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 States

featuring 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 Speaker Series – “Expressive Law, Social Norms, and Inequality”

Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Featuring 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 […]

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 States

Featuring 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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