New Frontiers Grant to Expand Center's Scholarship Potential
The Indiana University Center for Law, Society, and Culture will expand its scholarship
potential thanks to a grant from IU's New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities program. The
interdisciplinary Center, which serves as a catalyst for research innovation and curricular
enhancement in several pertinent fields of study, will use the grant to host a year-long
reading group and workshop series during the 2008-09 academic year to explore "New Directions
in Law & Society Scholarship."
"The questions raised by scholars doing innovative sociolegal work are intellectually significant because they reveal how our understanding of the importance of law has expanded considerably over the last decade, as have our ways of studying its primal place in societies across the globe," said Indiana Law Professor Ajay Mehrotra, a co-principal investigator of the grant.
Next year, the Center will bring in leading international scholars to discuss cutting-edge areas of sociolegal scholarship, such as Law and American Political Development, The Arts and Intellectual Property, Engagements with Empiricism, and Globalism and the Law. As a result, Center participants hope to enhance their own continuing education while providing community support and feedback to fellow scholars presenting works-in-progress.
"We hope that the workshops and reading groups supported by the grant will foster new collaborations among IU faculty interested in the study of law and society and will lead to a new burst of scholarship from them," said Adjunct Law Professor and Sally M. Reahard Professor of History Michael Grossberg, who serves as Center director and was a co-principal investigator of the grant.