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Faculty Presentations

"Is Your Advance Directive Worth the Paper It’s Written On? What Works and What Doesn’t?"
May 2013 Susan P. Shapiro
Popular Constitutionalism on the Right
Nov 2012 Christopher Schmidt
Black Inheritance: Rights and Genealogies after Slavery
Nov 2012 Dylan C. Penningroth
Neighborhood Sectarian Displacement and the Battle for Baghdad
Nov 2012 John Hagan
Institutionalized Skepticism and the Construction of Trustworthiness
Nov 2012 Carol A. Heimer
Roundtable on Jeffrey Stout’s book, Blessed Be the Organized
Nov 2012 Bonnie Honig
Political Philosophy Colloquium
Nov 2012 Bonnie Honig
Presenter, Tragic Vision, Democratic Hope: A Conference in Honor of J. Peter Euben
Nov 2012 Bonnie Honig
Property-Induced Invisibility: When the Expropriation of Property Removes People from the Social Contract
Oct 2012 Bernadette Atuahene
Theory from the South Revisited
Oct 2012 John Comaroff
Symposium Co-Chair, Panel Chair for “Jury Deliberation,” and Panel Member for “Preliminary Instructions and Assisting Juror Comprehension”
Oct 2012 Shari Seidman Diamond
“Mass Incarceration and Voter Turnout”
Oct 2012 Traci Burch
Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
Oct 2012 Victoria Saker Woeste
Understanding Access to Justice in 21st Century America
Oct 2012 Rebecca Sandefur
Thrifty Research: Cheap(er) Ways to Move Access to Justice Understanding Forward in Tight Fiscal Times
Sep 2012 Rebecca Sandefur
Broccoli, Liberty, and the Constitutional Challenge to Health Care
Sep 2012 Christopher Schmidt
Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion, Keynote Address
Sep 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
Presentation on Surrogate Decision Making at the End of Life
Sep 2012 Susan P. Shapiro
Juror Perceptions of American Corporations
Sep 2012 Shari Seidman Diamond
The Return of Khukenai Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Imposture, Personhood and the Law in Postcolonial South Africa
Sep 2012 John Comaroff
Divine Detection: Crime and the Metaphysics of Disorder
Sep 2012 John Comaroff
State of the Profession: Trends in Legal Diversity
Sep 2012 Robert L. Nelson
Constitutional Endurance: Implications for Kenya
Sep 2012 Tom Ginsburg
Law and Society
Sep 2012 Stephen Daniels
Representational Legality: Reading Culture, Thinking Law
Aug 2012 Bonnie Honig
Blue Moon Regulation: Why the Have-Nots Occasionally Come Out Ahead
Jul 2012 Carol A. Heimer
Corporate Lawyers and their Clients: Walking the line between law & business
Jul 2012 Ronit Dinovitzer
We Want What’s Ours: An Evaluation of South Africa’s Land Restitution Program
Jul 2012 Bernadette Atuahene
‘Rule of Law’ as Global Discourse
Jul 2012 Jothie Rajah
“Effects of professional work on women lawyers' timing of family formation in German and U.S. Cities”
Jul 2012 Gabriele Plickert
“Paradoxical Choices? Gendered Career Trajectories of Law School Graduates in the U.S. and Germany”
Jun 2012 Gabriele Plickert
Rule of Law Discourses as Transnational Legal Order
Jun 2012 Jothie Rajah
Of Masks and Absences: Cause Lawyering in Singapore
Jun 2012 Jothie Rajah
Employment Discrimination Litigation and the Reinscription of Hierarchy
Jun 2012 Laura Beth Nielsen
Divided by Law: The Sit-Ins, Legal Uncertainty, and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement
Jun 2012 Christopher Schmidt
“Impersonal Trust: A Retrospective Look from a New Century”
Jun 2012 Susan P. Shapiro
Lawyers with Foreign Born Parents: Exploring the Effects of Immigrant Status on Earnings among American Lawyers
Jun 2012 Ronit Dinovitzer
Decision-making by Jurors, Juries, and Judges
Jun 2012 Shari Seidman Diamond
From the Courtroom to the Examining Room: What Rights Mean in HIV Clinics
Jun 2012 Carol A. Heimer
Hard Evidence on Soft Skills (Keynote Address)
Jun 2012 James J. Heckman
Plenary Panel, “Asian Constitutionalism"
Jun 2012 Tom Ginsburg
Keynote Plenary on “Judicialization of Politics in Asia-An Overview”
Jun 2012 Tom Ginsburg
Trends in Legal Diversity: Patterns and Predictors
Jun 2012 Robert L. Nelson
Employment Discrimination Litigation and the Reincription of Hierarchy
Jun 2012 Robert L. Nelson
Racial and Gender Differences in Career Attainment in AJD2
May 2012 John Hagan, Robert L. Nelson, M. Payne-Pikus
A New Legal Realism for the 21st Century
May 2012 Elizabeth Mertz, with H. Klug
Research on Law School Education
May 2012 Elizabeth Mertz
Research Methods for the Study of Law School Education
May 2012 Elizabeth Mertz
Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
May 2012 James J. Heckman
Reflections on Cultural Identity: Ethnicity, Intellectual Property, and the Commodification of Collective Being
May 2012 John Comaroff
“Remarks on Studying Criminal Justice in Political Science”
May 2012 Traci Burch
The Economics of the Achievement Gap: The Challenge and Price of Failure
May 2012 James J. Heckman
“Advance Health Care Directives and End of Life Decision-Making”
May 2012 Susan P. Shapiro
“Learning from the Big Picture,” Empirical Research on Delivery of Legal Services: What Can We Learn?
May 2012 Rebecca Sandefur
Race, Class and Educational Debt in Lower-Paying Law Jobs
May 2012 Rebecca Sandefur
African Americans’ Use of Law Before the Civil Rights Era
May 2012 Dylan C. Penningroth
Land Restitution in South Africa: Voices from Below
Apr 2012 Bernadette Atuahene
Homeland Tourism, Emotion and Identity Labor: An Odyssey of Belonging
Apr 2012 Ronit Dinovitzer
Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Apr 2012 James J. Heckman
‘Wicked’ Ethics: Compliance Work and the Practice of Ethics in HIV Clinics
Apr 2012 Carol A. Heimer
Death in Darfur
Apr 2012 John Hagan
Social Science Evidence and the Darfur Genocide
Apr 2012 John Hagan
The Influence of Initial Trust Perceptions on Integrative Negotiation Outcomes
Apr 2012 Janice Nadler
After the JD and Its Lessons for Studying Lawyers’ Careers Within and Outside of the US
Apr 2012 Bryant G. Garth
Satisfaction After Tenure: Diversity in the Legal Academy
Apr 2012 Elizabeth Mertz, with K. Barnes
Are Law Schools in Crisis? The New York Times Debate and its Discontents
Mar 2012 Bryant G. Garth
Social Ecology, Recursivity and Temporality: Towards A Sociology of Global Law-Making
Mar 2012 Terence Halliday
The Empirical Study of Constitutions
Mar 2012 Tom Ginsburg
Theme and variation: different approaches to the role of the corporate lawyer
Mar 2012 Ronit Dinovitzer
Keynote Speaker, Victims and Land Restitution
Mar 2012 Bernadette Atuahene
“Your Voice in the Future? The Role of Advance Directives Near the End of Life”
Feb 2012 Susan P. Shapiro
Social Capital and Legal Capital: A Perspective on Asian Legal Developments
Feb 2012 Bryant G. Garth
Blame, Emotion, & Moral Character
Feb 2012 Janice Nadler
Divided by Law: The Sit-Ins, Legal Uncertainty, and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement
Feb 2012 Christopher Schmidt
Indicators and Transnational Meta-Narratives on Rule of Law
Feb 2012 Jothie Rajah
A Framework for Analyzing Human Development over the Life Cycle and across Generations
Jan 2012 James J. Heckman
Organizing and Financing Legal Education
Jan 2012 Bryant G. Garth
Law in Motion: The Multiple Futures of Law & Society Research
Nov 2011 Laura Beth Nielsen
Panelist, “Beyond Freedom: New Directions in the Study of Emancipation”
Nov 2011 Dylan C. Penningroth
Total Justice
Oct 2011 Shari Seidman Diamond
The Content of Authoritarian Constitutions
Oct 2011 Tom Ginsburg
The Tea Party and the Constitution
Oct 2011 Christopher Schmidt
Conceptualizing and Measuring Justice
Oct 2011 Laura Beth Nielsen
Politics in Everyday Work: Motivations and Coping Strategies of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers
Oct 2011 Terence Halliday
Keynote Speaker, University Foundation Banquet
Sep 2011 Steven D. Levitt
Politics in Everyday Work: Motivations and Coping Strategies of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers
Sep 2011 Terence Halliday
Constitutional Review: Options for Afghanistan
Sep 2011 Tom Ginsburg
Constitutional Constraints on Executive Lawmaking
Sep 2011 Tom Ginsburg
“Are We Helping the End of Life Decision Process? The Role of the Living Will, Advanced Medical Directive and Health Care Surrogates”
Sep 2011 Susan P. Shapiro
“Are We Helping the End of Life Decision Process? The Role of the Living Will, Advanced Medical Directive and Health Care Surrogates”
Aug 2011 Susan P. Shapiro
Rule of Law: A Singapore Story
Aug 2011 Jothie Rajah
Siding with Science: In Defense of ASA’s Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Amicus Briefst
Aug 2011 Laura Beth Nielsen
Property Rights in China: An Actuarial Theory
Jun 2011 Tom Ginsburg
“Legal Consciousness Where Consciousness is in Short Supply”
Jun 2011 Susan P. Shapiro
Harm, Character, and Moral Emotion
May 2011 Janice Nadler
William E. Simon Memorial Lecture, 2011 Simon New York City Conference
May 2011 Steven D. Levitt
Moral Character, Motive, and the Psychology of Blame
Mar 2011 Janice Nadler
The Tea Party and the Constitution
Mar 2011 Christopher Schmidt
The Real Civil Jury
Mar 2011 Shari Seidman Diamond, M.R. Rose & B. Murphy
The Tea Party and the Constitution
Feb 2011 Christopher Schmidt
Lawyers’ Professional and Political Networks Compared: Core and Periphery
Jan 2011 John P. Heinz
Figuring ‘the people’; Bordering ‘the nation’: APEC and Territories of Temporary Emergency
Dec 2010 Jothie Rajah
Colonial Continuities, National Inventions: ‘Race’, ‘Religion’ and ‘Law’ in Singapore
Dec 2010 Jothie Rajah
Criminal Liability and the Role of Moral Character
Oct 2010 Janice Nadler
A(nother) Great Leap Forward: Authoritarian Rule-of-Law
Oct 2010 Jothie Rajah
The Complexities of Common Sense on the Jury
Oct 2010 Shari Seidman Diamond
Jurors and the Electronic Age
Oct 2010 Shari Seidman Diamond
“Research Methods: If I Could Do It Over Again”
Oct 2010 Susan P. Shapiro
Moral Character and Blame
Aug 2010 Janice Nadler
Politics in Everyday Work: Motivations and Coping Strategies of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Aug 2010 Terence Halliday, with Sida Liu
Political Liberalism as an Ethical Ideal: Have Lawyers' Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms any Place in the Scholarship and Teaching of Legal Ethics?
