Center for the Study of Law & Society

AROUND THE CENTER

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CSLS is pleased to announce our new Faculty Director, Catherine Albiston.

CSLS is pleased to announce the 2019-20 Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellows.

The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley. Edited by Rosann Greenspan, Hadar Aviram, and Jonathan Simon. Cambridge University Press. June 2019.

Watch the video of Tony Platt, Angela Davis and Rebecca McLennan discussing Platt’s new book, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
(St. Martin’s Press, January 2019). Moderated by Jonathan Simon. February 1, 2019.

CSLS Visiting Scholar Doron Dorfman was interviewed about his research on “Fear of the Disability Con” and disability studies at Stanford in episode 43 of Disability Visibility Podcast.

Congratulations to Lauren Edelman, winner of the 2018 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Award from the Law & Society Association for “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.” This award is the highest honor bestowed by the LSA and is given in recognition of a sustained body of scholarly work.

Video Series Conversations in Law and Society available here.

Philip Selznick Memorial Page

The CSLS 50th Anniversary Conference was a great success. Enjoy the photos from the event or visit the conference web page here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, November 25 – CSLS Speaker Series – Kim Voss & Irene Bloemraad, U.C. Berkeley – “Making Claims on Behalf of Noncitizens: What Works and What Does Not”

The Center

The Center supports theoretically-based, empirical research on new developments at the interplay of law and society in contemporary and historical contexts. While part of Berkeley’s School of Law, the Center fosters a multi- disciplinary context in which UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students from many departments interact and engage with visiting socio-legal scholars from universities in the United States and abroad.