Center for the Study of Law & Society
Events
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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 enslaved status of children born to “Englishmen” and “negro” women in the colony contingent upon the free or enslaved status of their mothers, the Governor […]
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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 judgments—but in many of society’s most consequential contexts, they are shaped by collective structures that subtly alter how people vote and what they come to […]
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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 this through an investigation of the EU’s harmonization of occupational exposure limits — rules dictating allowable levels of chemicals in the workplace. We introduce extensive […]
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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 shown the mechanisms by which problems are designated “sickness” versus “badness” and how those designations change over time. However, scholars have paid less attention to […]
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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 of two grandfathers—one white, one Black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen […]
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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 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, […]
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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 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, […]
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