Law and Society Association and Research Committee on Sociology of Law

International Meeting on Law and Society

2001 Joint Annual Meetings

Budapest, Hungary

This is a Preliminary Program. It will be revised and updated to reflect corrections, changes and additions as needed until June 1. After than date, any further changes will be shown only in the final program distributed at the meeting. Please report an errors to the LSA Executive Office.

Monday, J u l y 2

3:00 - 8:30 pm     Graduate Student Workshop

Tuesday, J u l y 3

8:30 am - 6:00 pm      Graduate Student Workshop

10:00 am - 1:00 pm    Meeting of CRN 14 "Urban Safety" (for members)

10:00 am - 7:00 pm    LSA Trustee Meeting

2:00 - 8:00 pm      Meeting of CRN 8 "Counter-Hegemonic Globalization"

3:00 - 6:00 pm      Meeting of CRN 14 "Urban Safety" (open to all)

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm     Meeting Registration Open

7:00 - 10:00 pm     RCSL Board Meeting

Wednesday, J u l y 4

7:45 am - 5:30 pm     Registration

8:30 am - 5:30 pm     Book Exhibit and Paper Sales

8:15 - 10:00 am

Sessions

1101   Who Are the Judges?

1102   Internationalization of Justice

1103   The Body in Law: Positionality, Activism, and the State

1104   Emerging Forms of Regulation of Employment (CRN 4)

1106   Feminism and Human Rights

1107   White Collar Crime and Conflicts of Interest

1108   The Construction of Punishment, Truth, and Justice: Theory, Practice, and Perceptions

1109   Law, Morality, and Subjectivity

1110   Roundtable: Law and Society Study Abroad

1112   The Judiciary in Social Context

1113   Theoretical Approaches to Environmental Regulation

1115   European Identities

1116   Roundtable: Reconstruction and Reparations in Comparative Perspective

1117   Remedying Market Failures in Inner-City Lending in the United States

10:00 - 10:15 am   Coffee Break

10:15 am - 12:00 pm

1201   Collaborating Authority: The Intersections of Science and Law

1202   Jury Systems Around the World (CRN 12 )

1203   Writing a Successful Grant Proposal: Advice and Opportunities for Beginners

1204   Space Over Time: History, Territory, and the Uses of Law

1205   Addictions and Controls

1207   Professionals and Pathologies: Responses to Domestic Violence

1208   Nation Building and the Incorporation of “Others” in Germany and Palestine/Israel

1209   Author-Meets-Readers: Making Babies/Making Families, by Mary Lyndon Shanley

1210   The Changing Nature of the Judiciary

1211   Public Interest Lawyering

1212   Sociolegal Perspectives on the Transition from Communism

1213   Homeless

1214   Regulating Health Care Delivery

1215   The Prosecution Process

1216   Processes and Theories of Globalization

1217   Global and Regional Economic Integration: Implications for Labour in Developing Countries

12:00 - 12:30 pm   Lunch Break

12:30 - 2:15 pm

1301   Law and Professionalism as an Instrument for Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century America

1302   Globalization and Legal Culture (WG 2)

1303   Author-Meets-Reader—Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship, by Leah Vosko (CRN 4)

1304   Multinational, Multidisciplinary: The Evolution of the Large Law Firm

1305   Law: Its Material Manifestations

1306   Rights, Race, and Production

1307   Controlling Government in a Globalizing World: Constitutional and Administrative Mechanisms in Comparative Perspective

