Mia’s teaching and research interests include law and society in Eastern Europe, law and culture, human rights and women’s rights, comparative law and constitutional law. Her most recent publication on sociolegal issues in Central and Eastern Europe is Surviving Property: Resistance against Urban Housing Nationalization during the Transition to Communism (Romania, 1950-1965), in Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 51 (2010), ed. Austin Sarat. She is currently working on two projects: a study of rule of law indicators as a political technology of power in present day Romania, and a book manuscript provisionally entitled Law, Property and Subjectivity in Early Communist Romania (1945-1965).