CSLS Speaker Series
(Formerly Bag Lunch Series)
A light lunch will be served from 12 to 12:30p. Coffee will be available.
*NOTE: All talks at 2240 Piedmont, 12:30PM-1:45PM unless otherwise noted.
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)
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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”