Jul 2010 Terence Halliday, Linda Haller
Colonialism’s Legacies: Variations on the Theme of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony
Jul 2010 Terence Halliday, with Lucien Karpik
Gender Equality and Political Liberalism: Condition sine qua non?
Jul 2010 Terence Halliday, with Priya Alvarez
“What Rules the Ethical Rule? A Snapshot of Legal Cultures in the United States and Germany”
Jul 2010 Gabriele Plickert
The Public/Private Engagement in a Global Trade ‘Legislature’: The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.
May 2010 Terence Halliday
International Organizations as Global Lawmakers
May 2010 Terence Halliday
Emergency and Difference: Political Liberalism and the Legal Complex in the Post-Colony
May 2010 Terence Halliday, Lucien Karpik
The Psychology of Blame
May 2010 Janice Nadler
“Death Watch for Death Panels: The Elusive Goal of Having the Last Word”
May 2010 Susan P. Shapiro
“Early Post-Law School Careers of Young Lawyers from Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, and Washington, D.C.”
Apr 2010 John Hagan, Gabriele Plickert
Antigone’s Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism
Mar 2010 Bonnie Honig
The Psychology of Blame
Mar 2010 Janice Nadler
“Ismene’s Forced Choice”
Mar 2010 Bonnie Honig
“Lex Through Text: Law, Culture and Humanities Scholars Discuss the Texts that Shape Their Scholarship”
Mar 2010 Bonnie Honig, William MacNeil, Karl Shoemaker, Kay Warren, George Pavlich
Antigone’s Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism
Mar 2010 Bonnie Honig
Life and Death Matters: Between Secular and Religious
Mar 2010 Bonnie Honig, Gregory Kaplan, Dept. of Religion, Rice University
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor in Political Science Inaugural Lecture, "Antigone, Interrupted: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism"
Feb 2010 Bonnie Honig
Henry Ford: Unmasking the Self-Made Myth
Dec 2009 Victoria Saker Woeste
SuperFreakonomics
Nov 2009 Steven D. Levitt
Turnout and Party Registration among Convicted Offenders during the 2008 Presidential Election
Nov 2009 Traci Burch
Criminology Confronts Genocide: Who’s Side Are You On?
Nov 2009 John Hagan
Diversity on the Jury: Impact, Sources, and Unresolved Issues
Oct 2009 Shari Seidman Diamond
Detective Fictions: Further Notes on Policing the Postcolony
Oct 2009 John Comaroff
From Lamentation to Logos: Antigone's Offensive Speech
Oct 2009 Bonnie Honig
Inert Facts and the Illusion of Knowledge: Managing Ignorance in HIV Clinics,” Keynote address at conference on “Strategic Unknowns: The Usefulness of Ambiguity and Ignorance in Organizational Life"
Oct 2009 Carol A. Heimer
Antigone, Interrupted: Humanism and the Future of Democratic Theory
Oct 2009 Bonnie Honig
“After the Plague”: Reading Numbers 26 with Rawls and Ranciere
Oct 2009 Bonnie Honig
The Characteristics and Roles of Lawyers Active in National Policymaking
Sep 2009 John P. Heinz, with A. Southworth & A. Paik
‘The Conscience of Society?’ ” The Legal Complex, Religion, and the Fates of Political Liberalism
Sep 2009 Terence Halliday
Investing in our Young People: Lessons from Economics and Psychology
Sep 2009 James J. Heckman
Discussant on Panel “The Professional Project Revisited"
Sep 2009 Robert L. Nelson
My Brother’s Keeper
Sep 2009 Susan P. Shapiro
Eminent Domain and the Psychology of Property Rights
Sep 2009 Janice Nadler
On the Rise of Legal Theology: Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Sep 2009 John Comaroff
‘I Wanted to Vote for History:’ Turnout and Party Registration among Convicted Offenders during the 2008 Presidential Election
Sep 2009 Traci Burch
Side Effects: Accountability in International HIV/AIDS Programs
Aug 2009 Carol A. Heimer, with W.N. Espeland
The Politics of Law
Jul 2009 John Comaroff
"Social Science and the First Apprenticeship" -- Presentation at YES WE CArNegie: Change in Legal Education Since the Carnegie Report"
Jul 2009
"Social Science and the First Apprenticeship" -- Presentation at YES WE CArNegie: Change in Legal Education Since the Carnegie Report"
Jul 2009 Elizabeth Mertz
Sexual Violence in Darfur and in Pre-Invasion Iraq
Jun 2009 John Hagan
Prosecuting Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Atrocity in the former Yugoslavia and Darfur
Jun 2009 John Hagan
Legal Systems and Moral Codes
Jun 2009 Carol A. Heimer
Ismene’s ‘Forced Choice'
Jun 2009 Bonnie Honig
Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
Jun 2009 James J. Heckman
Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
Jun 2009 James J. Heckman
Situated Justice: Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ Perceptions of Fairness in Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
Jun 2009 Laura Beth Nielsen
Surveys Relating to Solo and Small Firms
Jun 2009 Robert L. Nelson
Discussant on Panel on “Careers and Lawyer Mobility"
May 2009 Robert L. Nelson
Future Pathways
May 2009 Robert L. Nelson
The Turn from Law: Louis Marshall, the Lynching of Leo Frank, and the Jewish Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1945
May 2009 Victoria Saker Woeste
In the Shadow of the WHO, WTO, NIH, FDA, PEPFAR, . . .: Disciplining Medicine or Creating Chaos?”
