CSLS SPEAKER SERIES
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SPRING 2024
In-Person in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Ave. and Livestreamed via Zoom
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Monday, January 29 |
ELENA KEMPF KATERINA LINOS |
"Shaming the Court: The German Constitutional Court’s Turnaround NGEU Decision" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. To read the full paper, click here. |
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Monday, February 5 |
LAUREN RIVERA |
CSLS Special Event: Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, February 12 |
GABRIEL WINANT |
"Liberalism Revisited: Reapproaching State Formation and Class Compromise in the New Deal" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, February 26 |
ROBIN STRYKER |
"Equality Wars: How Social and Behavioral Science Shaped Employment Discrimination Law" Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, March 4 |
KATHLEEN THELEN |
CSLS Special Event: The Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, March 11 |
KERAMET REITER |
“Bounding Knowledge: The Role of Correctional Experts in Prison Reform Litigation” Cosponsored with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, March 18 |
DYLAN PENNINGROTH |
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, April 1 |
RACHEL STERN |
"The Un-Revolution: The Politics of Access to Legal Information in Contemporary France" Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, April 8 |
RACHEL BEST |
“Disputed and Discredited: Pain, Mental Illness, and Invisible Impairments in Disability Lawsuits” Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
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Monday, April 15 |
SA-KIERA TIARRA JOLYNN HUDSON |
"How Threat, Apathy, and Antipathy Influence Support for Policies that Harm Low Status Groups" Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Click here to register for the livestream via Zoom. |
FALL 2023
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Wednesday, August 23 - LYNETTE CHUA, DAVID ENGEL, & SIDA LIU
Professor of Law and Vice Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore / SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo / Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Hong Kong
The Asian Law & Society Reader
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Cosponsored with the Asian American Research Center
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Monday, September 11 - JEREMY FOGEL, MARY HOOPES, & GOODWIN LIU
Executive Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute / Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law / Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
"Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Court of Appeals"
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Berkeley Judicial Institute
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Monday, September 18 - DAVID HAUSMAN
Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
"Did Trump's Border Policies Deter Migration?"
Cosponsored with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
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Monday, October 2 - JENNIFER CARLSON
Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University
Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
(Princeton University Press, 2023)
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, October 16 - ROBERT NELSON
CSLS Visiting Scholar and Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession
(University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work and the Civil Justice Research Initiative
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Monday, October 23 - SARAH BRAYNE
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
"Surveillance Deputies: When Ordinary People Surveil for the State"
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, October 30 - SANDRA LEVITSKY
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor / Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Law, University of Michigan
"Litigation Politics: Countermovement Activity in Campus Sexual Assault Litigation"
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Center for Race and Gender
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Monday, November 13 - TONYA BRITO, DANIELA CAMPOS UGAZ, CATHY HU, & CATHERINE ALBISTON
Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison School Law School / Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison / Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, UC Berkeley / Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of CSLS, Berkeley Law
"The Hamster Wheel Is on Fire: How the Pandemic Amplified Inequality in the Academy"
Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work
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SPRING 2023
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Monday, January 30 - DAVID C. WILSON
Dean of the Goldman School and Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Racial Resentment in the Political Mind
(University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, February 6 - CHARLES LOEFFLER
Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
"The Rhetoric and Reality of Developmentally Informed Justice: Evidence from Massachusetts"
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Monday, February 13 - FEDERICO FABBRINI
Professor of European Law, Dublin City University
"Law and Politics of Brexit"
Cosponsored with the Berkeley Institute for European Studies
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Monday, February 27 - LAURA BETH NIELSEN
Professor and Chair of Sociology, Northwestern University
"Legal Pluralism when Formal Systems Fail: Title IX, Legal Consciousness, and Informal Sexual Assault Prevention Strategies on Campus"
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Monday, March 6 - KAREN M. TANI
Seaman Family University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Liberalism's Last Rights: Disability Inclusion and the Rise of the Cost-Benefit State
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, March 13 - KATHRYN ABRAMS
Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Open Hand, Closed First-Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State (University of California Press, 2022)
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
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Monday, March 20 - JONATHAN SIMON
Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law, UC Berkeley
"Law & Order: The American Pursuit of a Liberal Police State"
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Monday, April 3 - JACKSON SMITH
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Los Angeles
You Know It When You See It: Drug Nuisance Properties and Municipal Carceral Power in Philadelphia (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender
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Monday, April 17 - MANISHA PADI
Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Inclusive Occupational Licensing
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SPRING 2022
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Monday, January 24 - JAMILA MICHENER
Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
"Civil Justice and Local Organizations"
Cosponsors: Center for Race & Gender, Civil Justice Research Initiative
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Monday, January 31 - JENNIFER M. CHACÓN
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“Legal Phantoms: The Haunting Power of Failed Law Reform”
Cosponsors: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Center for Race & Gender
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See the recording of the event here.
