and has used several research methodologies: experimental, quantitative, qualitative interview, document/text and film analysis, and case method. In addition, he has an interest in cognitive social science and has applied conceptual integration theory to explain how people blend perceptions of environmentalism, law, and social change.
Research Interest
Thought of Gandhi; Non-Western Social Theory; Critical Legal Theory; Consciousness of Law, Environmentalism, & Social Change; Law & Activism; Cultural Studies in Meditation & Mindfulness.
Publications
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Patel, Nehal A., & Lauren Vella. “A Mindful Environmental Jurisprudence?: Speculations on the application of Gandhi’s Thought to MCWC v. Nestle.†Pace Environmental Law Review, Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2013.
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Patel, Nehal A., & Ksenia Petlakh. “Gandhi’s Nightmare: Bhopal and the Need For A Mindful Jurisprudence.†Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice, Volume 30, 2014.
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Patel, Nehal A. “Mindful Justice: The Search for Gandhi’s Sympathetic State After Bhopal.†Social Justice Research, Volume 28, Issue 3, 2015.
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Patel, Nehal A. “Why Lawyers Fear Love: Mohandas Gandhi’s Significance to the Mindfulness In Law Movement.†British Journal of American Legal Studies, Volume 4, 2015.