1308   International Human Rights and Local Legal Reform in Muslim Societies

1309   Critiques of Law and Economics

1310   Insiders and Outsiders: Rethinking the Family

1311   Law in Action: The Azerbaijani, Imperial Russian, Adygei, and Armenian Experiences

1312   States, Winners, and Losers

1313   Property, Democracy, and Social Change

1314   Roundtable: Sovereignty in an Age of Empire—Hardt and Negri

1315   Crime and Its Control

1316   Sociolegal Perspectives on Taxation

1317   Consumer Debt, Debtors, and Bankruptcy: Cultural and Legal Constructs (CRN 6, I)

2:15-2:30 pm   Break

2:30 - 4:15 pm

1400   Thematic Session: Discrimination, Race, Ethnicity and Law

1401   On the Meanings of Pain in Law and Legal Theory

1402   Linguistic Analysis in Multiple Legal Arenas

1403   Human Rights and International Criminal Law I: Yugoslavia and Africa

1404   Developments in European Labour Regulation (CRN 4)

1405   Stating the Grounds of the State

1406   The Politics of Government Lawyering and Legal Administration I

1407   Regulating Physician-Negotiated Death I

1408   Law in Conflict: Contested Cultures of Regulation in the Field of Biotechnology

1410   Local and Global Perspectives on Financial Regulation

1412   Reconstructions of Property Rights

1413   Justice in Post-Authoritarian Transitions

1414   Injury By Internet

1415   Transitional Legalities

1416   The Unspeakable and the Spoken

1417   Remembering June Starr

4:15 - 4:30 pm     Coffee Break

4:30 - 6:15 pm

1501   Perspectives on the Death Penalty in America

1502   Research on Stratification and Opportunity in the Legal Profession

1503   Making Adjudication More Functional . . . and More Fair?

1504   Labour and Migration Issues in Eastern Europe in the Context of EU Enlargement (CRN 4)

1505   Roundtable—Gender, Legal Education, and Culture (CRN 11)

1506   The Politics of Government Lawyering and Legal Administration II

1507   Regulating Physician-Negotiated Death II

1508   The Politics of Crime Risks and Justice

1509   Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Law

1510   The Making and Breaking of Voluntary Taxpaying Cultures

1511   Restoring Justice, Compensating Past Harms

1512   Author-Meets-Reader: Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law, by Sally Merry

1513   Organizational Norms

1514   Roundtable: Challenges for Newer Faculty—The Road to Tenure as a Law and Society Teacher/Scholar

1515   Equality and Social Citizenship

1516   Finance in Emerging Economies and Hegemonic Western Models

1517   Support Structures, Organizational Forms, and the Production of Cause Lawyers (CRN 7)

6:30 - 7:30 pm   Special Session sponsored by the Israeli Law and Society Association: "Israel’s Assassination Policy: Extra-Judicial Executions in the Palestinian Occupied Territories --Law and Society Scholarship in an Embattled Zone"

7:30 - 8:30 pm   Welcome Reception (sponsored by Eötvös Loránd University and Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Thursday, J u l y  5

7:45 am - 5:30 pm   Registration

8:30 am - 5:30 pm   Book Exhibit and Paper Sales

8:15 - 10:00 am

Sessions

2100   Thematic Session Roundtable: Law in Action--The Law and Society Tradition

2101   Law, Crime, and the Emotions

2102  Roundtable: Global Legal Education—Can the World’s Law Faculties Work Together?

2103   Roundtable: Graduate Student Employment

2104   The Law and the Brain: Toward an Empirical Basis for Criminal Law

2105   Dialogues and Monologues in Legal Rhetoric

2106   Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity: A European Perspective on Citizenship

2107   Globalization, Law, and Economic Regulation

2108   Media, Diversity, and Democracy

2109   Regulating the Sexed/Gendered Body

2110   People on the Move: Migration, Asylum, Citizenship, and Law

2111   Freedom of Religion: Accommodating Religious Minorities

2112   Legal Transplants and Legal Development: Free Market or Forced Harmonization?

2113   Closing Community: Territory and Kinship in United States Immigration Law

2115   Representing Women in the Law

2116   Social Theory and Legal Theory I

2117   Author-Meets-Reader: The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, by Rosemary Coombe

10:00 - 10:15 am   Coffee Break

10:15 am - 12:00 pm

2201   Clinton’s Judicial Legacy

2202   Consumer Choice and Real Debtors (CRN 6, II)

2203   Author-Meets-Reader: Pragmatic Psychology and Law in Action--The Case
for Pragmatic Psychology by Daniel P. Fishman

2204   Constitutionalizing Gender Quotas

2206   Roundtable: Natural Law: Origins, Development, and Consequences

2207   Beyond the Behavior of Law: Studies in Blackian Sociology

2208   Legal Change, Legal Culture, and State Structure in Contemporary Europe

2209   Language and the Law: Some Global Perspectives

2210   Market Processes in Punishment

2211   Interrogating the Numbers: Statistics and Criminal Justice Policy

2212   Social History of Law in Latin America (CRN 9)

2213   Classical Sociology of Law

2214   Environmental Regulation in International Perspective

2215   Culture and Language Rights

2216   Law and Memory

2217   Law, Property, and Corruption in Democratizing Societies

12:00 - 12:30 pm   Lunch  Break

12:30 - 2:15 pm

2301   The Education of Cause Lawyers (CRN 7)

2302   Intimate Choices and Their Legal Regulation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2303   Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance (CRN 13)

