CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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SPRING 2026

In-Person in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Ave. and Livestreamed via Zoom as permitted.

Monday, January 26	LOÏC WACQUANT Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley	"Penal Power in Action: On the Tracks of County Prosecutors" Cosponsored with the Criminal Law & Justice Center and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Monday, February 2	JACK PAINE Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University	"After the Scramble: State Formation in Africa" Cosponsored with the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Monday, Feburary 9	HARDEEP DHILLON Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania	"The Children of Immigrants Ineligible for Naturalization and Historical Struggle for Birthright Citizenship" Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Friday, February 27	For the full lineup of our 12 featured speakers, please see the event page on our website.	CSLS Special Event* 65th Anniversary Conference: Law and Society and the Disciplines *This special event will be held in the Warren Room, 295 Simon Hall, from 8:30am-6:00pm. Click here for event registration and program details.
Monday, March 9	ED RUBIN Distinguished University Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University	CSLS Special Event* The Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Responsive Democracy and the Administrative State *This special event will be held in the Warren Room, 295 Simon Hall, from 3:30pm-6:00pm. Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 16	CHRISTOPHER KUTZ C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley	Publics in Action: The Self-Making of Civic Life (Oxford University Press, 2025) Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, March 30	STEPHANIE CANIZALES Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley	"Unaccompanied: Child Migration, Labor, and the Meanings of Success in the U.S." Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender
Monday, April 13	ALLISON HARRIS Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University	“Shades of Justice: How Court Composition Influences Sentencing Disparities in U.S. Trial Courts” Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, April 20	POULAMI ROYCHOWDHURY Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University	"Why Might Authoritarian Populists Care about Women's Empowerment?" This is an in-person event only.
Monday, April 27	JONATHAN LEVY Professor of History, Sciences Po Paris, Centre for History	"When Acts of God Became Acts of Man: Floods, Property, and the Legal Origins of Climate Change in Houston" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom.