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Announcements
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 LSA Celebrates 60th Anniversary At 2024 Annual Meeting » Presidents Speak! Origins, Evolution, and Future of the Law and Society Association The world has changed significantly...
Friday, July 12, 2024 (15 Comments - view/add) In Memoriam: Please Share Your Condolences for Former LSA Executive Officer Ronald Pipkin » The Law and Society Association is sad to report that Ronald Pipkin , a stalwart LSA leader for 25 years, has passed...
Thursday, July 11, 2024 LSA Announces 2024 Grant Program Recipients » AMHERST, Mass. – The Law and Society Association is excited to announce its recipients for its 2024 Grant Pro...
Thursday, July 11, 2024 LSA 2024 Annual Awards Announced » The Law and Society Association Honors its 2024 Award Winners! AMHERST, Mass. – The Law and Society Associati...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (18 Comments - view/add) Please Share your Memories of Laurie Edelman » Dear Colleagues, With the heaviest heart, I write to let you all know that our past-president, generous colleague, and d...
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Annual Meeting
Thursday, August 22, 2024 Ned Blackhawk Discusses U.S. History and Federal Indian Policy at #LSA2024 » Challenging the False Premises of U.S. History: Native Activism and Federal Indian Policy, 1911-1941 Traditional narrati...
Thursday, July 11, 2024 Denver 2024 Photo Gallery » LSA’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado was full of memorable moments. View sights and scenes from the conference at...
Monday, August 24, 2020 LSA 2021 Chicago Annual Meeting Theme Announced » Related: Submission Information Abstract Guidelines Participation Limitation ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Program Now Available » Virtual Conference Update Program Now Available! The time has come! The 2020 Program Committee a...
Thursday, May 7, 2020 Dates and Time Blocks Announced! » Virtual Meeting Update Dates and Time Blocks Announced! *Registration Required...
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Law & Society Review Releases
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 Call for Editors: Law & Society Review » Editor(s) Sought for Law & Society Review The Law and Society Association is seeking its next E...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 LSA Members Now Have Full Access to the Entire Back Catalog of Law & Society Review! » For nearly 60 years, Law & Society Review , LSA’s widely recognized journal, has published influential empiric...
Friday, November 12, 2021 Law & Society Review Publishes “The Chief Justice Versus the Iconoclast" » The article explores how individuals react to the U.S. Supreme Court using social science in its decisions ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 LSR Publishes “All Eyes Are on You” » The article suggests the norms about crafting judicial opinions are gendered and racialized in ways that create higher wor...
Monday, May 17, 2021 Law & Society Review Publishes “Marginalized Legal Categories" » The Authors find that one in five American families have a family structure that would be marginalized by the laws of inte...
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LSA Stories
Thursday, December 19, 2024 Examining Law and Society from the Periphery with LSA Grantees Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Suryapratim » When Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Suryapratim Roy first met each other 20 years ago at NALSAR University of La...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 The Human Element: How LSA Grantee Danielle Rudes is Demystifying Qualitative Research » When Sam Houston State University Professor Danielle S. Rudes evaluated the major criminology programs in the...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 CRN Spotlight: Law and Emotion » Collaborative Research Networks (CRNs) play a vital role within the Law and Society Association’s broader intellec...
Thursday, August 22, 2024 Law and Technology Scholars Unite! Establishing the Methods and Theories of a Growing Field with LSA » Both the academy and the legal system often face harsh criticism from the general public. Academia is frequently criticize...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 Defying Great Odds – Mitigating Property Loss Through Historic Partition Law Reform in the U.S. » LSA member Thomas Mitchell drafted a Uniform Act that has been enacted by 17 U.S. states and the U.S. Virgin Islands...
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Awards
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 LSA 2022 Annual Awards Announced » The Law and Society Association honors 21 scholars AMHERST, Mass. – The Law and Society Association in coordinat...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 LSA 2021 Annual Awards Announced » AMHERST, Mass. – The Law and Society Association in coordination with the Executive Office, Prize Committees and Pre...
Monday, May 11, 2020 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award » In honor of the memory of Stanton Wheeler (Sociology/Law, Yale University), whose mentorship was so important to so many m...
Monday, May 11, 2020 Undergraduate Student Paper Prize » The Law and Society Association presents one award to the undergraduate student paper that best represents outstanding law...
Monday, May 11, 2020 Ronald Pipkin Service Award » The Ronald Pipkin Service Award was created in 2012, to honor the twenty-five-year service of retiring Executive Officer,...
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