May 2009 Carol A. Heimer
The Economics and Psychology of Personality
May 2009 James J. Heckman
Settling into the Legal Profession: Elite Advantage, Opportunities for Upward Mobility, and the Paradox of Elites and Large Law Firms
May 2009 Bryant G. Garth, Ronit Dinovitzer
Architects of the State: International Financial Institutions and the Reconstruction of States in the Global South Transnational Legal Orders and their Effects
May 2009 Terence Halliday
Evolution of Labor Markets, Types of Lawyers, and Practice Settings
May 2009 John P. Heinz
Making Sense of the Elite Law School Advantage: Symbolic Capital and the Structuring of Opportunities, Expectations, Hopes, and Choices
May 2009 Bryant G. Garth, Ronit Dinovitzer
“Searching for Evidence of an ‘Opt-Out’ Revolution among Women Lawyers: What is the Evidence after Seven Years?”
May 2009 Gabriele Plickert, Joyce Sterling
Reputation, Specialization and the Referral of Cases Among Lawyers: Is It Just About Money? (with Joanne Martin)
May 2009 Stephen Daniels
Law, Liberalism, and Ubuntu Jurisprudence in South Africa
Apr 2009 John Comaroff
Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyer-Compradors and Colonial Strategies in the Reshaping of Asian States
Apr 2009 Bryant G. Garth
Globalism and the Law
Apr 2009 Bryant G. Garth
Property Rights and the Demands of Transformation
Apr 2009 Bernadette Atuahene
The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, 1490-1640
Apr 2009 Christopher L. Tomlins
Social Movements, Social Processes: A Response to Gerald Rosenberg
Apr 2009 Laura Beth Nielsen
What if They Held a Race Riot and Nobody Cared? Woodland Neighborhood Jews, the Dearborn Independent, and Legal Guarantees of a Free Press in 1920s Cleveland
Mar 2009 Victoria Saker Woeste
Rule or Custom: Sorting Through the Evidentiary Thicket of Attorney Conduct and the Interpretation of Conflict of Interest,
Mar 2009 Victoria Saker Woeste
Do Juries Apply the Law? Yes and No
Mar 2009 Shari Seidman Diamond
Coding Group Deliberation Across Multiple Cases: Jury Behavior in 50 Real Cases
Mar 2009 Shari Seidman Diamond
"Translating Social Science in Legal Arenas: The Myth of Transparency" -- New Directions in Law & Society Scholarship: Engaging with Empiricism
Feb 2009 Elizabeth Mertz
The Strait Gate: The Past, History and Legal Scholarship
Feb 2009 Christopher L. Tomlins
The First Seven Years of a Lawyer’s Career
Feb 2009 Bryant G. Garth, Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, J. Sterling and D. Wilkins
Women in the Legal Profession
Jan 2009 Ronit Dinovitzer
Theorists and Jurists
Jan 2009 John Comaroff
Distinguished Anthropology Lecture
Jan 2009 John Comaroff
Individualized Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights United States
Jan 2009 Laura Beth Nielsen
Translating Anthropology and Law: “Can You Get There From Here?” Frontiers in the Anthropology of Law Colloquium
Nov 2008 Elizabeth Mertz
How Jurors Think About the Law
Nov 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond
The Making of The Cambridge History of Law in America
Nov 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
Individualized Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights United States
Nov 2008 Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen, Ryon Lancaster
“Keeping the Promise in End of Life Decision-Making: The Law and Real Life”
Oct 2008 Susan P. Shapiro
Eminent Domain and the Psychology of Property Rights
Sep 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond, Janice Nadler
Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Mandate Violations on Deviant Behavior
Sep 2008 Janice Nadler, with E. Mullen
What Have Been the Effects of Compensation Distributed through the Land Restitution Program: Preliminary Findings
Jul 2008 Bernadette Atuahene
How Juries Decide
Jul 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond
Inside the Jury Room
Jul 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond
How Juries Decide: System Challenges for Legal Guidance
Jun 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond
The Effects of Voir Dire and Jury Size on the Composition of the Jury
Jun 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond, D. Peery, Hon. F. Dolan, & E. Dolan.
