CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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FALL 2024

In-Person in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Ave. and Livestreamed via Zoom
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Monday, September 9	KAREN TANI Seaman Family University Professor, Penn Carey Law, University of Pennsylvania	CSLS Special Event David Lieberman Memorial Lecture: “Sinister Interest: Benthamite Themes in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 Term" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. *Please note that the time and location details for this event differ from the Speaker Series. Click here for the event flyer.
Monday, September 23	SUSAN HYDE Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley JENNIE BARKER Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UC Berkeley OREN SAMET Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UC Berkeley	"Citizen Election Observation and Public Confidence in the U.S. Elections" Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. Click here for the event flyer. Click here to read the paper draft.
Monday, September 30	AMEL AHMED Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst	Democracies in America: Understanding Conflicting Democratic Attitudes Cosponsored with the Center for Research on Social Change Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. Click here for the event flyer.
Monday, October 7	JESSICA SIMES Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University	"Cash Bail Reform and Community Wellbeing" Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Center for Research on Social Change Click hereto register for the livestream via Zoom. Click here for the event flyer.
Monday, October 21	JEDIDIAH KRONCKE Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong	"Colonizing Liberia: The Constitution of American Empire Before the Insular Cases" Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, October 28	JAKE GRUMBACH Associate Professor of the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley	"Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, November 4	EMILY ZHANG Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law	"What People Get Wrong about the Right to Vote" Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Center for Right-Wing Studies Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.