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brown legal studies

GATHERING A LEGAL STUDIES COMMUNITY AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.  

Many Brown faculty and graduate students work on law-related topics. Some use case files to write social histories. Others analyze the writings of jurists as literary texts. Others, still, probe the various ways of knowing indexed in legal systems in myriad times and places. The goal of Brown Legal Studies is to bring together members of the Brown community from across the disciplines—including history, anthropology, literature, religious studies, rhetoric, political science, sociology, art and musicology, geography, area studies, and more—whose work in one way or another touches on law. We hope to forge a broadly inclusive, interdisciplinary “law and...” community at Brown. 

Image: Waiting for courtroom seats, 1953. People line up to hear arguments for Brown v. Board of Education at the Supreme Court. (Courtesy of Library of Congress)

PROJECTS

LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

The Workshop offers a regular forum for scholars at Brown to engage the themes of law and legal history—broadly construed, We are open to all kinds of presentations: a prospectus of a project; a piece of writing in its preliminary stages; a set of sources that raises issues of methodology, etc.

GRADUATE COURSE IN LEGAL HISTORY

Spring 2018 Graduate Seminar: "Legal History: Methods and Approaches in Comparative Perspective"

LEGAL STUDIES READING GROUP

This seminar-style reading group provides a forum to explore diverse ways of knowing and inquiring about "law" in humanistic and social scientific academic research. We meet twice a semester over a shared reading of any attendee's choosing—whether a seminal text required for an exam or teaching, or a newer work.

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Thirds Annual Brown Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference

"LAW, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARCHIVE," April 27-28, 2018 in Providence, Rhode Island

 

 

CONTACT

JOIN THE LISTSERV

The purpose of the e-mail listserv is to share law-related events happening at Brown University and other opportunities for Brown students, faculty, and staff interested in legal studies. If you would like to be added to the listserv, please fill out the form. 

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RESOURCES

While the Brown Legal Studies listserv informs members primarily of events and opportunities on the Brown University campus, the following links provide information on further opportunities and resources for faculty and graduate students in legal studies at leading institutions across the U.S.

Academic Associations and Websites

  • American Society for Legal History: https://aslh.net

  • American Society of Comparative Law: https://ascl.org

  • Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: https://politicalandlegalanthro.org

  • H-Law/H-Net: https://networks.h-net.org/h-law

  • Law and Society Association: http://www.lawandsociety.org

  • Law, Culture, and the Humanities: http://lawculturehumanities.com/listserv/

  • Legal History Blog: http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com

  • Legal History on the Web (Duke University): https://law.duke.edu/legal_history/portal/

  • Legal Scholarship Blog: http://www.legalscholarshipblog.com

Peer-reviewed Journals

  • American Journal of Comparative Law: https://academic.oup.com/ajcl

  • Global Jurist: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gj

  • Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies: http://ijgls.indiana.edu

  • Law and History Review: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review

  • Law and Society Review: http://www.lawandsociety.org/review.html

  • Political and Legal Anthropology Review: https://polarjournal.org

Research Centers, Programs, and Workshops

  • American Bar Association Centers and Commissions: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/centers_commissions.html

  • American Bar Foundation Research Projects: http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/index.html

  • Columbia Law School Centers and Programs: https://www.law.columbia.edu/centers-programs

  • Cornell Law School Centers and Programs: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/centers_programs.cfm

  • Emory Law School Centers and Interdisciplinary Programs: http://law.emory.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/centers/index.html

  • Georgetown Law Centers and Institutes: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential-learning/centers-institutes/

  • Harvard Law School Research Programs and Centers: https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty-research/research-programs-and-centers/

  • Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History (University of Wisconsin): http://law.wisc.edu/ils/hurst_institute.html

  • NYU Law School Centers & Institutes: http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers

  • Stanford Law School Programs and Centers: https://law.stanford.edu/organizations/?page=1&tax_and_terms=307

  • UC Berkeley Law Research Centers: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/

  • University of Chicago Law School Research Centers: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/centers

  • University of Michigan Law School Centers and Programs: https://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/Pages/default.aspx

  • University of Pennsylvania Law Centers and Institutes: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/

  • University of Texas Law School Programs and Centers: https://law.utexas.edu/academics/centers/

  • Yale Law School Centers and Workshops: https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops