CSLS Speaker Series Archive
FALL 2024
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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"
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Monday, September 23 - SUSAN HYDE, JENNIE BARKER, & OREN SAMET
Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley / Ph.D. Candidates 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
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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
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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
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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
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Monday, October 28 - JAKE GRUMBACH
Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
"Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States"
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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
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SPRING 2024
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Monday, January 29 - ELENA KEMPF & KATERINA LINOS
Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Professor of Law and Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Berkeley Law
"Shaming the Court: The German Constitutional Court’s Turnaround NGEU Decision"
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Monday, February 5 - LAUREN RIVERA
Professor of Sociology and Management & Organizations, Northwestern University
CSLS Special Event
Edelman Memorial Lecture:
"Behind the Window Dressing: Micro-Level Drivers of Symbolic Legal Compliance"
Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work
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Monday, February 12 - GABRIEL WINANT
Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago
"Liberalism Revisited: Reapproaching State Formation and Class Compromise in the New Deal"
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Monday, February 26 - ROBIN STRYKER
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
"Equality Wars: How Social and Behavioral Science Shaped Employment Discrimination Law"
Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work
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Monday, March 4 - KATHLEEN THELEN
Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CSLS Special Event:
The Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation:
"Attention Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Rise of the Amazon Economy"
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Monday, March 11 - KERAMET REITER
Professor of Criminology and Law & Society, UC Irvine
“Bounding Knowledge: The Role of Correctional Experts in Prison Reform Litigation”
Cosponsored with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
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Monday, March 18 - DYLAN PENNINGROTH
Professor of Law and Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of History, Associate Dean of Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy / Legal Studies, Berkeley Law
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
(Liveright, 2023)
Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, April 1 - RACHEL STERN
Professor of Law and Political Science, Berkeley Law
"The Un-Revolution: The Politics of Access to Legal Information in Contemporary France"
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Monday, April 8 - RACHEL BEST
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, University of Michigan
“Disputed and Discredited: Pain, Mental Illness, and Invisible Impairments in Disability Lawsuits”
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Monday, April 15 - SA-KIERA TIARRA JOLYNN HUDSON
Assistant Professor of Management of Organizations, UC Berkeley
"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
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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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FALL 2022
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Monday, September 12 - JOHN BLISS
Assistant Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
"Legal Activism in the Age of Existential Risk"
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Monday, October 3 - BRUNO RODRIGUEZ DE LIMA
Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
"Luiz Gama: Brazil's Frederick Douglass"
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender(link is external), and the Center for Latin American Studies
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Monday, October 10 - HADAR AVIRAM
Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law
FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster
(University of California Press, 2024)
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, October 17 - HIDETAKA HIROTA
Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley
“The Influence of the Alien Contract Labor Law on the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy”
Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work, and Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
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Monday, October 31 - JUSTIN RICHLAND
Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation – US Engagements
(University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues
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Monday, November 7 - ASAD L. ASAD
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
“Siting Surveillance: Place, Deportation Threat, and System Involvement among
U.S. Latinos”
Cosponsored with the Center for Race & Gender, and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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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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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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SPRING 2020 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
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Monday, January 27 – DYLAN PENNINGROTH
Professor of Law and History, UC Berkeley
“Race and Contract Law”
Cosponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, February 3 – GOODWIN LIU – Room 132, Berkeley Law
Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
“Who’s Going to Law School? Recent Trends in Enrollment by Gender, Race, and Nationality”
Cosponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, February 10 – CAITLIN ROSENTHAL
Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley
“Capitalism Where Labor was Capital: Slavery, Power and Price in Antebellum America”
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Monday, February 24 – KHIARA BRIDGES
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“Imagining an Ethnography of Pregnant Class-Privileged Women of Color”
Cosponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, March 2 – TAMAR KRICHELI-KATZ
Associate Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University
“Do Languages Generate Future-Oriented Economic Behavior? Experimental Evidence for Causal Effects”
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[CANCELLED] Monday, March 9 – KARIN MARTIN
Assistant Professor, University of Washington
“On Place, Policy, and Pain: An Analysis of Monetary Sanction Punishment Regimes in the U.S.”
Cosponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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[POSTPONED] Monday, March 16 – DAVID GREWAL
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“The Law and Political Economy Movement”
[POSTPONED] Monday, March 30 – VICTORIA WOESTE
Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
“Practicing God’s Law in a Secular World: The Civil Rights Law Practice of the Rev. Fred W. Phelps, 1964-1989”
[POSTPONED] Monday, April 6 – JOACHIM SAVELSBERG
Professor of Sociology; Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, University of Minnesota
“Law and the Sociology of Genocide Knowledge”
[POSTPONED] Monday, April 13 – PATRICIA POSEY
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
“Race and Indebted Access: How the Fringe Economy Shapes Political Inclusion”
Cosponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
[POSTPONED] Monday, April 20 – EGOR LAZAREV
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
“Legal Pluralism After War: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia?””
FALL 2019 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
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Monday, August 26 – Cybelle Fox
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
“‘The Line Must Be Drawn’: The Rise of Legal Status Restrictions in State Welfare Policy”
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Monday, September 9 – Jacob Hacker – Room 170, Berkeley Law
Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science and Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
“Populism for the 1%: How Conservatives Govern in an Era of Extreme Inequality
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Monday, September 16 – Sam Erman
Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
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Monday, October 7 – Liam Martin
Lecturer, Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
“The Recovery Hustle: Race and Reintegration in Postindustrial America”
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Monday, October 14 – Taeku Lee
Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
“Mad as Hell, but Still Going to Take It? Media Frames, Affective Response, and the Limits of Public Opinion on Financial Regulation in the United States”
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Monday, October 21 – Nikki Jones
Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
“Color-Blind Cops: How Racism Makes Its Way into Everyday Policing” (co-authors Kenly Brown, Eduardo Bautista Duran, Kaily Heitz, Jasmine Kelekay, Gil Rothschild Elyassi, Geoffrey Raymond)
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Monday, November 18 – Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
“‘She had…a Womb Subjected to Bondage’: The Afro-Atlantic Origins of British Colonial Descent Law”
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Monday, November 25 – Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad
Kim Voss, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology and Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies & Director, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, University of California, Berkeley
“Making Claims on Behalf of Noncitizens: What Works and What Does Not”
Cosponsored with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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For the related paper, click here.
Spring 2019 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
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Monday, January 14 – BERTRALL ROSS
Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
“Passive Voter Suppression”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, January 28 – BINYAMIN BLUM
Associate Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law
“Going Ballistic: The Forgotten Origins of Forensic Firearm Identification”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For the draft of Professor Blum’s paper, click here.
Monday, February 4 – RUTH COLKER
Distinguished University Professor & Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
“The Power of Insults”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For the draft of Professor Colker’s paper, click here.
Monday, February 11 – LUCY SALYER
Associate Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship
(Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Oct. 2018)
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, February 25 – KE LI
Assistant Professor of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York
Marriage Unbound: Divorce Litigation, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, March 4 – EVE DARIAN SMITH
Professor of Anthropology & Director of International Studies, University of California, Irvine
“Legal Pluralism in Postcolonial, Postnational, and Postdemocratic Times”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, March 11 – KATHRYNE YOUNG
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“New Directions in Legal Education Research”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, March 18 – RACHEL STERN
Professor of Law and Political Science; Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies, U.C. Berkeley
“State-Adjacent Lawyering: How Chinese Lawyers Participate in Political Life”
(co-author JSP student Lawrence Liu)
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, April 1 – ALESSANDRO DE GIORGI
Professor of Justice Studies, San Jose State University
“’We Left from Nothing and We’re Back to It.’ Prisoner Reentry and Social Abandonment in Oakland”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, April 8 – DAVID ROBINSON
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Managing Director of Upturn
“Kidney Allocation as Algorithmic Governance”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, April 15 – SORA HAN
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society & Affiliated Faculty of Law, University of California, Irvine
“Res Nullius Loquitur: Black Life and the Problem of Self-Evidence”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, April 22 –NORMAN SPAULDING
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
“Trauma, Memory, and the Law”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For the working draft of Professor Spaulding’s paper, click here.
Fall 2018 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
For the full calendar, click here.
Monday, August 27 – Carroll Seron
Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law, and Society, U.C. Irvine
“Law Students’ Faustian Bargain with Debt: Findings from UCI Law’s Natural Experiment with Tuition Remission”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For the related paper, click here.
Monday, September 17 – Forrest Stuart
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Code of the Tweet: Urban Violence and Criminal Justice Responses in the Social Media Age”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, September 24 – Christopher Muller
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
“Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, October 1 –David Vogel
Solomon P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, U.C. Berkeley
California Greenin’ – How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader (Princeton University Press, 2018)
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Chapter 1 of California Greenin’ is available here.
For more information about the book and publisher, click here.
Monday, October 8 – Holly Brewer
Burke Chair of American History and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
“’Most agreeable to the monarchy under which we live’: Slavery, Power, and the Restoration”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, October 15 – Justin Driver
Professor of Law, University of Chicago
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind (Pantheon, 2018)
For the flyer announcement, click here.
The Introduction and Chapter 5 of The Schoolhouse Gate is available in hard copy at the center.
Monday, October 22 – Celeste Arrington
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
“Rights Refracted: Disability Rights Diffusion and Evolving Legal Opportunity Structures in South Korea and Japan”
Cosponsored by The Center for Korean Studies & the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, October 29 – Constance Backhouse
Professor of Law and Distinguished University Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
“Lessons from Legal History for the #MeToo Movement”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
Monday, November 5 – Phil Parvin
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Loughborough University, UK
“The Ethics of Political Lobbying: Power, Influence, and Democratic Decline”
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For Professor Parvin’s paper, click here.
Monday, November 19 – Cecilia Menjivar
Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities, Department of Sociology, UCLA
“Transformative Effects of Immigration Law and Its Enforcement on Perceptions of the Self”
Cosponsored with Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For the related paper, click here.
Monday, November 26 – Michael McCann
Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of Washington
Union by Law: Filipino Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalist Empire 1900-2000
For the flyer announcement, click here.
For the related paper, click here.
Spring 2018 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
Full calendar available here
Monday, January 22 – Terry Maroney
Professor of Law, Professor of Medicine, Health and Society, and 2017-19 Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Vanderbilt University.
“Judicial Emotion: Investigating Its Role in Behavior, Decision-Making, and That Mysterious Thing We Call Temperament”
View the flyer announcement here.
View the Introduction to Professor Maroney’s paper here.
Monday, January 29 – Kathryn Abrams
Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
“Practices of Authorization: Storytelling, Performative Citizenship and Emotional Self-Regulation in the Undocumented Immigrants Movement”
View the flyer announcement here.
View Chapter 2 of Professor Abrams’ paper here.
Monday, February 5 – Daphna Hacker
Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and Women and Gender Studies Program.
Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Co-sponsored with the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
View the flyer announcement here.
View the Intro of Professor Hacker’s book here.
Monday, February 12 – Vincent Chiao
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018).
View the Intro and Ch. 1 of Professor Chiao’s book here.
Monday, February 26 – Robert J. MacCoun
James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law, Stanford University.
“Rapidly Changing Standards and Practices in Empirical Social Science: What Does It Mean for Empirical Legal Studies?”
View the flyer announcement here.
View a recent relevant paper by Professor MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter here.
Monday, March 5 – Ron Harris
Professor of Legal History and former Dean, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.
The Birth of the Business Corporation East and West: Eurasian Trade Institutions and their Migration, 1400–1700 (forthcoming, Princeton University Press)
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, March 12 – Shaina Potts
Assistant Professor of Geography and of Global Studies, UCLA.
“The Politics of the ‘Private’: U.S. Law and the Judicialization of Sovereign Debt Relations”
View the flyer announcement here.
View Professor Potts’ paper here.
Monday, March 19 – Osagie Obasogie
Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
“Police Violence and Public Health”
View the flyer announcement here.
Professor Obasogie’s paper with co-author Zachary Newman (American Journal of Law & Medicine, 43 (2017): 279-295) islinked here and available in hard copy at the Center.
Monday, April 2 – Reuel Schiller
The Honorable Roger J. Traynor Chair & Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law.
“Regulation and the Collapse of the New Deal Order or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market”
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, April 9 – John Hagan
John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University; Research Professor and co-director, Center on Law & Globalization, American Bar Foundation.
“A Tale Half Told: Incarceration of Fathers, State Investment in Families, and the Educational Attainment of Children”
View the flyer announcement here.
Professor Hagan’s paper is available here.
Monday, April 16 – Christopher Schmidt
Associate Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation.
The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
View the flyer announcement here.
The Introduction and Chapter One of The Sit-Ins (University of Chicago Press, 2018) is available here.
Monday, April 23 – Sandra Susan Smith
Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
“Rethinking the Relationship between Procedural Justice, Legal Cynicism, and Police Legitimacy: What We Can Learn from the Experiences of Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders”
View the flyer announcement here.
FALL 2017 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
Full calendar available here
Monday, August 28 – Mona Lynch
Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in Criminology, Law and Society and Law, University of California, Irvine. Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court (Sage, Nov. 2016)
Read the Introduction to Professor Lynch’s book here
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, September 11 – Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Butterfly Politics (Harvard University Press, 2017)
Read the Introduction and Table of Contents to Professor MacKinnon’s book here
View the flyer annoucement here
Monday, September 18 – Mark Brilliant
Associate Professor of History and American Studies; Director, Program in American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
“To Liberate From the Accident of Family Wealth’: How Liberals Revived and Revised the Case for School Vouchers in the 1960s and 1970s and Paved the Way to Zelman”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, September 25 – Charles Reichmann
Attorney and Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“Anti-Chinese Racism at Berkeley: The Case for Renaming Boalt Hall”
Read the SF Chronicle Op-Ed (May 18, 2017) and the DRAFT of an article to be published in the Asian American Law Journal Vol 25 (2018) linked here.
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, October 2 – Susan Bisom-Rapp
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Scholarship, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
“The Role of the State towards the Grey Zone of Employment: Eyes on Canada and the United States” (co-author Professor Urwana Coiquaud, HEC Montréal)
Read Professor Bisom-Rapp’s paper here
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, October 9 – Adam Badawi
Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Production of Legal Information”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, October 16 – Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Professor of Medical Anthropology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
“Why Human Trafficking for Organs is a Protected Crime: The Case of Izhak Rosenbaum, the First and Only Prosecution of Kidney Trafficking in the US”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, October 23 – Janice Nadler
Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzer School of Law, and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
“Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance” (Coauthor David Dana, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)
Read Professor Nadler’s paper here.
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, October 30 – Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“Fighting for the Constitution”
Read Dean Chemerinsky’s book proposal here.
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, November 6 – Melynda Price
Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law, UK School of Law, and Director, African American and Africana Studies Program, University of Kentucky
“What Would Mama Do? Save Our Sons and Daughters and Anti-Violence Organizing among Black Mothers of Murdered Children in 1980s Detroit”
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, November 13-Joy Milligan
Assistant Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“Public Housing and the Administrative Constitution of Race”
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, November 20 – Lauren Rivera
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, and Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
“When Two Bodies Are (Not) a Problem: Gender and Relationship Status Discrimination in Academic Hiring”
Cosponsored with the Center for Ethnographic Research.
View the flyer announcement here.
Monday, November 27 – Chris Zepeda-Millán
Assistant Professor and Chair of the Center for Research on Social Change, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism(Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2017)
Cosponsored with the Center for Research on Social Change.
View the flyer announcement here.
Read an article by Professor Zepeda-Millán here.
SPRING 2017 SPEAKER SERIES TALKS
Full calendar available here
Monday, January 23 – Rachel Stern
Asst. Professor of Law and Political Science, UC Berkeley
“Big Data and Chinese Law“
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, January 30 – Shauhin Talesh
Professor of Law, and of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology, U.C. Irvine
“Data Breach, Privacy, and Cyber Liability Insurance: How Insurance Companies Act as ‘Compliance Managers’ for Businesses“
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, February 6 – Tom Laqueur
Helen Fawcett Professor of History, UC Berkeley
“The Law of Dead Bodies and the Making of a Liberal Civil Order“
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, February 13 – Catherine Fisk
Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine
Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue (Harvard University Press, Oct. 2016)
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, February 27– Monica Hakimi
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
“The Project of International Law”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, March 6 – Arzoo Osanloo
Assoc. Professor of Law, Societies & Justice Director, Middle East Center, University of Washington
“’When Mercy Seasons Justice’: Revelation and Reform in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, March 13 – Avani Mehta Sood
Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“Psychological Constructions of Criminality: Law, Crime Severity, and Bias in Lay Determinations of Criminal Attempt”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, March 20 – Erin Kerrison
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
“‘Your Pants Won’t Save You’: Why Black Youth Challenge Race-Based Police Surveillance and Thoughts on How Age Conditions the Presence of Legal Cynicism”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, April 3 – Elizabeth Hinton
Asst. Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
“The Making of Mass Incarceration”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, April 10 – Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
“The Rebirth of White Womanhood: Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, and the Preservation of White Manhood”View the flyer announcement here
Monday, April 17 – Ross Matsueda
Bloomstein-Jordan Endowed Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
“Social Capital, Collective Efficacy, and Broken Windows”
View the flyer announcement here
Monday, April 24 – Catherine R. Albiston
Professor of Law and Sociology, UC Berkeley
“The Mark of a Termination”
FALL 2016
Monday, August 29 – Jonathan Simon
Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, Faculty Director, CSLS, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“Exploring the Dignity-Deterrence Trade Off in Criminal Justice Reform”
Monday, September 12 – Mario Biagioli
Distinguished Professor of Law and STS Director, Center for Science & Innovation Studies, U.C. Davis School of Law
“Beyond Pastures: Networked Commons v. Natural Commons”
Monday, September 19 – Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Temple University
“Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court”
Monday, September 26 – John Pratt
Professor of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington
“Risk Control, Rights and Legitimacy in the Limited Liability State”
Monday, October 10 – Edward L. Rubin
University Professor of Law & Political Science, Vanderbilt University
“Does Property Have Constitutional Rights?”
Monday, October 17 – Lisa Miller
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime & Democratic Politics”. It covers many of the themes in her book, The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016), as they pertain to the U.S.
Monday, October 24 – Rabia Belt
Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
“Outcasts from the Vote: Woman Suffrage Activism and Disability over the Long 19th Century United States”
Monday, October 31 – Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Assistant Professor, Buchman Faculty of Law and Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
“Why Can’t Alison Sell her Drill? Evidence from eBay”
Cosponsored with the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies (BIJLIS)
Monday, November 7 – Elizabeth (Beth) Hoffmann
Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
“Organizational Response to New Law: How Institutions Interpret and Apply the New ‘Lactation at Work’ Law”
Monday, November 14 – Amy Cohen, Professor of Law
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
“Trauma and the Welfare State: A Genealogy of Prostitution Courts in New York City”
Cosponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB)
Monday, November 21 – Yuhua Wang
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
“Relative Capture in the Judiciary: Evidence from Corporate Lawsuits in China”
Monday, November 28 – Christopher Kutz
C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Prof. of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“Liberalism versus Republicanism: Democratic Differences in Valuing Life”
SPRING 2016
Monday January 25 – Katerina Linos
Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“The Language of Compromise in International Agreements”
Monday, February, 1 – Jed Shugerman
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
“The Rise of Prosecutor-Politicians: Earl Warren, the Japanese Internment, and the 1942 Governor’s Race”
Monday, February 8 – Jennifer Skeem
Professor of Professor of Public Policy, Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Social Welfare, U.C. Berkeley
“Race, Risk Assessment, and Sentencing”
Monday, February 22 – Elizabeth Joh, Professor of Law
U.C. Davis School of Law
“The New Surveillance Discretion: Automated Suspicion, Big Data, and Policing”
Monday, February 29 – Susan Schweik
Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities, Professor of English, U.C. Berkeley
“How a Ward of Women in a ‘Feeble-minded Home’ Taught Us to Teach to the Test, and Why We Don’t Know It”
Monday, March 7 – Dylan Penningroth
Professor of Law and History, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
“The Negro’s Lawyer: A History”
Monday, March 14 – Robin Stryker
Professor of Sociology, Affiliated Professor of Law, Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
“From Judicial Doctrine to Social Transformation? Comparing US Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity and Fair Housing Legislation”
Monday, March 28 – Bill McCarthy
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis –Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
“Race, Foreclosures and Crime in The Great American City”
Monday, April 4 –Alison Renteln
Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law, University of Southern California
“A Global Approach to Soundscpaes: Reconsidering Environmental Human Rights”
Monday, April 11 – Scott Cummings
Robert Heningson Professor of Legal Ethics, Professor of Law. U.C.L.A. School of Law
“Movements in Progressive Legal Thought”
Monday, April 18 – Rachel Barkow
Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, N.Y.U. School of Law
“Rationalizing Criminal Law”
Monday, April 25 – Irene Bloemraad
Professor of Sociology, Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
“’Money and More Rights’: Social Location and Young People’s Views on Citizenship and Being American”
FALL 2015
August 31 – Taeku Lee
UC Berkeley
“Master or Servant? Public Opinion, Polling, and Democratic Responsiveness in Korea and Beyond.” Co-authored by Sunmin Kim.
