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, Professor of Law,
Faculty co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, University of California, Berkeley
“The Political Economy of Empirical Legal Studies:
Why ELS Is Much Less Than a Paradigm Shift and Much More Than a Fad"
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, UC Berkeley
“An Empirical Proof of Intersectionality Theory"
Monday, September 14 – Lawrence Rosen
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University and
Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
"Defending Culture: The Cultural Defense Plea and the Law's Concept of Culture"
William G. Simon Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
“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 and Editor, Law & Society Review.
"Race and Sex in Organizing Work: 'Diversity,' Discrimination, and Integration"
Monday, October 19 – Charles Weisselberg
Shannon Turner Professor of Jurisprudence, Berkeley Law
"Big Law's Sixth Amendment"
(co-sponsored with Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice)
Monday, October 26 – Victoria Plaut
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Georgia and Visiting Professor, Berkeley Law
(Title TBA)
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.”
Monday, November 9 – Tristin Green
Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
and Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
(Title TBA)
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; and Editor, Criminology & Public Policy.
"Criminological Knowledge Building and Public Policy"
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, UCB
"Marriage and the State"
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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”
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 (speaker added)
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."
TO BE RESCHEDULED---Monday, November 10 – Carroll Seron
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.”
TO BE RESCHEDULED---Monday, November 24 – Richard Leo
Associate Professor of Law, University of San Francisco.
“When Lightning Strikes Twice: Analyzing Double Wrongful Convictions.”
TO BE RESCHEDULED---Monday, December 1 – Jonathan Simon
Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program,
and Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
“The Political Economy of Empirical Legal Studies:
Why ELS Is Much Less Than a Paradigm Shift, and Much More Than a Fad!”