University of California, Davis
​Department of Political Science
680 Kerr Hall
lperitz [at] ucdavis.edu

Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. For the 2016-17 academic year, I was visiting Princeton University as a Fellow in the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance.

My research focuses on international organizations. I aim to understand how international courts promote economic cooperation among countries and how domestic politics mediates their effect.  My most recent project, supported by the Hellman Fellows Program ​investigates whether and why U.S. trade and immigration policy have shifted in a “backlash” against economic globalization.

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