September 21 – Jeb Barnes, USC & Tom Burke
Wellesley
“How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle over Injury Compensation”
September 24 – Dan Berger
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (UNC Press, Nov. 2014)
Cosponsors: The American Cultures Center & Carceral Geographies Course Thread
September 28 – Marjorie Zatz
UC Merced
“Dreams and Nightmares: Immigration Policy, Youth, and Families”
October 5 – Bernadette Atuahene
Chicago-Kent
“We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program”
October 12 – Armando Lara Millan
UC Berkeley
“Mass Imprisonment’s New Crutch: Organizational Capacity and Healthcare Spending in Corrections”
October 19 – Stephen Cody & Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley
“Beyond Punishment: Victims’ Participation in International Criminal Trials”
October 26 – Beth Piatote
UC Berkeley
“Juris-Sonics: The Sound of Law in Native American Texts”
November 2 – Wadie Said
University of South Carolina School of Law
“Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions”
November 9 – William Forbath
University of Texas at Austin School of Law
“Wealth and Commonwealth, and the Constitution of Opportunity: A Story of Two Traditions”
November 16 – Brenda Major
UC Santa Barbara
“Diversity and Perceptions of Fairness and Discrimination”
November 23 – Lawrence Friedman
Stanford University
“The Butterfly Effect: Law, Technology, and the Human Body”
November 30 – Jim Greiner
Harvard Law School
“The Problem of Default, Part 1”
Cosponsors: Law and Economics Workshop
SPRING 2015
Monday, January 26 – Paul Starr
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University
“Entrenchment: Power, Rules, Structure”
Monday, February 2 – Benjamin Liebman
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law
Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
“Leniency in Chinese Criminal Law? Everyday Justice in Henan“
Monday, February 9 – Kaaryn Gustafson
Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law School
“The Legal Manufacture of Hardworking Bastards: Marriage, Bastardy, Apprenticeship, and the Policing of Race and Labor in North Carolina, 1741-1870”
***THURSDAY, February 26 – Bernard E. Harcourt
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Directeur d’études, École
des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Director, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University
“The Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Digital Age“
Monday, March 2 – Victor David Quintanilla
Associate Professor of Law, Indiana Maurer School of Law
“Biasing Access to Justice: A Social Psychological Investigation of the Pro Se Signaling Effect”
Monday, March 9 – Steven Wilf
Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
“(Re)-Contextualizing Intellectual Property:
Social Conflict and Social Practice in Late 19th Century America”
Monday, March 16 – Jonathan Simon
Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law and Director, CSLS, UC Berkeley
“Western Criminology in the Aftermath of Mass Incarceration”
Monday, March 30 – Yxta Maya Murray
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
“Detroit Looks Toward a Massive, Unconstitutional Blight Condemnation:
the Optics of Eminant Domain in the Motor City“
Monday, April 6 – Jeannine Bell
Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana Maurer School of Law
“The Canaries in the Coal Mine: Tamir Rice, John Crawford, Jonathan Ferrell
and the Challenges to Contemporary Policing”
Monday, April 13 – Gregory Alexander
A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
“The Sporting Life: Democratic Culture and the Historical Origins of the Scottish Right to Roam“
Monday, April 20 – Ariela Gross
John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, USC Gould School of Law
“From the Streets to the Courts: The Grassroots History of Race, Law and Conservatism”
Monday, April 27 – Amy Lerman
Michelle Schwarz Associate Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB
“Arresting Citizenship: Political Consequences of the Carceral State”
FALL 2014
Monday, September 8 – Christopher Tomlins
Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
“Revulsions of Capital: The Political Law of Slavery in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia, 1829-1832”
Monday, September 15 –Leonardo Barbosa
Michigan Grotius Research Scholar, Universityof Michigan Law School
Legislative Attorney, Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)
“Constitutional Law and the Fight Against Contemporary Slavery in Brazil: Putting Property on the Line”
(co-sponsored with The Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of History)
Monday, September 22 –Avani Mehta Sood
AssistantProfessor of Law, Berkeley Law
“Cognitive Cleansing: Experimental Psychology and the Exclusionary Rule”
Monday, September 29 – Mary Dudziak
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law
“Death and the War Power“
Monday, October 6 – Ira Ellman Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Psychology Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law,
Arizona State University
“How Ordinary Citizens Think about Fairness in Family Law Rules”
Monday, October 13 – Tonya Brito
Burrus-Bascom
Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
“The Dearth of Defense: Realizing the Unrealized Promise of Civil Gideon“
Monday, October 20 – Rebecca McLennan
Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley
“Circuit Justice: Law, Legitimacy, and the Federal Courts in the Early Republic”
CANCELED Monday, October 27 – William Forbath Lloyd
M. Bentsen Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
“Wealth, Commonwealth, and the Constitution of Opportunity: A Story of Two Traditions“
Monday, November 3 – Victor Rios
Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
“Missing fire: Punitive Social Control Across Institutional Settings”
Monday, November 10 – Herbert Kritzer
Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public
Policy, University of Minnesota Law School
“Do Judicial Elections Matter, and If So, How?“
Monday, November 17 – Liora Israël
Associate Professor, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris)
“Legalize It! The Rising Place of Law in French Sociology”
Monday, November 24 – Marie Gottschalk
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
“Bring it On: The Future of Penal Reform, The Carceral State, and American Politics”
Monday, December 1 – Sujit Choudhry
Dean, Berkeley Law School
“How to Do Constitutional Law and Politics in South Asia“
Spring 2014
Monday, January 27 –Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno
Calvin Morrill, Stefan A. Riesenfeld
Professor of Law and Sociology and Associate Dean for JSP and Michael Musheno, Director of the Legal Studies Program and Adjunct Prof. of Law, Berkeley Law
“The Cultural Organization of an Urban High School that Works: Lessons in Trust, Conflict & Control”
Monday, February 3 – Dylan Penningroth
Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
“Faith and Property in African American History”
Monday, February 10 – Simon Cole
Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
“Forensic Science Reform as a Site for Public Law and Society Scholarship”
Monday, February 24 – Kamari Clarke
Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
“Africa and the International Criminal Court: Making Sense of Structures of Emotion in Decision-Making”
Monday, March 3 – David Harding
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
“Effects of Incarceration on Employment and Recidivism: Evidence from a Natural
Experiment”
Monday, March 10 – Christoph Graber
Professor of Law, University of Lucerne
“The Future of Online Content Personalization: Technology, Law and Digital Freedoms”
Monday, March 17 – Ruth Horowitz
Professor of Sociology, New York University
“In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process”
Monday, March 31 – Benjamin Van Rooij
John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law, UC Irvine
“General Duty to Obey the Law: Perceptions of Chinese in Comparative Perspective”
Monday, April 7 – Susan Coutin
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Irvine
“Re/Membering: Reassembling Nations, Persons, and Histories in the Aftermath of Violence”
Monday, April 14 – Jennifer Eberhardt
Associate Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
“Race, Crime, and Inequality: A Social Psychological Perspective”
Monday, April 21 – Christopher Edley, Jr.
The Honorable William
H. Orrick, Jr., Distinguished Chair, Berkeley Law
“Movement Building and Policy Revolution in Public K-16 Education” (reading)
Monday, April 28 – Kevin Quinn and Christopher Elmendorf
Kevin Quinn,
Professor of Law, Berkeley Law and Christopher
Elmendorf, Professor of Law,
UC Davis School of Law (co-author Marisa Abrajano)
“Using Experiments to Estimate Geographic Variation in Racially Polarized Voting“
Fall 2013
Monday, September 9 – David Sklansky
Yosef Osheawich Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
“1984 Is So Last Century: Privacy and Policing in the Information Age”
Monday, September 16 – Devon Carbado
Associate Provost and the Honorable Harry Pregeson Professor of Law, UCLA
“Equal Protection Inversions”
Monday, September 23 – Neil Fligstein
Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
“All of the Incentives Were Wrong: Opportunism and the Financial Crisis”
(Co-author Alexander Roehrkasse)
Monday, September 30 – Andrew Guzman
Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Associate Dean,
International and Graduate Programs, Berkeley Law,
and Katerina Linos, Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
“Human Rights Backsliding”
(Co-sponsored with the Law and Economics Workshop)
Change: Talk will start at 12:45 in Boalt 100. Lunch from 12:15p
Monday, October 7 – Melissa Murray
Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
“Remaking Public Sex”
(co-author Daniel Kluttz)
Monday, October 14 – Jay Krishnan
Professor of Law and Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow,
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
“Grappling at the Grassroots: Access to Justice at India’s Lower Tier“
(Berkeley—Indiana Law and Society Speaker Exchange)
Monday, October 21 – Robert Gordon
Professor of Law, Stanford University and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History
and Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University
“Markets, Morals, Lawyers: Can Lawyers Repair,
or Do They Just Exacerbate, the Pathologies of Commercial Societies?”
