CSLS Speaker Series
To receive email notification of talks, please send your name and email address to csls@law.berkeley.edu
A light lunch will be served from 12:00 to 12:30p. Coffee will be available.
Unless otherwise noted all talks are 12:30p-1:45p
in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Avenue
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 Perspectives
on 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 Boalt--
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"
