Criminal Justice
Hank Willis Thomas 'Raise Up' Statue, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery Alabama (Getty Images)
Democracy and Civil Society
Lighting the World Protesting Darkness, Fayek Tasneem Khan (Getty Images)
Inequality
Martin Luther King Jr's speech 'I Have A Dream' at the Lincoln Memorial (public domain)
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.
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CSLS Speaker Series
Monday, January 27, 2025
"The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change"
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
David Hausman
Associate Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Mary Hoopes
Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
Anna Closas I Casasampera
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UC Berkeley
2240 Piedmont Avenue
Time:
Lunch: 12:15-12:45 p.m.
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Jenae Carpenter, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, shares her experience as a 2023-2024 BELS Fellow.
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