Selective Disclosure by Federal Officials and the Case for an FGD (Fairer Government Disclosure) Regime.

Feb. 20
Noon

Law in a Community of Disciplines

Privacy for Children and Students: Striking the Right Balance in Law and Policy

Law and Society Symposium:
The State of Immigration Policy in the United States

Is Justice Possible in Russia's Courts?
An Analysis from the Bottom Up

The Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservatism

"Judicial Ethics and Supreme Court Exceptionalism"

"Data-mining, Analysis, and Citizen Activism: Can we create a new market for monitoring and regulating economic activity and reverse the trend toward economic feudalism? "

"Making apartheid work: Black workers, South African labor law, and the struggle for racial justice"

“Comparing Children’s Rights Regimes: Sweden and the United States in the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-First”

“Narratives of Infanticide: Mothers, Murder, and the State in Nineteenth-Century America”

“How and Why Judges and Police Bend the Law: Human Rights, Courts and Law Enforcement in the Post-Soviet World”

Reflexive Observations on Forensic Science Reform as a Site for Public Law and Society Partnership

Symposium: Empowering the Powerless? Legal Services for Vulnerable Populations in China and India

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The Fukushima Disaster: Law, Politics, and Compensation in Japan

Legal Interpretations and Judicial Science in Post-socialist China: The Case of the Marriage Law

(Co-sponsored with the Institute of Advanced Studies)

Laws, regulation, and state agents create and enforce the rules by which individuals understand and experience their marriages. In the case of the Chinese party-state, the grasp has been both firm and directive and each of the three versions of the Marriage Law has been integral to the party-state’s broader project to create a modern nation and a new type of Chinese citizen. Over several decades the intended scope of the three Marriage laws have shifted as the party-state reassessed its understanding of the institution of marriage, the conflation of sexuality and marriage, and the relative strength of conjugal and family property rights. Most recently, legal and administrative documentsreveal a contradictory stance where the party-state defers to litigant’s choice when regulating marital sexuality and conjugal property but leaves regulation of marital fertility ultimately in the hands of the state.

Disaggregating Legitimacy: Rule Following vs. Public Opinion

Author Meets Reader

Discuss his new book, Is Marriage for White People?

Using the Yuck Factor: What Role Should Disgust Be Given in Our Society?

The Death Penalty: Judge versus Jury

Democracy or Discipline? Economic Globalization
and the Architecture of Government

Oct. 6
Room 213

Legal Liberalism and the Juridical Construction of
Immigrant Rights in the United States and France, 1973-1983

'Our Militancy is in Our Openness': Gay Employment Rights Activism and the Question of Sexual Orientation Under Title VII, 1964-1990

The Few, the Proud, the Gays: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
and the Trap of Tolerance

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Co-sponsored by New Perspectives Working Group

'We Are Tax Paying Citizens': Educational Equality
Litigation in the U.S., 1929-1959

The Rise and Fall of Discipline: Economic Globalization,
Administrative Reform, and the Financial Crisis

Roman Anti-Pagan Legislation in Theory and Practice

When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized
Employment Structures

Co-sponsored with IU Sociology

'Once We Were Slaves, Now We Are Free': Legal, Administrative, and Psychosocial Issues Raised by Passover Seders in Prison

The Unwieldy State: Administrative Politics after 1945

Co-sponsored with IU History

Justice and Protest with Chinese Characteristics, Past and Present

Judicial Selection Symposium

The Disutility of Injustice

The Fourth Amendment: Taking Privacy Seriously

Sticky Metaphors and the Persistence of the Traditional
Voluntary Manslaughter Doctrine

Reconfiguring Sex, Gender, and the Law of Marriage

Private Property Rights v. Maintaining Socialist Market Order: The Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the US and China

Rights Claims and Claiming Rights: The Law as a Formative Force in the Civil Rights Movement

Co-sponsored with IU History Department

Who Speaks for Islamic Law? Lessons from Egypt

Co-sponsored with IU Political Science Department

Toward a Sociology of Normative Legal Repertoires: The Criminalization of Ahmadis Inside Pakistan's Juridical Field

Henry Ford's War: Law, Antisemitism, and Speech in the Tribal 1920s

Co-sponsored with Indiana University Jewish Studies Program

Electoral Uncertainty and Judicial Dependence:
Evidence from Post-Communist Countries

Culture and Coalitions: The Emergence of "Global" Norms
against Human Trafficking

Co-sponsored with Indiana University Department of Sociology

Towards a New Field of Law and Architecture

The Racial Limits of Habitual Offender Laws in the Age of FDR

Is Black Political Empowerment Unconstitutional?

Financial Hustlers and Their Subprime Customers:
The Origins of Subprime in Three Acts, 1980–2000

Co-sponsored with Indiana University Department of History

Troubled No More by Death: Legal and Moral Hierarchies
in a Rwandan Genocide Trial

The Limits of Liberalism: Reflecting on the Impact
of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

An Interpretive History of the Voting Rights Act

The NAACP, Mob Violence, and the Unexpected Breakthrough
in Constitutional Law

Emotion in Judging

Administering the State: What's Law Have to do with It?

Historical Institutional Perspectives on Courts from Political Science and Law & Society Scholarship: Is it time to Start Talking?

From Charity to Nonprofit: State-Building and the Transformation of Civil Society

Creativity Through Property? Rethinking the Relationship Between Copyright and Culture

Everything I Learned, I Learned from Comics

Punitive Damages in Securities Arbitration: An Empirical Study

Translating Social Science in Legal Arenas: The Myth of Transparency

Global Order and the Legal Politics of Empire

Building and Revamping Legal Virtue: Legal and Colonial Strategies in the Construction of Asian States