Monday, October 28 – Edward Rubin
University Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University
“The Morality of Self-Fulfillment and the Modern State”
Monday, November 4 – Heather Haverman
Professor of Sociology and Business, UC Berkeley
“Property in Print: Copyright Law, Cultural Conceptions of Authorship,
and the American Magazine Industry”
(co-author Daniel Kluttz)
Monday, November 18 – Setsuo Miyazawa
Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of Law and Aoyama Gakuin University Law School, Tokyo
“Criminal Trials by Mixed Panels in Japan: First Four Years”
Monday, November 25 – Kathryn Abrams
Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
“Feeling Work in the Undocumented Students Movement“
SPRING 2013
Monday, January 28 – Katerina Linos
Monday, March 11 – Jessica Cattelino Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles “Getting the Water Right’: Valuation in the Florida Everglades”
FALL 2012
Monday, August 27 – David Vogel Solomon P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics, Haas School of Business and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
“The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States”
Publishing info Chapter One
Monday, September 10 – Justin McCrary Professor of Law and Co-director, Law and Economics Program, Berkeley Law “Normative and Empirical Perspectiveson the Organization of the Criminal Justice System” (co-sponsored with the Law & Economics Workshop) NOTE: Change of Venue to the Warren Rm, 295 Simon Hall background readings: Effect of Police Deterrence Perspectives
Monday, September 24 – John Sutton Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara “The Transformation of Prison Regimes in Late Capitalist Societies” (abstract)
Monday, October 1 – David Winickoff Associate Professor of Bioethics and Society,
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UCB “Private Assets, Public Mission: Life Science, Technology Transfer and the New American University”
Monday, October 8 – Frank Munger Professor of Law, New York Law School “When Rights Work: Fragile Networks,
Improbable discourses and Unpredictable Globalizations of Law, A Contemporary Thai Case Study” Monday, October 15 – Carla Hesse Dean of Social Sciences and Peder Sather Professor of History, UCB “The Spirit of Revolutionary Law: Political Justice and the Logic of Legitimation in Republican France” (abstract) (co-sponsored by Berkeley Law Faculty Workshop) NOTE: Change of Venue to the Warren Room, 295 Simon Hall
Monday, October 22 – Duana Fullwiley Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University “‘Equal Representation Before the Sequencer’: How Beliefs in Democratic Equality and Multiculturalism are Powering 21st-century Genetic Concepts of Race”
Monday, October 29 – Kerry Abrams Albert Clark Tate, Jr., Professor of Law, U. of Virginia School of Law “A Legal Home: Derivative Domicile and Women’s Citizenship”
Monday, November 5 – Margot Canaday Associate Professor of History, Princeton University “Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the American Workplace”
Monday, November 19 – Ariela Dubler George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History, Columbia Law School “The Maternal Difficulty”
Monday, November 26 – Marianne Constable Professor and Chair, Department of Rhetoric and Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education, UCB “Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts”
SPRING 2012
Monday, January 23 – Franklin Zimring William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, Berkeley Law “The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control”
Monday, January 30 – Felicia Kornbluh Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont “Disability, Civil Rights, and Law: Jacobus tenBroek, Howard Jay Graham, and the New Politics of Equality in the Middle Twentieth Century”
Monday, February 6 – Sandra Susan Smith Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley “Searching for Work with a Criminal Record” (co-authors Nora Broege and Laura Mangels) paper data
Monday, February 13 – Timothy Lytton Albert and Angela Faron Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School “Can You Believe It’s Kosher? Trust, Reputation, and Non-Governmental Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food”
Monday, February 27 – Wendy Espeland Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University “Fear of Falling: How Media Rankings Changed Legal Education in America”
Monday, March 5 – Ethan Michelson Associate Professor of Law, Sociology and East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Co-Director, Center for Law, Society and Culture, University of Indiana-Bloomington “Access to Lawyers: Situating the Anomalous Case of China in Global Context”
Monday, March 12 – Meera Deo Assistant Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson Law School “The Promise of Grutter: Diverse Interactions at the University of Michigan Law School“
Monday, March 19 – Jonathan Simon Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, Berkeley Law “Brown v Plata: Can Courts Overcome Mass Incarceration?”
(Monday, March 26 – SPRING BREAK)
Monday, April 2 – Kathleen Gerson Professor of Sociology, New York University “Blurring Gender Boundaries and the New Worlds of Work and Care”
Monday, April 9 – Pat O’Malley (**To Be Rescheduled) Professorial Research Fellow, Sydney Law School “Mass Preventive Justice: Control and Resistance in Consumer Societies”
Monday, April 16 – Ellen Berrey Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University at Buffalo “Bottom-Line Diversity:Race and Productive Pluralism in a Multinational Corporation”
Monday, April 23 – Saira Mohammed Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law.
“Shame in the Security Council”
FALL 2011
Monday, August 29 – Robert MacCoun
Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
“Military Unit Cohesion and the Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’“
Monday, September 12 – Justice Eliezer Rivlin
Deputy President, Israeli Supreme Court
“Law and Economics in the Israeli Legal System:
Why Learned Hand Never Made It to Jerusalem” (co-sponsored with Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society and the Law & Economics Program) –Talk moved to 100 Law Building–
Monday, September 19 – Bryant Garth
Dean and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School
“Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire” Chapter I Chapter XIV Monday, September 26 – Amy Kapczynski Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley “A Present Absence: Locating Social Movements Inside of Legal Discourse”
Monday, October 3 – Fred Smith
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley “
’Til Voters Do Us Part: Marriage, Initiatives, and Procedural Due Process”
Monday, October 10 – Kenneth Mack
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
“Law, Local Knowledge, and Social Change during the Civil Rights Movement” Monday,
October 17 – Elizabeth Brown and Michael Musheno
Elizbeth Brown, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, San Francisco State University, Michael Musheno, Director of the Legal Studies Program and Lecturer in Residence, Berkeley Law. “Risky or Resilient: Confronting Criminological Constructions of Urban Youth” Monday, October 31 – Elizabeth Loftus Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law and Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine “Illusions of Memory” (co-sponsored with the Seminar on Human Rights and War Crimes)
Monday, November 7 – Jinee Lokaneeta
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Drew University “Transnational Torture: Law, Violence and State Power in the United States and India” Table of Contents Introduction Chapter Two
Monday, November 14 – Kent Greenfield
Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar, Boston College Law School “The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits”
Monday, November 21 – Karen Tani
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley “‘Precisely Who Is My Brother’s Keeper?'”:
Welfare, Federalism, and the Rule of Law, 1935-1965” Ariela Dubler to be rescheduled Professor of Law, Columbia Law School “The Maternal Difficulty”
SPRING 2011
Monday, January 24 – Russell Robinson
Visiting Associate Professor, Berkeley Law; Professor of Law, U.C.L.A. “What’s Wrong with Gay Rights” ***This talk will take place in Boalt Hall Rm. 100, Berkeley Law School at 12:30p***
Monday, January 31 – Jennifer L. Skeem
Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, U.C. Irvine and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, U.C. Berkeley “Toward Smarter Sentencing: Understanding Alternative Routes to Criminal Behavior”
Monday, February 7 – Kitty Calavita
Emerita Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, U.C. Irvine and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Naming, Blaming, and…Disclaiming: Disputing Behind Bars in Three California Prisons”
Monday, February 14 – David Frank
Professor and Chair of Sociology, U.C. Irvine “Cross-National Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sexual Activity, 1965-2005”
Monday, February 28 – Cybelle Fox
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley “Redrawing the Boundaries of Social Citizenship: The Rise of Citizenship and Legal Status Restrictions for Welfare and Medicaid”
Monday, March 7 – Erwin Chemerinsky
Founding Dean, U.C. Irvine School of Law “Not a Free Speech Court: The Roberts Court and the First Amendment”
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 – Mona Lynch
Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, U.C., Irvine “Crack Pipes and Policing: a Case Study of Institutional Racism and Remedial Action in Cleveland” (co-sponsor–Center on Culture, Immigration, & Youth Violence Prevention; Goldberg Rm, 3:30-5p)
Monday, March 28 – Helen Nissenbaum
Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Professor of Computer Science, and Senior Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University “Why Privacy Online is Different, and Why it Isn’t”
Monday, April 4 – Cheryl Kaiser
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Washington “Diversity Structures Create Illusions of Fairness”
Monday, April 11 – David Engel
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University at Buffalo Law School “‘Law Has Gone Away’: Injury, Religion, and Modernity in Thailand”
Monday, April 18 – Kimberly Richman
Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of San Francisco “‘By Any Other Name’: The Social and Legal Stakes of Same Sex Marriage”
Monday, April 25 — Catherine Albiston
Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley “Law, Norms and the Motherhood/Caretaker Bias in the Workplace”
FALL 2010
Monday, August 30 – Deborah Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, and Director, Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School “Lawyers and Leadership”
Monday, September 13 – Ming Hsu Chen and Taiku Lee Ming Hsu Chen
Ph.D. Candidate (JSP), U.C. Berkeley and Taeku Lee, Professor of Law and Professor and Chair of Political Science, U.C. Berkeley “Asian Americans, the Voting Rights Act, and the Identity-to-Politics Link”
Monday, September 27 – Jodi Short
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Making Self-Regulation More than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment”
Monday, October 4 – Mario Barnes
Professor of Law, U.C. Irvine School of Law “Singlism: Do the Rights of Unmarried Workers Need Protection?”
Monday, October 11 – Mark Suchman
Professor of Sociology, Brown University and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Sharing is (S)caring on the Digital Frontier: The Challenges of IT Governance in Healthcare Organizations” Monday, October 18 – Zev Eigen Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School ofLaw “When and Why do Individuals Obey Form-Adhesive Contracts?: Experimental Evidence of Consent, Compliance, Promise and Performance”
Monday, November 1 – Shari Diamond
Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University; Research Professor, American Bar Foundation “The ‘Kettleful of Law’ in Real Jury Deliberations”
Monday, November 8 – Jack Citrin Heller
Professor of Political Science and Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, U.C. Berkeley “Is It Really “Yes Dear, Your Honors?”: A Survey Experiment Looks at the Supreme Court’s Power to Persuade”
Monday, November 15 – David Garland
Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University “Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition” Table of Contents Prologue Chapt 1 Co-Sponsor – Department of Sociology
Monday, November 22 – Leti Volpp
Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law “Immigration and Notions of Space”
Monday, November 29 – Sarah Song
Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, U.C. Berkeley “Justice and Migration”
SPRING 2010
Monday, January 25 — Kevin Quinn
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Did a Switch in Time Save Nine?
