Welcome to the Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS)

Hank Willis Thomas 'Raise Up' Statue, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery Alabama (Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Hank Willis Thomas 'Raise Up' Statue, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery Alabama (Getty Images)

Lighting the World Protesting Darkness, Fayek Tasneem Khan (Getty Images)

Democracy and Civil Society

Lighting the World Protesting Darkness, Fayek Tasneem Khan (Getty Images)

Martin Luther King Jr's speech 'I Have A Dream' at the Lincoln Memorial (public domain)

Inequality

Martin Luther King Jr's speech 'I Have A Dream' at the Lincoln Memorial (public domain)

The Center for the Study of Law and Society

The Center supports theoretically-based, empirical research on new developments at the interplay of law and society in contemporary and historical contexts.  While part of Berkeley's School of Law, the Center fosters a multidisciplinary context in which UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students from many departments interact and engage with visiting socio-legal scholars from universities in the United States and abroad.

See our current CSLS Visiting Scholars and their bios here!

CSLS Visiting Scholars Speaker Series
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

"Balancing Law and Organizational Demands: The Role of Lawyers in Public Bureaucracies"

Ayako Hirata
Associate Professor of Law & Society, Graduate Schools for Law & Politics, University of Tokyo


"Deporting Disability: Insights from Immigrant Defense Attorneys"

Tania Valdez
Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

Location:
Philip Selznick Seminar Room,
2240 Piedmont Avenue 

Time:
Hirata Program: 3:30-4:15 p.m.
Valdez Program: 4:15-5:00 p.m.

Click here for the event flyer.
Click here for the 12/5/24 VS Speaker Series event flyer.

Jenae Carpenter, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, shares her experience as a 2023-2024 BELS Fellow.

CSLS former and current Faculty and Executive Directors

Please consider making a donation to support CSLS.  

Donate $100 dollars or more and you will receive a CSLS t-shirt!  

Funds will support BELS Fellows, JSP Students, 60th anniversary conference, and crucial and timely programming focused on our three pillars of Criminal Justice, Inequality, and Democracy and Civil Society.