Center for Legal Studies at LSA 2016
June 7, 2016
The Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies was very well-represented at the Law and Society Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans, June 2-5, 2016. The Law and Society Association is the main scholarly organization focused on sociolegal studies; this year’s theme was “At the Delta: Belonging, Place and Visions of Law and Social Change.”
- Prof. Laura Beth Nielsen, director of Legal Studies, participated in an Author-Meets-Reader Salon Session on Amanda Hollis-Brusky’s Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution. She was also the non-presenting co-author on a paper entitled “Institutional Legacies: Public Interest Law Organizations and the Two-Tiered System of Access to Justice in the United States.”
- Prof. Joanna Grisinger, Legal Studies, served as chair/discussant for a panel entitled “Rights and Liberties in the Twentieth Century.”
- Prof. Heather Schoenfeld, Legal Studies, was the co-presenter on a paper entitled “Penal Change and Fiscal Crisis: An Analysis of State Level Developments in New Jersey Since 2000.”
- Prof. Robert Nelson, Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board, was the presenting co-author of a paper entitled “Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession,” and participated in the Methods Café.
- Prof. Shari Diamond, Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board, was the presenting co-author of a paper entitled “Race and Jury Selection: The Pernicious Effects of Backstrikes,” was the chair/discussant on a panel entitled “Emerging Jury Systems: Argentina and Beyond,” and participated in a panel entitled “Fifty Years of the Law & Society Review: A Conversation With Past Editors.”
- Prof. John Hagan, Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board, was a non-presenting co-author of a paper entitled “Post-Conflict Justice in a Semi-International Tribunal: Witness Perceptions of Procedural Justice at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina," and was one of two authors in an Author-Meets-Reader session entitled “Crime of Aggressive War, Genocide and Competing Representations: New Books on Iraq and Darfur”
- Prof. Janice Nadler, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, chaired a panel entitled “IRC: Law, Society, and Psychological Science, Part 3,” and participated in an Author-Meets-Reader panel on Richard H. McAdams, The Expressive Powers of Law.
- Prof. Galya Ruffer, Legal Studies Faculty Affiliate, presented a paper entitled “Is the U.S. Gaming Refugee Status for Central Americans? A Study of the Screening and Refugee Status Determination Process for Central American Women and Children Detained in Artesia, New Mexico,” and chaired a roundtable session entitled “International Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis – Discourse, Humanitarianism and the Law.”
- Atinuke (Tinu) Adediran, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Elite Law Firm Commitment to Racial Diversification: External Presentation or Internal Value?”
- Pilar Margarita Hernádez Escontrías, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Los Indios de Anansaya: Race, Property, and Citizenship in colonial Perú.”
- Spencer Headworth, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Welfare Police: Bureaucrats at the Intersection of Law Enforcement and Public Assistance.”
- Josh Kaiser, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, was the non-presenting co-author of a paper entitled “Race and Jury Selection: The Pernicious Effects of Backstrikes.”
- David McElhattan, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Records, Race, and Risk: The Proliferation of Criminal History Information in the Era of Mass Incarceration.”
- Mona Oraby, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Identities that Matter: Baha'i Legal Activism in the Era of Minority Rights.”
- Talia Schiff, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Rethinking Migrant Desirability: the Role of Family Reunification in the Construction of the US Immigration Preference System.”
- Swati Srivastava, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled “Configurations of Sovereignty in Transnational Rules: English East India Company and the International Chamber of Commerce.”
- Arielle Tolman, a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, presented a paper entitled, “The Precarious Legitimacy of Legal Standardization: An Empirical Study of Four Model Public Health Laws.”