Center for Legal Studies at ASA 2015
August 26, 2015
2015 News
August
July
Shana Bernstein: Racist Atticus Finch Has a Lesson for Jews
July 27, 2015 – from Forward
June
Shana Bernstein: The Third Shift: How Mom Became The Family’s Bodyguard
June 8, 2015 – from Talking Points Memo
Kendall Beeman selected to receive honorable mention for the 2015 Law and Society Association Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
June 2, 2015
Legal Studies major, Kendall Beeman, was selected to receive honorable mention for the 2015 Law and Society Association Undergraduate Student Paper Prize! Nominations for this award are made by members of the Law and Society Association who teach in institutions around the world. Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Director, Joanna Grisinger, submitted Kendall's Best Thesis Prize winning paper, Special Education Litigation in Chicago: IDEA and Due Process in Conflict. Congratulations Kendall!
May
Laily Sheybani's paper selected to receive the 2015 American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section's Undergraduate Paper Prize
May 1, 2015
Laily Sheybani's paper "That's Him, Officer!" (Or Is It?): The Effects of Unarticulated Instructions on Eyewitness Accuracy in Culprit Recognition, has been selected to receive the 2015 American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section's Undergraduate Paper Prize! The ASA Sociology of Law Section provides a forum for intellectual and personal exchange among sociologists interested in the study of law, legal institutions, and law-related structures and processes, and they choose a best student paper to award every year. Congratulations Laily!
April
Shana Bernstein: Big business, government and doubt
April 6, 2015 – from The Hill
March
Center for Legal Studies at LSA 2015
March 31, 2015
Shana Bernstein: How Anti-Semitism in Modern America Could Fuel Cross-Racial Unity
March 13, 2015 – from Talking Points Memo
February
Laura Beth Nielsen: Street harassment in Chicago: What the unwanted attention can mean to the victims
February 16, 2015 – from WGN TV
She appeared in February 2015 on Chicago's WGNtv during a segment about street harassment.
January
Shana Bernstein: WHAT CAUSED MY CANCER?
January 29, 2015 – from Pacific Standard
Was it bad genes? Bad luck? Or was it the toxins I eat, drink, breathe, and touch on a regular basis because the United States has a policy of putting the burden of proof for product safety on the consumer?
Shana Bernstein: Not Just Kumbaya: Multiracial Coalitions Yield Pragmatic Results for the Common Good
January 18, 2015 – from The American Prospect