Mark Suchman
208 Maxcy Hall
401-863-2535 phone
401-863-3213 fax
Mark_Suchman@brown.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:45-3:45pm
Ph.D. Stanford University
JD Yale Law School
Areas of Interest:
Sociology of Organizations; Sociology of Law; Economic Sociology; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Professions; Healthcare
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.