Events
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Lee Cabatingan
4/7/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Lee Cabatingan, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society and Anthropology at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, "A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean."
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Miguel Quintana-Navarrete
3/24/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Miguel Quintana-Navarrete, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, "Revisiting Gender Disparities in Prosecutorial and Judicial Decision-Making: Exploring Focal Concerns Theory in the Global South."
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Hillary Berk
3/17/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Hillary Berk, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law and Society, will present, ""Clash of the Titans: Escalating Conflict Between Termination, Selective, and Multi-Fetal Reduction Clauses in Surrogacy Contracts and the Recriminalization of Abortion."
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Christopher Seeds
2/17/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Christopher Seeds, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life without Parole and Perpetual Confinement (UC Press, 2022).
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Stephen Lee
2/10/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Stephen Lee, Professor of Law at UCI Law, will present, "Continuous Presence in an Era of Immigrant Exclusion."
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson
2/3/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society and Anthropology at UCI School of Social Ecology, and Barbara Yngvesson, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Hampshire College, will present, Documenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory and the “As If" (forthcoming 2022).
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Li
1/27/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at UCI Law, will present, "The Forever Sojourner: Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the US."
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Carolina Valdivia
1/13/2023
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Carolina Valdivia, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, "Family Reunification in the U.S. Post-Deportation."
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
Davina Cooper | Should the Law Recognize Multiple Genders or None?
1/11/2023
3:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
UCI Law welcomes Davina Cooper, Research Professor in Law & Political Theory at King's College London, to discuss, "Should the Law Recognize Multiple Genders or None? Exploring the Stakes and Challenges in Radically Reforming Sex/Gender Classification."
This talk explores how the law should respond to gender identity. In many countries, governments and laws are making gender-transitioning easier or recognizing new gender identities such as nonbinary. Is this the right approach or would it be better if the law stopped registering gender and sex altogether? Can law do this, and still address gender-related inequalities and other forms of injustice?
Through four years of extensive funded research, the Future of Legal Gender Project explored the implications of abolishing legal sex and gender status in Britain. This talk explores the findings and conclusions of the project (read the final report here). It traces arguments made by those opposed to reform, explores other ways of understanding these arguments - to see them as prompts for more radical change rather than obstacles - and considers the value of 'slow law'.
Davina Cooper who led this research project is a Research Professor in Law & Political Theory at King's College London. Professor Cooper is an interdisciplinary law and society scholar whose work focuses on radical governance, utopian practices, sexual politics and new conceptual methods. She is the author of 6 books including Feeling Like a State and Everyday Utopias (Duke UP) and Challenging Diversity (CUP). She directed the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality, and has been a local magistrate and a local politician in London, where she played a prominent role in the 1980s development of British lesbian and gay equality initiatives.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Joseph DiMento
12/2/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Joseph DiMento, Distinguished Professor of Law at UCI Law, will present, Polar Shift: The Arctic Sustained (Anthem Press, 2022).
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Ann Southworth
11/18/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Ann Southworth, Professor of Law at UCI Law, will present, $peech: The Campaign to Unleash Big Money in American Politics (forthcoming).
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Ji Li
11/4/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCI School of Humanities, and Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at UCI Law, will present, "Chinese Immigrant Legal Mobilization in the U.S.: The 2020 Executive Ban on WeChat and Civil Rights in a Digital Age."
A link to the draft paper will be provided in registration confirmation email.
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Amanda Geller
10/28/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Amanda Geller, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, "The Health Consequences of Media as Vicarious Exposure to Police Violence."
Access to the draft paper will be sent with registration confirmation.
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Paul Kaplan
10/21/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Paul Kaplan, Professor of Criminal Justice at SDSU School of Public Affairs, will present Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television (Stanford University Press, 2022).