Jury Consultants as Statespersons: Doing Well by Doing Good
Jun 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond
“Dying in the Shadow of the Law.”
May 2008 Susan P. Shapiro
“Roundtable – Remembrance of the Contributions of Stan Wheeler to the Law and Social Science Community.”
May 2008 Susan P. Shapiro
“A Prospective Study of Surrogate Decision Making In the Neurological Intensive Care Unit.”
Apr 2008 Susan P. Shapiro, Andrew Naidech, Paul Tamul, Bernard Bendok, and Charles M. Watts)
The Psychology of Coercion
Feb 2008 Janice Nadler
Schmooze or Lose: How Small Talk Can Facilitate Email Negotiations
Jan 2008 Janice Nadler
The End of Anthropology, Again: Toward a New In/Discipline
Jan 2008 John Comaroff
Nations With/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belonging in Africa, and Beyond
Jan 2008 John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
“The Preacher's Wife: Law, Divorce, and Respectability among African Americans, 1865-1930”
Dec 2007 Dylan C. Penningroth
Research on End-of-Life Decision Making
Nov 2007 Susan P. Shapiro
The Legitimacy of Property Rights in the Context of Past Theft
Nov 2007
The Legitimacy of Property Rights in the Context of Past Theft
Nov 2007 Bernadette Atuahene
What’s Law Got to Do with It? HIV and Public Health Law in Comparative Perspective
Nov 2007 Carol A. Heimer, panel participant
What’s Law Got to Do with It? HIV and Public Health Law in Comparative Perspective
Nov 2007 Carol A. Heimer, panel participant
Reflections on 42 Years of Law Teaching
Oct 2007 John P. Heinz
Introduction and Conference Co-Organizer, “New Legal Realism Meets Feminism and Legal Theory II: Empirical Perspectives on the Place of Law in Women’s Work and Family Lives”
Oct 2007
The Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law: A Contextualized Test
Oct 2007 Janice Nadler
The Trajectories of Legal Careers
Oct 2007 Robert L. Nelson, with R. Dinovitzer
The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State
Oct 2007 William J. Novak
Globalization of Law
Oct 2007 Terence Halliday
Treating Adolescents as Adults
Oct 2007 John Hagan
Urban Law School Graduates at Large Law Firms (with D. Wilkins and R. Batra)
Oct 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
Race and the Collective Dynamics of Genocidal Victimization in Darfur
Sep 2007 John Hagan
The Terror and Trauma of Rape in Darfur
Sep 2007 John Hagan
The Changing Role of Urban Law Schools
Sep 2007 Bryant G. Garth
Building and Revamping Legal Virtue: Legal and Colonial Strategies in the Construction of Asian States: The Example of the Philippines
Sep 2007 Bryant G. Garth
African Jurisprudence and the Limits of Liberalism
Sep 2007 John Comaroff
The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State
Sep 2007 William J. Novak
Slaves’ Claims to Family and Property in Southern Gold Coast and the U.S. South
Sep 2007 Dylan C. Penningroth
Studying the Traditional Law School Classroom: The ABF and Carnegie Studies
Sep 2007 Elizabeth Mertz
Resilience in the Middle: International Medicine, HIV Clinics, and Traditional Patients
Aug 2007 Carol A. Heimer
The Fight for First Generation Rights: A Comparative Essay on the Mobilization of the Legal Complex for Basic Legal Freedoms
Aug 2007 Terence Halliday
Illegitimacy and Criminal Behavior
Aug 2007 Bernadette Atuahene
Are Advance Directives Directive Enough?
Aug 2007 Susan P. Shapiro
The Changing Social Role of Urban Law Schools (with J. Sterling and B. Garth)
Aug 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
How Far Back Should We Go?: The Dilemmas of Property Restitution
Jul 2007 Bernadette Atuahene
A Recursive Theory of National Lawmaking: Site- Switching in Korean Corporate Insolvency Reforms, 1992-2007
Jul 2007 Terence Halliday, with S. Oh
“Author-Meets-Readers” Panel, “The Language of Law School, by Elizabeth Mertz”
Jul 2007
Language Structure and Law School Reform
Jul 2007
“Author-Meets-Readers” Panel, “The Language of Law School, by Elizabeth Mertz”
Jul 2007
Uncertain Justice: the Determinants of Outcomes in Federal Employment Discrimination Litigation, 1987- 2003
Jul 2007 Robert L. Nelson, with Laura Beth Nielsen and R. Lancaster
Psychological Research: Understanding Responses to Law
Jul 2007 Janice Nadler, with Shari Diamond
Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules and the Structure of Attention
Jun 2007 Carol A. Heimer
Bankruptcy Reform, the Supply of Credit and Consumer Use of Credit Cards
Jun 2007 Austan Goolsbee
Nations With/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belonging
Jun 2007 John Comaroff
Rethinking Identity in Africa
Jun 2007 John Comaroff
Social Science Perspectives on Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Jun 2007 Bryant G. Garth
Legal Elites and the Construction of the State: From Colonialism to International Human Rights
Jun 2007 Bryant G. Garth, with Yves Dezalay
Communities of Entrepreneurs (Discussant)
Jun 2007
Ethnicity, Inc.
