CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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FALL 2025

In-Person in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Ave. and Livestreamed via Zoom
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Monday, August 25	STEPHANIE JONES-ROGERS Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of History, UC Berkeley	"Puer Sequitur Parentis and Coniugis Sequitur Coniugis?: British Laws of Slave Descent on the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast" Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, September 8	DIAG DAVENPORT Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Governance, and Society, Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Information, UC Berkeley	“The Social Architecture of Moral Judgment: How Responsibility and Group Structure Shape Collective Decisions” Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, September 15	REBECCA PERLMAN Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley	Harmonizing Safety: The Politics of Occupational Exposure Limits in the EU Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, September 29	LIZ CHIARELLO Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in Saint Louis	“Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis” Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, October 6	KELLEY FONG Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine	Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (Princeton University Press, 2023) 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, October 20	BERNADETTE ATUAHENE Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law	Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (Little, Brown and Company, 2025) Cosponsored with the Othering and Belonging Institute, 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, October 27	SHAUHIN TALESH Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law	“Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators” Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, November 3	JUSTIN SIMARD Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law	“Agents of Commerce: Transactional Lawyering in the 19th Century United States” Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, November 17	KAREN LEVY Associate Professor of Information Sciences, Cornell University and Associate Member of the Faculty, Cornell Law School	Title TBD. Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.