CSLS Speaker Series

CSLS SPEAKER SERIES

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FALL 2026

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

Monday, August 31	DIAG DAVENPORT Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Governance, and Society, UC Berkeley	"When Public Law Is Not Public Knowledge: Making the American Local Legal State Observable" Cosponsored with the Edley Center on Law and Democracy
Monday, September 14	OMER ALI Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh	"The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages: 1935-1975, Evidence from Local Land Records"
Monday, September 28	RABIA BELT Professor of Law and Professor of History (by courtesy), Stanford Law School	“Mental Incompetence on the Ground: Community Construction of Disability in Democracy" Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, October 5	DEBORAH PEARLSTEIN Director, Program in Law and Public Policy and Visiting Professor in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University	Losing the Law: How Legal Polarization Threatens American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2026) Cosponsored with the Edley Center on Law and Democracy and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice This event will be held in person only.
Monday, October 19	DAVID VOGEL Solomon P. Lee Chair Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UC Berkeley	When Federal Climate Policy Works: Benefits, Business, and Politics (The MIT Press, 2026) Register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, October 26	SHARON WEILL Professor of International Law and Director of the Justice Lab, The American University of Paris	Terror on Trial: An Ethnography of French Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2026) Register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, November 9	JUMAN KIM Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program in Law and American Civilization, Towson University	"Not Eligible but Still Fitting? Prefigurative Citizenship and the Interpretive Agency of the ‘Ineligible'” Cosponsored with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative and the Center for Race and Gender Register for the livestream via Zoom.
Monday, November 16	ZEYNEP DEVRIM GÜRSEL Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University--New Brunswick	Portraits of Unbelonging: Photographic Journeys Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2026) Cosponsored with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Register for the livestream via Zoom.