Monday, February 7 - SARAH E. LAGESON *
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
"Criminal Records as Personal Data: Stigma, Surveillance, and Digital Punishment in the Data Brokerage Industry"
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
See the recording of the event here.
Monday, March 7 - MATEO TAUSSIG-RUBBO & ZOE HAMSTEAD *
Professor of Law, University at Buffalo / Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
“Theories of the Event in Climate Law and Policy”
Zoom and In-Person in Room 244, Berkeley Law | For the event flyer, click here.
Monday, March 14 - OSAGIE K. OBASOGIE & PEYTON PROVENZANO *
Osagie K. Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair, Professor of Law & Professor of Bioethics, School of Law and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Peyton Provenzano, J.D./Ph.D. Student, Jurisprudence & Social Policy, Berkeley Law
"Race, Racism, and Police Use of Force in 21st Century Criminology: An Empirical Examination"
Cosponsors: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Center for Race & Gender
Zoom and In-Person in Room 244, Berkeley Law | For the event flyer, click here.
Monday, March 28 - DAVID PEDULLA
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
“Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination”
Cosponsors: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Center for Race & Gender
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Monday, April 4 - VEENA DUBAL *
Professor of Law, UC Hastings
The New Racial Wage Code
(forthcoming in the Harvard Law and Policy Review)
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Monday, April 11 - BERNADETTE ATUAHENE
Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Predatory Cities: Replenishing the Public Purse Through Racist Policy
(forthcoming in 2023)
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FALL 2021
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Taking place via Zoom Webinar from 12:45 - 2:00pm
Monday, September 13 - ABHAY ANEJA
Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“The Economic Costs of Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Wilson”
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, September 20 - MATTHEW CLAIR
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
“Privilege and Punishment in an Era of Mass Criminalization”
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, October 4 - MARK MASSOUD
Professor of Legal Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
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Monday, October 11 - TONY PLATT
CSLS Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, UC Berkeley
“Why We Need Truth & Justice at Berkeley”
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Monday, October 18 - SHAUHIN TALESH
Professor of Law, UC Irvine
“The Technologization of Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Cybersecurity and Privacy”
Cosponsored with the Berkeley Center For Law & Technology and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, October 25 - LEONARDO ARRIOLA
Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
“Patronage Protection: The Impact of Politics and Violence on Mexican Repatriation During the Great Depression”
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, November 8 - CHRIS MULLER
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
“The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910-1925”
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender
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Monday, November 15 - CECILIA HYUNJUNG MO
Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
"Does Relative Deprivation Condition the Effects of Social Protection Programs on Political Support? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan"
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To receive email notification of talks, please send your name and email address to csls@law.berkeley.edu
Fall events will be taking place on Zoom. Registration will remain open until event start time.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact csls@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
SPRING 2021
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Monday, January 25 - Jason Ferguson
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA
"'The Extinction of the Race': Abortion, Homosexuality, and the Reproduction of Senegal, 2009-2015"
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Monday, February 8- Rebecca Sandefur
Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University
"Access to Justice and Legal Services Regulatory Reform"
cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Civil Justice Research Initiative
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Monday, February 22 - Shannon Gleeson
Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History, Cornell University
"Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers"
cosponsored with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
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Friday, February 26 - Special Event: JSP Reunion Book Event
Ashley Rubin, Ming Chen, & Hadar Aviram
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Monday, March 1 - Paul Gutierrez
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
"The Division of an Empire: The Settler Colonial and Revolutionary Entanglements of Dartmouth v. Woodward"
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cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender.
