CSLS Speaker Series
To receive email notification of talk, please send your name and email address to csls@law.berkeley.edu
A light lunch will be served from 12:15 to 12:45p. Coffee will be available.
Unless otherwise noted all talks are 12:45p-2p
in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room at 2240 Piedmont Avenue
SPRING 2012
Monday, January 23 – Franklin ZimringWilliam G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, Berkeley Law
“The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control”
Monday, January 30 – Felicia Kornbluh
Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont
“Disability, Civil Rights, and Law: Jacobus tenBroek, Howard Jay Graham,
and the New Politics of Equality in the Middle Twentieth Century"
Monday, February 6 – Sandra Susan Smith
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
“Searching for Work with a Criminal Record”
(co-authors Nora Broege and Laura Mangels)
paper data
Monday, February 13 – Timothy Lytton
Albert and Angela Faron Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School
"Can You Believe It’s Kosher? Trust, Reputation,
and Non-Governmental Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food”
Monday, February 27 – Wendy Espeland
Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
“Fear of Falling: How Media Rankings Changed Legal Education in America”
Monday, March 5 – Ethan Michelson
Associate Professor of Law, Sociology and East Asian Languages & Cultures, and
Co-Director, Center for Law, Society and Culture, University of Indiana-Bloomington
"Access to Lawyers: Situating the Anomalous Case of China in Global Context"
Monday, March 12 – Meera Deo
Assistant Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson Law School
"The Promise of Grutter: Diverse Interactions at the University of Michigan Law School"
Monday, March 19 – Jonathan Simon
Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
"Brown v Plata: Can Courts Overcome Mass Incarceration?"
(Monday, March 26 – SPRING BREAK)
Monday, April 2 – Kathleen Gerson
Professor of Sociology, New York University
"Blurring Gender Boundaries and the New Worlds of Work and Care"
Monday, April 9 – Pat O'Malley (**To Be Rescheduled)
Professorial Research Fellow, Sydney Law School
“Mass Preventive Justice: Control and Resistance in Consumer Societies”
Monday, April 16 – Ellen Berrey
Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University at Buffalo
“Bottom-Line Diversity:
Race and Productive Pluralism in a Multinational Corporation”
Monday, April 23 – Saira Mohammed
Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law.
“Shame in the Security Council”
FALL 2011
Monday, August 29 – Robert MacCoun
Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
"Military Unit Cohesion and the Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Monday, September 12 – Justice Eliezer Rivlin
Deputy President, Israeli Supreme Court
"Law and Economics in the Israeli Legal System:
Why Learned Hand Never Made It to Jerusalem"
(co-sponsored with Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society
and the Law & Economics Program) --Talk moved to 100 Boalt--
Monday, September 19 – Bryant Garth
Dean and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School
"Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire"
Chapter I Chapter XIV
Monday, September 26 – Amy Kapczynski
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
"A Present Absence: Locating Social Movements Inside of Legal Discourse"
Monday, October 3 – Fred Smith
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
“’Til Voters Do Us Part: Marriage, Initiatives, and Procedural Due Process”
Monday, October 10 – Kenneth Mack
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
"Law, Local Knowledge, and Social Change during the Civil Rights Movement"
Monday, October 17 – Elizabeth Brown and Michael Musheno
Elizbeth Brown, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, San Francisco State University,
Michael Musheno, Director of the Legal Studies Program and Lecturer in Residence, Berkeley Law.
"Risky or Resilient: Confronting Criminological Constructions of Urban Youth"
Monday, October 31 – Elizabeth Loftus
Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology,
and Professor of Law and Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine
"Illusions of Memory"
(co-sponsored with the Seminar on Human Rights and War Crimes)
Monday, November 7 – Jinee Lokaneeta
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Drew University
“Transnational Torture: Law, Violence and State Power in the United States and India”
Table of Contents Introduction Chapter Two
Monday, November 14 – Kent Greenfield
Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar, Boston College Law School
“The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits”
Monday, November 21 – Karen Tani
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
"'Precisely Who Is My Brother's Keeper?'":
Welfare, Federalism, and the Rule of Law, 1935-1965”
Ariela Dubler to be rescheduled
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
"The Maternal Difficulty"
SPRING 2011
Monday, January 24 – Russell Robinson
Visiting Associate Professor, Berkeley Law; Professor of Law, U.C.L.A.
“What's Wrong with Gay Rights”
***This talk will take place in Boalt Hall Rm. 100, Berkeley Law School at 12:30p***
Monday, January 31 – Jennifer L. Skeem
Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, U.C. Irvine and
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, U.C. Berkeley
"Toward Smarter Sentencing: Understanding Alternative Routes to Criminal Behavior"
background papers: one two
Monday, February 7 – Kitty Calavita
Emerita Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, U.C. Irvine
and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society
“Naming, Blaming, and...Disclaiming: Disputing Behind Bars in Three California Prisons”
Monday, February 14 – David Frank
Professor and Chair of Sociology, U.C. Irvine
"Cross-National Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sexual Activity, 1965-2005"
Monday, February 28 – Cybelle Fox
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
"Redrawing the Boundaries of Social Citizenship:
The Rise of Citizenship and Legal Status Restrictions for Welfare and Medicaid"
Monday, March 7 – Erwin Chemerinsky
Founding Dean, U.C. Irvine School of Law
"Not a Free Speech Court:
The Roberts Court and the First Amendment"
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 – Mona Lynch
Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, U.C., Irvine
"Crack Pipes and Policing:
a Case Study of Institutional Racism and Remedial Action in Cleveland"
(co-sponsor--Center on Culture, Immigration, & Youth Violence Prevention; Goldberg Rm, 3:30-5p)
CANCELED--Monday, March 14 – Robert Steinfeld
Professor of Law and Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar, SUNY Buffalo and Visiting Scholar, CSLS
“The Early Anti-Majoritarian Rationale for Judicial Review"
Monday, March 28 – Helen Nissenbaum
Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Professor of Computer Science,
and Senior Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University
"Why Privacy Online is Different, and Why it Isn't"
Monday, April 4 – Cheryl Kaiser
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
“Diversity Structures Create Illusions of Fairness”
Monday, April 11 – David Engel
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University at Buffalo Law School
“‘Law Has Gone Away’: Injury, Religion, and Modernity in Thailand”
Monday, April 18 – Kimberly Richman
Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of San Francisco
“‘By Any Other Name’: The Social and Legal Stakes of Same Sex Marriage”
Monday, April 25 -- Catherine Albiston
Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley
“Law, Norms and the Motherhood/Caretaker Bias in the Workplace”
