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 away from democracy. Building on work that has shown signs of backsliding in the U.S., a number of studies have demonstrated that, particularly in a […]
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 population. The inability to afford bail prevents many from being released from jail, disproportionately impacting Black Americans and people living in poverty. Recent reforms, such […]
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 States progressively spread its influence across the globe. Analysis continues today of the varied territorial regimes through which the U.S. exerted sovereignty, including the many […]
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 politics contributes to age inequality in political representation. Using record-linkage to construct a novel data set combining the ages of voters, donors, and candidates, we […]
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. They don’t re- register to vote after they move. They fail to “clothe” their mail-in ballots. They think they’re eligible to vote when they’re not. […]
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" This presentation explores the pivotal role of government lawyers in shaping public policy and interpreting the law, with a particular focus on local government attorneys. […]
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 has declared that children have the right to be free from abuse in their homes and that courts making custody determinations should consider one parent’s […]
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, UC Berkeley Abstract: Drawing on over sixty interviews with migrants in eight shelters in Tijuana, Mexico City, and El Paso, we study the effects of […]
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. Congress funds this program with annual appropriations, but each year, it fails to provide enough resources to meet the housing needs of every income-eligible household. […]
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 […]
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