The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine Faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined. The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/14/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/13/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/12/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Keri Blakinger - Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
10/12/2022
4:30:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Winifred Smith Hall
Keri Blakinger is a Texas-based journalist and the author of the memoir Corrections in Ink, tracing her path from figure skating to heroin addiction to prison and, finally, to life as an investigative reporter covering mass incarceration.
Free signed copies of her book available for a limited time on October 12.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/11/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/7/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/6/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/5/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
10/4/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Jennifer Petersen
9/30/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Jennifer Petersen, Associate Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, will present How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke University Press, 2022).
Read the Introduction (PDF)
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
9/30/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
9/29/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
9/28/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
PrisonPandemic | Exhibit: Locked Up and Locked Down
9/27/2022
2:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate Professor Bryan L. Sykes; Center for Storytelling; UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Hiring Cluster in Poetic Justice; Criminology, Law and Society Department; African American Studies Department; Film and Media Studies Department; Comparative Literature Department; Gender & Sexuality Studies Department; Anthropology Department; Center for Law, Society & Culture, English Department; School of Law, and The Paul Merage School of Business.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Sayid Bnefsi
9/23/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI Law
Sayid Bnefsi, JD Candidate at UCI School of Law and PhD candidate in Philosophy at UCI School of Humanities, will present, "Preliminary Damages and Justiciable Risks."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Kira Tait
4/22/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Kira Tait, UCI CLS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting, "The Power of Perspectives: Thinkability as an Approach to Understanding Legal Mobilization."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
CLSC, LSA CRN on Law and Climate Change & UCI Environmental Humanities | Eve Darian-Smith, Global Burning - Book Launch
4/20/2022
3:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
The UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Law and Climate Change, and UCI Environmental Humanities Research Cluster welcome Eve Darian-Smith to discuss her new book, Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis (SUP, 2022).
With comments from:
Dina Gilio Whitaker, CSU San Marcos
Julie Sze, UC Davis
James Nisbet, UCI
Fabio de Sa e Silva, The University of Oklahoma
Moderated by Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Keramet Reiter.
About the Book
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.
Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice.
The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.
About the Author
Eve Darian-Smith is Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies, Professor of Global Studies, and affiliated faculty in Law; Anthropology; and Criminology, Law & Society at UCI. Trained as a lawyer, historian and anthropologist, Darian-Smith is a critical interdisciplinary scholar interested in issues of postcolonialism, human rights, legal pluralism, and sociolegal theory. Her current work focuses on authoritarianism and crises of democracy. Her research has been supported by five grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, American Philosophical Society, and the UC Center for New Racial Studies.
Darian-Smith has published widely, including thirteen books, edited volumes and special issues. Her first book, Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe (2009) was the co-winner of the Law & Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize. Her book, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts (2013) won the International Book Award in Law and the Kevin Boyle Book Award. Her book, coauthored with Philip McCarty, The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies (2017), is widely considered a foundational text in the emerging field of global studies.
Registrants will receive a code for 20 percent off book purchases.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Nicole Iturriaga
4/15/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Nicole Iturriaga, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her book, "Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past" (Columbia University Press, 2022).
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jamelia N Morgan
4/1/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Jamelia N Morgan, Assistant Professor of Law at UCI Law, will be presenting her paper, "On the Legal & Social Construction of Race and Disability: An Intersectional Approach."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Long Bui
3/11/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Long Bui, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting his book, "Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton" (Temple University Press, April 2022).
About the Book:
How have Asians and Asian Americans been treated as non-human or less than human (subhuman) cyborgs throughout history? The modern colonial idea that Asians behave, think, and act like robotic machines in the West has been used to justify all types of human rights abuses. As things or objects, they have been subjected to indentured servitude, forced prostitution, and concentration camps. Under this globally circulating stereotype, we find strange sociolegal issues of labor, criminality, disability, and citizenship around those not seen as Homo sapien but as human automatons. The author presents some case studies around this matter.
