Bag Lunch Speaker Series
NOTE: All talks at 2240 Piedmont, 12:30PM-1:45PM unless otherwise noted.

FALL 2006

Monday, September 11. Kristin Luker
Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, U. C. Berkeley.
“Transgendered Numbers: Trust and Truth in Early Twentieth Century Social Science.”

Monday, September 18. R. Alta Charo
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin;
Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
“From Stem Cells to Jail Cells -- The Tortured Politics of Regenerative Medicine.”

  Monday, September 25. Kitty Calavita
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine;
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society.
“Down by Law: Immigration, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe .”

Monday, October 9. Elizabeth Joh
Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis.
“ Reclaiming ‘Abandoned' DNA: Genetics, Privacy, and Policing.”

Thursday, October 12. Mark Galanter CANCELED
John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin
"Learning from Lawyer Jokes:  Popular Legal Culture in an Era of Legalization."

Monday, October 16. Robert Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law and Chair, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
“One State or Two? The Negotiated Resolution of Ethnic Conflict When There
Are Territorial Cleavages.”

Monday, October 23. William T. Gallagher
Associate Professor of Law, Golden Gate University.
“Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation: What IP Lawyers and their Clients Say (and Do)
About Asserting IP Rights.”

Monday, October 30. Samera Esmeir
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, U. C. Berkeley.
“Juridical Humanity: Colonialism and the Making of the Universe.”

Monday, November 6. Julie Nice
Delaney Chair and Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
“ Four Corners : Marriage, Social Movements, Constitutional Law, and Constitutive Theory.”

Thursday, November 9, 3:30 p.m. John Fabian Witt
Professor of Law, Columbia University.
“The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the Common Law Nation.”
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Legal Research. (Dean's Seminar Room / Boalt Hall)

Tuesday, November 14. William Bielby
Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.
“‘Statistical Dueling' with Unconventional Weapons: What Courts Should Know About Experts
in Employment Discrimination Class Actions” (co-author Pamela Coukos).
Co-sponsored with the Haas School of Business and Department of Sociology. (Location TBA)

Tuesday, November 21. Ann Southworth
Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University.
“Righting the Profession and Professionalizing the Right: Lawyers of the Conservative Coalition.”

Tuesday, November 28. Valerie Jenness
Professor and Chair of Criminology, Law and Society and
Professor of Sociology, University of California , Irvine ;
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society.
“The Passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act: An Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Sexual Citizenship for Prisoners.”

Tuesday, December 5. Jonathan Simon
Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Law, U. C. Berkeley.
“What the May 1st * Marchers Meant: Immigration Reform Should Not Be About Crime.”
*May 1, 2006

SPRING 2006

Tuesday, January 17 – Robert Reich
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy , UC Berkeley
“The Four Fables of America”


Tuesday, January 24 – Rebecca Sandefur
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society
"Lawyers' Pro Bono Service and American-Style Civil Legal Assistance"

Tuesday, January 31 – Hendrik Hartog
Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University
“Someday All This Will Be Yours: Aging Parents, Adult Children,
and Inheritance in the Modern Era”

Tuesday, February 7 – Martin Krygier
Professor of Law and Director, European Law Centre
University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
"Ideals and Institutions:  Coherence and Development in the Thought of Philip Selznick"

Tuesday, February 14 – Catharine A . MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
"Women's Status, Men's States"

Tuesday, February 21 – Benjamin Brown
Lecturer, Legal Studies Program, UC Berkeley
“Free Pigs and Free Men:
The Political Definition of Property in the 19th Century United States ”

Wednesday, February 22 - Wilfrid Prest
Professor and ARC Professorial Fellow, University of Adelaide Law School
'Commenting on the Commentator, and his Commentaries:
Sir William Blackstone, Biographers and Historians'?
 Location and time:  Dean's Seminar Room, 4:00-5:30
(Co-sponsored with the Institute for Legal Research)

Monday, February 27 – Laura Beth Nielsen
Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation and
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University (beginning Fall 2006)
“Consciousness and Claiming:
The Socio-Legal Construction of Employment Discrimination”

Monday, March 6 – Christopher Waldrep
Pasker Chair of American History, San Francisco State University
“ American Lynching, Civil Rights, and the Changing Meaning of Community, 1865-1965”

Thursday, March 9 - Andras Sajo
University Professor at Central European University
Budapest and Global Faculty
New York University Law School
"Constitutional Sentiments"
 Time: 4:10-5:30

Monday, March 13 – Joe Rollins
Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society
“Defensive Marriage Acts: Pathologizing Heterosexuality in Judicial Decisions on Same-Sex Marriage”

Monday, March 20 – Michael Musheno
Director and Professor, Criminal Justice Program, San Francisco State University
“Deployed After 9/11: Transformations of the American Citizen Soldier”

Monday, April 3 – David Winickoff
Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society
Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM), UC Berkeley
"The New Stem Cell Initiatives in Law and Society:
How Progressive Bioethics is Missing the Boat"

Monday, April 10 – Bryant Garth
Dean, Southwestern University School of Law
“Law, Lawyers, and Empire:
From the Foreign Policy Establishment to Technical Legal Hegemony.”
(Co-Sponsored with the Sociology Department)
Center Paper / Sociology Paper

Monday, April 17 – Brian Tamanaha
Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law
St. John's University School of Law
The talk and paper follow up on ideas laid out in an earlier paper at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=725582

“The Fundamental Tensions Between the Rule of Law and an
Instrumental View of Law”

Monday, April 24 – Pieter Spierenburg
Professor of History and Criminology, Erasmus University , Rotterdam
“Democracy Came Too Early:
A Tentative Explanation for the Problem of American Homicide”
AHR Piece / Taiwan Piece

FALL 2005

Monday, August 29: Goodwin Liu
Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall
“Education, Equality, and National Citizenship ”

Monday September 12: Claire Valier
Lecturer, School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London;
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society
“Complicity and the Bystander to Crime”

Monday, September 19: Jeff Goldsworthy
Professor of Law, Monash University
“Methods of Constitutional Interpretation: Explaining Differences among Six Federal Systems”

Monday, September 26: Shai Lavi
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
“The Limits of Legal Regulation: On the Sub-legal and Supra-legal Practice of Euthanasia”

Monday, October 3: Richard Brooks
Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
“Race and Uncertainty”

Monday, October 17: John Darley
Warren Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
“What Motivates Citizens When They Assign Punishments To Prototypical Criminal Offenses? Deterrence? Retribution?”

Monday, October 24: David Law
Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego;
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Political Science, UCSD
“The Paradox of Omnipotence: Courts, Constitutions, and Commitments”

Monday, October 31: Barry A. Krisberg
President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
“Noble Goals, Ignoble Means: The Rise and Fall of the California Youth Authority.”

Monday, November 7: Robert MacCoun
Professor of Public Policy and Law, University of California, Berkeley
“Drugs, Sex, and Skateboarding: Public Support for Harm Reduction vs. Prevalence Reduction”

Monday, November 14: Mark Brilliant
Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, U.C. Berkeley
“‘What is Good for One Racial Classification is Not Necessarily Good for Another’:
California's Axes of Discrimination and Avenues of Redress, 1945-1975"

Tuesday, November 22: Susan Bandes
Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law;
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society
“Repellent Crimes and Rational Deliberation: Emotion and the Death Penalty”

Tuesday, November 29: Edward Rubin
Dean; John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
"Suicide, Law and Morality"

Monday, December 5. Kathryn Abrams
Associate Dean, J.D. Program; Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley
"Law in the Cultivation of Hope"
#1 Individual Hope / #2 Cultivated Hope / #3 Head Start

Bag Lunch Speaker Series
NOTE: All talks at 2240 Piedmont, 12:30 - 1:45 unless otherwise noted

SPRING 2005

Monday, January 24. Lauren Edelman
Professor of Law & Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley.
“Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Organizational Practices in Civil Rights Cases.”

Monday, January 31. David Faigman
Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law.
"Constitutional Facts: The Essential Function of Fact-Finding in Setting Constitutional Norms."

Thursday, February 10. Christopher Zorn*
*Please note time: 4:15-5:30
Director, Law & Social Science Program,  National Science Foundation.
"Funding Opportunities for Law and Social Science Research at the NSF."

  Monday, February 14. Lee Epstein
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and
Professor of Law, Washington University .
“The Effect of War on the Supreme Court.”

Monday, February 28. Robert Cooter and Brian Broughman
Robert Cooter, Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law,
Boalt Hall School of Law; and Brian Broughman,
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley.
“Charity, Publicity, and the Donation Registry.”

Monday, March 7. Ángel Oquendo
Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law
“Liking to Be in America: Puerto Rico's Quest for Difference in the United States.”