May 2007 John Comaroff
Bankruptcy Reform, the Supply of Credit and Consumer Use of Credit Cards
May 2007 Austan Goolsbee
The Technology of Building Human Capacities: Lessons for Public Policy
May 2007 James J. Heckman
Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children Is Good Economics and Good Public Policy
May 2007 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
May 2007 James J. Heckman
Death in Darfur
Apr 2007 John Hagan
Vertical Integration and the Market for Television Programming
Apr 2007 Austan Goolsbee
Reflections on the Anthropology of Law, Governance, and Sovereignty in a Brave Neo World
Apr 2007 John Comaroff
Jury Reactions to Experts in the Courtroom: Who Do You Trust?
Apr 2007 Shari Seidman Diamond
Science for Judges IX: Research on Juries
Apr 2007 Shari Seidman Diamond
Changes in the IRS Appeals Process and Their Effects on Perceptions of Independence of Appeals
Apr 2007 Joanne Martin
Changes in the IRS Appeals Process and Their Effects on Perceptions of Independence of Appeals
Apr 2007
Rights and Realities: Studying Law, Consciousness, and Inequality in Employment Discrimination
Apr 2007 Robert L. Nelson
"Kinship" symposium on New World Slavery: History, Memory and Redress
Apr 2007 Dylan C. Penningroth
Lawyering in the Shadow of Brandeis: The Supreme Court Civil Rights Practice of Louis Marshall
Apr 2007 Victoria Saker Woeste
The Trajectories of Urban Legal Careers
Apr 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
Monks, Lawyers, and All the King’s Men
Apr 2007 Ryon Lancaster
Suing Henry Ford: Fighting Antisemitism in 1920s America
Mar 2007 Victoria Saker Woeste
Negotiating Globalization
Mar 2007 Terence Halliday
Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules and the Structure of Attention
Feb 2007 Carol A. Heimer
How Civil Juries Really Decide Cases: Lessons from an empirical study of actual jury deliberations
Feb 2007 Shari Seidman Diamond
Embedded Experts on the Jury
Feb 2007 Shari Seidman Diamond
Keynote Address
Feb 2007 William J. Novak
After the JD: What Every Young Lawyer and Senior Partner Should Know About the Changing Trends in Legal Careers
Feb 2007 Robert L. Nelson
The Reproduction of Inequality in the Legal Profession
Feb 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
Prayer in Public Schools
Feb 2007 Stephen Daniels
Rights and Realities: Studying Law, Consciousness, and Inequality in Employment Discrimination
Jan 2007 Laura Beth Nielsen
They Can’t Do That. . . Can They? How Ordinary People Experience the Legal System
Jan 2007 Laura Beth Nielsen
The Procedural Attack on Civil Rights: The Empirical Reality of Buckhannon for Public Interest Litigation
Jan 2007 Laura Beth Nielsen
African American Divorce in Virginia and Washington DC, 1865-1930
Jan 2007
The New Economics of Child Quality
Jan 2007 James J. Heckman
Rights and Realities: Studying Law, Consciousness, and Inequality in Employment Discrimination
Dec 2006 Laura Beth Nielsen
Law and Politics in the New Europe
Dec 2006 Bonnie Honig
"Democracy, Foreigners, and Citizenship"; Conference on Comparative Reflections on Developing Democracies and the Case of Turkey
Nov 2006 Bonnie Honig
Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar
Oct 2006 John P. Heinz
Lawyers of the Right
Oct 2006 John P. Heinz
Tangled Loyalties: Conflict of Interest in Legal Practice
Oct 2006 Susan P. Shapiro
Gonzales v. Oregon: Lessons and Implications for States and the Terminally Ill from Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act
Oct 2006 Susan P. Shapiro
Institutional Rupture and Local Action: Explaining the Emergence of Church Bureaucracy in Medieval England
Aug 2006 Ryon Lancaster
Rethinking Rebellious Slaves and Slave Rebellions (respondent)
Aug 2006
The Making of a Plaintiffs’ Lawyer
Jul 2006 with Joanne Martin
My Brother’s Keeper: Surrogate Decisionmaking at the End of Life
Jul 2006 Susan P. Shapiro
The Effects of Punitive Criminal Justice Policies on Political Participation in North Carolina
Apr 2006 Traci Burch
Social Structure and Formal Law: Social Attributes and the Outcomes of Employment Discrimination Cases (with L.B. Nielsen and R. Nelson)
Feb 2006 Laura Beth Nielsen, Ryon Lancaster, R. Nelson

Civil justice

Access Across America: First Report of the Civil Justice Infrastructure Mapping Project
Aug 2011 Rebecca Sandefur
Cultures of Access to Justice: Institutions of Remedy and People’s Responses to Civil Justice Problems
Mar 2011 Rebecca Sandefur
Plenary Address: Law and Society Association Early Career and Graduate Student Workshop
May 2010 Laura Beth Nielsen
The Juice Simply isn’t Worth the Squeeze in Those Cases Anymore: Damage Caps, Hidden Victims, and the Declining Interest in Medical Malpractice Cases (with Joanne Martin)
May 2008 Stephen Daniels
Organizer/Chair, STUDYING THE TRIAL: Empirical Methods Showcase (Qualitative Methods)
Feb 2008 Elizabeth Mertz
Public Opinion and Medical Malpractice
Sep 2007 Stephen Daniels
The Strange Success of Tort Reform
Sep 2005 Stephen Daniels
Texas Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and Tort Reform
Aug 2005 Stephen Daniels
The Texas Two-Step: Evidence on the Link between Damage Caps and Access (with Joanne Martin)
Apr 2005 Stephen Daniels
The Strange Success of Tort Reform
Nov 2004 Stephen Daniels
The Strange Success of Tort Reform (with Joanne Martin)
