Areas of Research
The Center in Law, Society and Culture sponsors and co-sponsors colloquia, Critical Legalities symposia, meetings, conferences, and workshops on themes related to
Activism and Social Movements
Bureaucracies and Institutions
Citizenship, Race and Nation
Gender, Sexuality and the Political
Philosophy and Ethics of Law
Science, Innovation and Technology Studies
Surveillance, Violence and Social Control
Textual Forms, Language, and Law
Transnationalism and Global Exchange
We also sponsor an interdisciplinary graduate fellows program for students with research interests in these areas.
Publications Based on Work Presented at the Center in Law, Society and Culture
The following are publications based on work presented at events sponsored by the Center in Law, Society and Culture:
Beckman, Karen. 2007. "Telescopes, Transparency, and Torture: Trevor Paglen and the Politics of Exposure." Art Journal 67(3):62-67.
Block, Sharon. 2006. "The Means of Sexual Coercion: Identity, Power and Social Consent." In Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, 53-97. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press.
Cain, Jeff. 2007. "Radio LAPD: 70 Years of Public Work." Art Journal 67(3):46-51.
Cole, Simon A. 2007. "Jeff Cain's Radio LAPD: Police as Content Provider in the Digital Age." Art Journal 67(3):52-53.
Constable, Marianne. 2006. "The Shuffle of Things: Law and Knowledge in 'Modern Society'." Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8(1):185-200.
Espeland, Wendy, and Michael Sauder. 2007. "Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Works." American Journal of Sociology 113(1):1-40.
Espeland, Wendy, and Berit Vannebo. Forthcoming. "Accountability, Quantification and Law." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 3.
Falk, Richard. 2007. "World Tribunal on Iraq: Truth, Law and Justice." In Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2006, 15-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Falk, Richard. 2008. "World Tribunal on Iraq: Truth, Law and Justice." In The Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order after Iraq, 171-183. New York: Routledge.
Frank, David, Tara Hardinge, Kassia Wosick-Correa. Forthcoming. "The Global Dimensions of Rape-Law Reform: A Cross-National Study of Policy Outcomes." American Sociological Review.
Goldberg, David Theo. 2008 (in press). The Threat of Race: Reflections of Racial Neoliberalism. Wiley-Blackwell.
Gross, Ariela. 2007. "Of Portuguese Origin: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the 'Little Races' in Nineteenth-Century America." Law & History Review 25(3):467-512.
Gross, Ariela. 2008. What Blood Won't Tell: Race on Trial in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hagen, John. Forthcoming. "The Flip-Flop Science of U.S. Diplomacy in Darfur: The Very Political Science of an International Court Referral." Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law.
Herbert, Steve, and Katherine Beckett. Forthcoming. "Zoning Out Disorder: Assessing Contemporary Practices of Urban Social Control." Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.
Hunt, Ashley. 2007. "The Disappearing/Reappearing Prison." Art Journal 67(3):68-73.
Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann. 2006. "Injury in U.S. Risk Culture." In Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States, 1-32. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kolbowski, Silvia. 2007. "After Hiroshima Mon Amour." Art Journal 67(3):80-84.
Leung, Simon. 2007. "The Look of Law." Art Journal 67(3):34-45.
Lim, Bliss Cua. 2007. "Silvia Kolbowski's A Film Will be Shown without the Sound." Art Journal 67(3):85-87.
Mountz, Alison. Forthcoming. "Stateless by Geogrphical Design: Refugees, Irregular Migrants, and the Shifting Geography of Enforcement." International Migration Review.
Paglen, Trevor. 2007. "Pictures from Nowhere: Three Moments." Art Journal 67(3):56-61.
Phillip, Kavita. 2005. "What is a Technological Author? The Pirate Function and Intellectual Property." Postcolonial Studies 8(2):199-218.
Sandholtz, Wayne. Forthcoming. "Creating Authority: The International Tribunals." In Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd, eds. The Institution of International Authority: Law, Politics, and the U.N. Security Council. London: Routledge.
Sauder, Michael, and Wendy Espeland. 2006. "Strength in Numbers? The Advantages of Multiple Rankings." Indian Law Journal 81:205-227.
Sauder, Michael, and Wendy Espeland. Forthcoming. "Rankings as Discipline: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change." American Sociological Review.
Sexton, Jared. 2007. "Captivity, By Turns: A Comment on the Work of Ashley Hunt." Art Journal 67(3):74-79.
Sexton, Jared. 2007. "Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control." In Joy James, ed. Warfare in the Homeland: Policiing and Prison in Penal Democracy, 197-218. Durham: Duke University Press.
Shah, Nayan. 2005. "Between 'Oriental Depravity' and 'Natural Degenerates': Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans." American Quarterly 57(3):703-725.
Thomas, Brook, ed. 2006. Liberty Ltd.: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Literature. Tuebingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Thomas, Brook. 2006. "The 'Man without a Country': Lincoln, the Patriotic Citizen, and Civil Liberties." In Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship, 55-101. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press.
Thomas, Brook. 2008. "Thomas Dixon's A Man of the People: How Lincoln Save the Union by Cracking Down on Civil Liberties." Law and Literature 20:21-46.
Valverde, Mariana. 2005. "Taking Land Use Seriously: Toward an Ontology of Municipal Law." Law, Text, Culture 9:34-58.
Valverde, Mariana. 2005. "Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellete Courts and Their Knowledge Games." Law & Society Review 39(2):419-456.
Valverde, Mariana. Forthcoming. "The Ethic of Urban Diversity." Law and Social Inquiry.
Wilson, Richard. Forthcoming. "International Humanitarian Law and Romanticism: Genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda." In Miriam Ticktin and Inlana Feldman, eds. Government and Humanity. Durham: Duke University Press.