Monday, March 14. Marc Schneiberg
Associate Professor of Sociology, Reed College .
“Regulation, Organization and Ownership Forms in the US Insurance and
Electrical Utility Industries 1900-1930.”

  Monday, March 28. Gregory Alexander
A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell Law School .
“ From Social Obligation to Social Transformation?
South Africa 's Experiment with Constitutional Property.”

Monday, April 4. Kirsten Campbell
Director of Research, Research Unit in Law, Justice and Social Change, Goldsmiths College ,
University of London ; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society.
“ Models of Justice in the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia .”

Monday, April 11. Anne Joseph
Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law.
“Presidential Transitions: The Shaping and Reshaping of the Federal Regulatory Agenda.”

  Monday, April 18. Sean Farhang
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy , UC Berkeley.
“Congressional Mobilization of Private Litigation to Achieve Regulatory Enforcement:
The Case of the Civil Rights Act of 1991.”

Monday, April 25. Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley.
“Price and Prejudice: Compensation for Ecological Damage in Two Oil Spill Litigations.”

Conferences and Workshops: 2004

Thursday, April 8, 2004. Protecting Human Subjects vs. Preserving Social Research
Jack Katz, Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Bag Lunch Speaker Series
NOTE: All talks at 2240 Piedmont, 12:30 - 1:45 unless otherwise noted

FALL 2004

Monday, August 30. Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. “Frontiers of Illegalities: Empire and the Rule of Law.”

Monday, September 13. Pamela Samuelson. Professor of Law and Information Management, University of California, Berkeley. “A Turning Point in Copyright: Baker v. Selden and Its Legacy.”

Monday, September 20. Ira Ellman. Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Arizona State University College of Law. “Fudging Failure: The Economic Analysis Used to Construct Child Support Guidelines.”

Wednesday, September 22. Alison Dundes Renteln, Professor of Political Science. University of Southern California. Book Colloquium: The Cultural Defense. Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Please note location and time: ISSC, 2420 Bowditch, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Monday, September 27. Yoram Shachar. Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law; Professor, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya. “Protection of Emotions in Criminal Law.”

Wednesday, October 6. John Skrentny, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. "Law and the Meaning of Race in the American Workplace." (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology.)

Monday, October 18. Hila Keren. Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. “Textual Harassment: A New Historicist Reappraisal of the Parol Evidence Rule on its Four Hundredth Anniversary.”

Thursday, October 28. David Nelken. Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change, University of Macerata, Italy; Distinguished Research Professor of Law, University of Cardiff, Wales. “Using the Concept of Legal Culture.”

Monday, November 1. Peter King. Professor of History, University College Northampton, UK. "Rethinking the Early History of the Juvenile Reformatory in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century England." (Co-sponsored with the Center for British Studies.)

Monday, November 8. Michael McCann. Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, Department of Political Science, University of Washington; Director, Law, Societies, and Justice; Director, Comparative Law and Society Studies Center. “Public Interest Litigation in a Neoliberal Age: Law, Media, and the Politics of Responsibility.”

Monday, November 15. Mona Lynch. Associate Professor, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. "The Making of a Post-Rehabilitative Penal Regime: A Case Study of Arizona, 1960-Present."

Monday, November 22. Stanley Lubman, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Lecturer in Residence, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Law Reform in China: Progress and Problems.”

Tuesday, November 30. Christopher Edley, Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Foundations for the Next Generation Civil Rights Agenda.”

Monday, December 6. David Sklansky. Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law. "Not Your Father's Police Department?: Making Sense of the New Demographics of Law Enforcement."

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Prior Guest Speakers

SPRING 2004
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Tuesday, January 27. Harry N. Scheiber, Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History, Boalt Hall School of Law; Director, Earl Warren Legal Institute; Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law. "Property Rights and Military Necessity in American Constitutional History." JSP Faculty Papers Series. Co-sponsored with the Earl Warren Legal Institute.

Tuesday , February 3. Elizabeth Borgwardt, Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. "Human Rights and International Justice: Revisiting Nuremberg as a 'New Deal' Institution."

Wednesday , February 11. Ron Harris, Associate Professor of Law and Legal History, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. "Corporate Personality Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century: Germanic Clans, British Trade Unions, and American Big Business."

Tuesday ,February 17. Franklyn S. Haiman, John Evans Professor Emeritus of Communications Studies, Northwestern University; Past Vice President and Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union. "Decision-making in the American Civil Liberties Union: An Examination of Some Divisive Issues."