Feb 2004 Stephen Daniels
Whatever Happened to the Litigation Explosion in Texas? The Strange Success of Tort Reform (with Joanne Martin)
Mar 2003 Stephen Daniels
Whatever Happened to the Litigation Explosion in Texas? The Strange Success of Tort Reform
Feb 2003 Stephen Daniels
Whatever Happened to the Litigation Explosion in Texas? The Strange Success of Tort Reform (with Joanne Martin)
May 2002 Stephen Daniels
Tort Out of Court: Plaintiffs’ Lawyers (with Joanne Martin)
Jan 2002 Stephen Daniels

Law and globalization

The Public/Private Engagement in a Global Trade 'Legislature': The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
Jun 2010 Terence Halliday
Measuring Law: How to do it Right in Real-World Circumstances
Mar 2010 Terence Halliday
The Recursivity of Law as a New Paradigm for Sociolegal Theory and Research in East Asia
Feb 2010 Terence Halliday
Global Scripts: The Micro-politics of Influence in International Organizations
Feb 2010 Terence Halliday
Global Norms for Global Trade
Feb 2010 Terence Halliday
Are Lawyers the Vanguard of Political Liberalism in China?
Nov 2009 Terence Halliday
Recursivity In Legal Change
Apr 2009 Terence Halliday
The Fight for First Generation Rights: A Comparative Essay on the Mobilization of the Legal Complex for Basic Legal Freedoms.
Jul 2008 Terence Halliday
Rhetorical Legitimation: Global Norms as Self-Validating Formal Scripts.
Jun 2008 Terence Halliday, Susan Block-Lieb, Bruce G. Carruthers
Missing Debtors: National Lawmaking and Global Norm-Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Regimes.
May 2008 Terence Halliday, Susan Block-Lieb, Bruce G. Carruthers
Constitutionalism, Constitutional Courts and the Politics of the Legal Complex.
Mar 2008 Terence Halliday
The Legal Complex, Religion, and the Fates of Political Liberalism.
Feb 2008 Terence Halliday

Legal history

“Freedom Bound, After Two Years: Intention, Reception, Revision, Contribution,” Conference on the Legal Histories of the British Empire: Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire: Engagements & Legacies, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, (July 2012)
Jul 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
“Demonic Ambiguities: Enchantment and Disenchantment in Nathaniel Turner’s Virginia,” Conference on Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1300-1850, University of Sheffield (June 2012)
Jun 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
“Law ‘and’, Law ‘in’, Law ‘as’: The Definition, Rejection, and Recuperation of the Socio-Legal Enterprise,” for the Workshop, “A Celebration of Socio-Legal Scholarship: Initiating, Facilitating, and Expanding New and Old Pathways” La Trobe University
May 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
“Social Science and Legal Scholarship,” for the Berkeley-National Science Foundation Workshop, “On the Interplay between Social Science and Law Schools: Visions, Challenges, and Trajectories” University of California Berkeley (May, 2012)
May 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
Commentator, “Imperial Shape-Shifting,” Conference on The “Political Arithmetick” of Empires in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1500-1807, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the Department of History, University of Maryland
Mar 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
“After Critical Legal History: Scope, Scale, Structure.”
Mar 2012 Christopher L. Tomlins
The United States and the Making of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005
Sep 2011 Christopher Schmidt
Commentator, “Law and Lawlessness: The Production of State Power in Colonial and Early Republican America,” American Political Science Association, 2011 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington (September 2011)
Sep 2011 Christopher L. Tomlins
Commentator, “Governing Habits; Governing out of Habit,” Law and Society Association, 2011 Annual Meeting
Jun 2011 Christopher L. Tomlins
“The Consumption of History in the Legal Academy: Science and Synthesis, Perils and Prospects”
Apr 2011 Christopher L. Tomlins
“Toward a Materialist Jurisprudence,” Political and Legal Theory Workshop, Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dec 2010 Christopher L. Tomlins
Closing Commentary, Day One of "Law’s Imperial Fields: A Workshop"
Jun 2010 Christopher L. Tomlins
Closing Commentary, Day One of "Law’s Imperial Fields: A Workshop"
Jun 2010
Revisiting Gordon’s "Critical Legal Histories."
May 2010 Christopher L. Tomlins
Comment on "Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths inn British Columbia, 1871-1921," by Renisa Marwani
May 2010 Christopher L. Tomlins
Toward a Materialist Jurisprudence
Dec 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
Louis Marshall and American Civil Rights Jurisprudence, 1900-1929
Oct 2008 Victoria Saker Woeste
Revolutionary Justice in Brecht, Conrad and Blake
Oct 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, 1490-1640
Oct 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
Transplants And Timing: Passages in the Creation of an Anglo-American Law Of Slavery
Jun 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
The Strait Gate: The Past, History and Legal Scholarship
May 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
How Autonomous is Law?
