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.
The Fall 2026 CSLS Speaker Series will be held in person and livestreamed via Zoom as permitted.
Registration and accessibility details can be found on our website: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q
We hope you can join us!
Please join us for Rabia Belt's talk, “Mental Incompetence on the Ground: Community Construction of Disability in Democracy," on Monday 9/28. This event will be held in-person and livestreamed via Zoom.
Find registration and accessibility details here: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q
To date, CSLS has supported 15 multidisciplinary sociolegal scholars conducting research related to the Center’s three pillars: democracy and civil society, inequality, and criminal justice.
You can help provide future summer research grant support by making a gift today.
As part of UC Berkeley’s Bearathon Campaign and CSLS’s 65th Anniversary Campaign, CSLS is raising funds for law and society graduate student summer research grants: https://t.co/GOmttS8efl
Funds, including funds necessary to pay for essential living expenses (food and housing), provide students dedicated time free from other employment obligations to research, write, and produce journal articles, dissertation chapters, or similar research products.
Join us for "The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages: 1935-1975, Evidence from Local Land Records" featuring Omer Ali held in-person and livestreamed via Zoom on Monday 9/14.
Registration and accessibility details can be found here: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q
Leading sociologist and Berkeley Law alum Laura Beth Nielsen (JD & PhD in JSP) to lead the @ABFResearch as the next (11th) Executive Director https://t.co/5aeindUWrn
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: https://t.co/4R4YlrkIYC
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: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q
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: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q We hope you can join us for our final talks of the semester.
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: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q
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.
Three students in our Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Nandina Babic (pictured), Michael Banerjee, and Margot Lipin are Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Graduate Fellows this school year: https://t.co/vsEZVgQxo3 #UCBerkeleyLaw
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: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q We hope you can join us!
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!
For more information about the program, eligibility, and application requirements, visit our website: https://t.co/AUd4VfPVMT
Inquiries may be sent to CSLS at [email protected].
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!
Join us for "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: https://t.co/rDChDyY31q