Professor Dan Nagin
Daniel S. Nagin
Max Planck Law Fellow
Daniel S. Nagin is the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, and since 2006 has served as the college’s Associate Dean of Faculty. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from what is now the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He chaired the National Research Council’s Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty, and served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Political and Social Science and the recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Edwin H Sutherland Award in 2006, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2014, Carnegie Mellon University’s Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2015, and the National Academy of Science Award for Scientific Reviewing in 2017. His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and non-criminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data.
He was recently awarded the Michael Endres Prize by the Hertie School of Governence where he is a visiting professor throughout the academic year 2021–22. He has been an elected member of the ‘Politics, Power and Organisation’ section of the CNRS national committee, is a permanent visiting professor at the iCourts research centre (Univ. of Copenhagen), and is co-director of the Master’s degree in ‘European Public Affairs’ at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. Antoine Vauchez’s work lies at the intersection of the socio-history of transnational power Habilitation (2010), his main research themes are the formation of a European centre of power, the emergence of a body of legal and economic knowledge of the European project and the consolidation of a ‘power of independence’ around the European courts of justice, central banks and regulatory agencies.
Email: dn03@andrew.cmu.edu
Max Planck Fellow Group
Criminal Law as a Tool for Governing Society
This Max Planck Law Fellow Group provides the framework for jointly investigating the interaction between individual development and the deterrent effect of criminal sanctions. Is deterrence required as some experience early in life induces individuals to remain deaf to the call of normativity? Does, to the contrary, the salient threat with criminal sanctions prevent individuals from being derailed from the path of normativity? Can those whose personal development has taken a socially disruptive direction at some moment of their adolescence be successfully brought back on track by the salient threat with punishment? Are there developmental markers for the effectiveness of deterrence by criminal law?
The Max Planck Law Fellow Group is headed by Professor Dan Nagin and brings together researchers from and under the direction of Professors Christoph Engel and Jean-Louis van Gelder.