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Film Screening: What these Walls won't Hold
Join us for a screening of What these Walls won't Hold, followed by a live discussion with Director Adamu Chan. To request reasonable...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jordan Grasso - We Have to Build Real, Capital “S” Solidarity: Conceptualizing a Relational and Positive Visions of Safety
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Brook Thomas - Pardoning the Klan: Remembering Reconstruction through a Tale of Forgetting and Forgiving
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Mona Oraby - Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Arón Montenegro - Delinking from the Colonial Matrix of Power through Acts of Resistance and Solidarity
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Asad L. Asad - Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Meghan Ballard - Bureaucratic Policymaking and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLEAR & CLSC | The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs
A public talk by Matt Lassiter, Professor of History & Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Chris Whytock - The Global Legal System
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES - Film Screening and Discussion
Hosted by the UCI Law Criminal Justice Clinic, UCI Law Center on Law, Equality and Race, UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, UCI-LIFTED, and...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryant Jackson-Green - Court-Managed Policy Change: A Content Analysis of Prison-Healthcare Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Katya Moiseeva - Cannabis Legalization in California: A Critical View on Socio-Legal Change
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Sayid Bnefsi - Infliction of Precarity
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa Ballakrishnen - QueEr-CRT
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jordan Grasso - They Haven’t Been Sued Yet: Hooked by Capitalism and Caught in Legal Netting
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: David Jancsics - Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Kaaryn Gustafson - Centering California in the History of Race and the Law
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Seon Song - On Probation
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Tina Shull - Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Angie Belen Monreal - 'One Comes Risking Death’: Reentry Journeys to the U.S After Deportation
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ashley Rubin - The American Prison
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...
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...
Stories from people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported by California Humanities; UCI Illuminations; Office of Inclusive Excellence, Term Chair Associate...-
Jennifer Petersen, Associate Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, will present How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies...
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...-
Paul Kaplan, Professor of Criminal Justice at SDSU School of Public Affairs, will present Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television (Stanford...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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?...-
Carolina Valdivia, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, "Family Reunification in the U.S....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Hillary Berk, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law and Society, will present, ""Clash of the Titans: Escalating Conflict Between Termination, Selective, and...
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Miguel Quintana-Navarrete, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will present, "Revisiting Gender Disparities in Prosecutorial...
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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...
See full descriptions of 2021 and 2022 workshops.
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Stephen LeeStephen 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Breauna Marie SpencerBreauna 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Miguel R Quintana-NavarreteMiguel 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:...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Iris Xiaoshuang LuoIris 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Veronica Valencia GonzalezVeronica 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Justin Lucas SolaJustin 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Meghan Maree BallardMeghan 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica Lopez-EspinoJessica Lopez-Espino, UC Presidents’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Isha BhallamudiIsha 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Gregory ShafferGregory 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Adria L. ImadaAdria 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Tony ChengTony 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Long BuiLong 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jamelia N MorganJamelia 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Nicole IturriagaNicole Iturriaga, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her book, "Exhuming Violent Histories:...
CLSC, LSA CRN on Law and Climate Change & UCI Environmental Humanities | Eve Darian-Smith, Global Burning - Book LaunchThe UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Law and Climate Change, and UCI Environmental Humanities Research...-
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Kira TaitKira 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...
See full descriptions of 2020 and 2021 workshops
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Lya FerreyraLya 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Sameer Ashar, Jocelyn Simonson & Amna AkbarSameer 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Maggie WoodruffMaggie Woodruff, JD and Anthropology PhD candidate, will present her paper, "Ecological Law: Disaster, Shelter, and Advocacy in Orange County." The Socio-Legal Studies...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Laura EnriquezLaura 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ann SouthworthAnn 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryant Jackson-GreenBryant 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,...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Justin Lucas SolaJustin 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...
CLSC & CLS | Professor Hadar Aviram: Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of ParoleOn 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,...-
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica CabreraJessica Cabrera, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "Co-Opted Compliance: How Survivor Activists, University Administrators, and...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji LiJi 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...
