Center for Legal Studies at LSA 2015
March 31, 2015
The Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies was extremely well-represented at the Law and Society Association’s annual meeting in Seattle, WA, May 28-31, 2015. The Law and Society Association is the main scholarly organization focused on sociolegal studies; this year’s theme was “Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and Global South.” (http://www.lawandsociety.org/Seattle2015/seattle2015.html )
- Prof. Shari Diamond, Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board, served as a co-chair of a panel entitled “New Developments in Law & Psychological Science - Part 1” and was a non-presenting co-author on a paper entitled “Juries and Attitudinal Representation.”
- Prof. Joanna Grisinger, Legal Studies, served as chair/discussant for a panel entitled “Rights and Legal Institutions in the 19th Century” and co-organized the Law & History CRN’s business meeting.
- Prof. Carol Heimer, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, presented a paper entitled “Globalizing Regulation and Governance in Healthcare: The Chaotic Process of Creating Order” on a panel on which she served as chair/discussant entitled “Standardization and the Creation of Transnational Legal Orders in Medicine and Healthcare.”
- Prof. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, participated in a plenary session on “Normalizing Religion in Sociolegal Scholarship.”
- Prof. Ian Hurd, Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board, participated in an Author-Meets-Reader Session on Gregoire Mallard’s Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture.
- Prof. Janice Nadler, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, presented a paper entitled “The Role of Character in Legal Blame and Punishment.”
- Prof. Robert Nelson, Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board, presented a paper entitled “Inequalities in the Careers of American Lawyers: Findings from Wave 3 of the After the JD Study” and participated in the Methods Café.
- Prof. Laura Beth Nielsen, director of Legal Studies, was a non-presenting co-author on a paper entitled “Democracy, Civil Society, and Public Interest Law.”
- Prof. Heather Schoenfeld, Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Policy Reforms and the Mitigation of Penal Excess.”
- Anya Degenshein, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Beyond Risk: Entrapment, Surveillance, and the Creation of Criminal Biographies.”
- Bonnie Ernst, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Female Inmates in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Gender, Rights, and Punishment in Michigan.”
- Pilar Escontrías, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Indios of the Spanish Crown: Legal Subject Formation in the Archaeological Record of Colonial Perú.”
- Spencer Headworth, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Policing Welfare: The Rise and Development of Welfare Fraud Control Units in the United States.”
- Joshua Kaiser, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Contemporary Recreation of the Debtor’s Prison: Legal Financial Obligations and Fiscally Oriented Hidden Sentences” on a panel he chaired entitled “Perils and Promises of Criminal Justice Reform: The Problem of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs).”
- Jeff Kosbie, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Changing Strategies of LGBT Cause Lawyers in the 1990s.”
- Alka Menon, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Studying Standards and Standardization in the Transnational and Global Arena.”
- Jaimie Morse, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Documenting Mass Rape: The Emergence and Implications of Medical Evidence Collection Techniques in Settings of Armed Conflict and Mass Violence” and served as chair/discussant on a panel entitled “Critical Approaches to Human Rights.”
- John Robinson, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Shady Markets: Moral Controversies in Low-income Housing and the Financial Rediscovery of the Poor” and chaired a panel entitled “Re-Envisioning the City: The Limits and Possibilities of Property.”
- Talia Shiff, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Deportation and the Institution of Citizenship: Reconfiguring Mappings of Membership.”
- Swati Srivastava, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Emergence of Private Commercial Rule-Making.”
- Arielle Tolman, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Standardizing Surveillance: Hard and Soft Law in Global Disease Detection and Response.”
- Jill Weinberg, a former Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, who presented a paper entitled “When Kink Goes Mainstream: Legal Consciousness on Consenting to Pain,” served as chair/discussant on a panel entitled “Masculinity, Sexuality & Law,” and participated in an Author-Meets-Readers Salon on Ummni Khan’s Vicarious Kinks: SM in the Socio-Legal Imaginary.