Monday, February 1 – Antoinette Hetzler
Professor of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Regulating People-processing Organizations” [No lunch speaker Feb 8 or Feb 15]
Monday, February 22 – Jacqueline Stevens
Professor of Law and Society, UC Santa Barbara; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Reporting on U.S. Citizens Deported as Aliens: Notes on Rewriting State Fantasies”
Monday, March 1 – Amalia Kessler
Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School “Civic Republicanism and the Rise of a Unified (Oral and Adversarial) Model of Procedure“
Monday, March 8 – Richard Leo
Associate Professor of Law, University of San Francisco “When Lightning Strikes Twice: Analyzing Double Wrongful Convictions”
Monday, March 15 –Kwai Ng
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego “Is the Adversarial Trial a Universal Mechanism?”
Monday, March 29 – Robert L. Nelson
Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University; Director and MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession, American Bar Foundation “Contested Constructions of Employment Discrimination”
Monday, April 5 – David Ward
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Minnesota “Alcatraz: America’s First Supermax and its Successors”
Monday, April 12 –Margaret Somers
[***talk at Sociology Dept] Professor of Sociology and History, University of Michigan “Rights as Public Goods and Social Artifacts: Between Free-market Utopianism and Citizenship” (Co-sponsor: Berkeley Sociology Colloquium Series) (in the Blumer Room, 402 Barrows Hall, 2-3:30p)
Monday, April 19 – Katherine Porter
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law “Assessing Failure in Bankruptcy” ( Revised)
Monday, April 26 – Ming Hsu Chen and Taeku Lee Ming Hsu Chen,
JSP Doctoral Candidate Taeku Lee, Professor of Law and Political Science, UC Berkeley “Voting Rights, Asian Americans, and the Identity-to-Politics Link”
FALL 2009
Monday, August 24 – Jonathan Simon
Associate Dean, JSP Program and Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, Berkeley Law “The Empirical Strikes Back: Long Waves in Empirical Legal Knowledge”
Monday, August 31 – Rachel Best and Lauren Edelman
Rachel Best, PhD Candidate in Sociology, U.C. Berkeley and Lauren Edelman, Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law, Berkeley Law “Multiple Disadvantages: An Empirical Test of Intersectionality Theory in EEO Litigation”
Monday, September 14 – Lawrence Rosen
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University “Defending Culture: The Cultural Defense Plea and the Law’s Concept of Culture” (Professor Rosen has compiled a Select Bibliography on the Cultural Defense)
Monday, October 5 – Franklin Zimring
William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, Berkeley Law “Political Change and the Death Penalty in Asia: The Lessons of Regional Comparison” (co-sponsored with Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice)
Monday, October 12 – Carroll Seron
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and of Sociology, University of California, Irvine “An Innovative Approach to Legal Education and the Founding of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law” (co-authored with Carrie Hempel, School of Law, UCI)
Monday, October 19 – Daphne Barak-Erez Stewart and Judy Colton
Chair of Law and Security, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law “Secret Evidence and the Due Process of Terrorist Detentions”
Monday, October 26 – Victoria Plaut
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Georgia and Visiting Professor, Berkeley Law “Fixing Deafness? Effects of Models of Deafness on Prejudice Toward Deaf Individuals”
Monday, November 2 – Barry Friedman
Vice Dean and Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, N.Y.U. “The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution” **Please note location: Goldberg Room, Simon Hall
Monday, November 9 – Tristin Green
Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School and Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Francisco “Race and Sex in Organizing Work: ‘Diversity,’ Discrimination, and Integration”
Monday, November 16 – Tom Blomberg Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger
Professor of Criminology, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University; Executive Director, Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research “Criminological Knowledge Building and Public Policy”
Thursday, November 19 — Robert Garot
Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College “Reconsidering Retaliation: Structural Inhibitions, Emotive Dissonance, and the Acceptance of Ambivalence Among Inner-City Young Men” Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Social Issues and co-sponsored by CSLS **Please note location: ISSI, 2538 Channing, Berkeley
Monday, November 23 – Clare Chambers
University Lecturer and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law “Marriage and the State”
Monday, November 30 — Charles Weisselberg
Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law, Berkeley Law “Big Law’s Sixth Amendment” (co-authored with Su Li, Statistician, Berkeley Law–as of January 2010) (co-sponsored with Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice)
SPRING 2009
Monday, January 26 – Anne Joseph O’Connell
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley “Hiding in Plain Sight? Timing and Transparency in the Administrative State” (written with Jacob E. Gersen)
Monday, February 2 – Calvin Morrill, Lauren Edelman, Richard Arum, and Karolyn Tyson
Calvin Morrill, Professor of Sociology, U.C. Irvine; Visiting Professor, Berkeley Law, Lauren Edelman, Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University, Karolyn Tyson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina “Legal Mobilization in U.S. Schools: How Race Conditions Students’ Response to Laws and Rights”
Monday, February 9 – Christopher Tomlins
Research Professor, American Bar Foundation; Adjunct Professor of Law, Northwestern University “The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of Intrusion on the North American Mainland, 1490-1640”
Monday, February 23 – Christine Parker
Associate Professor and Reader, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne “The Challenge of Empirical Research on Business Compliance in Regulatory Capitalism”
Monday, March 2 – Justin Richland
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, & Society and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine “Arguing with Tradition in Hopi Tribal Court” Chapters 1. 3. 5 from Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court
Monday, March 9 – Abigail Saguy
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U.C.L.A. “Coming out as Fat: Reclaiming a Stigmatized Identity” Copies of the paper are available in the Center Library and by email to mgentes@law.berkeley.edu
Monday, March 16 – Catherine Fisk
Chancellor’s Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California, Irvine “Attribution Within Organizations: Crediting Work in the Context of Anonymous Authorship at the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency, 1920-1980”
Monday, March 30 – Emilio J. Castilla
Asstistant Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.; Visiting Professor (2008-09), Wagner School of Social Service, N.Y.U. “The Paradox of Meritocracy” Copies of the AJS article are available in the Center Library or on line at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/588738 or by email request to mgentes@law.berkeley.edu or in the Center Library
Monday, April 6 – Olivier Roy
Research Director, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); Visiting Scholar, Center on Institutions and Governance, U. C. Berkeley “Managing Religious Pluralism in Liberal States”
Monday, April 13 – Dara Strolovich
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota “Affirmative Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis”
Monday, April 20 – Jacob Hacker
Professor of Political Science, U. C. Berkeley “Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security” Copies of the paper are available at http://www.henryfarrell.net/hacker.pdf and in the Center Library.
Monday, April 27 – Kinch Hoekstra
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley “The History of Mixed Government and the Future of Absolutism”
FALL 2008
Monday, September 8 – Justin McCrary
Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, University of California, Berkeley. “Economic Perspectives on Prison Expansion in the U.S., 1970-2000.”
Monday, September 15 – Andreas Abegg
Research Fellow, University of Freiburg. “The Contracting State and Its Courts – A Comparative Historical Inquiry.”
Monday, September 22 – Justin O’Brien
Professor of Corporate Governance, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University. (NEW TOPIC) “Barriers to Entry: Foreign Direct Investment and the Regulation of Sovereign Wealth.” (revised)
Monday, October 6 – Rucker Johnson and Steven Raphael
Rucker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. “Incarceration Trends and Racial Disparities in AIDS Infections.” (This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics.)
Monday, October 13 – Eric Feldman
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania “Assuming the Risk: Tort Law, Policy and Politics on the Slippery Slopes”
Monday, October 20 – John Monahan
John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia; and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. 1.“Lawyers at Mid-Career: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study of Job and Life Satisfaction.” 2. figures
Monday, October 27 – Traci Burch
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation. “Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Neighborhood Voter Registration in Atlanta.”
Monday, November 3 – Eric Biber and Berry Brosi
Eric Biber, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Berry J. Brosi, Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University “Political Accountability and Expertise in Administrative Law: Lessons from the U.S. Endangered Species Act.”
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine. “Policing Police Misconduct in a Democratic Society: The Judgments of Police Officers and White, Black, and Latino Citizens.”
Monday, November 17 – Trina Jones
Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine. “Coherence or Chaos in U.S. Anti-Discrimination Law: In Search of a Theory of Equality.”
SPRING 2008
Monday, January 28 – Tom Ginsburg
Professor of Law and Political Science, and Director, Program in Asian Law, Politics and Society. University of Illinois College of Law. “The Lifespan of Written Constitutions.” Location: Goldberg Room. Co-sponsored with the Law and Economics Workshop and the Faculty Workshop.
Wednesday, January 30 – Edward Greenspan, Q.C.
Senior Partner, Greenspan, White. “Stranger in a Surprisingly Strange Land: A Canadian Lawyer Defends Lord Conrad Black in U.S. Federal Court in Chicago.” Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: Goldberg Room. Reception to follow at 2240 Piedmont. Co-sponsored with Berkeley Center for Law and Business, Institute for Legal Research, Institute for Governmental Studies, and Canadian Studies Program.
Monday, February 4 – Timothy Kaufman-Osborn
Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership, Whitman College; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Perfecting Death: Abolitionism and the Challenge of Lethal Injection.“
Monday, February 11 – Cindy Skach
Associate Professor of Government and Affiliated Professor of International Legal Studies, Harvard University. “The Constitution of Peoples: Outlaw Religion and the Public Sphere.”
Thursday, February 14 – Nancy Polikoff
Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University. “Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law.” Respondent: Kay Trimberger Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies, Sonoma University; ISSC Visiting Scholar. Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Location: 2420 Bowditch. Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Social Change.
Monday, February 25 – Noga Morag-Levine
Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law. “Civil Law, Common Law, and the Origins of Anglo-American Skepticism towards the Precautionary Principle.”
Monday, March 3 – Elizabeth Chambliss
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Professional Values and Practice, New York Law School. “When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for ‘Empirical Legal Studies’.“
Monday, March 10 – Edward Rubin and Malcolm Feeley
Edward Rubin, Dean and John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, and Malcolm Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Chair Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law.
“Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Choice.” Chapter One, “What is Federalism?”, of Rubin and Feeley’s forthcoming book is available here.
Monday, March 17 – Laura Gomez
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law. “Manifest Destiny’s Legacy: Race in the U.S. at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Chapter Four of Gomez’s new book, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race.
Monday, March 31 – Alexandra Kalev
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona. “Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work.”
Monday, April 7 – Richard Perry
Professor of Justice Studies, San Jose State University; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense.”