2304   Mr. Prejudice, Ms. Sympathy, and the Jury

2305   Author Meets Reader: The History of Law in a Multicultural Society: Israel 1917-1967, by Ron Harris, Alexandre Kedar, Asaf Likhovsky, and Pnina Lahav

2306   Politics of Law Making

2307   Race, Identity, and Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts

2308   Negotiating Family: Rights and Care in Relinquishment and Adoption

2309   Corruption and Organized Crime

2310   Queer Challenges to Rights Theory

2311   Winners and Losers in the Courts: Debating the Determinants

2312   Talking Law

2313   Psychological Insights on Law

2314   Legalizing Civil Society

2315   Legal Needs

2316   Privatizing Public Law

2:15 - 2: 30 pm   Break

2:30 - 4:15 pm

2401  Thematic Session: Taking the Rule of Law on the Road—Experiences of International Organizations in the 1990s and Beyond in the Former Soviet World

2402  Law and Social Sciences: Competing or Cooperating Epistemologies

2403   Tools for Regulation (CRN 13)

2404   Queer Families in the Law: Parenting and Sexual Orientation

2405   Human Rights and International Criminal Law II: Theory, Policy, and Jurisdiction

2406   Resolution of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspective

2407   Conflict, Community, and Change: The Role of Cause Lawyers (CRN 7)

2408   Heading East, Heading South: Sovereignty and the New Legal Imperialism

2409   The Future of Legal Theory

2410   Author Meets Reader: Privatizing the Police-State: The Case of Poland, by Maria Los and Andrzej Zybertowicz

2411   Equal Opportunity Around the World

2412   Methodological Reflections on the Study of Social Action and Law

2413   Public Confidence in Courts and Legal Institutions

2414   Indigenous People and the Law: Issues of Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Fairness

2415   Media Cultures and Law

2416   Globalization, Cities, and the Law (WG 7)

2417   Political Trials: Theory and Practice

4:15 - 4:30   Coffee Break

4:30 - 6:15 pm

2500   Thematic Session: The Constitutional Court in a Democratic Transition

2501   Theories of Law in Practice

2502   Deregulation, Expansion of Credit, and Consumer Bankruptcy Law (CRN 6, III)

2503   Globalization and the Search for Fairness in Taxation

2504   Attitudes Toward Law, Lawbreaking, and the Courts

2505   LIVENUDEGIRLSUNITE: A Film and Discussion 

2506   Globalization, Rights, and Citizenship

2507   Ideologies and Objectives in Cause Lawyering (CRN 7)

2508   Prison Law and Prison Conditions

2509   Roundtable—Themes and Trends in Regulatory Studies (CRN 13)

6:30 - 7:30 pm   RCSL Informational Meeting  (open all who are interested)    

6:30 - 8:00 pm  Meeting of CRN 2 “Judicial Reform”  (open to all)
                                Meeting of CRN 3 "Constitutional Ethnography" (open to all)
                                Meeting of CRN 4 “Labor Rights” (open to all)
                                       Meeting of CRN 7 “Cause Lawyering” (open to all)
                                Meeting of CRN 10 “Public Opinion” (open to all)
                                Meeting of CRN 12 "Lay Participation in Legal Systems" 
                                Meeting of WG "Women in the Legal Profession" (for members)

8:30 - 10:30 pm   Danube Riverboat Cruise

Friday, July 6

7:45 am - 5:30 pm  Registration

8:30 am - 5:30 pm  Book Exhibit and Paper Sales

8:15 - 10:00 am

Sessions

3101   Citizenship and Immigration I (CRN 5)

3102   Comparative Perspectives on Judicial Reform (CRN 2)

3103   Same-Sex Relations in State Policy

3104   Responses to Domestic Violence: Comparing Approaches and Consequences

3105   Negotiating, Disputing, Reforming: Social Struggles Over Land

3106   Controlling the Socially Excluded

3107   Juries and Jury Reform

3108   Law, Communication, and Technology

3109   Legislation and the Creation of a Civil Society: International Perspectives

3110   Socio-Legal Aspects of Business Conduct

3111   Environment Regulation and the Common Law

3112   Roundtable—The Changing Role of the Judiciary (WG 1)

3113   Law, Minority Religions, and Religious Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe

3114   Reading Law and Its Construction

3115   The Impact of Women’s Movements on Policy and Participation in Post-Industrial Democracies: Findings of the Research Network on Gender, Politics, and the State

