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Calvin K. Morrill
Title: Professor of Law and Sociology; Director, Center for the Study of Law and Society
Office: 2240 Piedmont Avenue
Tel: 510-643-9988
Email Address: cmorrill@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Margo Rodriguez
Before coming to Berkeley Law and the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) program, Calvin Morrill was professor of sociology, business, and criminology, law & society at the University of California, Irvine, where he was also chair of the Sociology Department and co-director of the Center for Organizational Research. Prior to his appointment at Irvine, he was professor of sociology, law, communication, and psychology at the University of Arizona.
Morrill works at the intersection of law and society, organizational sociology, sociology of youth and culture, and social movements. He primarily uses qualitative fieldwork (ethnography) in his empirical research, augmented by surveys, social network analysis, and experimental and story-based methods. His research has addressed dispute resolution in corporations, youth conflict and institutional changes in legal and school-based social control, social inequality and rights mobilization in schools, and the construction of socio-legal environments by social movements.
He has published numerous pieces in social science and law reviews. His books include: Makin’ It Work: Youth Conflict and Control in a Multiethnic High School (with Musheno, forthcoming), Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places (with Snow and White, 2005), and The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations (1995).
Morrill’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and numerous private foundations. He is chair of the Sociology of Law Section in the American Sociological Association and an elected member of the Sociological Research Association (the honorary society of the American Sociological Association).
Education:
B.A., UC Santa Barbara (1980)M.A., Harvard University (1983)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1987)
