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Pioneering Center for the Study of Law and Society Still Blazing New Trails to Show How Law Operates in the Real World

Read more about the CSLS 65th Anniversary Conference: Law and Society and the Disciplines

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The Center for the Study of Law and Society is pleased to congratulate our recently selected 2026-2027 cohort of Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellows!

Click here to read about our new fellows and the projects they will be working on.

The Center for the Study of Law and Society is pleased to announce the winners for the 2026 CSLS Frances Coles Summer Research Grants!

Click here to read more about this year's awardees and their research.

The Center for the Study of Law and Society warmly congratulates the 2026 CSLS Graduate Student Paper Prize winner!

The 2026 prize went to Eva Vaillancourt, Ph.D. in History, for her paper, "Birth of the British Crosswalk: Mystical Lines, Mechanical Obedience, and the Puzzle of Law-as-Infrastructure." Click here to read the paper abstract and author bio.