The Brown Legal Studies Seminar (BLSS) is an interdisciplinary colloquium series, featuring cutting-edge research on law and legal institutions, from a wide range of vantage points across the social sciences and humanities. Sessions are open to the entire Brown community, but we particularly welcome faculty and graduate students, from all fields. BLSS is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Watson Institute for International Studies.
*Food provided with RSVP
RSVP to Ellen_White@brown.edu.
For more information on the Brown Legal Studies Seminars, see http://www.watsoninstitute.org/blss/.
Past Events
Friday, May 7, 2010 Lynn M. Mather -- How and Why Do Lawyers Misbehave? Formal Discipline and the Informal Norms of Legal Practice
Friday, April 23, 2010 John D. Skrentny -- After Civil Rights: Law and Race in the New American Workplace
Friday, April 9, 2010 Andrew V. Papachristos -- Rules of the Game: Dominance Hierarchies and the Creation of Gang Violence Networks in Chicago
Friday, March 19, 2010 Lex Through Text: Law, Culture and Humanities Scholars Discuss the Texts that Shape Their Scholarship
Friday, February 26, 2010 Robert W. Gordon -- The Role of Lawyers in Producing the Rule of Law: Some Critical Reflections
Friday, February 19, 2010 Why the History of Japanese Law Has Not Been Written
Friday, February 12, 2010 Cancelled - Glenn C. Loury -- Mass Incarceration and the Quality of American Democracy
Friday, December 11, 2009 Robert Sampson -- Social Altruism and the Good Community
Friday, December 4, 2009 CANCELLED: Zinaida Miller -- Aid and Justice: Humanitarianism and Transition in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Friday, November 20, 2009 Annelise Riles -- The Anti-Network: Private Global Governance, Legal Knowledge, and the Legitimacy of the Regulatory State in International Finance
Friday, November 6, 2009 Sandra Levitsky -- What Rights? The Construction of Political Claims to American Health Care Entitlements
Friday, October 23, 2009 Jacob Gersen -- Unbundled Powers
Friday, October 9, 2009 Elizabeth Mertz -- The Myth of Transparent Translation: Legal Epistemology and Social Science
Friday, September 25, 2009 Judicial Discretion and (Un)equal Access: A Systematic Study of Motions to Reduce Criminal Sentences in Rhode Island Superior Court (1998-2003)
Friday, May 15, 2009 BLSS -- A Selection of Presentations from the Upcoming Law & Society Association Meetings
Friday, April 24, 2009 Michael Brown -- Culture in an Iron Cage: Cultural Appropriation and the Governance of Indigenous Heritage
Friday, April 17, 2009 Jedediah Purdy -- The Politics of Nature: Restoring Democracy to Environmental Law
Friday, April 3, 2009 Owen D. Jones -- This Is Your Brain on Law: The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 CANCELLED - Manuel Cepeda -- Adjudicating Social Equality: Economic and Social Rights Under the Colombian Constitution
Friday, March 6, 2009 Sharon Paynter -- Judicial Performance Evaluation: Policy Diffusion Across the American States
Friday, February 20, 2009 Mark Suchman -- Sharing is (S)caring on the Digital Frontier: Information Technology Governance in Health Care
Friday, February 6, 2009 Frank Dobbin -- Some Unintended Consequences of Equal Opportunity Law
Friday, December 12, 2008 Ravit Reichman -- 'Nothing to show for it': Identity Theft, Narrative, and Social Bonds
Friday, November 21, 2008 Austin Sarat -- Hollywood's Law: Film, Fatherhood, and the Legal Imagination
Friday, November 14, 2008 Susan Silbey -- Governing Green Labs: Trust and Surveillance in the Cultures of Science
Friday, October 24, 2008 David Kertzer -- Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
Friday, September 26, 2008 Marc Perlman -- Money Changes Everything: Normative Regimes of Music-Sharing in the Internet Age
Friday, September 12, 2008 Dan Danielsen -- Conflict Management: Foreign Investment, Violent Conflict and the Regulatory Construction of the Development State
Monday, May 5, 2008 David Kennedy -- The Mystery of Global Governance
Friday, April 18, 2008 CANCELED -- Rogers Smith -- Constitutional Democracy and the Obligation to Include
Friday, April 11, 2008 John Hagan -- Darfur and the Crime of Genocide: The Collective Dynamics of Racial Dehumanization and Genocidal Victimization
Friday, March 7, 2008 Carol Heimer -- Soft Law, Hard Science, and the Politics of Health: From Scientific Claims about HIV to a Moral Obligation to Treat
Friday, February 22, 2008 Gordon Wood -- Chief Justice John Marshall and the Origins of Judicial Review
