Center for Legal Studies at ASA 2015
August 26, 2015
The Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies was extremely well-represented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Chicago, August 22-25, 2015.
- Prof. Bruce Carruthers, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, was the presider on a panel entitled “Economic Sociology: Law and Regulation in Economic Life.”
- Prof. Carol Heimer, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, presented papers entitled , “Punctuated Globalization: Legal Developments and Globalization in Healthcare” and “With and Without Borders: Global Regulation of Health and Healthcare.”
- Prof. Laura Beth Nielsen, director of Legal Studies, was a panelist on panels entitled “Organizational Responsibility, Culpability, and Gender Inequality” and “Sexualities in the Penal World.”
- Prof. Heather Schoenfeld, Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Penal Excess in the Age of Decarceration: Implications for Racial Inequality.”
- Andrew Baer, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, was the presider on a panel entitled “Policing De-Industrial Chicago: Racial Violence and the Struggle for Police Accountability.”
- Robin Bartram, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Uncertain Sexualities and Unusual Women: Museum Depictions of Jane Addams and Emily Dickinson” and presided over a roundtable on “Public Spaces.”
- Magda Boutros, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Combating Sexual Violence in Egypt’s Streets: On-the-ground Strategies of Action.”
- Brittany Michelle Friedman, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Birth of a Movement: Rethinking the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family.”
- Spencer Headworth, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “‘I’m Looking At Your Neighbor Over Here’: Databases and Shoe Leather in Welfare Fraud Control.”
- Joshua Kaiser, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled, “Beyond Punishment: The Penal State’s Interventionist, Covert, and Negligent Modalities of Control.”
- David Reed McElhattan, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Race, Rights, and Collective Memory.”
- Jaimie Morse, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Making Mass Rape Legible: Specialized Post-Rape Care and Medical Documentation in Humanitarian Emergencies.”
- John N. Robinson, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled, “Cleansing Properties: The Commodification of Dirty Work in Low-Income Housing.”
- Diana Rodriquez-Franco, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, was the presider on a panel entitled “Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World?”
- Talia Shiff, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “A Critical History of Deportation Reliefs: Competing Notions of Membership and Illegality.”
- Arielle Woloshin Tolman, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Precarious Legitimacy of Legal Standardization: A Case Study of Four Model Public Health Laws” and was the non-presenting author on a paper entitled “With and Without Borders: Global Regulation of Health and Healthcare” (with Prof. Carol Heimer).