Ryon Lancaster

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Faculty Fellow

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
gro.nfba@retsacnalr

Joint appointment

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University

Bio

Ryon Lancaster is a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His main project is a study of the processes by which the…

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Research focus

Organizational sociology, sociology of law, economic sociology, and historical sociology.

Projects

Employment Discrimination Litigation: Latest finding: Dec 12, 2012, with Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen, John Donohue III, Peter Siegelman; At the center of current debates about the role of anti-discrimination law in American society is the system of discrimination litigation. Despite the sheer magnitude of changes in employment…
Corporate Purchasing of Legal Services: Latest finding: Feb 11, 2008; This project, which is a collaborative effort with the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, examines the processes by which large corporations, and in particular the general…

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Publications

"Individual Justice or Collective Legal Mobilization? Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Post-Civil Rights United States": Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
"Contesting Workplace Discrimination in Courts: Characteristics and Outcomes of Federal Employment Discrimination in Courts 1987-2003": Report
“Your Client Relationships and Reputation: Weighing the Worth of Social Ties: Embeddedness and the Price of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm”: Oxford University Press

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Presentations

Individualized Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights United States: Nov 2008 Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen
Monks, Lawyers, and All the King’s Men: Apr 2007
Institutional Rupture and Local Action: Explaining the Emergence of Church Bureaucracy in Medieval England: Aug 2006

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Professional Service & Recognition

Winner (with B. Uzzi), Richard C. Scott Award for Best Article, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American Sociological Association, 200