Box 1916

Maxcy Hall

112 George Street

Providence, RI 02912

Telephone: (401) 863-2367

Fax: (401) 863-3213

Sociology@brown.edu

 

208 Maxcy Hall
401-863-2535 phone
401-863-3213 fax
Mark_Suchman@brown.edu

Spring 2008 Office Hours:
Monday 11:00-12:00 & Thursday 2:00-3:00, or by appointment

Ph.D. Stanford University

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:
The relationship between law, innovation, and entrepreneurship; particularly in the information technology, nanotechnology, and healthcare sectors.

Professor Suchman comes to Brown from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was Professor of Sociology and Law. He is currently writing a book on the role of law firms in Silicon Valley, and he is midway through a multi-year project on the organizational, professional, and legal challenges surrounding new information technologies in health care. He has also written on organizational legitimacy, on inter-organizational disputing practices, on the "internalization" of law within corporate bureaucracies, and on social science approaches to the study of contracts.