About the Author:
Long T. Bui is Associate Professor of Global and International at University of California, Irvine. His second book, Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton is forthcoming with Temple University Press in June 2022.
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Tony Cheng
2/25/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Tony Cheng, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting from his book manuscript, "Blue Illusions: Machine Policing and the Production of Public Input".
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Adria L. Imada
2/18/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Adria L. Imada, Professor of History at the UCI School of Humanities, will be presenting her book, "An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration" (January 2022, University of California Press).
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Gregory Shaffer
2/11/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor of Law at UCI Law, will present his recently published book, Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law (Cambridge 2021).
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
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Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Spring is TBD. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Isha Bhallamudi
1/28/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Isha Bhallamudi, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "Gender Dynamics of App-Based Gig Work in India."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In light of continuing COVID-19 public health concerns, all remaining 2021-22 workshops are scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica Lopez-Espino
12/10/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Jessica Lopez-Espino, UC Presidents’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals of Parents in Child Welfare Cases."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Meghan Maree Ballard
11/12/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Meghan Maree Ballard, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "No U.S. dough to help Jim Crow grow: A socio-legal history of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Justin Lucas Sola
11/5/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Justin Lucas Sola, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "A Face Too Many: Neoliberalism Theories in Law and Society."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Veronica Valencia Gonzalez
10/29/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Veronica Valencia Gonzalez, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology and UCI Initiative to End Family Violence Graduate Student Fellow, will be presenting their paper, "Formal Help-Seeking of Latina Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence During a Period of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment."
Presented in partnership with the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence.
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Iris Xiaoshuang Luo
10/22/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Iris Xiaoshuang Luo, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "An Empirical Test of Procedural Fairness, Legitimacy and Public Cooperation with the Police in China."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Miguel R Quintana-Navarrete
10/8/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Miguel R Quintana-Navarrete, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "How to avoid a trial: Public counsel and criminal case disposition in Mexico."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Breauna Marie Spencer
10/1/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Breauna Marie Spencer, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "The Race-Gendered Experiences of White Men Enrolled in STEM Doctoral Programs."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Stephen Lee
9/24/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Stephen Lee, Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "The Lives and Livelihood of Migrants."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Aziz Sohail
4/30/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Aziz Sohail, MFA Candidate at the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, will be discussing the exhibition, "how to gently unpack an empire."
landing: Unpacking empire and ourselves I
Aziz Sohail in conversation with Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Assistant Professor of Law, UCI Law.
Join us for a conversation between the curator, Aziz Sohail, and their professor, Swethaa Ballakrishnen, about the conceptual framing of this project and its personal unfolding during their graduate career.
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Joanne DeCaro
4/23/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Joanne DeCaro, PhD candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Unnamed Wounds: Alinear Temporality and Indirect Trauma."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryan Sykes
4/16/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Bryan Sykes, Associate Professor in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "Institutional Castling: Military Enlistment and Mass Incarceration in the United States."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
CLSC | Book Talk: Ashley Rubin, The Deviant Prison
4/5/2021
2:00:00 PM to 3:30:00 PM
The UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture and Department of Criminology, Law, and Society welcome Ashley Rubin to discuss her new book, The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 (Cambridge 2021).
Abstract:
Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn System, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania System, where prisoners faced 24-hour solitary confinement for the duration of their sentences. By the close of the Civil War, the majority of prisons in the United States had adopted the Auburn System—the only exception was Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, making it the subject of much criticism and a fascinating outlier. Using the Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison brings to light anxieties and other challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today. Drawing on organizational theory and providing a rich account of prison life, the institution, and key actors, The Deviant Prison examines why Eastern's administrators clung to what was increasingly viewed as an outdated and inhuman model of prison—and what their commitment tells us about penal reform in an era when prisons were still new and carefully scrutinized.
