Pat Lee Lauderdale (born Hobart, Oklahoma, U.S.A. October 19, 1944 – November 6, 2023) was an American professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.
In 2008, he was appointed a visiting scholar at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
In the 1980s he helped create the Herbert Blumer Institute in Costa Rica with the goal of discovering and describing alternatives to violence and criminal law.
[1][2][3] His book Law and Society (with James Inverarity and Barry Feld) has been translated into Japanese.
Before coming to ASU in 1981, Lauderdale was an associate professor of sociology and law at the University of Minnesota.
In 2007, he received an invitation to be a Fulbright Senior Specialist for a research project on "Indigenous peoples, minorities and globalization," Department of Sociology and UNISA Press, University of South Africa.
He was a national president of Phi Theta Kappa Honorary Society and a Woodrow Wilson Scholar.
Rodriguez, Pedro and Pat Lauderdale 2014 Hegemony and Collective Memories: Japanese-American Relocation and Imprisonment on American Indian ‘Land’, in Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System.
Terror and Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom.
Japanese translated version (Law & Society by Setsuo Miyazawa), Rokko, Kobe, Japan.