Law and Society

The Law and Society Association consists of scholars from many fields and countries, researching law in social, political, economic and cultural life.

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Grad students! Applications are now open for the Michele Bratcher Goodwin Fellowship in Law and Society. Fellows will assist with LSA Annual Meeting planning while receiving mentorship from established scholars in the field.

Learn more: https://t.co/cug3HjBnr7

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Our July #MemberSpotlight is CRN 58 Co-Chair and @BristolUni Professor @folukeifejola!

Learn more about Professor Adebisi’s career studying legal education and decolonisation here: https://t.co/gscnIFeYkA

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Did you miss the Annual Awards ceremony at #LSASF2026? If so, the video is now available to watch on YouTube! https://t.co/Vi7uHimN89

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It’s always nice meeting new and old friends at the LSA Annual Meetings! #LSASF2026 #AcademicCommunity #LawAndSociety

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Registration is open for the 7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality at the @UMNews Humphrey School of Public Affairs on August 3-5, 2026!

Learn more here: https://t.co/FD2U1brZNQ

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ICYMI: “LSA is where I can be all the things—an anthropologist, a legal scholar, someone who studies work law, constitutional law, religious freedom, higher education—everything. The Association’s “big tent” approach to scholarship is rare and valuable...”

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Our June #MemberSpotlight is former LSA Board Trustee and @EmoryLaw Professor Deepa Das Acevedo!

Learn more about Professor Das Acevedo’s career studying employment law and the law and politics of India here: https://t.co/BH1Wv89Gmm

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Congrats to Susan Bibler Coutin, recipient of Law & Society Assn.'s '26 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award for her dedication to mentoring future scholars. Read the nomination statements for the @UCIrvine professor of criminology, law & society & anthropology:https://t.co/cmyeJQifUu

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Our June #MemberSpotlight is former LSA Board Trustee and @EmoryLaw Professor Deepa Das Acevedo!

Learn more about Professor Das Acevedo’s career studying employment law and the law and politics of India here: https://t.co/BH1Wv89Gmm

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Congrats to Meghan Ballard of @RANDCorporation for winning LSA’s 2026 Dissertation Prize – Hon Mention for “Language Access in State Courts: The Bureaucratic Interpretation, Organizational Construction, and Local Implementation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”!

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Congrats to Ed Cornelius of @UMNews for winning LSA’s 2026 Dissertation Prize – Honorable Mention for “Car Wash Legacies: Lawyers, Globalization, and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Penal Field”!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to @ProfAtuahene of @USCGouldLaw for winning LSA’s 2026 Herbert Jacob Book Prize - Honorable Mention for Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America! @HachetteUS

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to Laura Beth Nielsen of @NorthwesternU and @ABFResearch for winning LSA’s 2026 Ronald Pipkin Service Award!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwW7f3

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Congrats to Susan Bibler Coutin of @UCIrvine for winning LSA’s 2026 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to Joseph Sanders of @UHouston for winning LSA’s 2026 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to @dee_smythe of @UCT_news for winning LSA’s 2026 International Prize!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to Levi Garrett Cannon of @UCBerkeley for winning LSA’s 2026 Undergraduate Student Paper Prize for “Defining Custody Resolution: How Parent Coordinators Construct Family Law”!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to Juhwan Seo of @RutgersU for winning LSA’s 2026 Graduate Student Paper Prize for “Not the ‘Love Police’? How Lawyers Shape Immigrant Families”!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to Dr. Shruti Iyer of @Cambridge_Uni for winning LSA’s 2026 Dissertation Prize for “Silicosis and the State: Valuing Life and Labour in Contemporary India”!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwVzpv

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Congrats to Alice Abrokwa of @UVALaw for winning LSA’s 2026 John Hope Franklin Prize for “Too Stubborn to Care For: The Impacts of Discrimination on Patient Noncompliance”!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwW7f3

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Congrats to Gillian Slee of @SociologyUga for winning LSA’s 2026 Article Prize for “Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry”!

View all winners here: https://t.co/uljaZwW7f3