Center for the Study of Law & Society
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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