During 2007-2008 the Center for the Study of Law and Society hosted a year-long seminar funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Grant. Entitled “The Dilemmas of Judicial Power in Comparative Perspective, the seminar was administered by Gordon Silverstein (Political Science), Principal Investigator, and Robert A. Kagan (Political Science and Law), Malcolm F. Feeley (Jurisprudence and Social Policy, School of Law) and Martin Shapiro (Law), co-prinicipal investigators.
On Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, 2008, the seminar reconvened in a Plenary Conference. For more information please visit the Berkeley – Sawyer Seminar in Judicial Politics Plenary Conference website.