Center for the Study of Law & Society
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 […]
CSLS Speaker Series: “Colonizing Liberia: The Constitution of American Empire Before the Insular Cases”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong. Over the 20th century, a variety of scholarship has explored aspects of “American imperialism” or “American empire” as the United […]
CSLS Speaker Series: “Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Jake Grumbach, Associate Professor of the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. Politicians in the United States rank among the oldest globally. This study examines how money in […]
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" […]
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