About the Author:
Ashley Rubin is an assistant professor of Sociology at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Rubin's research examines the dynamics of penal change throughout US history. In particular, she uses organizational theory, law and society, punishment and society, and prison sociology to understand prisoner behavior, administrative behavior, and penal trends more broadly. In addition to her books The Deviant Prison and Rocking Qualitative Social Science, she is currently writing a book on the history of American prisons.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Margaret Goldman
4/2/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Margaret Goldman, PhD candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Freeing Los Angeles."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
CLSC | Managing Research in the COVID Era
4/1/2021
12:30:00 PM to 2:30:00 PM
Please join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion of research methods. With a particular focus on supporting early career scholars, our panelists will share experiences and offer insights on approaching research in this challenging time.
Panelists include:
Ana Muñiz, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology
Tony Cheng , PhD Candidate in Sociology, Yale University
Katherine Marino, Associate Professor of History, UCLA College of Social Sciences
Marnie Howlett, PhD Candidate in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
Chiara Packard, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Trevor Gardner, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Hillary Berk
3/12/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Hillary Berk, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Harmless ‘Preferences’? An Analysis of Race, Religion, and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Surrogacy Matching Process."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: James Binnall
3/5/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
James Binnall, Associate Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach, will present his book, Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System (UC Press, 2021).
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Shauhin Talesh
2/19/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Shauhin Talesh, Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Health Insurance and Transgender Patient Access to Health Care: Barriers, Work-Arounds, and the Social Construction of Medical Necessity."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Rachel Moran
2/12/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Rachel Moran, Distinguished Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting her paper, "The Pocketbook Next Time: From Civil Rights to Market Power in the Latinx Community."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Alex Aguirre
2/5/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Alex Aguirre, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Procedural Justice and the Construction of Inequality within the Los Angeles Police Commission."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Breauna Spencer
1/29/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Breauna Spencer, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "The Social-Psychological Effects of Racial Subjugation of Black Males in Higher Education Institutions."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa Ballakrishnen
1/22/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Assistant Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be discussing their book, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India's Professional Elite."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Li
1/15/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the American Legal System ."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica Cabrera
1/8/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Jessica Cabrera, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "Co-Opted Compliance: How Survivor Activists, University Administrators, and Men's Rights Groups Shaped Title IX (1972-2020)."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
CLSC & CLS | Professor Hadar Aviram: Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole
1/4/2021
2:00:00 PM to 3:30:00 PM
On behalf of the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, we are pleased to invite you to the following event co-hosted with UCI Criminology, Law and Society:
Hadar Aviram, Professor of Law at UC Hastings Law, will present a book talk titled Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole on January 4th, 2021 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. via Zoom.
ABSTRACT:
In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his “family” of followers. Although the defendants were sentenced to death in 1971, their sentences were commuted to life with parole in 1972; since 1978, they have been regularly attending parole hearings. Today all of the living defendants remain behind bars. Relying on nearly fifty years of parole hearing transcripts, as well as interviews and archival materials, Hadar Aviram invites readers into the opaque world of the California parole process—a realm of almost unfettered administrative discretion, prison programming inadequacies, high-pitched emotions, and political pressures. Yesterday’s Monsters offers a fresh longitudinal perspective on extreme punishment.
