CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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In-Person events are subject to change depending on public health conditions. Check back here for up-to-date information.

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

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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

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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”

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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

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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
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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

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Monday,
March 17

CATHERINE ALBISTON
Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of CSLS, Berkeley Law

Title TBD

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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
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