Center for the Study of Law & Society
CSLS Speaker Series – “Shaming the Court: The German Constitutional Court’s Turnaround NGEU Decision”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United Stateswith Elena Kempf, Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Starting July 2024) and Katerina Linos, Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Professor of Law and Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Berkeley Law Constitutional courts typically adhere to established precedent to maintain their authority and to avoid the appearance […]
CSLS Special Event – Edelman Memorial Lecture: “Behind the Window Dressing: Micro-Level Drivers of Symbolic Legal Compliance”
Goldberg Room (2nd floor of Law Building)Featuring Lauren Rivera, Professor of Sociology and Management & Organizations, Northwestern University Cosponsored with the Center for Law and Work The pathbreaking work of Dr. Lauren Edelman illuminates how organizations frequently respond to federal anti-discrimination laws by adopting easy to measure—yet predominantly symbolic—policies and practices aimed at appeasing courts rather than driving real change. In […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “Liberalism Revisited: Reapproaching State Formation and Class Compromise in the New Deal”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago This will be less an argumentative lecture than a historiographical exploration of the grounds for a new project—an attempt to reopen the history of a closed topic: the New Deal. With a few notable exceptions, most of the historical scholarship on the origins and character […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “Equality Wars: How Social and Behavioral Science Shaped Employment Discrimination Law”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Robin Stryker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Purdue University This talk derives from an in-process book that tells the story of how the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) including economics, sociology, psychology, and statistics, helped shape judicial interpretation and enforcement of federal employment discrimination law from its advent to the present in the United States. […]
Civil Justice Research Initiative: A Discussion of the Sex Abuse Litigation
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing: Raymond P. Boucher, Boucher, LLP. Lead attorney in the landmark $660 million sexual abuse settlement with the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. John C. Manly, Manly Stewart Finaldi. Lead counsel in the Olympic women’s gymnastics team litigation, the USC litigation, and thousands of other sex abuse cases. Robert L. Nelson, Research Professor, American Bar […]
CSLS Special Event – 7th Annual Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: “Attention Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Rise of the Amazon Economy”
Hybrid: Warren Room & ZoomFeaturing Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The United States stands out among rich democracies as a shopper’s paradise—the quintessential consumer society. Along with Walmart, Amazon is dominated by huge, lean retailers whose business model is premised on squeezing suppliers and workers to deliver goods to American consumers at lightning […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “Bounding Knowledge: The Role of Correctional Experts in Prison Reform Litigation”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Keramet Reiter, Professor of Criminology and Law & Society, UC Irvine In this paper, I analyze a corpus of dueling expert reports filed in ten separate class action cases challenging the constitutionality of solitary confinement conditions in prisons in the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Civil rights lawyers initiated the […]
CSLS Speaker Series – Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023)
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Dylan Penningroth, Professor of Law and Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of History, Associate Dean of Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy / Legal Studies, Berkeley Law Cosponsored with the Center for Race and Gender and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice The familiar story of civil rights goes something like this: Once, […]
African Americans, History, Law: A Conversation between Robin D.G. Kelley and Dylan Penningroth
JSP (2240 Piedmont Ave.), Kadish Library 2240 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society, this event features a free-ranging conversation between Robin D.G. Kelley (Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA) and Dylan Penningroth (Professor of Law and Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History, UC Berkeley) on the subject of […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “The Un-Revolution? The Politics of Access to Legal Information in Contemporary France”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Rachel Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science, Berkeley Law How do global legal trends play out nationally, especially in moments of technological change? This talk offers a case study of how one global technological change--the rise of big data, machine learning and natural language processing in the 2010s—intersected a heated French debate over […]
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