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The Effects of Punitive Criminal Justice Policies on Political Participation in North Carolina
Apr 2006 Traci Burch
Ethnicity, Inc.
May 2007 John Comaroff
Nations With/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belonging
Jun 2007 John Comaroff
Rethinking Identity in Africa
Jun 2007 John Comaroff
Reflections on the Anthropology of Law, Governance, and Sovereignty in a Brave Neo World
Apr 2007 John Comaroff
African Jurisprudence and the Limits of Liberalism
Sep 2007 John Comaroff
Public Attitudes towards the Civil Justice System
Sep 2007 Stephen Daniels
The Turbulent Evolution of the Plaintiffs Bar: A Decade of Change
Jul 2006 Stephen Daniels, with Joanne Martin
Tort Reform and Lawyer Referral Networks: Disrupting the Flow
Jul 2006 Stephen Daniels, with Joanne Martin
The Making of a Plaintiffs’ Lawyer
Jul 2006 Stephen Daniels, with Joanne Martin
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
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
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
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
Bankruptcy Reform, the Supply of Credit and Consumer Use of Credit Cards
Jun 2007 Austan Goolsbee
Bankruptcy Reform, the Supply of Credit and Consumer Use of Credit Cards
May 2007 Austan Goolsbee
Vertical Integration and the Market for Television Programming
Apr 2007 Austan Goolsbee
Treating Adolescents as Adults
Oct 2007 John Hagan
Race and the Collective Dynamics of Genocidal Victimization in Darfur
Sep 2007 John Hagan
Death in Darfur
Apr 2007 John Hagan
The Terror and Trauma of Rape in Darfur
Sep 2007 John Hagan
Globalization of Law
Oct 2007 Terence Halliday
The Fight for First Generation Rights: A Comparative Essay on the Mobilization of the Legal Complex for Basic Legal Freedoms
Aug 2007 Terence Halliday
A Recursive Theory of National Lawmaking: Site- Switching in Korean Corporate Insolvency Reforms, 1992-2007
Jul 2007 Terence Halliday, with S. Oh
Negotiating Globalization
Mar 2007 Terence Halliday
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
The New Economics of Child Quality
Jan 2007 James J. Heckman
Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules and the Structure of Attention
Feb 2007 Carol A. Heimer
Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules and the Structure of Attention
Jun 2007 Carol A. Heimer
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
Resilience in the Middle: International Medicine, HIV Clinics, and Traditional Patients
Aug 2007 Carol A. Heimer
Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar
Oct 2006 John P. Heinz
Lawyers of the Right
Oct 2006 John P. Heinz
Reflections on 42 Years of Law Teaching
Oct 2007 John P. Heinz
Antigone’s Anachronism? Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens
Oct 2007 Bonnie Honig
The Time of Rights: Emergent Thoughts in an Emergent Setting
Dec 2006 Bonnie Honig
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
Changes in the IRS Appeals Process and Their Effects on Perceptions of Independence of Appeals
Apr 2007
“Author-Meets-Readers” Panel, “The Language of Law School, by Elizabeth Mertz”
Jul 2007
Changes in the IRS Appeals Process and Their Effects on Perceptions of Independence of Appeals
Apr 2007 Joanne Martin
“Author-Meets-Readers” Panel, “The Language of Law School, by Elizabeth Mertz”
Jul 2007 Elizabeth Mertz
Language Structure and Law School Reform
Jul 2007 Elizabeth Mertz
Studying the Traditional Law School Classroom: The ABF and Carnegie Studies
Sep 2007 Elizabeth Mertz
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 Elizabeth Mertz
Psychological Research: Understanding Responses to Law
Jul 2007 Janice Nadler, with Shari Diamond
The Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law: A Contextualized Test
Oct 2007 Janice Nadler
After the JD: What Every Young Lawyer and Senior Partner Should Know About the Changing Trends in Legal Careers
Feb 2007 Robert L. Nelson
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
Rights and Realities: Studying Law, Consciousness, and Inequality in Employment Discrimination
Apr 2007 Robert L. Nelson
The Trajectories of Legal Careers
Oct 2007 Robert L. Nelson, with R. Dinovitzer
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
Rights and Realities: Studying Law, Consciousness, and Inequality in Employment Discrimination
Dec 2006 Laura Beth Nielsen
The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State
Oct 2007 William J. Novak
The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State
Sep 2007 William J. Novak
Keynote Address
Feb 2007 William J. Novak
African American Divorce in Virginia and Washington DC, 1865-1930
Jan 2007
Slaves’ Claims to Family and Property in Southern Gold Coast and the U.S. South
Sep 2007 Dylan C. Penningroth
Rethinking Rebellious Slaves and Slave Rebellions (respondent)
Aug 2006
"Kinship" symposium on New World Slavery: History, Memory and Redress
Apr 2007 Dylan C. Penningroth
Research on End-of-Life Decision Making
Nov 2007 Susan P. Shapiro
Are Advance Directives Directive Enough?
Aug 2007 Susan P. Shapiro
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
My Brother’s Keeper: Surrogate Decisionmaking at the End of Life
Jul 2006 Susan P. Shapiro
Communities of Entrepreneurs (Discussant)
Jun 2007 Victoria Saker Woeste
Lawyering in the Shadow of Brandeis: The Supreme Court Civil Rights Practice of Louis Marshall
Apr 2007 Victoria Saker Woeste
Suing Henry Ford: Fighting Antisemitism in 1920s America
Mar 2007 Victoria Saker Woeste
The Legitimacy of Property Rights in the Context of Past Theft
Nov 2007 Bernadette Atuahene
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
Illegitimacy and criminal behavior
Aug 2007 Bernadette Atuahene
How far back should we go?: The dilemmas of property restitution
Jul 2007 Bernadette Atuahene
The Trajectories of Urban Legal Careers
Apr 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
The Reproduction of Inequality in the Legal Profession
Feb 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
The Changing Social Role of Urban Law Schools (with J. Sterling and B. Garth)
Aug 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
Urban Law School Graduates at Large Law Firms (with D. Wilkins and R. Batra)
Oct 2007 Ronit Dinovitzer
Monks, Lawyers, and All the King’s Men
Apr 2007 Ryon Lancaster
Institutional Rupture and Local Action: Explaining the Emergence of Church Bureaucracy in Medieval England
Aug 2006 Ryon Lancaster
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
“The Preacher's Wife: Law, Divorce, and Respectability among African Americans, 1865-1930”
Dec 2007 Dylan C. Penningroth
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

Law and globalization

Rhetorical Legitimation: Global Norms as Self-Validating Formal Scripts.
Jun 2008 Terence Halliday, Susan Block-Lieb, Bruce G. Carruthers
The Fight for First Generation Rights: A Comparative Essay on the Mobilization of the Legal Complex for Basic Legal Freedoms.
Jul 2008 Terence Halliday
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

"Law and Disorder in the Postcolony" Grand Lecture
Jun 2006
How Autonomous is Law?
Nov 2007 Christopher L. Tomlins
The Strait Gate: The Past, History and Legal Scholarship, (May 2008)
May 2008 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
Transplants And Timing: Passages in the Creation of an Anglo-American Law Of Slavery
Jun 2008 Christopher L. Tomlins
"The Idea of Ancestry: Family Land and Local Courts in the Jim Crow South"
Jan 2006 Dylan C. Penningroth

Social justice

Concentrated Incarceration: How Neighborhood Incarceration Decreases Voter Registration
Apr 2007 Traci Burch