Socio-Legal Studies Workshop (Archive)

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.

2021–22 Workshop Schedule

See full descriptions of 2021 and 2022 workshops.

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee, Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "The Lives and Livelihood of Migrants." The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an...

SEP 24, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Breauna Marie Spencer

Breauna Marie Spencer, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "The Race-Gendered Experiences of White Men Enrolled in STEM Doctoral...

OCT 1, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Miguel R Quintana-Navarrete

Miguel R Quintana-Navarrete, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "How to avoid a trial:...

OCT 8, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Iris Xiaoshuang Luo

Iris Xiaoshuang Luo, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "An Empirical Test of Procedural Fairness, Legitimacy and Public...

OCT 22, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Veronica Valencia Gonzalez

Veronica Valencia Gonzalez, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology and UCI Initiative to End Family Violence Graduate Student Fellow, will be presenting their...

OCT 29, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Justin Lucas Sola

Justin Lucas Sola, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "A Face Too Many: Neoliberalism Theories in Law and Society." The...

NOV 5, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Meghan Maree Ballard

Meghan Maree Ballard, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "No U.S. dough to help Jim Crow grow: A socio-legal history of Title VI...

NOV 12, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica Lopez-Espino

Jessica Lopez-Espino, UC Presidents’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals...

DEC 10, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Isha Bhallamudi

Isha Bhallamudi, PhD Candidate at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "Gender Dynamics of App-Based Gig Work in India." The Socio-Legal Studies...

JAN 28, 2022 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Gregory Shaffer

Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor of Law at UCI Law, will present his recently published book, Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of...

FEB 11, 2022 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Adria L. Imada

Adria L. Imada, Professor of History at the UCI School of Humanities, will be presenting her book, "An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during...

FEB 18, 2022 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Tony Cheng

Tony Cheng, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting from his book manuscript, "Blue Illusions: Machine...

FEB 25, 2022 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Long Bui

Long Bui, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting his book, "Model Machines: A History of the Asian as...

MAR 11, 2022 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jamelia N Morgan

Jamelia N Morgan, Assistant Professor of Law at UCI Law, will be presenting her paper, "On the Legal & Social Construction of Race and Disability: An Intersectional...

APR 1, 2022 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Nicole Iturriaga

Nicole Iturriaga, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her book, "Exhuming Violent Histories:...

APR 15, 2022 12PM
CLSC, LSA CRN on Law and Climate Change & UCI Environmental Humanities | Eve Darian-Smith, Global Burning - Book Launch

The UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Law and Climate Change, and UCI Environmental Humanities Research...

APR 20, 2022 3PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Kira Tait

Kira Tait, UCI CLS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting, "The Power of Perspectives: Thinkability as an Approach to...

APR 22, 2022 12PM

2020–21 Workshop Schedule

See full descriptions of 2020 and 2021 workshops

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Lya Ferreyra

Lya Ferreyra, JD candidate, will present her paper, "Matter of A-B- and the Dissolution of Gender-Based Asylum Claims in the U.S." The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an...

OCT 9, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Sameer Ashar, Jocelyn Simonson & Amna Akbar

Sameer Ashar, Clinical Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, Jocelyn Simonson, Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and Amna Akbar, Associate Professor of Law...

OCT 16, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Maggie Woodruff

Maggie Woodruff, JD and Anthropology PhD candidate, will present her paper, "Ecological Law: Disaster, Shelter, and Advocacy in Orange County." The Socio-Legal Studies...

OCT 23, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Laura Enriquez

Laura Enriquez, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be discussing her book, "Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy...

OCT 30, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ann Southworth

Ann Southworth, Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting her paper, "Strange Bedfellows: The Litigation Coalition Behind Citizens United v. FEC." The...

NOV 6, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryant Jackson-Green

Bryant Jackson-Green, JD/PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology and UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Federal and State Clemency: Organization, Process,...

NOV 13, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Justin Lucas Sola

Justin Lucas Sola, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a...

DEC 4, 2020 12PM
CLSC & CLS | Professor Hadar Aviram: Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole

On behalf of the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, we are pleased to invite you to the following event co-hosted with UCI Criminology, Law and Society: Hadar Aviram,...

