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  • CSLS Speaker Series – “When Acts of God Became Acts of Man: Floods, Property, and the Legal Origins of Climate Change in Houston”

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring Jonathan Levy, Professor of History, Sciences Po Paris, Centre for History Abstract: This talk is drawn from a book-in-progress on the history of climate change in the city of Houston in the late twentieth century. Historians are currently at work exploring how to effectively write "planetary histories" of climate change; this book approaches climate from the perspective […]

  • CSLS Speaker Series: “When Public Law Is Not Public Knowledge:​ Making the American Local Legal State Observable”

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring Diag Davenport, Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Governance, and Society, UC Berkeley Abstract: Local governments regulate many of the rules that most directly shape daily life, yet their laws have remained fragmented, difficult to compare, and largely invisible to national research. This talk introduces LOCUS, a corpus of 9,239 city and county codes comprising […]

  • CSLS Speaker Series: “The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages: 1935-1975, Evidence from Local Land Records”

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring Omer Ali, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh (Joint with Jacob Faber, Andreas Ferrara, Jonathan Rose, Thomas Storrs, Katherine Thomas, Gabrielle Toborg, Randall Walsh, and Wenfei Xu) Abstract: This project develops a novel dataset of federally-insured mortgages from 1935 to 1975 by digitizing local land records from county recorders of deeds across a […]

  • CSLS Speaker Series: “Mental Incompetence on the Ground: Community Construction of Disability in Democracy”

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring Rabia Belt, Professor of Law and Professor of History (by courtesy), Stanford Law School Abstract: Who was mentally competent to vote? Nineteenth-century American lawmakers often treated the answer as self-evident. Beginning in Maine in 1819, states increasingly adopted constitutional provisions and statutes disenfranchising people classified as mentally incompetent. But these lawmakers left a crucial […]

  • A photograph of Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve and the book "Crime Fictions"

    Book Talk with Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (Brown University) – Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction

    297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Join us for a lecture by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (Brown Sociology) on her new book Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction (Penguin Press, 2026). A description of the book from the Penguin Press website appears below. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event. […]

  • CSLS Speaker Series: Losing the Law: How Legal Polarization Threatens American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2026)

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring Deborah Pearlstein, Director, Program in Law and Public Policy and Visiting Professor in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University Abstract: The norms that have separated law from politics in America are eroding, making government by constitutional democracy increasingly hard to sustain. Losing the Law tells the story of how we came to this precarious moment. This powerful, […]

  • CSLS Speaker Series: When Federal Climate Policy Works: Benefits, Business, and Politics (The MIT Press, 2026)

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring David Vogel, Solomon P. Lee Chair Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UC Berkeley Abstract: When Federal Climate Policy Works challenges the widely accepted belief that the federal government has been unable to adopt effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Roger Karapin and David Vogel argue that […]

  • CSLS Speaker Series: Terror on Trial: An Ethnography of French Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

    Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Featuring Sharon Weill, Professor of International Law and Director of the Justice Lab, The American University of Paris. Abstract: Grounded in court ethnography, this book explores terrorism trials in France. A multidisciplinary research team examines how terrorism logics are reflected, represented, and negotiated within criminal proceedings. Based on hundreds of hearing days – ranging from […]

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