Center for the Study of Law & Society
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “Disputed and Discredited: Pain, Mental Illness, and Invisible Impairments in Disability Lawsuits”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Rachel Best, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, University of Michigan When they sue their employers for disability discrimination, do plaintiffs with some types of conditions fare […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “How Threat, Apathy, and Antipathy Influence Support for Policies that Harm Low Status Groups”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Assistant Professor of Management of Organizations, UC Berkeley Empathy is often hailed as the emotion to target in intergroup conflicts, as it predicts consequential prosocial […]
CSLS Special Event: David Lieberman Memorial Lecture – “Sinister Interest: Benthamite Themes in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 Term”
295 Law Building - Warren Room 2745 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, United StatesFeaturing Karen Tani, Seaman Family University Professor, Penn Carey Law, University of Pennsylvania At the end of his brilliant career, Professor David Lieberman was writing about Jeremy Bentham’s views on […]
CSLS Speaker Series: “Citizen Election Observation and Public Confidence in the U.S. Elections”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Susan Hyde, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley. Nonpartisan citizen election observation has played an important role in promoting the credibility of electoral processes around the world in recent […]
CSLS Speaker Series: Democracies in America: Understanding Conflicting Democratic Attitudes
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Amel Ahmed, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Cosponsored with the Center for Research on Social Change Recent scholarship has warned that the American public is turning […]
CSLS Speaker Series: “Cash Bail Reform and Community Wellbeing”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Jessica Simes, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University. Nearly 500,000 legally innocent people are currently in pretrial detention in the U.S., comprising more than half of the overall jail […]
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