Monday, April 14 – Alison Morantz
Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. “Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?” Co-sponsored with the Law and Economics Workshop. Copies of Professor Morantz’s paper are available in the Center Library or emailed by request to mgentes@law.berkeley.edu.
Monday, April 21 – L. Edelman, L. Krieger, S. Eliason, C. Albiston and V. Mellema Lauren Edelman
U.C. Berkeley, Linda Krieger, U.C. Berkeley, Scott Eliason, University of Minnesota, Catherine R. Albiston, U.C. Berkeley, and Virginia Mellema, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures.” Copies of the paper are available in the Center Library or emailed by request to mgentes@law.berkeley.edu.
Monday, April 28 – Richard Abel Michael J. Connell
Professor of Law, U.C.L.A. School of Law. “The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America.”
FALL 2007
Monday, August 27 – John Hagan
John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation. “The Collective Dynamics of Race and Genocidal Victimization in Darfur.”
Monday, September 10 – Dvora Yanow
Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
“Reviewing Institutional Review Boards: Issues in Policy Implementation and Social Science Research.” Dvora Yanow – CSLS paper
Monday, September 17 – Calvin Morrill
Professor and Chair of Sociology, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, and Professor of Business, University of California, Irvine. “How Resistance Matters: The Micro-Politics of Legal and Policy Change among Parole Agents, Social Workers, and Teachers.”
Monday, September 24 – Irene Bloemraad
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. “Multiculturalism as Peril or Promise? Repercussions for Immigrants’ Citizenship.” Bloemraad Paper 1 – Bloemraad Paper 2
Wednesday, September 26 – Jiri Priban
Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. “Is there The Spirit of European Law? Critical Remarks on EU Constitution-making, Enlargement, and Political Culture.” Co-sponsored with the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Institute of European Studies. Please note location and time: 270 Stephens Hall, 12 noon. Priban Paper from V. Gessner and D. Nelken (eds), European Ways of Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing 2007).
Monday, October 8 – Tom Burke
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “The Path of the Law: The Mobilization and Diffusion of Disability Access Rules.” Barnes and Burke Paper 1 – Barnes and Burke Paper 2
Monday, October 15 – Robert A. Kagan and Dorothy Thornton
Robert Kagan, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, U.C. Berkeley; and Dorothy Thornton, Asst. Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health; Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Society, U.C. Berkeley.”The Persistence of Economic Factors in Shaping Regulation and Environmental Performance: The Limits of Regulation and Social License Pressures.” Paper available for download at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/csls/fwp/50/
Thursday, October 18 – Laura Rosenbury
Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis; Respondent Melissa Murray, Assistant Professor of Law, Boalt Hall. “Children as Subjects: Considering Children’s Relationships with Other Children.” Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Please note location and time: ISSC, 2420 Bowditch, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Monday, October 22 – Robin Stryker
Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate, Law School, University of Minnesota. “Social Science as Resource in Legal Regulation of the Workplace.”
Monday, October 29 – Joel Handler
Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law and Professor of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research, U.C.L.A. “The Changing Status of Citizenship: The Spread of Workfare in the Developed World.” Joel Handler- CSLS Paper
Monday, November 5 – Pamela Brandwein
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. “A Judicial Abandonment of Blacks? Rethinking the ‘State Action’ Cases of the Waite Court.” Brandwein Paper – LSR
Monday, November 19 – Vicki Schultz
Ford Foundation Professor of Law, Yale Law School. “Antidiscrimination Law as Disruption: The Emergence of a New Paradigm for Understanding Discrimination.” Co-sponsored with the Faculty Appointments Committee. Please note location and time: Goldberg Room, Lunch at 12:15,Talk at 12:30 Schultz Abstract
Monday, November 26 – Katherine Beckett
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Law, Societies, and Justice Program, University of Washington. “Banished: The Regulation of Urban ‘Disorder’.”
Monday, December 3 – Catalyzing Privacy: Corporate Privacy Practices Under Fragmented Law, Kenneth Bamberger, Assistant Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law; and Deirdre Mulligan, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic; Director, Clinical Program. “Catalyzing Privacy: Corporate Privacy Practices Under Fragmented Law.”
SPRING 2007
Tuesday, January 16 – Susan Silbey
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Governing Green Laboratories: Trust and Surveillance in the Cultures of Science.”
Tuesday, January 23 – Gillian Hadfield
Richard L. and Antoinette S. Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Director, USC Center in Law, Economics and Organization. “To Govern and Be Governed in Turn: Civil Litigation as Democratic Practice.”
Tuesday, January 30 – Dr. David Neal
SC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Institute for Legal Research. “The Rule of Law in the Age of Terrorism – An Audit.” Co-sponsored with the Institute for Legal Research. David Neal – CSLS Paper
Monday, February 5 – Jennifer Eberhardt
Associate Professor of Psychology, Stanford University. “Policing Racial Bias.”
Tuesday, February 13 – Richard Ross
Professor of Law and History, Thomas M. Mengler Faculty Scholar, Co-Director of the Legal History Program, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) College of Law and History Department. “Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of ‘Intensity'” Richard Ross – CSLS Paper
Tuesday, February 20 – Edward L. Rubin
Dean and John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law,
Vanderbilt University Law School; Boalt Hall Senior Administrative Law Visiting Scholar.”Rethinking Law for the Administrative State” Co-sponsored with Office of the Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law. Goldberg Room, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Monday, February 26 – James B. Rule
Professor of Sociology Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “The Logic of Surveillance and the Limits of Privacy Protection.”
Thursday, March 1 – Book Colloquium Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, Boalt Hall School of Law The Great American Crime Decline: Why Did Crime Rates Plummet in the 1990’s? With respondent Jonathan Simon, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law.
Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Social Change.
Monday, March 5 – Stanley Lubman
Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Looking for Law in China: Legal Uncertainty- Its Causes and Management.” Co-sponsored with the Center for Chinese Studies.
Tuesday, March 13 – Sarah Jain
Assistant Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University.”Aggregated Time: Prognosis and Death in Malpractice.”
Monday, March 19 – Amnon Reichman
Faculty of Law, University of Haifa. “The Passionate Expression of Religious Hatred: A Comparative Perspective on the Limits of Satire.”
Monday, April 2 – Kathryn Harrison
Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “The Comparative Politics of Climate Change.”
Monday, April 9 – Christopher Kutz
Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley. “Epistemethics: Goodness and Expertise.”
Monday, April 16 – Errol Meidinger
Professor and Vice Dean of Law and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo. “Competitive Metagovernmental Regulation and Democratic Legitimacy.”
April 23 — Ayelet Shachar
Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Faculty of Law and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. “Birthright Citizenship and Global Inequality.”
FALL 2006
Monday, September 11
Kristin Luker Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, U. C. Berkeley. “Transgendered Numbers: Trust and Truth in Early Twentieth Century Social Science.”
Monday, September 18. R. Alta Charo
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin; Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley. “From Stem Cells to Jail Cells — The Tortured Politics of Regenerative Medicine.”
Monday, September 25. Kitty Calavita
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Down by Law: Immigration, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe .”
Monday, October 9. Elizabeth Joh
Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis.”Reclaiming ‘Abandoned’ DNA: Genetics, Privacy, and Policing.”
Monday, October 16. Robert Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law and Chair, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School. “One State or Two? The Negotiated Resolution of Ethnic Conflict When There Are Territorial Cleavages.”
Monday, October 23. William T. Gallagher
Associate Professor of Law, Golden Gate University. “Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation: What IP Lawyers and their Clients Say (and Do)About Asserting IP Rights.”
Monday, October 30. Samera Esmeir
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, U. C. Berkeley. “Juridical Humanity: Colonialism and the Making of the Universe.”
Monday, November 6
Julie Nice Delaney Chair and Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. “Four Corners : Marriage, Social Movements, Constitutional Law, and Constitutive Theory.” Nice Abstract – Longer Version
Thursday, November 9, John Fabian Witt
Professor of Law, Columbia University. “The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the Common Law Nation.” Co-sponsored with the Institute for Legal Research.
Tuesday, November 14
William Bielby Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. “‘Statistical Dueling’ with Unconventional Weapons: What Courts Should Know About Experts in Employment Discrimination Class Actions” (co-author Pamela Coukos). Co-sponsored with the Haas School of Business and Department of Sociology. (Location: Haas room C-220) Bielby Paper
Tuesday, November 21
Ann Southworth Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University. “Righting the Profession and Professionalizing the Right: Lawyers of the Conservative Coalition.”
Tuesday, November 28
Valerie Jenness Professor and Chair of Criminology, Law and Society and Professor of Sociology, University of California , Irvine ; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society.”The Passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act: An Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Sexual Citizenship for Prisoners.” Jenness Paper Jenness Slides
Tuesday, December 5
Jonathan Simon Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Law, U. C. Berkeley.