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa BallakrishnenSwethaa 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...-
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Breauna SpencerBreauna 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Alex AguirreAlex 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Rachel MoranRachel 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Shauhin TaleshShauhin 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,...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: James BinnallJames Binnall, Associate Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach, will present his book, Twenty Million Angry Men: The...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Hillary BerkHillary Berk, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Harmless ‘Preferences’? An...
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CLSC | Managing Research in the COVID EraPlease join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion of research methods. With a particular focus on supporting early career scholars, our panelists will share experiences...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Margaret GoldmanMargaret 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...
CLSC | Book Talk: Ashley Rubin, The Deviant PrisonThe 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...-
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryan SykesBryan Sykes, Associate Professor in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "Institutional Castling: Military Enlistment...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Joanne DeCaroJoanne 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...
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Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Aziz SohailAziz 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...
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Bryan Sykes |
Continuous Control: Sex Offender Registries, Sexual Threat, and the Making of Criminal Subjects |
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Irene Vega |
What Would a Reasonable Agent Do? Border Patrol Agents' Use of Force Rationales |
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October 26 |
Daniele Piomelli Bob Solomon |
Lost in the Weeds: The Complexities of Researching and Regulating Cannabis |
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November 2 |
Damien Sojoyner |
Book Talk: First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) |
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November 30 |
Marina Bell |
Approaching Reform Failures Through an Abolitionist Lens |
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January 25 |
Brandon Golob Katherine Elder |
A Regional Examination of Sexual Victimization Rates in Juvenile Correctional Facilities |
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Vibhuti Ramachandran |
"Immoral Traffic": Courts, NGOs, and an Anti-Prostitution Law in India |
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Dalié Jiménez |
Thinking Like a Non-Lawyer |
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Emily Taylor Poppe |
AI, Apps, and the Art and Science of Lawyering |
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Jessica Cabrera |
The Hunting Ground in a Compliance Jungle: How Field Actors Construct the Meaning of Compliance in Title IX Campus Sexual Assault Regulation |
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April 12 |
Christopher Seeds |
The Ambivalent Crafting of Life Without Parole |
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April 19 |
Christine Scott-Hayward Aili Malm |
Legal Elites? A Social Network Analysis of Supreme Court Advocates |
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May 3 |
Renée Reizman |
Spectacular Grammar: Infrastructure as Language |
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October 6 |
Hillary Berk |
The Value of Gestational Labor in Contracts for Surrogate Motherhood |
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October 20 |
Brook Thomas |
Book Talk: The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017) |
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October 27 |
Janine Ubink |
The Façade of Participation—Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Relations in South Africa’s Mining Industry |
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Dallas Augustine |
Working Around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Good Work with a Criminal Record |
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Gabriela Gonzalez |
(Working Title) Educational Consequences of Parental Immigrant Detention (co-authored) |
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| Ming Hsu Chen Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Law School |
Constructing Citizenship for Noncitizens |
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Laura E. Enriquez Daniel Millán |
Conceptualizing Deportability in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults |
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Alexandra Natapoff |
Misdemeanor Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
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Vanessa Delgado |
Legal Brokers: Navigating Illegality through Social Capital |
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Emily Taylor Poppe |
The Law School Pipeline |
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Damien Sojoyner |
Book Talk: First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) |
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Tania DoCarmo Emma Gunderson |
Working Title: Punishment or Protection? Carceral Creep and Protecting Child Survivors of Sex Trafficking in Cambodia Handcuffing Victims and Blindfolding Justice: Normative Practices Around Criminalizing Low-Income Women of Color, Trafficking Intervention Courts, & Critical Race Theory as a Model for Attorney Competency & Narrative Resistance at the Post-Conviction Stage |
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Sameer Ashar Catherine Fisk |
Governance and Voice in Workers Centers |
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May 4 |
Diego Gil McCawley |
The Institutionalization of Neoliberal Reforms: A Case Study of Chile's Housing Law and Policy |