JAN 4, 2021 2PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jessica Cabrera

Jessica Cabrera, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "Co-Opted Compliance: How Survivor Activists, University Administrators, and...

JAN 8, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Li

Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the American...

JAN 15, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa Ballakrishnen

Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Assistant Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be discussing their book, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India's...

JAN 22, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Breauna Spencer

Breauna Spencer, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be presenting her paper, "The Social-Psychological Effects of Racial Subjugation of Black Males in Higher...

JAN 29, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Alex Aguirre

Alex Aguirre, PhD Candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Procedural Justice and the Construction of Inequality within the Los Angeles Police...

FEB 5, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Rachel Moran

Rachel Moran, Distinguished Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting her paper, "The Pocketbook Next Time: From Civil Rights to Market Power in the Latinx...

FEB 12, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Shauhin Talesh

Shauhin Talesh, Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Health Insurance and Transgender Patient Access to Health Care: Barriers, Work-Arounds,...

FEB 19, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: James Binnall

James Binnall, Associate Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach, will present his book, Twenty Million Angry Men: The...

MAR 5, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Hillary Berk

Hillary Berk, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Harmless ‘Preferences’? An...

MAR 12, 2021 12PM
CLSC | Managing Research in the COVID Era

Please join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion of research methods. With a particular focus on supporting early career scholars, our panelists will share experiences...

APR 1, 2021 12:30PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Margaret Goldman

Margaret Goldman, PhD candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Freeing Los Angeles." The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary...

APR 2, 2021 12PM
CLSC | Book Talk: Ashley Rubin, The Deviant Prison

The UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture and Department of Criminology, Law, and Society welcome Ashley Rubin to discuss her new book, The Deviant Prison Philadelphia's...

APR 5, 2021 2PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Bryan Sykes

Bryan Sykes, Associate Professor in Criminology, Law and Society at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting his paper, "Institutional Castling: Military Enlistment...

APR 16, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Joanne DeCaro

Joanne DeCaro, PhD candidate at UCI School of Social Ecology, will be presenting her paper, "Unnamed Wounds: Alinear Temporality and Indirect Trauma." The Socio-Legal Studies...

APR 23, 2021 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Aziz Sohail

Aziz Sohail, MFA Candidate at the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, will be discussing the exhibition, "how to gently unpack an empire." landing: Unpacking empire and...

APR 30, 2021 12PM

2019–20 Workshop Schedule

See full descriptions of 2019 and 2020 workshops

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee, Professor of Law, UCI School of Law "Family Separation as Slow Death" The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

SEP 27, 2019 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: David Kaye

David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law, UCI School of Law Book Talk: Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

OCT 25, 2019 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Long Bui

Long Bui, Assistant Professor of International Studies, UCI School of Social Sciences Book Talk: Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (NYU Press,...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

NOV 22, 2019 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Veronica Gonzalez

Veronica Gonzalez, Ph.D. candidate in Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology "Immigrant and Undocumented Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and the...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

JAN 10, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ian Baran

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law,...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

JAN 31, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Chandra Middleton

Chandra Middleton, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UCI School of Social Sciences "The Art of Writing Federal Regulations" The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

FEB 21, 2020 12PM
Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Judy Wu

Join by videoconference > Judy Wu, Professor of Asian American Studies, UCI School of Humanities "The Third Wave: Patsy Takemoto Mink and Intersectional Legislative...

LAW BUILDING (LAW)