3116   Defending a “Right to Home” in Hostile Territories: The United States, Croatia, and the West Bank

3117   Public and Private Redress Mechanisms

10:00 - 10:15 am  Coffee Break

10:15 am - 12:00 pm

3201   Exporting American Law and Lawyers

3202   Law in the Image

3203   Capital Punishment: Policies and Research

3204   Judicial Independence and Internal Control

3205   Alternative Dispute Resolution in a World Context (CRN 2)

3206   Bush v. Gore: Responses at Home and Abroad

3207   The Place of Law and Legal Theory

3208   Grave Charges and the Distortion of Criminal Trials

3209   International Traders and Crusaders in State Expertise

3210   The Uses of Data in Legal Proceedings

3211   Evaluating Measures Against Racism and Xenophobia (WG 4)

3212   Classic Books: Establishing Paradigms—The Continuing Influence of Classic Texts in Legal Anthropology

3213   Roundtable: Social Cohesion, Multiculturality, and the Law: An Interdisciplinary Debate

3214   Race, Space, and Public Memory: Law and the Making of White Settler Nations

3215   Emergent Adulthood and International Human Rights Regimes

3216   Punishing Children

3217   Recent Developments in Consumer Bankruptcy (CRN 6, IV)

12:00 - 2:15 pm  Lunch Break

12:15 - 2:00 pm  LSA Presidential Luncheon

2:15 - 4:00 pm

3401   Social Capital(ism) and Heavy Lifting: Community Organizations as Agents of Development and Democracy

3402   The Gap Between Legal Rhetoric and Reality

3404   Women in the Legal Profession I (WG 1)

3405   Lay Participation in Legal Decision-Making (CRN 12)

3406   Crime and Punishment: Ideologies and Experiences

3407   Deaths of Narrative: Injury, Legality, Subjectivity

3408   Legal Education and Law Schools

3409   Human Rights in Law and Practice I

3410   Race in Court

3411   Contesting Claims for Alternative Dispute Resolutions

3412   Social Services and the Law

3413   Legal Fictions—Legal Truths

3414   Social-Political Location and Practice in Native American Law

3415   Constitutional Structures and Meanings I

3416   Fear and Safety: Sources of Danger

3417   Author-Meets-Reader: French Lawyers: A Study in Collective Action, 1274-1994, by Lucien Karpik

4:00 - 4:15 pm  Coffee Break

4:30 - 6:15 pm

3501   Sociology of European Integration (WG 8)

3502   Roundtable: Globalization, Development, and Core Labor Rights (CRN 4)

3503   International Uses of Cyberspace I: New Uses of Technology and New Disputes

3504   Women in the Legal Profession II (WG 1)

3505   Reflections on Jury Decision-Making and Jury Roles (CRN 12)

3506   Roundtable: Integration of the Global and the Local—Socio-Legal Issues of Regulation

3507   Law School and Beyond

3508   Migration, Citizenship, and Asylum

3509   Human Rights in Law and Practice II

3510   After Word

3511   Death Penalty Discourse

3512   Race and Professional Careers: Identity, Opportunity, and the Ideology of Equality in Twenty-First Century Professions I

3513   Legal Physiology: The Alchemy of Pleasure and Risk

3514   Roundtable: Bridging the Worlds of Research and Action: Pitfalls and Opportunities

3515   Constitutional Structures and Meanings II

3516   Law and Narrative

3517   Author-Meets-Reader: Battered Women and Feminist Law Making, by Elizabeth M. Schneider

6:30 - 8:00 pm Meeting of CRN 4 “Immigration and Citizenship”
                            Meeting of CRN 6 “Bankruptcy” (open  to all)
                                     Meeting of CRN 11 “Gender and Legal Education”

7:30 - 8:30 pm City of Budapest Reception