Featuring Shauhin Talesh, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law Abstract: Despite the massive costs associated with data breaches, ransomware, viruses, and cyberattacks, most organizations remain thoroughly unprepared to safeguard consumer data. Over the past two decades, the insurance industry has begun offering cyber insurance to help organizations manage cybersecurity and privacy law compliance, […]

Featuring Justin Simard, Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law Abstract: Agents of Commerce is a history of transactional lawyering in the nineteenth century United States. The project draws on previously unused archival sources, including lawyers’ papers and account books. These sources show that lawyers played an important role out of court, […]

An interdisciplinary conference on law and society featuring scholars from history, sociology, political science, public policy, and law.  Complete details regarding the program schedule and featured speakers can be found  on our website event page. Location: Warren Room, 295 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law *If the Warren Room reaches maximum capacity, the event will be live streamed in […]

Featuring Edward L. Rubin, Distinguished University Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University Abstract: Existing definitions of democracy focus on one notable feature, an elected, policy making legislature. Existing theories of democracy, many of which are more aspirational than descriptive, focus on its virtues, such as liberty, equality, participation or deliberation. This paper, one chapter of a book in progress, argues that the essence […]

featuring Stephanie L. Canizales, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley Abstract: Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in […]

Featuring Allison Harris, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University Abstract: What happens when government institutions become more diverse? Shades of Justice: How Court Composition Influences Sentencing Disparities in U.S. Trial Courts answers this timely question, making the important case that racial diversity in government institutions should not only be measured by whether minority group members’ behavior […]

Featuring Poulami Roychowdhury, Associate Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs, Brown University Abstract: Right-wing populist political parties have historically faced significant disadvantages with women voters and continue to […]

Featuring Jonathan Levy, Professor of History, Sciences Po Paris, Centre for History Abstract: This talk is drawn from a book-in-progress on the history of climate change in the city of Houston in the late twentieth century. Historians are currently at work exploring how to effectively write "planetary histories" of climate change; this book approaches climate from the perspective […]