CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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SPRING 2025

In-Person in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Ave. and Livestreamed via Zoom
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Monday, January 27	DAVID HAUSMAN Assistant 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	"The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change" Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. Click here for the event flyer.
Monday, February 3	DANIELI EVANS Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law	“Testing Universalism: Do Interventions Targeting Socioeconomic Inequality, As Opposed to Racial Inequality, Garner Broader Support?” Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. Click here for the event flyer.
Monday, February 10	BRIAN MCCABE Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Sociology, Research Director of the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University	“The Voucher Lottery: America’s Housing Crisis and the Politics of Scarcity” Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. Click here for the event flyer.
Monday, February 24	REBECCA MCLENNAN Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States, UC Berkeley	*“For Itself and for Mankind”: John Marshall Harlan, Species Extinction, and the Fur Seal Trial of 1893* Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 3	CYNTHIA GILES former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance	CSLS Special Event The Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 10	ALLISON HARRIS Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University	“Diversity Equity and Injustice: Racial Diversity among Judges and Sentencing Disparities in the U.S.” Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Center for Race and Gender Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 17	CATHERINE ALBISTON Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of CSLS, Berkeley Law	Title TBD Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, April 7	GEORGE PAVLICH Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta	“Accusation and Crime: The Socio-Political Beginnings of Criminalization in Colonial Canada” Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.