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Sheldon Bernard Lyke is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago,
where his research interests include law and social science, property,
regulation of sexuality & the emerging field of
global/transnational legal studies and international public law.
Some of his past research projects have included examining the legal
treatment of Cuban and Tanzanian commercial sex workers, and assessing
the constitutionality of public health bans of "gay" bathhouses in the
US. His dissertation research examines courts' use of
foreign laws when deciding domestic constitutional issues.
Currently, Sheldon is an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Department of Social Science and Columbia College Department of
History, Humanities, and Social Science, where he teaches courses in
law and social science. He has also served as a
lecturer at the University of Chicago in the Human Rights
Program, at the Center for International Studies, and most recently at
the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. At the University of Chicago, he has taught
classes on Race as Property, and Sexuality & Human Rights.
Sheldon, a Chicago native, received an A.B. cum laude in sociology from Princeton University in 1996, and a J.D. in 1999 from Northwestern University School of Law.
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