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Class
1103  Roundtable--Legal Services Delivery to Low Income Clients: Empirical Research Model
2103  Privatization, Labor Markets, and Accountability
2206  Spaces of Exclusion: Housing, Homelessness, Property, and Citizenship in Contemporary Urban Space
3310  Children, Law, and Society I
3311  The Inadequacies and Injustices of Government Housing Programs

 

Comparative Law
1215  Globalization and Law: Rethinking the Law and Society Link
1218  Disputes at the International Level
1306  Families and Welfare: An International Perspective
2216  Jury and Criminal Procedure in Comparative Perspective [CRN 4]
2407  Constructing Rights in Africa
3218  Globalization and Contested Conceptions of Community Membership
4108  Constitutional Rights in Transitional Societies
4117  Indigenous Sovereignty and Citizenship: Thinking Ethnographically Along the Boundaries of Indigenous Nationhood and the Law
4216  Legal Tradition and Legal Transplantation: Continuity and Change

 

Constitutionalism
1104  Voluntary Associations and the American Experience
1204  Dissent and Democracy: Who's In and Who's Out?
1303  Courts and Democratic Legitimacy
2102  Constitutionalism and the Underrepresented
2210  The Americans with Disabilities Act in Legal and Philosophical Perspective
3113  Comparing Post-Communist Judicial Empowerment: Views from Above and Below [CRN 1]
3204  After September 11: Civil Liberties and Civil Order
3307  Constitutional Theories and Studies
3404  Hate Speech and Anti-Discrimination: Comparative Views
4104  Roundtable--Neglected Policies: New Learning from Constitutional Law
4203  Hate Speech and Censorship

 

Courts
1202  Writing a Successful Grant Proposal: Advice and Opportunities for Beginners
1304  Litigation, Political Participation, and Rights
2105  Adjudication of Salient Cases
2205  Judicial Review and Judicial Activism in Israel
2304  Legal Reform in Late Imperial Russia and the Post-Soviet States
4105  Legal Mobilization: Worker Litigation and Employer Reponses to Regulation
4204  Roundtable--The Courts and Workers: The Most Dangerous Branch?

 

Crime and Punishment
1106  Restorative Justice, Community Policing, and Survivors Rights
1207  The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives I [CRN 11]
1307  Juveniles in the Justice System
1308  Roundtable--The Killing State and the Penal Apparatus [CRN 11]
2108  Criminal Narratives
2208  Prisons, Crime, and the State
2306  Policing the Streets
2415  Critical Views on Late-Modern Forms of Control and Punishment
3109  Criminal Opinions: Law, Consciousness, and Public Opinion
3115  Prosecution and Defense
3206  The Changing Meaning of Mens Rea
3313  The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives IV [CRN 11]
3408  The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives II [CRN 11]
3409  Author-Meets-Reader--Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement, by Valerie Jenness and Ryken Grattet
3415  Intimate Violence, Poverty, Children and the State: Understanding Effects and Locating Accountability
4107  Crime and Punishment in the Global Setting
4206  Law, Norms, and Community
4210  The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives III [CRN 11]

 

Cultural Studies
1101  Law and Literature: Representing Race and Gender
1203  Inequality, Memory, and Identity in Legal Consciousness Research [CRN 7]
2202  Rights Resentment: On the (Status Quo) Politics of American Nationalism
2301  Author-Meets-Reader--Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime, by Jeannine Bell [CRN 7]
2302  Reconceiving Disability
2413  Legal Consciousness at "Work" [CRN 7]
3205  Narratives, Languages, and Legal Consciousness
3406  Presidential Panel--Roundtable--Law on Film: On the Politics and Political Significance of Film Spectatorship (Panel Organizer, Austin Sarat, Association President, 1998-1999)
4205  Roundtable--Lakoff Meets Lacan

 

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Disputes and Negotiation
1117  Possibility of ADR in Diverse Cultural Settings
2317  Legal Consciousness and Disputing Behavior
2412  Author-Meets-Reader--Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution, by Michael J. Alberstein
3403  Lay Judges and Lay Mediators: International Perspectives I [CRN 4]
4116  Lay Judges and Lay Mediators: International Perspectives II

 

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Economic Law
1205  Torts: A Sociolegal Beachhead in the First-Year Law School Curriculum
1217  Corporations in Modern Society I: Attempts to Affect Corporate Culture
1317  Corporations in Modern Society II: Legal Regulation of the Behavior of Officers and Directors
2207  Corporations in Modern Society III: Alternative Means of Exercising Oversight over Public Corporations
2305  Intellectual Property
2414  Privatization and Globalization
3114  The Limits of Self-Interest in Business Transactions
3309  Constructing Markets and Market Expectations
3407  Corporations in Modern Society IV: Stakeholder Capitalism in the 21st Century
3414  Author-Meets-Reader--The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law, by David Driesen

 

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Family
1102  Cultural Construction of Domestic Violence
2408  The Legal Construction of Family: Marriage, Divorce, and Social Policy

 

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Gender
1105  Origins of and Responses to Sexual Harassment Laws
1206  Gender, Speech, and Performance
1302  New Directions in Sexual Harassment Research: Gender Conformity and Same-Sex Harassment
2113  Roundtable--Teaching Gender and Law: Challenges and Possibilities
2203  Sexual Harassment and Discrimination
2310  Roundtable--Integrating Gender into Legal Education: Transforming Women's Legal Status [CRN 9]
2409  Women in Latin America, Iran, and Russia
3112  In the Company of Men: Masculinity, Sexual Harassment in Male Dominated Work
3202  The Sociology of Sexual Harassment
3304  Sexual Violence and Violence Between Intimates
3402  Gender, Culture, and Globalization
3417  Feminism, Restorative Justice, and Violence Against Women I
4202  Feminism, Restorative Justice, and Violence Against Women II

 

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Health and Medicine
1108  Health Care, Courts, and Crime
2110  Regulation and Medical Judgment
3102  Minding the Gap: Linking Informed Consent Theory to Practice–Birth, Sex, and Death
3211  Law, Genetics, and Bioethics
3312  Globalization, Exploitation, and Public Health: The Financing and Regulation of Drugs and Health Care Systems
3411  Evidence, Experts, and Ethics: Intersections and Boundaries
4111  Knowledge, Power, and the State: Comparative Approaches to Freedom and Information

 

History
1115  Liberalism and the American State
1316  Science, Technology, and Labor in Legal History
2402  Roundtable--Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at 25: Interdisciplinary Studies in Law and Society at a New Crossroads?
3108  Justice, Violence, Extra-Legal Authority, and Unwritten Law
3217  Navigating the Rapids: The Marshall Court, Water Rights Cases, and National Identity in the Early Republic

 

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International Law
1114  Theorizing/Historicizing International Law
1214  Theorizing the Local/Global Interface
1216  War Crimes
2117  Youth, Globalization, and Law
2318  Book Session--Legal Pluralism in the Context of Globalisation
3216  Roundtable--Empirical Approaches to International Human Rights Law
3306  Regulation and Human Rights: A Major Intersection on the Globalisation Highway?
3318  Creative Approaches to International Traditions and Issues
3416  Human Responsibilities, Rights, and Legal Norms
4214  International Human Rights

 

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Judges
1212  Female Judges' Careers and Consciousness
2112  Judging, the Judiciary, and the Constitution
4211  Judges On and Off the Bench: A Comparative Look

 

Juries/Lay Participation
2418  Empirical Studies of Juries Using the New NIJ/NCSC Data [CRN 4]

 

Justice
1118  Roundtable--Rethinking Equality
1209  Legal and Social Scientific Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: The Social Construction of Truth
1309  Roundtable--Poverty Discourse in Law & Society Scholarship in the United States and Canada II
2109  Roundtable--Ellerth and Faragher Five Years Later: The Disconnect Between Social Science Research and Sexual Harassment Doctrine [CRN 8]
2209  Labor Past as Labor Prologue
2217  After September 11: Security, Health, and Defense
2308  The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons
2410  Author-Meets-Reader--Knowing Rights: State Actor's Stories of Power, Identity, and Morality, by Trish Oberweis and Michael Musheno [CRN 7]
3117  Studying the Consequences of Cause Lawyering [CRN 3]
3118  Rights and Remedies in Animal Law
3209  Roundtable--Discrimination: Universals and Particulars on Norms, Rights, and Responses
3410  Children, Law, and Society II
4208  Inequality, Identity, and Legal Consciousness [CRN 7]

 

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Labor
1210  Labor Law in Comparative and Historical Perspectives
2311  "Struggles in Steel: A Story of African-American Steelworkers": A showing of the PBS documentary on Black steel workers and a conversation with film makers Tony Buba and Ray Henderson [CRN 7]
2411  "Struggles in Steel": (continued) A showing of the PBS documentary on Black steel workers and a conversation with film makers Tony Buba and Ray Henderson [CRN 8]
3111  Labor and Opportunity [CRN 8]
3210  Taming Multinational Corporations: Socio-Legal Perspectives
3300  Labor Rights Bus Tour I [CRN 8]
3316  Antidiscrimination and Labor [CRN 8]
3400  Labor Rights Bus Tour II [CRN 8]
4110  Labor, Civil Rights, and Immigrants’ Rights Movements: Challenges and Opportunities for Law Reform in the Current Political Climate [CRN 2 and CRN 8]
4209  Globalization, Labor, and Labor Standards

 

Lawyers
1208  Becoming a Lawyer
1313  Lawyers and Ethics
2116  After the J.D.: A National Study of Law Graduates
2118  Corporate Lawyers in Transnational Practice I [CRN 10]
2201  Author-Meets-Reader--Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth, by Derrick Bell
2218  Corporate Lawyers in Transnational Practice II [CRN 10]
2307  Lawyer Subcultures: Ideology and Practice
2416  American Plaintiffs' Lawyers
3116  The Practice and Regulation of Attorneys in Japan
3207  Dealing With Trauma: How Can We Improve?
3208  Author-Meets-Reader--Tangled Loyalties: Conflict of Interest in Legal Practice, by Susan Shapiro
3418  Roundtable--Encouraging and Supporting Law & Society Scholarship and Teaching in Higher Education
4109  New Agendas for Cause Lawyers and Cause Lawyering Research
4207  Presidential Panel--Policy Entrepreneurship and Constituent Pressure: State Attorney Generals at the Intersection of Law and Politics (Panel Organizer, Lynn Mather, Association President, 2001-2002)

 

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Popular Culture
3213  Law, Media, and Knowledge
3305  The Performance of Law

 

Public Opinion
1116  Public Opinion and the Courts: Armenia, Belgium, and Imperial Russia [CRN 6]

 

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Queer Theory
4215  Queer Legality and Same Sex Marriage

 

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Race and Ethnicity
1112  Race, Community, and Custom: Views from the Western Hemisphere
1201  Critical Flows I: Where Have All the Race Crits Gone? [CRN 12]
1301  Critical Flows II: New Directions in Critical Race Studies [CRN 12]
1305  Race-ing, Erasing Race, and De-Racing Rights and Power in the Courts and Through Legal Norms
1400  Plenary--Brown v. Board of Education as Miraculous Mirage
2101  Legal Rhetoric, Personal Experiences, Ideologies, and Coerced Confessions in Racialized Contexts
2212  Between Perception and Reality: American Indian and Aboriginal Law and Policy in the Public Eye and On the Ground
2313  Race and Law Entangled in History [CRN 12]
2401  Race, Colonialism, and Social Movements
3101  Race, Immigration, and Immigrant Workers in the Global Economy
3110  Critical Flows III: Where Have The Race Crits Gone? [CRN 12]
3201  Race and Freedom in the American South: Slave Rescues, Confiscation, Emancipation, and Citizenship
3302  Race, Law, and Law Enforcement
3303  Roundtable--Critical Race Theory: Confluences and Turbulence
3308  Author-Meets-Reader--Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance, by Rachel Moran
3401  Imperiled Bodies: Law and the Surveillance of Racialized Bodies
4101  Author-Meets-Reader--Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice, by Ian Haney Lopez
4201  Writing Race: Law's Memory and the Construction of National Narratives