Monday, March 8 - David Grewal
Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley
"Law and Political Economy: Framings and Questions"
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Monday, March 15 - Jane McAlevey
Senior Policy Fellow, U.C. Berkeley Labor Center
"As Goes Unions, So Goes the Republic: Participation & Democracy at Work, in the Community, and at the Ballot Box"
cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work
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Monday, March 29 - Karin Martin
Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
"On Place, Policy, and Pain: Key Dimensions of U.S. Monetary Sanction Punishment Regimes"
cosponsored with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
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Monday, April 5 - Egor Lazarev
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
"State Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State of Law in Post-War Chechnya"
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Monday, April 12 - Chris Tomlins
Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley
"In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History"
with Dylan Penningroth and Stephanie Jones-Rogers
cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, April 19 - Armando Lara-Millán
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
"Redistributing the Poor: The Transofrmation of Jails and Hospitals in the Era of Urban Austerity and Progressive Law"
(Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2021)
cosponsored with Social Science Matrix
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Monday, April 26 - Lauren Edelman, Allen Michael Wright, Calvin Morrill, Karolyn Tyson & Richard Arum
Lauren Edelman is Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Allen Micheal Wright is a Graduate Student at UC Berkeley
Calvin Morrill is Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Karolyn Tyson is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill
Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education and Dean of the School of Education at UC Irvine
"The Power of the Accused: Differential Use of Legal Mobilization Among Educators"
cosponsered with the Center for Research on Social Change.
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FALL 2020
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Monday, August 31 – Becca Goldstein
Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“The Effects of Criminal Justice Debt: Evidence from a Field Experiment”
(co-authors Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Helen Ho)
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Monday, September 14 – Patricia Cain & Eleanor Swift
Patricia Cain, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
Eleanor Swift, Professor Emerita, Berkeley Law“Breaking into the Legal Ivory Tower: The First American Women Law Professors–a book by Herma Hill Kay”
In celebration of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley. Cosponsored with the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies.
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Monday, September 21 – Matt A. Barreto & Sonni Waknin
Matt A. Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Sonni Waknin, Managing Law Fellow, UCLA Voting Rights Project & UCLA School of Law class of 2020 Graduate
“The Right to Vote During a Global Pandemic: Improving Vote By Mail and Protecting In-Person Voting”
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
There are two related papers for this talk; first paper / second paper.
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Monday, October 5 – Osagie Obasogie, Nikki Jones, & Stephanie Campos-Bui
Osagie Obasogie, Professor of Bioethics, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program; Haas Distinguished Chair, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Nikki Jones, Associate Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
Stephanie Campos-Bui, Clinical Supervising Attorney, Policy Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley law
New Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice , Center for Race and Gender, & Center for Research on Social Change
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Monday, October 12 – Patricia Posey
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Political Science Department’s junior faculty member for the Race and Capitalism Project
“Race and Indebted Access: How the Fringe Economy Shapes Political Inclusion”
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice & Center for Race and Gender
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Monday, October 26 – Veena Dubal-POSTPONED
Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings Law
“Rulemaking as Structural Violence: Immigrant Workers Amidst Innovation Governance”
Cosponsored with Center for Law and the Workplace, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, & Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
Monday, November 2 – Susan Hyde, Taeku Lee, & Kathy Abrams
Susan Hyde, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Taeku Lee, Professor of Political Science and Law, UC Berkeley
Kathy Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Democracy, Civil Society, & Free and Fair Elections
Cosponsored with Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative & Institute of Governmental Studies
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Monday, November 9 – Vesla Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
“The State from Below: Democracy and Citizenship in Policed Communities”
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice , Institute of Governmental Studies, & Center for Research on Social Change
Monday, November 16 – Rebecca Hamlin
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move
(University Press, 2021)
Cosponsored with Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice & Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
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Monday, November 23 – Richard Ross
David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Illinois
“The Rule of Law in British America: Thinking with Indians While Comparing to Spaniards”
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To receive email notification of talks, please send your name and email address to csls@law.berkeley.edu
All events will take place on Zoom. Meeting registration details forthcoming.
Registration will remain open until event start time.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact csls@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.