Conversations in Law and Society
The Center for the Study of Law and Society has undertaken an important new project ---building a video archive of interviews with the founders and leading figures of the field of Law and Society conducted by Lauren Edelman, Calvin Morrill, and other Berkeley law and society scholars. The Conversations are taped the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, in front of a live audience of distinguished scholars and graduate students who are invited to ask questions following the formal interview. Each tape includes an introduction of the program by Calvin Morrill, Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society.
We invite you to enjoy these engaging conversations with the founders and leading figures of the field of law and society. For further information, contact Rosann Greenspan, Executive Director, at rgreenspan@law.berkeley.edu.
The Conversations:
1. A Conversation with Joseph R. Gusfield
Interviewed by Lauren Edelman
Date: 02/12/2010
Duration: 00:53:30
Description:
Joseph Gusfield is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. His books Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement and The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order, among others, helped define the fields of the sociology of law, the sociology of social movements, and the sociology of social problems.
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2. A Conversation with Stewart Macaulay
Interviewed by Lauren Edelman
Date: 04/23/2010
Duration: 01:06:40
Description:
Stewart Macaulay is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and internationally recognized as a leader of the law-in-action approach to contracts. His article, "Non-Contractual Relations and Business: A Preliminary Study," published in the American Sociological Review in 1963, is a foundational work in the field of law and society. Professor Macaulay has written extensively on subjects ranging from lawyers and consumer law to private government and legal pluralism. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been president of the Law and Society Association, winner of the Kalven Prize, and Director of the Chile Law Program of the International Legal Center in Santiago, among many other honors.
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3. A Conversation with Lawrence Friedman
Interviewed by Lauren Edelman
Date: 10/15/2010
Duration: 57:26
Description:
Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law and Professor of History and Political Science at Stanford University. A founder of the field of law and society, Professor Friedman is "generally regarded as [James Willard] Hurst's successor as the greatest of American social-legal historians." A member of the American Academy of Arts and Science since 1977, holding honorary degrees from six universities at home and abroad, Friedman has been president of the Law and Society Association, the American Society for Legal History, and the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association.
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4. A Conversation with Laura Nader
Interviewed by Calvin Morrill
Date: 03/11/2011
Duration: 01:08
Description:
Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served on the faculty since 1960. A founder of the field of law and society, Professor Nader is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 1995 winner of the Kalven Prize recognizing a body of empirical scholarship that has contributed to the advancement of research in law and society. Her work has had an indelible impact in many areas including the comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America and the contemporary United States.
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5. A Conversation with Marc Galanter
Interviewed by Lauren Edelman
Date: 04/08/2011
Duration: 01:09
Description:
Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of seminal studies of litigation, lawyers and disputing including, "Why the 'Haves' Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change," one of the most widely cited articles in the legal literature.Galanter was the 1993 winner of the Kalven Prize "for his landmark empirical studies of law and social change in India and equally impressive empirical studies in the United States, most recently focusing on law in American law firms." He is a past president of the Law and Society Association, a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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6. A Conversation with Jerome Skolnick
Interviewed by Calvin Morrill
Date: 02/10/2012
Duration: 01:08
Description:
Jerome Skolnick is Claire Clements Dean's Chair Emeritus at Berkeley Law and, until 2011, taught at NYU School of Law and was co-director of NYU's Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He was director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society from 1972 to 1985, and was a founding faculty member of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. Skolnick's 1966 book /Justice Without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society/, a seminal study of police culture and practice, was recently released in a fourth edition. Another acclaimed book, /The Politics of Protest/, was recently republished in its Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Skolnick's many honors include the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the American Society of Criminology's August Vollmer Award. He served as 1993-94 president of the American Society of Criminology.
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7. A Conversation with Sally Falk Moore
Interviewed by Calvin Morrill
Date: 03/02/2012
Duration: 01:09
Description:
Sally Falk Moore is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Harvard University. She received her JD from Columbia Law School in 1945 and her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1957. She developed and chaired the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California (1963–1977). She joined the Harvard faculty in 1981, and was Dean of the Graduate School from 1985 to 1989. Her books include Law as Process (1978, 2nd ed. 2000), Social Facts and Fabrications: “Customary” Law on Kilimanjaro 1880–1980 (1986), Anthropology and Africa (1994), and Law and Anthropology: A Reader (2004). A groundbreaker in the field of legal anthropology, Dr. Moore was named Huxley Memorial Medalist and Lecturer for 1999. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2005 recipient of the Kalven Prize of the Law and Society Association.
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8. A Conversation with Sanford H. Kadish
Interviewed by David Lieberman
Date: 10/05/2012
Duration: 00:53
Description:
Sanford H. Kadish is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law (Emeritus) at Berkeley Law. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1964 and served as dean from 1975 to 1982, during which time he co-founded the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program with Philip Selznick. He has been president of both the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Law Schools, as well as vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from the City University of New York, the University of Cologne, and Southwestern University. He is a recipient of the Berkeley Citation. The Center for the Study of Law and Society dedicated the Sanford H. Kadish Library in his honor at a celebration on November 5, 2012. A photo gallery of the event is available at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/3535.htm.
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9. A Conversation with William K. "Sandy" Muir
Interviewed by Robert A. Kagan
Date: 01/25/2013
Duration: 01:08
Description:
William K. “Sandy” Muir received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1958 and his PhD from Yale University in 1965. He joined UC Berkeley's Department of Political Science in 1968, chaired the department during the 1980s, and became Professor Emeritus in 1998. His books, each a creative landmark in the field of public law, leave no branch of government unexamined. His first, Law and Attitude Change (first published as Prayer in the Public Schools (University of Chicago Press, 1967, 1974) won the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Prize. Police: Streetcorner Politicians (University of Chicago Press, 1977) was awarded the Hadley B. Cantril Prize. Later books include Legislature: California's School for Politics (1982); The Bully Pulpit: The Presidential Leadership of Ronald Reagan (1993); and most recently, Freedom in America (2011).
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of Law and Society
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10. A Conversation with Harry N. Scheiber
Interviewed by David Lieberman
Date: 04/05/2013
Duration: 01:07
Description:
Harry N. Scheiber is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law (Emeritus) and Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute, the Institute for Legal Research and the Center for the Study of Law Society. He is Past-President of the American Society for Legal History, founder of the Law of the Sea Institute and directed the Sho Sato Program in Japanese and US Law. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and received the Berkeley Citation in 2012. Primary books include: Ohio Canal Era--A Case Study of Government and the Economy; The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties; Legal Cultures and the Legal Profession; American Law and the Constitutional Order; Law of the Sea: The Common Heritage and Emerging Challenges; American Economic History; Perspectives on Federalism; Federalism and the Judicial Mind; Earl Warren and the Warren Court; Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters.
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