News

David Lieberman

Luker, who co-founded Berkeley Law’s Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, has interviewed hundreds of women about their experiences before and after the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/29/kristin-luker-on-roe-v-wade/

Dear Campus Community,

The Law and Society Association honors 21 scholars

Two former LSA presidents from UC Berkeley School of Law recently received honors. Lauren Edelman, who served as the Association’s president from 2002-03, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 

Sent on behalf of Haley Anderson--

Hi everyone,

Please click here for the schedule for today's conference. 

The zoom link for today's talk is Berkeley.zoom.us/j/97310759372 

Please be sure you are logged into your zoom account in order to attend the meeting:

Tuesday, April 26, 1-2pm: Haley Anderson will present “Impossible Commands: Hobbes and Spinoza on Rights and Resistance” with David Grewal and Jorge Cortes-Monroy discussing. Register here.

Charts show where homicides are spiking most in the Bay Area
Thursday, February 24, 1:16 pm

Professor Jonathan Simon explains the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities that are vulnerable to violence

The Limits of the Legal Complex: Nordic Lawyers and Political Liberalism

Edited by Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford

• Provides a new application of Nordic exceptionalism in the field of legal politics

Edward L. Rubin andMalcolm M. Feeley, have a forthcoming article in the Oregon Law Review, Criminal Justice through Management: From Police, Prosecutors, Courts and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency, 100 Oregon Law Review (2022 forthcoming).

This article will be one of three featured presentations at a symposium celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Oregon Law Review in early April.

The Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS) at Berkeley Law is pleased to announce the Graduate Fellowship in Empirical Legal Studies for the Academic Year 2022-2023. The University of California Berkeley has long been associated with innovative empirical research on law, at least since the founding of the Center for the Study of Law and Society by Philip Selznick in 1961. CSLS is one of the headwaters for the law and society field and empirical legal studies.

Dear JSP community,

With the start of the new semester, I am delighted to announce the first three sessions of the JSP Forum:

Start around 56 seconds into the podcast to hear the brief segment with Jonathan Simon. 

Click below for the KQED Newscast episode.