Workshop in Sociology of Law

Dauber / Friedman / Sandefur

Winter 2008

Speaker Series Schedule

January 16: Tom Tyler (NYU Psychology and Law): Psychology and the Design of Legal Institutions

January 23: Carla Shedd (Columbia University):

• Race, Place, and Perceptions of Injustice Among Chicago Youth
• Toward a Developmental and Comparative Conflict Theory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice

January 30: Catherine Albiston (Berkeley Law and JSP)

• Bargaining in the Shadow of Social Institutions: Competing Discourses and Social Change in Workplace Mobilization of Civil Rights
• Law, Normative Discrimination, and the Caretaker Penalty Proposal the National Science Foundation, Law & Social Science Section

February 20: Lauren Edelman (Berkeley Law and JSP)

• When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

February 27: Richard O. Lempert, Michigan Sociology and Law

• Cultural Differences and Discrimination: Samoans Before A Public Housing Eviction Board
• Discretion in a Behavioral Perspective: The Case of a Public Housing Eviction Board

March 5: Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert Nelson (Northwestern Sociology and American Bar Foundation)

March 12: Robert Sampson (Harvard Sociology)