Susan Silbey

Susan S. Silbey is the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Her research examines governance, regulation and audit in complex organizations. Her current work focuses on the management systems that contain risks, from ethical lapses to environmental, health and safety hazards.

Her books include *The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life* (with Patricia Ewick, 1998), *In Litigation: Do the "Haves" Still Come Out Ahead?* (with Herbert Kritzer, 2003) and the two volumes of *Law and Science* (2008). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), the Harry Kalven Jr. Prize for advancing the sociology of law (2009) and an honorary doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2006). She is a past President of the Law and Society Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.