Legal Studies Students Win Writing Awards

Incoming Berkeley Law student Chase Burton won the Law and Society Association 2012 Undergraduate Student Paper Prize for “Spare the Cell, Spoil the Child: Early History and Philosophy of American Juvenile Justice,” which also won UC Berkeley’s Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Fellow Legal Studies honors student Cathy Wang won the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Undergraduate Paper Prize for “Effect of Work-Family Policy Design and Culture on Women’s Employment Outcomes and Men’s User Rates.” Legal Studies Program Director Michael Musheno supervised Burton; Professor Catherine Albiston ’93 supervised Wang.