BIO:
Professor Hadar Aviram (UC Hastings) specializes in criminal justice, civil rights, law and politics, and social movements, and her research employs socio-legal perspectives and methodologies. Her first book Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (UC Press, 2015, winner of the CHOICE Award for Academic Titles) analyzed the impact of the financial crisis on the American correctional landscape. Her most recent book Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole (UC Press, 2020) examines the California parole process through 50 years of parole transcripts in the Manson Family cases. She served as the President of the Western Society of Criminology and on the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, and is currently the Book Review Editor of the Law & Society Review.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Justin Lucas Sola
12/4/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Justin Lucas Sola, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryant Jackson-Green
11/13/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Bryant Jackson-Green, JD/PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology and UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Federal and State Clemency: Organization, Process, and Discretion."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ann Southworth
11/6/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Ann Southworth, Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting her paper, "Strange Bedfellows: The Litigation Coalition Behind Citizens United v. FEC."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Laura Enriquez
10/30/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Laura Enriquez, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be discussing her book, "Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Maggie Woodruff
10/23/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Maggie Woodruff, JD and Anthropology PhD candidate, will present her paper, "Ecological Law: Disaster, Shelter, and Advocacy in Orange County."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Sameer Ashar, Jocelyn Simonson & Amna Akbar
10/16/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Sameer Ashar, Clinical Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, Jocelyn Simonson, Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and Amna Akbar, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, will be presenting their paper, "Movement Law: Legal Scholarship for the Democratic Resurgence."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Lya Ferreyra
10/9/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
Lya Ferreyra, JD candidate, will present her paper, "Matter of A-B- and the Dissolution of Gender-Based Asylum Claims in the U.S."
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Judy Wu
3/13/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Judy Wu, Professor of Asian American Studies, UCI School of Humanities
"The Third Wave: Patsy Takemoto Mink and Intersectional Legislative Activism"
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work. Unless otherwise noted, all Workshop sessions will meet on Fridays, 12:00–1:15 p.m., at the UCI School of Law, room 3500H.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Chandra Middleton
2/21/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Chandra Middleton, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UCI School of Social Sciences
"The Art of Writing Federal Regulations"
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work. Unless otherwise noted, all Workshop sessions will meet on Fridays, 12:00–1:15 p.m., at the UCI School of Law, room 3500H.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ian Baran
1/31/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.
This workshop will be featuring Ian Baran's "Environmental Justice and Abolitionist Movements."
Ian Baran, Ph.D. candidate in Planning, Policy and Design, UCI School of Social Ecology
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Veronica Gonzalez
1/10/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Veronica Gonzalez, Ph.D. candidate in Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology
"Immigrant and Undocumented Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and the Policies Surrounding their Legal Status"
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work. Unless otherwise noted, all Workshop sessions will meet on Fridays, 12:00–1:15 p.m., at the UCI School of Law, room 3500H.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Long Bui
11/22/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Long Bui, Assistant Professor of International Studies, UCI School of Social Sciences
Book Talk: Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (NYU Press, 2019)
Abstract:
In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Though this former ally of the United States has vanished from the present world map, Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for the country’s refugees. This attachment demands a deeper engagement with the law of war and the unique ways it works for countries in the Global South. Returns of War considers argues that the end of South Vietnam signals more than an example of flawed American military strategy and policy (Vietnamization), but a larger allegory of imperial power.
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work. Unless otherwise noted, all Workshop sessions will meet on Fridays, 12:00–1:15 p.m., at the UCI School of Law, room 3500H.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: David Kaye
10/25/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law, UCI School of Law
Book Talk: Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work. Unless otherwise noted, all Workshop sessions will meet on Fridays, 12:00–1:15 p.m., at the UCI School of Law, room 3500H.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Stephen Lee
9/27/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Stephen Lee, Professor of Law, UCI School of Law
"Family Separation as Slow Death"
The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work. Unless otherwise noted, all Workshop sessions will meet on Fridays, 12:00–1:15 p.m., at the UCI School of Law, room 3500H.
