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CSLS at UC Berkeley
@cslsatberkeley.bsky.social
Center for the Study of Law and Society
at UC Berkeley School of Law

Supporting empirical research and theoretical analysis on the social consequences of law.

https://csls.berkeley.edu/
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Please note updates to the Fall 2025 CSLS Speaker Series calendar. Events are to be held in person and livestreamed via Zoom.
Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website: rb.gy/pltjm
We hope you can join us for our final talks of the semester.
CSLS warmly invites you to our final talk of the semester, "Agents of Commerce: Transactional Lawyering in the 19th Century United States" held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom, Monday 11/3.

Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Please note updates to the Fall 2025 CSLS Speaker Series calendar. Events are to be held in person and livestreamed via Zoom.
Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website: rb.gy/pltjm
We hope you can join us for our final talks of the semester.
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the CSLS Visiting Scholar application period for the 2026-27 Academic year is now open! Applications are due by March 2, 2026 via e-mail at [email protected].

Please share this opportunity with others who may be interested. Thank you!
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October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Please join us for CSLS book talk, Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators (University of California Press, 2025), to be held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom on Monday 10/27.
Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Please join us for a CSLS Visiting Scholars Speaker Series talk this afternoon featuring Anne Schlüter and Rebekah Jones, held In-Person from 3:30-5:00 PM.
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today, 10/21 - Part of the Tech Policy Week collection: What’s Happening with Federal Data, and What Can You Do About It?

How can we preserve essential federal datasets for the benefit of American lives and livelihood?

Tuesday October 21 4:30-5:45pm PDT
Location: Wheeler Hall 315 (Maude Fife Room)
What’s Happening with Federal Data, and What Can You Do About It?
How can we preserve essential federal datasets for the benefit of American lives and livelihood?
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October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Please note updates to the Fall 2025 CSLS Speaker Series calendar. Events are to be held in person and livestreamed via Zoom.
Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website: rb.gy/pltjm We hope you can join us!
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We are pleased to announce that the CSLS Visiting Scholar application period for the 2026-27 Academic year is now open! Applications are due by March 2, 2026 via e-mail at [email protected].

Please share this opportunity with others who may be interested. Thank you!
Visiting Scholars | Center for the Study of Law and Society
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October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Join us for today's talk "Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services
(Princeton University Press, 2023)" featuring Kelley Fong held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom on Monday 10/6.
Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The Center for the Study of Law and Society @cslsatberkeley.bsky.social has unveiled its fall speaker series lineup, offering a weekly dose of pathbreaking interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship: www.law.berkeley.edu/sidebar/cent... #UCBerkeleyLaw
Center for the Study of Law and Society announces fall speakers
The speaker series lineup offers a weekly dose of pathbreaking interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship on Mondays from Aug. 25 to Nov. 17.
www.law.berkeley.edu
August 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
CSLS talk: "Testing Universalism: Do Interventions Targeting Socioeconomic Inequality, As Opposed to Racial Inequality, Garner Broader Support?" featuring Danieli Evans will be held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom on Monday 4/14.

Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
April 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A 2007 UCLA Law Review article by Professor Catherine Albiston, CSLS Faculty Director, was cited in a recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion.

Read more here: www.law.berkeley.edu/sidebar/prof...
Professor Catherine Albiston cited in Supreme Court opinion
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson referenced Albiston's 2007 article in her dissenting opinion in the Lackey v. Stinnie case.
www.law.berkeley.edu
April 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Join us for our upcoming talk: "Expressive Law, Social Norms, and Inequality," featuring CSLS Faculty Director Catherine Albiston, held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom on Monday 3/17.

Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Center for the Study of Law and Society is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the 2025 CSLS Graduate Student Paper Prize! The award carries a cash prize of $1,000. Please see details below.
March 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Please join us for upcoming CSLS Special Event: "Race, Law, and Society: Critical Perspectives from the Disciplines" held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom, Friday 3/7.

Registration and accessibility details: csls.berkeley.edu
February 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the CSLS Visiting Scholar application period for the 2025-26 Academic year has been extended.

Applications are now due by March 1, 2025, submitted via e-mail at [email protected].

For full details, please visit csls.berkeley.edu/opportunitie...
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January 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
CSLS Special Event, the Robert A. Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation: "Next Generation Compliance: ​Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era" will be held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom, Monday 3/3.

Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
February 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2025-2026 Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Graduate Fellowship (BELS) application period is now open!

Applications will be accepted until April 7th, 2025. See our site for more information about the program and application process: csls.berkeley.edu/opportunitie...
February 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
CSLS warmly invites you to our upcoming talk, "For Itself and for Mankind": John Marshall Harlan, Species Extinction, and the Fur Seal Trial of 1893 held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom, Monday 2/24.

Registration and accessibility details: rb.gy/pltjm
February 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Please note scheduling changes on the Spring 2025 CSLS Speaker Series lineup + Special Event calendar. Events are to be held in person and livestreamed via Zoom.

Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website: rb.gy/pltjm

We hope to see you!
February 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Please join us for our upcoming talk: "The Voucher Lottery: America's Housing Crisis and the Politics of Scarcity" held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom, Monday 2/10.

Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website here: rb.gy/pltjm
February 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Please join us for our first Speaker Series event of the semester: "The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change" held In-Person and Livestreamed via Zoom, Monday 1/27.

Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website here: rb.gy/pltjm
January 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2025 CSLS Speaker Series lineup and an upcoming Special Event. Events are to be held in person and livestreamed via Zoom.

Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website: rb.gy/pltjm

We hope to see you soon!
January 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We are pleased to announce that the CSLS Visiting Scholar application period for the 2025-26 Academic year has been extended.

Applications are now due by March 1, 2025, submitted via e-mail at [email protected].

For full details, please visit csls.berkeley.edu/opportunitie...
Visiting Scholars | Center for the Study of Law and Society
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January 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM