LSA COMMUNITIES
Collaborative Research Networks (CRNs) are a vehicle for scholars with common interests to connect with each other, share their work, and pursue sociolegal research in common as part of the Law and Society Association. CRNs organize sessions for the LSA Annual Meetings and develop cross-disciplinary and cross-national research projects. The subject matter of a CRN can be broad in scope or narrowly focused on a particular subject area or methodology. All research networks are governed by the CRN Coordinating Committee, which reviews new applications and renews existing CRNs.
For more information or to join a CRN, email the Organizers of the CRN(s) in which you’re interested.
FAQs
How Do I Join an Existing CRN?
If you’re interested in participating in an existing collaborative research network, or CRN, the best way to get started is contacting the organizers via email. The contact information can be accessed by clicking the “Contact the Organizers” link on the CRN page. In your email, please introduce yourself, describe your research interests, and explain how it might fit within the description of the CRN.
How Do I Establish a New CRN?
If you are interested in establishing a new CRN, please fill out and submit this application form to the LSA office. New CRN applications will be reviewed by the CRN Committee.
How Do I Update or Renew a CRN?
Every three years, the Law and Society Association asks Collaborative Research Networks to update their information. The LSA office will reach out to CRN organizers when their renewal window is open.
For more information about CRNs, please read the CRN Handbook for Organizers.
59 AND COUNTING
All CRNs
You can browse all of our current CRNs here:
1.
Comparative Constitutional Law and Legal Culture: Asia and the Americas
21.
Law and Social Movements
41.
Economic Crime and Corporate Compliance (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
3.
Ethnography, Law & Society
23.
International Law and Politics
43.
Innovations in Judging
4.
Lay Participation in Legal Systems
24.
Law and Rurality
44.
Law and History
6.
Sex, Work, Law and Society
26.
Race and Private Law (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
46.
Corporate and Securities Law in Society
7.
Feminist Legal Theory
27.
Punishment & Society
47.
Economic and Social Rights
8.
Labor Rights
28.
New Legal Realism
48.
Legal Pluralism and Non-State Law
9.
Law and Health
29.
Biotechnology, Bioethics and the Law
49.
Socio-Legal Approaches to Property (SLAP)
10.
Civil Justice and Disputing Behavior
30.
Islamic Law and Society
50.
Utopian Legalities, Prefigurative Politics, and Radical Governance
11.
Displaced Peoples
31.
Law, Society and Taxation
51.
Foucault and Sociolegal Studies (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
12.
Critical Research on Race and the Law
32.
Gender and Judging
52.
Law and Development
13.
African Law and Society
33.
East Asian Law and Society
53.
Transitional Justice
14.
Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property
34.
Indigenous Peoples & the Law
54.
Law, Society & Psychological Science
15.
British Colonial Legalities
35.
Legal Geography
55.
Law and Political Economy
16.
Global Family Law (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
36.
Transnational and Global Legal Ordering
56.
Trusts and Estates
17.
Philosophy and Legal Theory (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
37.
Technology, Law and Society
57.
Law and Climate Change
18.
Legal Personhood (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
38.
International Socio-Legal Feminisms
58.
Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
19.
Legal Education
39.
Everyday Legality and Access to Justice
59.
Lawyers in Declining Democracies (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
20.
Law and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Russia and Eurasia
40.
Disability Legal Studies