Center for the Study of Law & Society
CSLS Speaker Series: “What People Get Wrong about the Right to Vote”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Emily Zhang, Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law. Voters make mistakes. They don’t bring the right ID to the polling place. They register to vote after the registration deadline. […]
CSLS Visiting Scholars Speaker Series: ”Balancing Law and Organizational Demands: The Role of Lawyers in Public Bureaucracies” & “Deporting Disability: Insights from Immigrant Defense Attorneys”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAyako Hirata Associate Professor of Law & Society, Graduate Schools for Law & Politics, University of Tokyo "Balancing Law and Organizational Demands: The Role of Lawyers in Public Bureaucracies" […]
CSLS Visiting Scholars Speaker Series: “The Effects of Disbelieving Children’s Disclosures of Abuse in the Justice System” & “Toward a Comparative Study Between the U.S. and Europe”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCarrie Leonetti Associate Professor, University of Auckland School of Law "The Effects of Disbelieving Children's Disclosures of Abuse in the Justice System" In the California Family Code, the Legislature […]
CSLS Speaker Series: “The Asymmetric Effects on Migration Policy Change”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing David Hausman, Associate Professor of Law, Berkeley Law; Mary Hoopes, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; and Anna Closas I Casasampera, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, […]
CSLS Speaker Series: “The Voucher Lottery: America’s Housing Crisis and the Politics of Scarcity”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Brian McCabe, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Sociology, Research Director of the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University Abstract: Rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher program is scarce. […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “For Itself and for Mankind”: John Marshall Harlan, Species Extinction, and the Fur Seal Trial of 1893
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United Statesfeaturing Rebecca M. McLennan, Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States, UC Berkeley Abstract: Drawn from an ongoing book project, this paper surfaces the history of a once-famous, now-forgotten legal dispute over access to the Bering Sea and the right to hunt a species on the brink of extinction. The so-called “fur […]
CSLS Special Event – Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era
295 Law Building - Warren Room 2745 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, United StatesFeaturing Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Abstract: Senior environmental officials at both the state and federal level often give the public the same reassurance about environmental compliance. Almost all companies comply, they say. The large companies comply; it is mainly the small ones that have compliance issues. Does the […]
CSLS Special Event – Race, Law, and Society: Critical Perspectives from the Disciplines
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Megan Ming Francis, G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington; Myisha Eatmon, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University; and Cecilia Menjívar, Professor Sociology and Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “Expressive Law, Social Norms, and Inequality”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Catherine Albiston, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of CSLS, Berkeley Law Abstract: Law and society scholars have long been interested in whether law can change society. Empirical evidence is decidedly mixed, and several studies show that laws meant to reduce inequality have not lived up to their […]
CSLS Speaker Series – “Testing Universalism: Do Interventions Targeting Socioeconomic Inequality, As Opposed to Racial Inequality, Garner Broader Support?”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Danieli Evans, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law Abstract: Scholars of equal opportunity policy have long debated whether framing redistributive programs in more universalist terms—e.g., […]
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