Monday, February 23. Mariana Valverde, Professor of Criminology, University of Toronto. "Seeing like a City: Legal Tools of Urban Ordering."

Monday, March 1. Ian F. Haney Lopez, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. "Racial Projections: How the Census Counts Latinos."

Monday, March 8. John Beattie, University Professor Emeritus of History and Criminology,
University of Toronto. "Policing London in the Eighteenth Century." Co-sponsored with the Center for British Studies, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Department of History.

Monday, March 15. Sheldon Zedeck, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, and Marjorie M. Shultz, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. "Beyond the LSAT: Identifying Predictors of Lawyering Competence for Use in Law School Admissions Decisions."

Monday, March 29. John (Jeb) Barnes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California; Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. "Overruled? Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary Court Congress Relations."

Monday, April 5. Bruce D. Sales, Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, & Law; Director, Program in Psychology, Policy and Law, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. "Experts in Court: Accommodating Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge."

Monday, April 12. Thomas Franck, Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University School of Law. "Prevention, Preemption and Anticipatory Self Defense in International Law."

Monday, April 19. Michael Heise, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. "Mercy by the Numbers: An Empirical Analysis of Clemency and its Structure."

Monday, April 26. Cary Coglianese, Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government and Chair, Regulatory Policy Program, Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; 2003-04 Irvine Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. "The Challenges of Performance Based Social Regulation."

Monday, May 3. Samuel Scheffler, Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of California, Berkeley. "Egalitarian Justice." JSP Faculty Papers Series.

FALL 2003

Monday, September 8. Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. "Wechsler's Century and Ours: Reforming Criminal Law in Times of Governmental Transformation." (JSP Faculty Papers Series)

Friday, September 12. Jiri Priban, Professor of Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law at Charles University in Prague, and Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. "Reconstituting Paradise Lost: The Temporal Dimension of Postcommunist Constitution-Making in Central Europe." Co-sponsored with the Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Monday, September 15. Dvora Yanow, Professor and Chair, Department of Public Affairs and Administration, California State University, Hayward and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. "Classification by Administrative Practice: Category Errors and Race-Ethnic Identity." (Copies of the paper are available in the Center's library).

Monday, September 22. Keith Hawkins, Reader in Law and Society, Oriel College, Oxford. "Prosecution Decision-making in a Regulatory Agency."

Monday, September 29. Robert Kagan and Dorothy Thornton, University of California, Berkeley. "The Role of Legal Penalties in Regulation: Some Empirical Evidence."

Monday, October 20. Annette Nierobisz, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Carleton College, and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. "Wrestling with the New Economy: Wrongful Dismissal and the Canadian Courts, 1981-1997." Co-Sponsored with the Canadian Studies Program.

Monday, October 27. Richard D. Friedman, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, University of Michigan. "‘Face to Face’: Rediscovering the Right to Confront Prosecution Witnesses."

Monday, November 3. Thomas Miguel Hilbink, Assistant Professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Equal Justice, Reform, and the Grassroots: Constructing Legal Services in 1960s America."

Monday, November 17. Mark J. Osiel, Professor of Law, University of Iowa. "How Globalization Affects the Practice of Law: A Sociology of Professional Knowledge."

Monday, November 24. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. "Rethinking Public Engagement in the Administrative State." (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series.)

Monday, December 1. Gordon Silverstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. "Watergate and the Turn from Politics to Law."

SPRING 2003

Monday, January 27. Philip Selznick, Professor of Law and Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. "A Humanist Science?" Co-sponsored with the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program.

Monday, February 3. Gerald Cromer, Professor, Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University. "'Secularism is the Root of All Evil': The Fundamentalist/Ultra-Orthodox Response to Crime, Delinquency and Other Social Problems."

Monday, February 10. Marlyn J. Jones, Assistant Professor, Division of Criminal Justice, California State University, Sacramento. "'Basket To Carry Water:' A Jamaican Case Study Of U.S. Drug Policy Consequences In A Drug Transit Country." (Northern California Socio-Legal Scholar Series)

Tuesday, February 18. Mauricio Duce, Professor, Center for Juridical Research, Diego Portales University School of Law. "Criminal Justice Reform in Chile: Advances and Perspectives on a Radical Process of Transformation."

Monday, February 24. John J. Donohue III, Professor, Stanford Law School. "Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis." (tables and charts)(Northern California Socio-Legal Scholar Series)

Monday, March 3. Mark C. Suchman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin. "Contracts as Social Artifacts: Mapping a Road Less Traveled."

