[Brownbag] Fall 2008 CSLS Speaker Series Calendar (fwd)

[Liz Ozselcuk]

Dear Demography Brownbaggers: I am forwarding the CSLS fall speaker 
calendar to you because they always have some Demography/Economics related 
speakers:

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:14:13 -0700
From: Meg Gentes <mgentes at law.berkeley.edu>
To: Meg Gentes <mgentes at law.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Fall 2008 CSLS Speaker Series Calendar

The *Center for the Study of Law and Society* is pleased to announce the
    the* _CSLS Speaker Series_* for Fall 2008.

All talks will be held on Mondays from 12:30 to 1:45 in the Seminar Room at 
2240 Piedmont.  This year, for the first time, we will offer a _*l**ight buffet 
lunch*_, available for pick up before the talk begins in the Center Library 
from 12:00 to 12:30.  Coffee will be available, as always, in the Seminar Room.

You are welcome to bring your own bag lunch, of course, but in honor of the 
newly offered light lunch we have renamed the series from the CSLS Bag Lunch 
Speaker Series to CSLS Speaker Series.

Please find the Fall Calendar below and as an attachment.

Best wishes for a terrific semester. We look forward to seeing you at the 
Center.

Best, Rosann Greenspan

*CSLS Speaker Series:  **Fall 2008***

*Monday, September 8 -- Justin McCrary*
Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
"Economic Perspectives on Prison Expansion in the U.S., 1970-2000."

*Monday, September 15 -- Andreas Abegg *
Research Fellow, University of Freiburg.
   "The Contracting State and Its Courts -- A Comparative Historical Inquiry."

*Monday, September 22 -- Justin O'Brien *
Professor of Corporate Governance, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public 
Ethics, Australian National University.
"Re-arranging Deckchairs on the Titanic? The Future of Financial Regulation." 
*Monday, October 6 -- Rucker Johnson **and** Steven Raphael*
*Rucker Johnson*, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of 
California, Berkeley.
*Steven Raphael*, Professor of Public Policy, University of California, 
Berkeley. "Incarceration Trends and Racial Disparities in AIDS Infections."

*Monday, October 13 -- Eric Feldman*
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
"Assuming Risk: Tort Law, Policy, Politics on the Slippery Slopes"

*Monday, October 20 -- JohnMonahan *
John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology & 
Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia;
and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society.
"Lawyers at Mid-Career: A 17-Year Longitudinal Study of Job and Life 
Satisfaction."

*Monday, October 27 -- Traci Burch *
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, and Research 
Professor, American Bar Foundation.
"Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on 
Neighborhood Voter Registration."

*Monday, November 3 -- Eric Biber*
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley.   "Do 
Administrative Agencies Have Expertise?  Lessons from the U.S. Endangered 
Species Act."

*Monday, November 10 -- Carroll Seron *
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine.
"Policing Police Misconduct in a Democratic Society: The Judgments of Police 
Officers & White, Black,  Latino Citizens." *Monday, November 17 -- Trina Jones 
*
Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine.  "Coherence or Chaos in 
U.S. Anti-Discrimination Law:  In Search of a Theory of Equality."

*Monday, November 24 -- Richard Leo *
Associate Professor of Law, University of San Francisco.
"When Lightning Strikes Twice: Analyzing Double Wrongful Convictions."

*Monday, December 1 -- Jonathan Simon *
Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law, 
UC, Berkeley.  "The Political Economy of Empirical LS: Why ELS Is Much Less 
Than a Paradigm Shift, & Much More Than a Fad!"

Mondays 12:30p-1:45p with _a light lunch 12-12:30p_.  The talks and lunch are 
at 2240 Piedmont Ave unless otherwise noted. Coffee will be provided   If you'd 
like to receive notification by email, please send a message 
tocsls at uclink4.berkeley.edu <mailto:csls at uclink4.berkeley.edu>.
                            /

                                                        Professor Lauren 
Edelman, Director          / (8/22/08)


-- 
Meg Gentes
Program Asst,Center for the Study of Law and Society
Admn Asst,Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program/Legal Studies
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
2240 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94720-2150
510-642-8502
Center line 642-4038
FAX 510-642-2951
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/csls
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