CSLS at UC Berkeley

Get to know KT Albiston, CSLS Faculty Director in the Law & Society Association's recent Member Spotlight!

To view the feature in its entirety, click here: www.lawandsociety.org/2025/12/02/l...

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.

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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.

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 csls@law.berkeley.edu.

Please share this opportunity with others who may be interested. Thank you!

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.
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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.

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)

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 more information about the program, eligibility, and application requirements, visit our website: csls.berkeley.edu/opportunitie...
Inquiries may be sent to CSLS at csls@law.berkeley.edu.

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 csls@law.berkeley.edu.

Please share this opportunity with others who may be interested. Thank you!

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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...

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.

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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.

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

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 csls@law.berkeley.edu.

For full details, please visit csls.berkeley.edu/opportunitie...

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.

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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...

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

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!

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

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

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!

Please share with anyone who may be interested. Thank you!

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 csls@law.berkeley.edu.

For full details, please visit csls.berkeley.edu/opportunitie...