Center for the Study of Law & Society
Events
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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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CSLS Speaker Series – Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators (University of California Press, 2025)
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing 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 […]
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CSLS Speaker Series: “Agents of Commerce: Transactional Lawyering in the 19th Century United States”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing 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 […]
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Speaker Series: “Penal Power in Action: On the Tracks of County Prosecutors”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTo understand the delivery of state punishment as legitimate material and symbolic violence trained on unruly bodies, it is essential to drill deep into the ordinary functioning of the criminal […]
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