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 (LSA Membership not required), 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.
57 AND COUNTING
All CRNs
You can browse all of our current CRNs here:
1.
Comparative Constitutional Law and Legal Culture: Asia and the Americas
20.
Law and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Russia and Eurasia
39.
Everyday Legality
2.
Citizenship and Immigration
21.
Law and Social Movements
40.
Disability Legal Studies
4.
Lay Participation in Legal Systems
23.
International Law and Politics
42.
Law and Emotion
5.
Regulatory Governance
24.
Law and Rurality
43.
Innovations in Judging
6.
Sex, Work, Law and Society
25.
Household Finance
44.
Law and History
8.
Labor Rights
27.
Punishment & Society
46.
Corporate and Securities Law in Society
9.
Law and Health
28.
New Legal Realism
47.
Economic and Social Rights
10.
Civil Justice and Disputing Behavior
29.
Biotechnology, Bioethics and the Law
48.
Legal Pluralism and Non-State Law
11.
Displaced Peoples
30.
Islamic Law and Society
49.
Socio-Legal Approaches to Property (SLAP)
12.
Critical Research on Race and the Law
31.
Law, Society and Taxation
50.
Utopian Legalities, Prefigurative Politics, and Radical Governance
13.
African Law and Society
32.
Gender and Judging
51.
Foucault and Sociolegal Studies (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
14.
Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property
33.
East Asian Law and Society
52.
Law and Development
15.
British Colonial Legalities
34.
Indigenous Peoples & the Law
53.
Transitional Justice
17.
Gender, Sexuality and Law
36.
Transnational and Global Legal Ordering
55.
Law and Political Economy
18.
Legal Personhood (under consideration, available for annual meeting submission selection)
37.
Technology, Law and Society
56.
Trusts and Estates
19.
Legal Education
38.
International Socio-Legal Feminisms
57.
Law and Climate Change