Law and Society Association

Law and Society Association Analyzing legal practice, envisioning social justice For sociolegal scholars, law is not only the words of official documents.

The Law and Society Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization committed to social scientific, interpretive, and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts. Law also can be found in the diverse understandings and practices of people interacting within domains that law governs, in the claims that people make for legal redress of injustices, and in the coercive power

exercised to enforce lawful order. Sociolegal scholars also address evasions of law, resistance and defiance toward law, and alternatives to law in structuring social relations.

LSA prize nominations are due tomorrow, 1/14. You must be an LSA member to nominate, and self-nominations are welcome! P...
01/13/2026

LSA prize nominations are due tomorrow, 1/14. You must be an LSA member to nominate, and self-nominations are welcome! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of our many awards before the deadline!

The Law and Society Association offers awards for scholarship in the field of law and society. This year, the awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The deadline to submit a nomination for one of our awards is January 14, 2026 ET (USA). To submit an award nom...

ICYMI: Submissions to are now open! Come help us celebrate our 60th anniversary!More info -->
09/14/2023

ICYMI: Submissions to are now open! Come help us celebrate our 60th anniversary!

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Exchange research and make valuable connections at the leading sociolegal conference in 2023.

01/31/2023

Reminder: Today (1/31) is the final day for presenters to register for our 2023 Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Register now to avoid being removed from the program.

“ tactics are vital to the work of groups: they expand the scope of conflict & may provide greater autonomy to lawyer...
08/23/2022

“ tactics are vital to the work of groups: they expand the scope of conflict & may provide greater autonomy to lawyers by allowing them to build their own windows of opportunity when used with public education and litigation.”

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Featured in the latest 𝑳𝑺𝑹 issue!“One of the explicit aims of record clearance policies is to undo the lasting stigma of...
08/18/2022

Featured in the latest 𝑳𝑺𝑹 issue!

“One of the explicit aims of record clearance policies is to undo the lasting stigma of a criminal record, which has been disproportionately harmful to Black Americans. In our study, we analyze how different record clearance policies would interact with patterns in criminal records that map on to , to try to predict in advance whether efforts to remove criminal records could create unintended consequences that actually increase .”

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The title of this 𝑳𝑺𝑹 article just about sums up how those in in felt about the complaint system...! Currently on ...
08/10/2022

The title of this 𝑳𝑺𝑹 article just about sums up how those in in felt about the complaint system...!

Currently on !

"We found that while overall those in prison held negative views of the complaint system, those who had used the system had increasingly negative views."

Trinity College Dublin

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Now Available! 📚The third LSR Issue of 2022! Featuring some of the latest sociolegal research!7 innovative articles and ...
08/09/2022

Now Available! 📚

The third LSR Issue of 2022! Featuring some of the latest sociolegal research!

7 innovative articles and 2 book reviews!

Here's what you will find in Volume 56, Issue 3! ⬇

https://www.lawandsociety.org/current-lsr-issue-56-3/

Join or Renew Today: bit.ly/LSA22MemRJ

Former President Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) has been busy in the media lately! Nytimesmedia WBUR 90.9 ...
08/09/2022

Former President Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) has been busy in the media lately! Nytimesmedia WBUR 90.9 FM PBS NewsHour

Read her recent takes on the 's embrace of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

https://wbur.fm/3QrtvZ5
https://nyti.ms/3JE0G9K
https://to.pbs.org/3bHXL3q

Hungarian President Viktor Orbán is opening the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas.

Why Join ?Be a part of the conversation on LSATalk, our exclusive Listserv for members! Send emails to the group and ga...
08/08/2022

Why Join ?

Be a part of the conversation on LSATalk, our exclusive Listserv for members! Send emails to the group and gain access to job postings, grant opportunities, call for papers and discussions on sociolegal topics!

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