CSLS Speaker Series

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SPRING 2021

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Monday, January 25 - Jason Ferguson

Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA

"'The Extinction of the Race': Abortion, Homosexuality, and the Reproduction of Senegal, 2009-2015"

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Monday, February 8- Rebecca Sandefur

Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University

"Access to Justice and Legal Services Regulatory Reform"

cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Civil Justice Research Initiative

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Monday, February 22 - Shannon Gleeson

Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History, Cornell University

"Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers"

cosponsored with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative

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Friday, February 26 - Special Event: JSP Reunion Book Event

Ashley Rubin, Ming Chen, & Hadar Aviram

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Monday, March 1 - Paul Gutierrez

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida

"The Division of an Empire: The Settler Colonial and Revolutionary Entanglements of Dartmouth v. Woodward"

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cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender.

Monday, March 8 - David Grewal

Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley

"Law and Political Economy: Framings and Questions"

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Monday, March 15 - Jane McAlevey

Senior Policy Fellow, U.C. Berkeley Labor Center

"As Goes Unions, So Goes the Republic: Participation & Democracy at Work, in the Community, and at the Ballot Box"

cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work

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Monday, March 29 - Karin Martin

Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington

"On Place, Policy, and Pain: Key Dimensions of U.S. Monetary Sanction Punishment Regimes"

cosponsored with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

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Monday, April 5 - Egor Lazarev

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University

"State Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State of Law in Post-War Chechnya"

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Monday, April 12 - Chris Tomlins

Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley

"In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History"

with Dylan Penningroth and Stephanie Jones-Rogers

cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

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Monday, April 19 - Armando Lara-Millán

Assistant Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley

"Redistributing the Poor: The Transofrmation of Jails and Hospitals in the Era of Urban Austerity and Progressive Law"

(Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2021)

cosponsored with Social Science Matrix

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Monday, April 26 - Lauren Edelman, Allen Michael Wright, Calvin Morrill, Karolyn Tyson & Richard Arum

Lauren Edelman is Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley

Allen Micheal Wright is a Graduate Student at UC Berkeley

Calvin Morrill is Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley

Karolyn Tyson is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill

Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education and Dean of the School of Education at UC Irvine

"The Power of the Accused: Differential Use of Legal Mobilization Among Educators"

cosponsered with the Center for Research on Social Change.

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FALL 2020

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Monday, August 31 – Becca Goldstein

Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“The Effects of Criminal Justice Debt: Evidence from a Field Experiment”
(co-authors Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Helen Ho)
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Monday, September 14 – Patricia Cain & Eleanor Swift

Patricia Cain, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
Eleanor Swift, Professor Emerita, Berkeley Law“Breaking into the Legal Ivory Tower: The First American Women Law Professors–a book by Herma Hill Kay”
In celebration of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley. Cosponsored with the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies.
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Monday, September 21 – Matt A. Barreto & Sonni Waknin

Matt A. Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Sonni Waknin, Managing Law Fellow, UCLA Voting Rights Project & UCLA School of Law class of 2020 Graduate
“The Right to Vote During a Global Pandemic: Improving Vote By Mail and Protecting In-Person Voting”
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
There are two related papers for this talk; first paper / second paper.
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Monday, October 5 – Osagie Obasogie, Nikki Jones, & Stephanie Campos-Bui

Osagie Obasogie, Professor of Bioethics, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program; Haas Distinguished Chair, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Nikki Jones, Associate Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
Stephanie Campos-Bui, Clinical Supervising Attorney, Policy Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley law
New Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice , Center for Race and Gender, & Center for Research on Social Change

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Monday, October 12 – Patricia Posey

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Political Science Department’s junior faculty member for the Race and Capitalism Project
“Race and Indebted Access: How the Fringe Economy Shapes Political Inclusion”
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice & Center for Race and Gender

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Monday, October 26 – Veena Dubal-POSTPONED

Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings Law
“Rulemaking as Structural Violence: Immigrant Workers Amidst Innovation Governance”
Cosponsored with Center for Law and the Workplace, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, & Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

Monday, November 2 – Susan Hyde, Taeku Lee, & Kathy Abrams

Susan Hyde, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Taeku Lee, Professor of Political Science and Law, UC Berkeley
Kathy Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Democracy, Civil Society, & Free and Fair Elections
Cosponsored with Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative & Institute of Governmental Studies

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Monday, November 9 – Vesla Weaver

Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
“The State from Below: Democracy and Citizenship in Policed Communities”
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice , Institute of Governmental Studies, & Center for Research on Social Change

Monday, November 16 – Rebecca Hamlin

Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move
(University Press, 2021)
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice & Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative

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Monday, November 23 – Richard Ross

David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Illinois
“The Rule of Law in British America: Thinking with Indians While Comparing to Spaniards”

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All events will take place on Zoom. Meeting registration details forthcoming.
Registration will remain open until event start time.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact csls@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.