Monday, March 10.(CANCELED) Amanda K. Packel, 2002 Young Scholar, Earl Warren Legal Institute Criminal Justice Studies Program; Associate, Covington & Burling. "The Illinois Blue Ribbon Commission Report on Capital Punishment: Can and Should the System Be Fixed?"

Friday, March 14. Martin Krygier, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia. "False Dichotomies, True Perplexities, and the Rule of Law." Co-sponsored with the Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs.

Monday, March 17. Jonathan Rose, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Arizona State University. "Greasing Justice in Fifteenth Century England: Sir John Fastolf's Litigation and Will Dispute."

Monday, March 31. Bryna Bogoch, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies and Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, Bar Ilan University. "The Voice is the Voice of Mediation but the Arms are the Arms of the Law: Gender and the Professional Practice of Divorce in Israel."

Monday, April 7. (CANCELED) Michael Heise, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University; Visiting Professor, Cornell Law School. "Mercy by the Numbers: An Empirical Analysis of Clemency and its Structure."

Monday, April 14. Leslie Goldstein, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware. "The Rule of Law and Federative Unions."

Monday, April 21. Peter Levine, Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, University of Maryland. "Building the Electronic Commons." Co-sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Paper#1 / Paper #2

Wednesday, April 23. Kamari Clarke, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. "Regionalism and Conflict in the Making of the International Criminal Court."

Monday, April 28. Timothy Hartnagel, Professor, Department of Sociology and Dean, St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta. "Public Attitudes Toward Crime Control: Some Research Issues."

Monday, May 5. Martin Shapiro, James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. "On Prediction and Comparison in the Study of Legal Institutions." Co-sponsored with the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program.

Fall 2002

Monday, September 9. David Lieberman, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program; Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law. "Mapping Criminal Law: Blackstone and the Categories of English Jurisprudence." In the JSP Faculty Papers Series - an occasional program in which members of the JSP faculty present examples of their current work. Co-sponsored with the JSP Program.

Monday, September 23. Victoria Saker Woeste, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, "Suing Mr. Ford: Rhetorics of Persuasion and Conversion Narratives in Antisemitism and Libel, 1920-1927." Co-sponsored with the Earl Warren Legal Institute.

Monday, September 30. Elizabeth Rapaport, Dickason Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society. "Discretion and Due Process in the Institution of Executive Clemency."

Monday, October 7. Richard Brooks, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law. "Covenants & Conventions." Co-sponsored with the Earl Warren Legal Institute.

Monday, October 14. Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Chair, Boalt Hall School of Law. “Where Have All the Women Gone? The Decline of Women Criminals in the 18th Century." In the JSP Faculty Papers Series. Co-sponsored with the JSP Program.

Monday, October 28. Michele Landis Dauber. Associate Professor of Law. Stanford Law School. "Special Pleading: Disaster Narratives in Individual Relief Requests" (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).

Monday, November 4. Ryken Grattet, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis. "The Reception and Reinterpretation of Law in Local Settings: Responses to Hate Crime and Hate Crime Law among California Law Enforcement Agencies." (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).

Monday, November 18. Richard Banks, Associate Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. "Beyond Racial Profiling: The Dilemma of Reform." (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).

Monday, November 25. James F. Spriggs, II. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. "Explaining the Overruling of U.S. Supreme Court Precedent." Table. Figure 1. (Northern California Socio-legal Scholars Series).

Spring 2002

Thursday, January 31. Roger Cotterrell, Department of Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. "Law and Community in a Time of Fear: Sociolegal Studies and the Reshaping of the Social." This event will be held in the Dean's Seminar Room in Boalt Hall.

Monday, February 4. Susan Bisom-Rapp, Associate Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego. "From Bulletproofing the American Workplace to Bulletproofing the World: Exporting U.S. Litigation Prevention Practices to the Global Worksite."

Tuesday, February 12. Christy Story, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. "Justice and the Russian Revolutionary Tribunals, 1917-1921."

Tuesday, February 19. Jack Glaser, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. "Stereotype-Based Discrimination in the New Millenium: Racial Profiling Before and After September 11."

Tuesday, February 26. Robert J. MacCoun, Professor of Public Policy and Law, Goldman School of Public Policy and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. "Behavioral Law and Economics: A Psychological Perspective."

