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Electronic Working Paper Series

The Center for the Study of Law and Society supports empirical research and theoretical analysis concerning legal institutions and processes, the impact of law on society, and social, political, and intellectual influences on law and legal activity. The Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program is a doctoral program at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) that promotes the social and philosophical study of law through the perspectives of criminal justice, economics, history, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology. They each provide a truly interdisciplinary setting in which faculty, visiting scholars, and students can meet, present research, exchange ideas, and formulate new concepts and research agendas.

CSLS and the JSP Program publish 2 electronic Working Paper Series in the University of California eScholarship Repository:

• JSP/Center for the Study of Law and Society Faculty Working Papers
• Papers Presented in the Center for the Study of Law and Society Bag Lunch Speaker Series

Please visit the digital library at http://repositories.cdlib.org/csls/.

Punishment & Society

The Center is proud to be the home, since 2004, of Punishment & Society, the international journal on penology. Center faculty Malcolm Feeley (a former CSLS Director) and Jonathan Simon (Associate Dean for JSP) are Co-Editors in Chief of Punishment & Society, and JSP student Kellie Bryant serves as Editorial Associate.

Punishment & Society is an international journal, providing an interdisciplinary forum for research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control. It advances and refines the impressive body of work that has emerged in this field over the last two decades, and is a source of informed commentary and criticism regarding the penal policies and practices of our time. It includes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including criminology and penology; the sociology of punishment and penal institutions; penal history; penal law; sentencing theory and the philosophy of punishment. It also includes a lively book review section, reviewing the most important new books and publications. It features review essays, symposia and debates as well as shorter reviews, ensuring readers are kept up-to-date on what has been published in this expanding field.

Recent Publications

Center faculty, students, and visiting scholars have conducted scores of projects in the 45 years since the Center was established. Recent and forthcoming books include:

• Lauren Edelman and Mark C. Suchman, editors. 2007.  Legal Lives of Private Organizations. Ashgate.
• Jonathan Simon. 2006. Governing Through Crime: The War on Crime and the Transformation of America 1965-2000. Oxford University Press.  
• Kristin Luker. 2006. When Sex Goes to School:  Warring Views on Sex, and Sex Education, Since the Sixties. W. W. Norton.
• Marianne Constable.  2005.  Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law. Princeton University Press.
• Tom Ginsburg and Robert A. Kagan, editors. 2005. Institutions and Public Law: Comparative Approaches. Peter Lang.
• Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman, and Kevin J. O'Brien, editors. 2005. Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice. Stanford University Press.
• David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber, editors. 2004.  Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters. M. Nijhoff Publishers.
• Neil Gunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton.  2003. Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, Environment.  Stanford University Press.
• Philip Selznick.  2002.  The Communitarian Persuasion. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Robert A. Kagan. 2001 Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law. Harvard University Press.
• Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter. 2001. Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places. Cambridge University Press.
• Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad, editors. 2000. Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism. University of California Press.
• Harry N. Scheiber, editor. 2000. Law of the Sea: The Common Heritage and Emerging Challenges. Kluwer Law International.
• Robert D. Cooter. 2000. The Strategic Constitution. Princeton University Press.
• Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward L. Rubin. 1999. Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons. Cambridge University Press.