If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Christine Scott-Hayward
4/19/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Christine Scott-Hayward, Assistant Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach: "Legal Elites? A Social Network Analysis of Supreme Court Advocates."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Christopher Seeds
4/12/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Christopher Seeds, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology: "Life without Parole and Imprisonment until Death: A Socio-Legal History."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica Cabrera
2/22/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Jessica Cabrera, PhD Candidate in Sociology, UCI School of Social Sciences: "The Hunting Ground in a Compliance Jungle: How Field Actors Construct the Meaning of Compliance in Title IX Campus Sexual Assault Regulation."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Emily Taylor Poppe
2/15/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Emily Taylor Poppe, Assistant Professor of Law, UCI School of Law: "AI, Apps, and the Art and Science of Lawyering."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Dalié Jiménez
2/8/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Dalié Jiménez, Professor of Law, UCI School of Law will present "Thinking Like a Non-Lawyer."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Vibhuti Ramachandran
2/1/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Vibhuti Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies, UCI School of Social Sciences: "Immoral Traffic": Courts, NGOs, and an Anti-Prostitution Law in India.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Brandon Golog & Katherine Elder
1/25/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Brandon Golob, UCI Social Ecology, and Katherine Elder, California State University, Channel Islands: "A Regional Examination of Sexual Victimization Rates in Juvenile Correctional Facilities."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Marina Bell
11/30/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Marina Bell, PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology: "Approaching Reform Failures Through an Abolitionist Lens."
CLSC Speaker: Erin L. Thompson, "'The Sea, the sea!' Art, Activism and Guantánamo"
11/5/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:30:00 PM
UCI School of Humanities
Humanities Gateway
Erin L. Thompson, Associate Professor of Art Crime at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, recently curated an exhibit of art by Guantánamo Bay detainees, most of whom have never faced trial or even had charges filed against them. Their artworks have been among the only ways detainees could communicate with the outside world - until the Pentagon declared it would no longer allow detainee-made art to leave Guantánamo.
Professor Thompson will discuss the exhibit and its consequences, her work with former detainees, and the unlikely ways their paintings of the sea reopened the debate on the future of Guantánamo. She will analyze the basis for the Pentagon's disputed claim that detainee- produced artworks are government property, possible ways to preserve detainee art, and the government's response to a filing seeking the release of detainee art (citing a Japanese internment case as precedent for government freedom to conduct war by any means necessary).
Professor Thompson received her JD from Columbia Law School, Certificate in Global Business Law from the Sorbonne, both a PhD and MPhil in Art History from Columbia, and BA in Art History and Philosophy from Barnard. Her recent book, Possession: The Curious HIstory of Private Collectors, covers the history of private collecting of Greek and Roman antiquities. She is currently researching the ways in which terrorist groups both sell and destroy art to support the genocidal campaigns, as well as the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Damien Sojoyner
11/2/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Damien Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UCI School of Social Sciences: Book Talk: First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bob Solomon & Daniele Piomelli
10/26/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Daniele Piomelli, UCI School of Medicine, and Bob Solomon, UCI School of Law: "Lost in the Weeds: The Complexities of Researching and Regulating Cannabis."
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Irene Vega
10/19/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Irene Vega, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCI School of Social Ecology: "What Would a Reasonable Agent Do? Border Patrol Agents' Use of Force Rationales."
CLSC Speaker: Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy, "'If My Friends Could See Me Now': Filipina American Dreams"
10/19/2018
2:00:00 PM to
UCI School of Humanities
Humanities Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697
The UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture is pleased to support this presentation of the Anti- Imperialism & (En)gendering Resistance in the Philippines lecture series, featuring Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy (UC Berkeley).
What would happen if we placed the lives of Filipino women at the center of a transnational narrative about U.S. and Philippine histories? This talk explores the connections and divergences among three Filipino women Encarnacion Alzona, Ines Cayaban, and Pacita Abad who migrated to the United States at different times during the twentieth century, led singular careers in education, public health, and visual art, and left documentation of their lives and work for posterity. In doing so, they reveal the opportunities, but also constraints of the legacy of the U.S. colonial presence in the Philippines.
Sponsored by: Humanities Commons, Department of Asian American Studies, Department of Global and International Studies, Department of History, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Illuminations, Center in Law, Society & Culture, Center for Asian Studies, and the Latin American Studies Center.
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryan Sykes
9/28/2018
12:10:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Bryan Sykes, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology: "Continuous Control: Sex Offender Registries, Sexual Threat, and the Making of Criminal Subjects."