 

Regulation and Organizations
1107  Conceptualizing and Measuring Environmental Citizenship, Justice, and Recidivism for Corporate Actors
1113  Education and Regulation
1213  Environment and Ecology
1314  Environmental Regulation
2115  Architecture and Regulation: Condos and Gated Communities
2213  Regulation of Medicine, Medical Providers, and Medical Technology
2214  Rethinking Peformance-Based Regulation [CRN 5]
2314  Regulations and Markets
2315  Implementing Regulatory Norms: Deterrence, Enforcement, Compliance
2406  Regulation and the Reflexive Management of Organizations [CRN 5]
3106  The Creation and Use of Scientific Information in the Law [CRN 5]
3215  Regulation and Social Inclusion I
3317  Regulation and Social Inclusion II
4113  Regulating Global Services: Conflicts and Complements
4114  Regulatory Relationships
4212  Legal Tools for Urban Ordering

 

Religion
1318  Jewish Religious Law in the Context of Other Legal Orders
2114  Author-Meets-Reader--Worship, and Wilderness: Culture, Religion, and Law in Public Lands Management, by Lloyd Burton
2405  Law and Religion: A Matter of Freedom
3315  Law and Religion: Tensions and Categorizations

 

Rule of Law
1315  The Development of Legal Institutions in Societies in Transition: Systems and "Models" [CRN 8]
2215  Toward a World Rule of Law: International Developments
2316  Collision and Collusion Between Formal Law and Informal Practices in Post-Communist Countries
3107  New Perspectives on Courts and Constitutionalism in Asia
3301  Presidential Panel--Toward a World Rule of Law: American Perspectives (Panel Organizer, Richard Schwartz, Association President, 1972-1975)
4115  The Third Phase of Modernizing Taiwan

 

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Technology
1109  The Flow of Information and the Electronic Rivers of Cyberspace
1211  Information, Surveillance, and New Technologies
1310  Rivers of Innovation: Intellectual Property Law and the Flow of Creative Works
2204  Cyberlife/Cyberlaw
2303  Presidential Panel--The Seduction of Order I (Panel Organizer, Susan Silbey, Association President, 1995-1996)
2403  The Seduction of Order II
3103  Copyrights, Databases, and the Ebb and Flow of Information and Creativity

 

The State
1110  Access, Immigrants, and Immigration Law in Action
1311  Domestic Violence: Guilty Victims, Divorce Pleading, and Work Impact
2111  Justice and State Intervention into Families
2211  Roundtable--Inside and Outside: Territory, Citizenship, and the State
2312  Parenthood and Child Protection
2404  Law and the Public-Private Dichotomy
3104  Empirical Research in Tax Law
3212  The State, Rights, Justice, and the Rule of Law in Context
3214  Author-Meets-Reader--Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good, by Martha Minow
3412  Governing and the State
4112  After September 11: Immigration, Personhood, Psychology, and Demonization

 

Theory
1111  Methodology of Studying Law and Society
1312  Roundtable--Legal Studies in the Academy in the Twenty-First Century
2106  Roundtable--Is There Objectivity In Law, and Should We Care?
3105  Communities and Collective Rights
3405  Deconstruction and Construction of Law
3413  Presidential Panel--Roundtable--Stories from the Field (Panel Organizer, David Engel, Association President,1997-1998)
4213  Theory, Identity, and Sexuality

 

Trials
2309  Linguistic Analysis in Legal Process I
2417  Intuition, Accountability, and Coherence
3203  Reforming Jury
3314  Linguistic Analysis in Legal Process II