Socio-Legal Studies Workshop

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that will meet one Friday each month over lunch (12-1.15pm) in the Law School (Room 3500). Lunch will be provided. all interested Law faculty members, faculty members from outside of the Law School, law students and graduate students are welcome. Places are limited so please RSVP to Jeff Heckathorn

2013
May 3, 2013	Bill Thompson (CLS, Psycology & Social Behavior, Law) - cancelled until Fall 2013 Semester
April 12, 2013	Sora Han (CLS)
April 5, 2013	Shauhin Talesh (Law, CLS)
February 8, 2013	Chris Whytock (Law, Political Science)
January 25, 2013	Kevin Olson (Political Science)

2012
December 7, 2012	Susan Coutin (CLS, Anthropology)
November 30, 2012	Keramet Reiter (CLS, Law) Keramet Reiter of UCI’s Criminology, Law & Society Department will present her paper on "Supermax Administration & the Eighth Amendment: Discretion, Deference, and Double-Bunking, 1986-2010."
November 16, 2012	Adam Sechooler (LAW) Adam Sechooler of UCI Law will present his paper on "Embedding Finance After the Crisis? Experimentalist Financial Regulation in the European Union." This will be the first presentation by a law student or graduate student in the short history of the workshop. We hope it will be followed by many more in the years ahead.
November 2, 2012	Harriet Evans (visitor in History) Jointly sponsored by CLSC Professor Harriet Evans of the University of Westminster, U.K., will present her research on “Six Decades of Everyday Life in ‘Old Beijing’.” Harriet Evans was educated at the University of London's School of African and Oriental Studies, the University of British Columbia, the Beijing Languages Institute, and Beijing University. Before joining the University of Westminster she taught modern Chinese history in Mexico (1979-1984). Formerly Head of the University of Westminster's Chinese Section, she is now co-ordinator of the University's MA and MPhil/PhD programmes in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and International Studies. Her publications include Women and Sexuality in China: Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949 (1997), Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (co-edited with Stephanie Donald, 1999), and The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (2007), as well as many articles. She is a regular consultant for BBC radio and non-governmental agencies on women, gender and human rights in China.