MAR 13, 2020 12PM

2018–19 Workshop Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
September 28	Bryan Sykes Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society UCI School of Social Ecology	Continuous Control: Sex Offender Registries, Sexual Threat, and the Making of Criminal Subjects
October 19 Law 3750	Irene Vega Postdoctoral Scholar UCI School of Social Ecology	What Would a Reasonable Agent Do? Border Patrol Agents' Use of Force Rationales
October 26 Law 3750	Daniele Piomelli Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences UCI School of Medicine Bob Solomon Clinical Professor of Law UCI School of Law	Lost in the Weeds: The Complexities of Researching and Regulating Cannabis
November 2	Damien Sojoyner Assistant Professor of Anthropology UCI School of Social Sciences	Book Talk: First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
November 30	Marina Bell PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society UCI School of Social Ecology	Approaching Reform Failures Through an Abolitionist Lens
January 25	Brandon Golob Assistant Teaching Professor of Criminology, Law and Society UCI School of Social Ecology Katherine Elder Assistant Professor of Health Communication California State University, Channel Islands	A Regional Examination of Sexual Victimization Rates in Juvenile Correctional Facilities
February 1	Vibhuti Ramachandran Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies UCI School of Social Sciences	"Immoral Traffic": Courts, NGOs, and an Anti-Prostitution Law in India
February 8	Dalié Jiménez Professor of Law UCI School of Law	Thinking Like a Non-Lawyer
February 15	Emily Taylor Poppe Assistant Professor of Law UCI School of Law	AI, Apps, and the Art and Science of Lawyering
February 22	Jessica Cabrera PhD Candidate in Sociology UCI School of Social Sciences	The Hunting Ground in a Compliance Jungle: How Field Actors Construct the Meaning of Compliance in Title IX Campus Sexual Assault Regulation
April 12 Law 3750	Christopher Seeds Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society UCI School of Social Ecology	The Ambivalent Crafting of Life Without Parole
April 19	Christine Scott-Hayward Assistant Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice California State University, Long Beach Aili Malm Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice California State University, Long Beach	Legal Elites? A Social Network Analysis of Supreme Court Advocates
May 3	Renée Reizman MFA Candidate in Art - Critical & Curatorial Studies UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts	Spectacular Grammar: Infrastructure as Language

2017–18 Workshop Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
October 6	Hillary Berk Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law, and Society UCI School of Social Ecology	The Value of Gestational Labor in Contracts for Surrogate Motherhood
October 20	Brook Thomas Chancellor’s Professor of English UCI School of Humanities	Book Talk: The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
October 27	Janine Ubink Adjunct Professor of Law UCI School of Law	The Façade of Participation—Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Relations in South Africa’s Mining Industry
January 12	Dallas Augustine PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society UCI School of Social Ecology	Working Around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Good Work with a Criminal Record
January 19	Gabriela Gonzalez PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society UCI School of Social Ecology	(Working Title) Educational Consequences of Parental Immigrant Detention (co-authored)
January 26	Ming Hsu Chen Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Law School	Constructing Citizenship for Noncitizens
February 2	Laura E. Enriquez Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies UCI School of Social Sciences Daniel Millán Graduate Student in Sociology UCI School of Social Sciences	Conceptualizing Deportability in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults
February 9 Law 3750	Alexandra Natapoff Professor of Law UCI School of Law	Misdemeanor Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach
February 16	Vanessa Delgado Graduate Student in Sociology UCI School of Social Sciences	Legal Brokers: Navigating Illegality through Social Capital
February 23	Emily Taylor Poppe Assistant Professor of Law UCI School of Law	The Law School Pipeline
March 16	Damien Sojoyner Assistant Professor in Anthropology UCI School of Social Sciences	Book Talk: First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
April 6	Tania DoCarmo PhD Candidate in Sociology UCI School of Social Sciences Emma Gunderson JD Candidate UCI School of Law	Working Title: Punishment or Protection? Carceral Creep and Protecting Child Survivors of Sex Trafficking in Cambodia Handcuffing Victims and Blindfolding Justice: Normative Practices Around Criminalizing Low-Income Women of Color, Trafficking Intervention Courts, & Critical Race Theory as a Model for Attorney Competency & Narrative Resistance at the Post-Conviction Stage
April 13	Sameer Ashar Clinical Professor of Law UCI School of Law Catherine Fisk Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law	Governance and Voice in Workers Centers
May 4	Diego Gil McCawley Teaching Fellow, SPILS Lecturer in Law Stanford Law School	The Institutionalization of Neoliberal Reforms: A Case Study of Chile's Housing Law and Policy

Contacts

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Law Centers Manager
rkadri@law.uci.edu
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