“What the May 1st * Marchers Meant: Immigration Reform Should Not Be About Crime.” *May 1, 2006
SPRING 2006
Tuesday, January 17 – Robert Reich
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy , UC Berkeley. “The Four Fables of America”
Tuesday, January 24 – Rebecca Sandefur
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society; “Lawyers’ Pro Bono Service and American-Style Civil Legal Assistance”
Tuesday, January 31 – Hendrik Hartog
Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University; “Someday All This Will Be Yours: Aging Parents, Adult Children, and Inheritance in the Modern Era”
Tuesday, February 7 – Martin Krygier
Professor of Law and Director, European Law Centre; University of New South Wales Faculty of Law; “Ideals and Institutions: Coherence and Development in the Thought of Philip Selznick”
Tuesday, February 14 – Catharine A . MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; “Women’s Status, Men’s States”
Tuesday, February 21 – Benjamin Brown
Lecturer, Legal Studies Program, UC Berkeley; “Free Pigs and Free Men: The Political Definition of Property in the 19th Century United States “
Wednesday, February 22 – Wilfrid Prest
Professor and ARC Professorial Fellow, University of Adelaide Law School; ‘Commenting on the Commentator, and his Commentaries: Sir William Blackstone, Biographers and Historians’? Location and time: Dean’s Seminar Room, 4:00-5:30 (Co-sponsored with the Institute for Legal Research)
Monday, February 27 – Laura Beth Nielsen
Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University (beginning Fall 2006) “Consciousness and Claiming: The Socio-Legal Construction of Employment Discrimination”
Monday, March 6 – Christopher Waldrep
Pasker Chair of American History, San Francisco State University; “American Lynching, Civil Rights, and the Changing Meaning of Community, 1865-1965”
Thursday, March 9 – Andras Sajo
University Professor at Central European University; Budapest and Global Faculty New York University Law School: “Constitutional Sentiments” Time: 4:10-5:30
Monday, March 13 – Joe Rollins
Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Defensive Marriage Acts: Pathologizing Heterosexuality in Judicial Decisions on Same-Sex Marriage”
Monday, March 20 – Michael Musheno
Director and Professor, Criminal Justice Program, San Francisco State University; “Deployed After 9/11: Transformations of the American Citizen Soldier”
Monday, April 3 – David Winickoff
Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society; Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM), UC Berkeley “The New Stem Cell Initiatives in Law and Society: How Progressive Bioethics is Missing the Boat”
Monday, April 10 – Bryant Garth Dean
Southwestern University School of Law “Law, Lawyers, and Empire: From the Foreign Policy Establishment to Technical Legal Hegemony.” (Co-Sponsored with the Sociology Department) Center Paper / Sociology Paper
Monday, April 17 – Brian Tamanaha
Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law; St. John’s University School of Law The talk and paper follow up on ideas laid out in an earlier paper at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=725582“The Fundamental Tensions Between the Rule of Law and an Instrumental View of Law”
Monday, April 24 – Pieter Spierenburg
Professor of History and Criminology, Erasmus University , Rotterdam: “Democracy Came Too Early: A Tentative Explanation for the Problem of American Homicide” AHR Piece / Taiwan Piece
FALL 2005
Monday, August 29: Goodwin Liu
Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall “Education, Equality, and National Citizenship “
Monday September 12: Claire Valier
Lecturer, School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Complicity and the Bystander to Crime”
Monday, September 19: Jeff Goldsworthy
Professor of Law, Monash University “Methods of Constitutional Interpretation: Explaining Differences among Six Federal Systems”
Monday, September 26
Shai Lavi Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University “The Limits of Legal Regulation: On the Sub-legal and Supra-legal Practice of Euthanasia”
Monday, October 3: Richard Brooks
Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School “Race and Uncertainty”
Monday, October 17: John Darley Warren
Professor of Psychology, Princeton University “What Motivates Citizens When They Assign Punishments To Prototypical Criminal Offenses? Deterrence? Retribution?”
Monday, October 24: David Law
Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Political Science, UCSD “The Paradox of Omnipotence: Courts, Constitutions, and Commitments”
Monday, October 31: Barry A. Krisberg
President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency “Noble Goals, Ignoble Means: The Rise and Fall of the California Youth Authority.”
Monday, November 7: Robert MacCoun
Professor of Public Policy and Law, University of California, Berkeley “Drugs, Sex, and Skateboarding: Public Support for Harm Reduction vs. Prevalence Reduction”
Monday, November 14: Mark Brilliant
Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, U.C. Berkeley “‘What is Good for One Racial Classification is Not Necessarily Good for Another’:California’s Axes of Discrimination and Avenues of Redress, 1945-1975”
Tuesday, November 22: Susan Bandes
Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society “Repellent Crimes and Rational Deliberation: Emotion and the Death Penalty”
Tuesday, November 29: Edward Rubin Dean; John Wade-Kent Syverud
Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School “Suicide, Law and Morality”
Monday, December 5. Kathryn Abrams
Associate Dean, J.D. Program; Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley “Law in the Cultivation of Hope” #1 Individual Hope / #2 Cultivated Hope / #3 Head Start
SPRING 2005
Monday, January 24. Lauren Edelman
Professor of Law & Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley. “Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Organizational Practices in Civil Rights Cases.”
Monday, January 31. David Faigman
Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law. “Constitutional Facts: The Essential Function of Fact-Finding in Setting Constitutional Norms.”
Thursday, February 10. Christopher Zorn
Director, Law & Social Science Program, National Science Foundation. “Funding Opportunities for Law and Social Science Research at the NSF.”
Monday, February 14. Lee Epstein
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Washington University. “The Effect of War on the Supreme Court.”
Monday, February 28. Robert Cooter and Brian Broughman
Robert Cooter, Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law; and Brian Broughman, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley. “Charity, Publicity, and the Donation Registry.”
Monday, March 7. Ángel Oquendo
Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law; Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law “Liking to Be in America: Puerto Rico’s Quest for Difference in the United States.”
Monday, March 14. Marc Schneiberg
Associate Professor of Sociology, Reed College . “Regulation, Organization and Ownership Forms in the US Insurance and Electrical Utility Industries 1900-1930.”
Monday, March 28. Gregory Alexander A. Robert Noll
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School . ” From Social Obligation to Social Transformation? South Africa ‘s Experiment with Constitutional Property.”
Monday, April 4. Kirsten Campbell
Director of Research, Research Unit in Law, Justice and Social Change, Goldsmiths College, University of London ; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. ” Models of Justice in the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia .”
Monday, April 11. Anne Joseph
Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Presidential Transitions: The Shaping and Reshaping of the Federal Regulatory Agenda.”
Monday, April 18. Sean Farhang
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy , UC Berkeley. “Congressional Mobilization of Private Litigation to Achieve Regulatory Enforcement: The Case of the Civil Rights Act of 1991.”
Monday, April 25. Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley. “Price and Prejudice: Compensation for Ecological Damage in Two Oil Spill Litigations.”
FALL 2004
Monday, August 30 Laura Nader
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. “Frontiers of Illegalities: Empire and the Rule of Law.”
Monday, September 13 Pamela Samuelson
Professor of Law and Information Management, University of California, Berkeley. “A Turning Point in Copyright: Baker v. Selden and Its Legacy.”
Monday, September 20 Ira Ellman
Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Arizona State University College of Law. “Fudging Failure: The Economic Analysis Used to Construct Child Support Guidelines.”
Wednesday, September 22 Alison Dundes Renteln
Professor of Political Science. University of Southern California. Book Colloquium: The Cultural Defense. Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Please note location and time: ISSC, 2420 Bowditch, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Monday, September 27 Yoram Shachar
Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law; Professor, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya. “Protection of Emotions in Criminal Law.”
Wednesday, October 6 John Skrentny
Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. “Law and the Meaning of Race in the American Workplace.” (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology.)
Monday, October 18 Hila Keren
Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Textual Harassment: A New Historicist Reappraisal of the Parol Evidence Rule on its Four Hundredth Anniversary.”
Thursday, October 28 David Nelken
Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change, University of Macerata, Italy; Distinguished Research Professor of Law, University of Cardiff, Wales. “Using the Concept of Legal Culture.”
Monday, November 1 Peter King
Professor of History, University College Northampton, UK. “Rethinking the Early History of the Juvenile Reformatory in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century England.” (Co-sponsored with the Center for British Studies.)
Monday, November 8 Michael McCann
Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, Department of Political Science, University of Washington; Director, Law, Societies, and Justice; Director, Comparative Law and Society Studies Center. “Public Interest Litigation in a Neoliberal Age: Law, Media, and the Politics of Responsibility.”
Monday, November 15 Mona Lynch
Associate Professor, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “The Making of a Post-Rehabilitative Penal Regime: A Case Study of Arizona, 1960-Present.”
Monday, November 22 Stanley Lubman
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Lecturer in Residence, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Law Reform in China: Progress and Problems.”
Tuesday, November 30 Christopher Edley
Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Foundations for the Next Generation Civil Rights Agenda.”
Monday, December 6 David Sklansky
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Not Your Father’s Police Department?: Making Sense of the New Demographics of Law Enforcement.”
SPRING 2004
Tuesday, January 27. Harry N. Scheiber
Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History, Boalt Hall School of Law; Director, Earl Warren Legal Institute; Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law. “Property Rights and Military Necessity in American Constitutional History.” JSP Faculty Papers Series. Co-sponsored with the Earl Warren Legal Institute.
Tuesday , February 3 Elizabeth Borgwardt
Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Human Rights and International Justice: Revisiting Nuremberg as a ‘New Deal’ Institution.”
Wednesday , February 11 Ron Harris
Associate Professor of Law and Legal History, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Corporate Personality Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century: Germanic Clans, British Trade Unions, and American Big Business.”
Tuesday ,February 17 Franklyn S. Haiman
John Evans Professor Emeritus of Communications Studies, Northwestern University; Past Vice President and Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union. “Decision-making in the American Civil Liberties Union: An Examination of Some Divisive Issues.”
Monday, February 23 Mariana Valverde
Professor of Criminology, University of Toronto. “Seeing like a City: Legal Tools of Urban Ordering.“
Monday, March 1. Ian F. Haney Lopez
Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Racial Projections: How the Census Counts Latinos.”
Monday, March 8 John Beattie
University Professor Emeritus of History and Criminology, University of Toronto. “Policing London in the Eighteenth Century.” Co-sponsored with the Center for British Studies, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Department of History.
Monday, March 15 Sheldon Zedeck
Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, and Marjorie M. Shultz, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Beyond the LSAT: Identifying Predictors of Lawyering Competence for Use in Law School Admissions Decisions.”
Monday, March 29. John (Jeb) Barnes
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California; Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. “Overruled? Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary Court Congress Relations.”
Monday, April 5. Bruce D. Sales
Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, & Law; Director, Program in Psychology, Policy and Law, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. “Experts in Court: Accommodating Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge.”
Monday, April 12. Thomas Franck, Murry and Ida Becker
Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University School of Law. “Prevention, Preemption and Anticipatory Self Defense in International Law.”
Monday, April 19. Michael Heise
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. “Mercy by the Numbers: An Empirical Analysis of Clemency and its Structure.”
Monday, April 26. Cary Coglianese
Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government and Chair, Regulatory Policy Program, Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; 2003-04 Irvine Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. “The Challenges of Performance Based Social Regulation.”
Monday, May 3. Samuel Scheffler,
Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of California, Berkeley. “Egalitarian Justice.” JSP Faculty Papers Series.
