MATERIALS: TRIBUTES, INTERVIEWS, VIDEOS, TRANSCRIPTS

In January 2002 the Center for the Study of Law and Society invited Roger Cotterrell, a leading figure in the sociology of law, to Berkeley from Queen Mary, University of London, to conduct an oral history of Philip Selznick. Transcripts of the interviews are archived in the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office (ROHO).

Excerpts of these interviews, selected by Jiri Priban, were published as "Selznick Interviewed: Philip Selznick in Conversation with Roger Cotterrell," in the Journal of Law and Society, Volume 31, Number 3, September 2004, pp. 291-317.

Martin Krygier's intellectual biography of Selznick, Philip Selznick: Ideals in the World was published by Stanford University Press in April 2012. Krygier conducted a series of structured interviews with Selznick in January 2002. Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of New South Wales and Adjunct Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University.

On January 20th 2011, a Memorial Service took place at the Bancroft Hotel in Berkeley. Associate Dean Lauren Edelman moderated. Dean Christopher Edley greeted the assembled colleagues, family and friends. Speakers included, Martin Krygier, Neil Smelser, Philippe Nonet, Kenneth Winston, Robert A. Kagan, Lloyd Burton, Sanford H. Kadish and Doris R. Fine, with music by Leighton Fong. 

On November 4, 2011, the seminar room at 2240 Piedmont Avenue was dedicated as the Philip Selznick Seminar Room, during the closing reception of the Center for the Study of Law and Society's 50th Anniversary Conference.