Center for the Study of Law & Society
Events
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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 law can change society. Empirical evidence is decidedly mixed, and several studies show that laws meant to reduce inequality have not lived up to their […]
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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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