Nov 2007 Christopher L. Tomlins
The Supreme Sovereignty of the State: A Genealogy of Police in American Constitutional Law, from the Founding Era to Lochner
May 2007 Christopher L. Tomlins
"Law and Disorder in the Postcolony" Grand Lecture
Jun 2006
The Idea of Ancestry: Family Land and Local Courts in the Jim Crow South
Jan 2006 Dylan C. Penningroth

Legal profession

“The Juice isn’t Worth the Squeeze: The Impact of Tort Reform on Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and Access to Civil Justice”
Feb 2013 Stephen Daniels
“Women in Legal Practice: Local and Global Perspectives”
Jun 2012 Gabriele Plickert, Carole Silver, Steven Boutcher, and Ulrike Schultz
“German/US Gender Comparison in Legal Careers”
May 2012 Gabriele Plickert
“Early Post-Law School Careers of Lawyers in U.S. and German Cities: A Comparative Study of Work, Family, and Childbearing”
Feb 2012 Gabriele Plickert
The Little Pieces of the Bigger Picture: Empirical Research on Legal Services
Nov 2011 Rebecca Sandefur
Learning about Practice. The Way to Carnegie: Practice, Practice, Practice: A Conversation about Pedagogy, Social Justice, and Cost in Experiential Legal Education
Oct 2011 Rebecca Sandefur
Civic Education and the Legal Profession
Sep 2011 Stephen Daniels
“Why Do Women Take the ‘Off Ramps’ or ‘Opt Out’ from their Positions at Law Firms: It’s Not About the Children”
Jun 2011 Gabriele Plickert, Joyce Sterling
An Embarrassment of Riches: The Effects of the Economic Downturn on Pro Bono Services and Legal Services to the Poor (with Joanne Martin)
Mar 2011 Stephen Daniels
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and the Tension between Professional Norms and the Need to Generate Business (with Joanne Martin)
May 2010 Stephen Daniels
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and the Tension between Professional Norms and the Need to Generate Business (with Joanne Martin)
Apr 2010 Stephen Daniels
Plaintiffs' Lawyers: Dealing with the Possible But Not Certain (with Joanne Martin)
Apr 2010 Stephen Daniels
Undervaluing Indeterminacy: Legal Translations of Social Science
Apr 2010 Elizabeth Mertz
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal Education
Mar 2010 Elizabeth Mertz
The Myth of Transparent Translation: Legal Epistemology and Social Science
Oct 2009 Elizabeth Mertz
“Lawyers and the Negotiated Settlements of Later Life”
May 2009 John Hagan, Gabriele Plickert
Translating Law and Anthropology
Nov 2008 Elizabeth Mertz
Changing Legal Practice in the Wake of Medical Malpractice Reform (with Joanne Martin)
Oct 2008 Stephen Daniels
Law School Clinics as Legal Service Providers (with Joanne Martin)
Oct 2008 Stephen Daniels
Endnote Address: “An Anthropology of Our Own Conversations: Law and Social Science in the Academy”
Sep 2008 Elizabeth Mertz
Law School Clinics as Legal Service Providers (with Joanne Martin)
May 2008 Stephen Daniels
Invited Speaker, “Empirical Research Strategies for Understanding the Legal Profession: Examples from Current Research” -- AALS Committee on Research Featured Panel
Jan 2008 Elizabeth Mertz
The Turbulent Evolution of the Plaintiffs Bar: A Decade of Change (with Joanne Martin)
Jul 2006 Stephen Daniels, with Joanne Martin
Tort Reform and Lawyer Referral Networks: Disrupting the Flow (with Joanne Martin)
Jul 2006 Stephen Daniels, with Joanne Martin
The Making of a Plaintiffs’ Lawyer (with Joanne Martin)
Jul 2006 Stephen Daniels
Alive and Well (Maybe) in Texas: Plaintiffs’ Practice in the Age of Tort Reform (with Joanne Martin)
Mar 2006 Stephen Daniels
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers, Specialization, and Medical Malpractice (with Joanne Martin)
Oct 2005 Stephen Daniels
Research on the Texas Plaintiffs’ Bar in Texas
Oct 2005 Stephen Daniels
Legal Services for the Poor: Supply, Self-Interest, and Institutionalizing Pro Bono (with Joanne Martin)
Jun 2005 Stephen Daniels
Legal Services for the Poor and Pro Bono (with Joanne Martin)
Feb 2005 Stephen Daniels
How Texas Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Get Cases and the Importance of Referrals
Mar 2004 Stephen Daniels
It Was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times: The Precarious Nature of Plaintiffs’ Practice in Texas (with Joanne Martin)
Feb 2002 Stephen Daniels

Social justice

Antigone, Interrupted: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism
Nov 2009 Bonnie Honig
Where New Legal Realism Meets Gender: New Paradigms
Mar 2008 Elizabeth Mertz
Concentrated Incarceration: How Neighborhood Incarceration Decreases Voter Registration
Apr 2007 Traci Burch