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Corey S. Shdaimah earned degrees in law from Tel Aviv University Law School (LL.B. ’92) and University of Pennsylvania (LL.M., ’98) and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She has used her inter-disciplinary background to better study and teach social policy. She is particularly interested in a grounded perspective that accounts for the effects of social policy as it plays out in the lives of individuals and groups that are affected by such policies. In her research, she looks at the way professionals and clients work with, against, and around social policies. She has a particular interest in the work of clients and professionals such as judges, lawyers and social workers within legal systems such as courts and the child protective services. She recently completed data collection for a study investigating the perception of the impact of inadequate funding on child welfare decisions, funded by University of Maryland Designated Research Initiative Funds. With input from community stakeholders, she explored the role that housing plays in child welfare involvement and decisions in Philadelphia. This study was based on intensive interviews with lawyers, judges, child protective services workers and others involved in child welfare cases. Dr. Shdaimah was also the primary investigator for a Foster Care Court Workload Assessment funded by the State of Maryland’s Administrative Office of the Courts Foster Care Court Improvement Program to conduct focus groups with judges, masters, lawyers and clerks in child welfare to provide an assessment of judges and other judicial personnel required to efficiently and fairly process child welfare cases. Her current project is to design an evaluation for the newly evolving Hargrove Prostitution Problem Solving Court. She is working with Professor Brenda Batton Blom, Director of Clinical Programs of the University of Maryland Law School, who heads the Community Justice Task Force on this collaborative, interdisciplinary effort to set up a problem solving court that matches the needs and capacities of the stakeholder groups. She also represents the School of Social Work on the Baltimore City’s Juvenile Justice Center’s Model Court Advisory Team. She has articles published or forthcoming in Social Work, Journal of Teaching in Social Work and British Journal of Social Work and a number of edited volumes. Her forthcoming book, entitled Public Interest Lawyering: The Practice and Pursuit of Social Justice, will be published by New York University Press. |