Tuesday, March 5. Steven W. Usselman, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of History, Technology, and Society. Georgia Institute of Technology. "Making Invention Anonymous and Autonomous: Patent Law and American Railroads." This event will take place in the Goldberg Room at Boalt Hall. Pizza and soda will be provided. Joint Sponsorship with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.

Friday, March 8. Yasuaki Onuma, Professor of International Law, Tokyo University. "Japanese War Guilt and Post-War Responsibilities: An Overview." This event, the Stefan Riesenfeld Lecture, is co-sponsored by the Sho Sato Program for Japanese and U.S. Law and the Berkeley Journal of International Law. The presentation will take place at noon in room 140 Boalt Hall followed by a reception in the Goldberg Room.

Tuesday, March 12. Anne Griffiths, Reader in Law, Edinburgh University, Faculty of Law. "Culture and Rights: Remaking Law in Africa, Perspectives from Botswana."

Friday, March 15. Guillermo O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies. "Some Thoughts on New Democracies and the Rule of Law."

Tuesday, March 19. Richard Swedberg, Professor of Sociology, University of Stockholm, and 2001-02 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. "The Case for an Economic Sociology of Law."

Tuesday, April 2. Michael A. Bernstein, Professor of History and Associated Faculty-Member in Economics, Department of History, University of California, San Diego. "The Perilous Progress of American Economics."

Monday, April 8. Steven Raphael, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. "Perceived Criminality, Criminal Background Checks and the Racial Hiring Practices of Employers."

Wednesday, April 10. Stanley B. Lubman, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, and Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. "Prospects for the Rule of Law in China After Accession to the W.T.O."

Tuesday, April 16. Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law, Director, Earl Warren Legal Institute, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. "American Culture and the Contradictions of Capital Punishment."

Tuesday, April 23. Paul Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego. "Domestic Violence and the Law in Rural China."

Monday, April 29. Ken Alder, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University. "A Social History of Untruth: Trust and Lie Detectors in Twentieth-Century America." This event is co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology and will take place in 203 Wheeler Hall at 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 30. Catherine L. Fisk, Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. "Unions and Law-Wage Immigrant Workers: Lessons from the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles, 1990-2002."

Friday, May 3. Kay Levine, J.D., Doctoral Candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley. "Angling for Substantive Justice: How Prosecutors Work Through and Around Legislative Limitations in Statutory Rape Cases."

Friday, May 10. Guillermo O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame. This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies. "Some Thoughts on New Democracies and the Rule of Law."

Fall 2001

Friday, September 7. Professor Lucy E. Salyer, Department of History, University of New Hampshire. "The All-American Soldier: Race, Military Service and Citizenship in World War I."

Tuesday, September 11. EVENT CANCELED -- TO BE RESCHEDULED. Robert A. Kagan, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Chair (on leave), Center for the Study of Law and Society, and Dorothy Thornton, Research Associate, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Doctoral Candidate, School of Public Health. "Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?"

Friday, September 14. EVENT CANCELED -- TO BE RESCHEDULED. Isabel Marcus, Professor, School of Law, University of Buffalo, Chair, Department of Women's Studies, Co-Director, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender. "Dark Numbers: Domestic Violence, Law and Public Policy in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Russia." Joint sponsorship with the Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and the School of Social Welfare.

Monday, September 17. EVENT CANCELED -- TO BE RESCHEDULED. Paul Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego. "Domestic Violence and the Law in Rural China."

Thursday, September 20. Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Help! Nine Problems in a Study of Surveillance and Society." Professor Marx's website is http://garymarx.net/

Tuesday, October 2. R. Benjamin Brown, J.D., Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. "Enclosing America: Creating Private Property Rights in the Nineteenth Century."

Thursday, October 11. Robert A. Kagan, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Chair (on leave), Center for the Study of Law and Society, and Dorothy Thornton, Research Associate, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Doctoral Candidate, School of Public Health. "Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?"

Monday, October 22. Professor Noga Morag-Levine, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan. "Legal Ideology and 'Command-and-Control': Risk, Technology Standards and the Common Law State."

Thursday, October 25. Eric L. Muller, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Free to Die for their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters of World War II.”

Monday, October 29. Miriam Gur-Arye, Judge Basil Wunsh Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Can Freedom of Expression Survive Social Trauma?: The Israeli Experience."

Monday, November 5. Tal Golan, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel. "Visuality & Authority: The Careers of Visual Technologies in Medicine and Law." This event will take place in 203 Wheeler at 5 pm. Joint sponsorship with Office for History of Science and Technology.