Center for the Study of Law & Society
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CSLS Speaker Series: “The Asymmetric Effects on Migration Policy Change”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing David Hausman, Associate Professor of Law, Berkeley Law; Mary Hoopes, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; and Anna Closas I Casasampera, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, […]
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CSLS Speaker Series: “The Voucher Lottery: America’s Housing Crisis and the Politics of Scarcity”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Brian McCabe, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Sociology, Research Director of the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University Abstract: Rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program is scarce. […]
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CSLS Speaker Series – “For Itself and for Mankind”: John Marshall Harlan, Species Extinction, and the Fur Seal Trial of 1893
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United Statesfeaturing Rebecca M. McLennan, Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States, UC Berkeley Abstract: Drawn from an ongoing book project, this paper surfaces the history of a once-famous, now-forgotten legal dispute over access to the Bering Sea and the right to hunt a species on the brink of extinction. The so-called “fur […]
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CSLS Special Event – Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era
295 Law Building - Warren Room 2745 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, United StatesFeaturing Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Abstract: Senior environmental officials at both the state and federal level often give the public the same reassurance about environmental compliance. Almost all companies comply, they say. The large companies comply; it is mainly the small ones that have compliance issues. Does the […]
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CSLS Special Event – Race, Law, and Society: Critical Perspectives from the Disciplines
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Megan Ming Francis, G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington; Myisha Eatmon, Assistant […]
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CSLS Speaker Series – “Expressive Law, Social Norms, and Inequality”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Catherine Albiston, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of CSLS, Berkeley Law Abstract: Law and society scholars have long been interested in whether […]
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CSLS Speaker Series: “Puer Sequitur Parentis and Coniugis Sequitur Coniugis?: British Laws of Slave Descent on the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of History, UC Berkeley Abstract: In 1703, forty years after Virginia’s legislators passed an act (Act XII) which made the free or […]
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CSLS Speaker Series: “The Social Architecture of Moral Judgment: How Responsibility and Group Structure Shape Collective Decisions”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Diag Davenport, Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Governance, and Society, Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Information, UC Berkeley Abstract: Moral decisions are often treated as private […]
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CSLS Speaker Series – Harmonizing Safety: The Politics of Occupational Exposure Limits in the EU
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Rebecca Perlman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley Abstract: When countries with divergent regulations harmonize their rules, what determines which rules get harmonized and at what level? We study […]
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CSLS Speaker Series: “Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Liz Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in Saint Louis Abstract: Sociologists and socio-legal scholars have long been fascinated by how social fields transform social problems. They have […]
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CSLS Speaker Series – Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Kelley Fong, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine Abstract: It’s the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency […]
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CSLS Speaker Series – Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (Little, Brown and Company, 2025)
Warren RoomFeaturing Bernadette Atuahene, Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law Abstract: In the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the stories […]
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