FALL 2003
Monday, September 8
Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Wechsler’s Century and Ours: Reforming Criminal Law in Times of Governmental Transformation.” (JSP Faculty Papers Series)
Friday, September 12. Jiri Priban
Professor of Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law at Charles University in Prague, and Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. “Reconstituting Paradise Lost: The Temporal Dimension of Postcommunist Constitution-Making in Central Europe.” Co-sponsored with the Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Monday, September 15. Dvora Yanow
Professor and Chair, Department of Public Affairs and Administration, California State University, Hayward and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Classification by Administrative Practice: Category Errors and Race-Ethnic Identity.” (Copies of the paper are available in the Center’s library).
Monday, September 22. Keith Hawkins
Reader in Law and Society, Oriel College, Oxford. “Prosecution Decision-making in a Regulatory Agency.”
Monday, September 29. Robert Kagan and Dorothy Thornton
University of California, Berkeley. “The Role of Legal Penalties in Regulation: Some Empirical Evidence.”
Monday, October 20. Annette Nierobisz
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Carleton College, and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Wrestling with the New Economy: Wrongful Dismissal and the Canadian Courts, 1981-1997.” Co-Sponsored with the Canadian Studies Program.
Monday, October 27. Richard D. Friedman
Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, University of Michigan. “‘Face to Face’: Rediscovering the Right to Confront Prosecution Witnesses.”
Monday, November 3. Thomas Miguel Hilbink
Assistant Professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Equal Justice, Reform, and the Grassroots: Constructing Legal Services in 1960s America.”
Monday, November 17. Mark J. Osiel
Professor of Law, University of Iowa. “How Globalization Affects the Practice of Law: A Sociology of Professional Knowledge.”
Monday, November 24. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. “Rethinking Public Engagement in the Administrative State.” (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series.)
Monday, December 1. Gordon Silverstein
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. “Watergate and the Turn from Politics to Law.”
SPRING 2003
Monday, January 27. Philip Selznick
Professor of Law and Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. “A Humanist Science?” Co-sponsored with the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program.
Monday, February 3. Gerald Cromer
Professor, Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University. “‘Secularism is the Root of All Evil’: The Fundamentalist/Ultra-Orthodox Response to Crime, Delinquency and Other Social Problems.”
Monday, February 10. Marlyn J. Jones
Assistant Professor, Division of Criminal Justice, California State University, Sacramento. “‘Basket To Carry Water:’ A Jamaican Case Study Of U.S. Drug Policy Consequences In A Drug Transit Country.” (Northern California Socio-Legal Scholar Series)
Tuesday, February 18. Mauricio Duce
Professor, Center for Juridical Research, Diego Portales University School of Law. “Criminal Justice Reform in Chile: Advances and Perspectives on a Radical Process of Transformation.”
Monday, February 24. John J. Donohue III
Professor, Stanford Law School. “Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis.” (tables and charts)(Northern California Socio-Legal Scholar Series)
Monday, March 3. Mark C. Suchman
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin. “Contracts as Social Artifacts: Mapping a Road Less Traveled.”
Friday, March 14. Martin Krygier
Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia. “False Dichotomies, True Perplexities, and the Rule of Law.” Co-sponsored with the Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs.
Monday, March 17. Jonathan Rose
Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Arizona State University. “Greasing Justice in Fifteenth Century England: Sir John Fastolf’s Litigation and Will Dispute.“
Monday, March 31. Bryna Bogoch
Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies and Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, Bar Ilan University. “The Voice is the Voice of Mediation but the Arms are the Arms of the Law: Gender and the Professional Practice of Divorce in Israel.”
Monday, April 14. Leslie Goldstein
Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware. “The Rule of Law and Federative Unions.”
Monday, April 21. Peter Levine
Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, University of Maryland. “Building the Electronic Commons.” Co-sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
Wednesday, April 23. Kamari Clarke
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. “Regionalism and Conflict in the Making of the International Criminal Court.”
Monday, April 28. Timothy Hartnagel
Professor, Department of Sociology and Dean, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta. “Public Attitudes Toward Crime Control: Some Research Issues.”
Monday, May 5. Martin Shapiro, James W. and Isabel Coffroth
Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. “On Prediction and Comparison in the Study of Legal Institutions.” Co-sponsored with the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program.
Fall 2002
Monday, September 9. David Lieberman
Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program; Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Mapping Criminal Law: Blackstone and the Categories of English Jurisprudence.” In the JSP Faculty Papers Series – an occasional program in which members of the JSP faculty present examples of their current work. Co-sponsored with the JSP Program.
Monday, September 23. Victoria Saker Woeste
Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, “Suing Mr. Ford: Rhetorics of Persuasion and Conversion Narratives in Antisemitism and Libel, 1920-1927.” Co-sponsored with the Earl Warren Legal Institute.
Monday, September 30. Elizabeth Rapaport
Dickason Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Discretion and Due Process in the Institution of Executive Clemency.”
Monday, October 7. Richard Brooks
Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law. “Covenants & Conventions.” Co-sponsored with the Earl Warren Legal Institute.
Monday, October 14. Malcolm M. Feeley
Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Chair, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Where Have All the Women Gone? The Decline of Women Criminals in the 18th Century.” In the JSP Faculty Papers Series. Co-sponsored with the JSP Program.
Monday, October 28. Michele Landis Dauber
Associate Professor of Law. Stanford Law School. “Special Pleading: Disaster Narratives in Individual Relief Requests” (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).
Monday, November 4. Ryken Grattet
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. “The Reception and Reinterpretation of Law in Local Settings: Responses to Hate Crime and Hate Crime Law among California Law Enforcement Agencies.” (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).
Monday, November 18. Richard Banks
Associate Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. “Beyond Racial Profiling: The Dilemma of Reform.” (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).
Monday, November 25. James F. Spriggs, II.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. “Explaining the Overruling of U.S. Supreme Court Precedent.” Table. Figure 1. (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).
Spring 2002
Thursday, January 31. Roger Cotterrell
Department of Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. “Law and Community in a Time of Fear: Sociolegal Studies and the Reshaping of the Social.” This event will be held in the Dean’s Seminar Room in Boalt Hall.
Monday, February 4. Susan Bisom-Rapp
Associate Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego. “From Bulletproofing the American Workplace to Bulletproofing the World: Exporting U.S. Litigation Prevention Practices to the Global Worksite.”
Tuesday, February 12. Christy Story
Ph.D. Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. “Justice and the Russian Revolutionary Tribunals, 1917-1921.”
Tuesday, February 19. Jack Glaser
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. “Stereotype-Based Discrimination in the New Millenium: Racial Profiling Before and After September 11.”
Tuesday, February 26. Robert J. MacCoun
Professor of Public Policy and Law, Goldman School of Public Policy and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. “Behavioral Law and Economics: A Psychological Perspective.”
Tuesday, March 5. Steven W. Usselman
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of History, Technology, and Society. Georgia Institute of Technology. “Making Invention Anonymous and Autonomous: Patent Law and American Railroads.” This event will take place in the Goldberg Room at Boalt Hall. Pizza and soda will be provided. Joint Sponsorship with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
Friday, March 8. Yasuaki Onuma
Professor of International Law, Tokyo University. “Japanese War Guilt and Post-War Responsibilities: An Overview.” This event, the Stefan Riesenfeld Lecture, is co-sponsored by the Sho Sato Program for Japanese and U.S. Law and the Berkeley Journal of International Law. The presentation will take place at noon in room 140 Law Building followed by a reception in the Goldberg Room.
Tuesday, March 12. Anne Griffiths
Reader in Law, Edinburgh University, Faculty of Law. “Culture and Rights: Remaking Law in Africa, Perspectives from Botswana.”
Friday, March 15. Guillermo O’Donnell
Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies. “Some Thoughts on New Democracies and the Rule of Law.”
Tuesday, March 19. Richard Swedberg
Professor of Sociology, University of Stockholm, and 2001-02 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. “The Case for an Economic Sociology of Law.”
Tuesday, April 2. Michael A. Bernstein
Professor of History and Associated Faculty-Member in Economics, Department of History, University of California, San Diego. “The Perilous Progress of American Economics.”
Monday, April 8. Steven Raphael
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. “Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers.”
Wednesday, April 10. Stanley B. Lubman
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, and Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. “Prospects for the Rule of Law in China After Accession to the W.T.O.“
Tuesday, April 16. Franklin E. Zimring
William G. Simon Professor of Law, Director, Earl Warren Legal Institute, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. “American Culture and the Contradictions of Capital Punishment.”
Tuesday, April 23. Paul Pickowicz
Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego. “Domestic Violence and the Law in Rural China.”
Monday, April 29. Ken Alder
Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University. “A Social History of Untruth: Trust and Lie Detectors in Twentieth-Century America.” This event is co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology and will take place in 203 Wheeler Hall at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 30. Catherine L. Fisk, Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. “Unions and Law-Wage Immigrant Workers: Lessons from the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles, 1990-2002.”
Friday, May 3. Kay Levine
J.D., Doctoral Candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley. “Angling for Substantive Justice: How Prosecutors Work Through and Around Legislative Limitations in Statutory Rape Cases.”
Friday, May 10. Guillermo O’Donnell
Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies. “Some Thoughts on New Democracies and the Rule of Law.”
Fall 2001
Friday, September 7. Professor Lucy E. Salyer
Department of History, University of New Hampshire. “The All-American Soldier: Race, Military Service and Citizenship in World War I.”
Thursday, September 20. Gary Marx
Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Help! Nine Problems in a Study of Surveillance and Society.” Professor Marx’s website is http://garymarx.net/
Tuesday, October 2. R. Benjamin Brown
J.D., Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. “Enclosing America: Creating Private Property Rights in the Nineteenth Century.”
Thursday, October 11. Robert A. Kagan
Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Chair (on leave), Center for the Study of Law and Society, and Dorothy Thornton, Research Associate, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Doctoral Candidate, School of Public Health. “Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?”
Monday, October 22. Professor Noga Morag-Levine
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan. “Legal Ideology and ‘Command-and-Control’: Risk, Technology Standards and the Common Law State.”
Thursday, October 25. Eric L. Muller
Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Free to Die for their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters of World War II.”
Monday, October 29. Miriam Gur-Arye
Judge Basil Wunsh Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Can Freedom of Expression Survive Social Trauma?: The Israeli Experience.”
Monday, November 5. Tal Golan
Department of History, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel. “Visuality & Authority: The Careers of Visual Technologies in Medicine and Law.” This event will take place in 203 Wheeler at 5 pm. Joint sponsorship with Office for History of Science and Technology.