Connect with APLA at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, May 28-31. APLA members are active in the LSA, and in the Ethnography, Law & Society Collaborative Research Network. Below is a list of APLA members’ panels — if you are a member of APLA presenting at LSA, let us know and we will update the list. Contact jennifer.curtis@ed.ac.uk.
If you haven’t already joined the the Ethnography, Law & Society CRN, check out the CRN business meeting on Thursday, 5/28, from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Westin Seattle, Room: Adams. The CRN-sponsored panels are also listed below.
APLA Member Panels and Presentations
Note: only APLA members who provided information on their panels are listed below. You can browse the entire conference program here:
https://ww2.aievolution.com/lsa1501/index.cfm?do=ev.pubSearchOptions
Friday
The Law of Context
Fri, 5/29: 9:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Westin Seattle
Room: Cascade 1C
Chair: Anya Bernstein, SUNY Buffalo Law School
Discussant: Justin Richland, University of Chicago
Presentations
Andrea Ballestero, Rice University — Against Context: Law, Index Cards and the Making of Obligation
Anya Bernstein, SUNY Buffalo Law School — Context in Statutory Interpretation: Courts, Agencies, and the Last Word
Brian Soucek, UC Davis School of Law — Contextual Equal Protection
Anthony O’Rourke, SUNY Buffalo Law School — Linguistic Vagueness and Institutional Context in Constitutional Law
Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign —Pedagogies of Context: The European Court of Human Rights and the Limits to Sovereignty
Saturday
Punitive Experiences of Civil Exclusion, Part I
Sat, 5/30: 2:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Baker
Chair/Discussant: Steve Herbert, University of Washington
Presentations
Paul Passavant, Hobart and William Smith Colleges — Beyond Crime: Order Maintenance and Policing Protest
Lori Sexton, University of Missouri, Kansas City — Doing a Different Kind of Time: Subjective Punishment in Non-Penal Confinement for Sexually Violent Predators (Planned for session #3346)
[Non-Presenting Co-Author: Jennifer Sumner, California State University, Dominguez Hills]
Véronique Fortin, University of California, Irvine — The “Arrest” is the Punishment: How Montreal Deals with “Disturbances of the Peace” in Public Space
Joao Velloso, Université de Montréal — The Different Shapes of the Penal: Administrative Punitiveness and the Penalization of Protesters in Comparative Perspectives
Punitive Experiences of Civil Exclusion, Part II
Sat, 5/30: 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Baker
Chair/Discussant: Ingrid Eagly, UCLA School of Law
Presentations
Keramet Reiter and Susan Coutin, University of California, Irvine — Crossing Borders and Criminalizing Identity: Deportation Policies and Supermax Prisons
Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, Loyola University Chicago — El Castigo/The Punishment: U.S. Immigration Processing and Civil Exclusion of Undocumented Latinos
Robert Werth, Rice University — New Parole Technologies, Precautionary Penal Logics, and Administrative Decisions
Mario Barnes, University of California-Irvine — Of Little or No Concern?: The Racialized Consequences of Self-Defense Law Reform
Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Faculty of Law – University of Ottawa — Our Administrative Criminal Law: Tickets, Conditions and the Management of Marginalized Populations Who Occupy Public Spaces in Canada
[Non-Presenting Co-Author(s): Céline Bellot, School of Social Work – Université de Montréal;
Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University]
Unsettling Transparency: A Principle of Governance Reconsidered
Sat, 5/30: 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Dlx Suite Parlor 2
Chair: Kathryn Henne, University of Melbourne
Discussant: Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne
Presentations
Natasha Tusikov, University at Buffalo, SUNY — Transparency from Third Parties: Corporate Transparency Reports and the Disclosure of State Surveillance Programs
Kathryn Henne, University of Melbourne — Transparency Games: Illuminating the Challenges for Transparency in Global Sport Governance
Kyla Tienhaara, Australian National University — Transparency in and of the Trans Pacific Partnership
Ethnography, Law & Society Collaborative Research Network Panels and Events
Thursday
Ethnography, Law & Society Collaborative Research Network Business Meeting
Thu, 5/28: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Adams
Friday
Law Matters: Legal Bodies, Practices, and Spaces
Fri, 5/29: 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Pike
Chair: Alyse Bertenthal, University of California – Irvine
Discussant: Leo Coleman, Ohio State University
Presentations
Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Western Connecticut State University — Materializing Law through Design
[Non-Presenting Co-Author(s): Luke Cantarella, Pace University;George Marcus, University of California, Irvine]
David Jefferson, PIPRA, University of California, Davis — Posturing Yoga Before the 9th Circuit: Materializing Indian-ness in United States Copyright Law
[Non-Presenting Co-Author: Allison Fish, University of California, Davis]
Lee Cabatingan, University of Chicago — The Qualia of Courtliness at the Caribbean Court of Justice: “Yes, we bow, but not too low”
Simanti Dasgupta, University of Dayton — The “Condemned” and the Condom: HIV-AIDS and the Emergence of Sex Workers’ Legal Rights Movement in Sonagachhi
The Place and Promise of Ethnography in Law & Society: A Roundtable
Fri, 5/29: 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Pike
Participants
Tonya Brito, University of Wisconsin Law School
Sally Engle Merry, New York University
Calvin Morrill, University of California-Berkeley
Justin Richland, University of Chicago
Annelise Riles, Cornell University
Law Matters: Papers and Performances
Fri, 5/29: 5:30 PM – 7:15 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Dlx Suite Parlor 4
Chair: Alyse Bertenthal, University of California – Irvine
Discussant: Hilary A. Soderland, University of Washington School of Law
Presentations
Juliet Stumpf, Lewis and Clark Law School — Rethinking the “Law” in Immigration Law
Gavin Sullivan, University of Amsterdam — The Law of the List: Global Emergency and the Politics of Transnational Law
Susan Coutin, University of California, Irvine and Julie Mitchell, Loyola — “Living Documents in Transnational Spaces of Migration between El Salvador and the United States”
Saturday
(Non) Appropriations of the Legal Category of Discrimination: The Case of France
Sat, 5/30: 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Westin Seattle
Room: Elliott Bay Reception
Chair: Anne Revillard, Sciences Po, OSC-LIEPP
Discussant: Robin Stryker, University of Arizona
Presentations
Laure Bereni, CNRS – French Centre for Scientific Research — “Nothing to Do With the Law”? Diversity Managers and Antidiscrimination Law in France and in the US
Abigail Saguy, UCLA Sociology — A Decade Behind? Legal and Corporate Approaches to Sexual Harassment in France Since 2002
Liora Israël, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris — How Lawyers Handle Anti-Discrimination Cases ? An Ethnographic Enquiry From the Cabinet to the Courtroom (and Its Hallways)
Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz and Marwan Mohammed, CNRS Centre Maurice Halbwachs — Islamophobia and/in the Law: Problems and Strategies of Combatting Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France
Cecile Guillaume, Queen Mary University of London and Sophie Pochic, CNRS-EHESS — When Discrimination Litigation is Only One Option: The Case of Union Discrimination in the French Context
[Non-Presenting Co-Author: Vincent-Arnaud Chappe, CMH-CNRS]
Temporalities of Law
Sat, 5/30: 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Westin Seattle
Room: Baker
Chair: Vibhuti Ramachandran, New York University
Discussant: Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington
Presentations
Vibhuti Ramachandran, New York University — A Process of Uncertainty: Law, Prostitution and Arbitrary Temporalities in India
Johanna Romer, New York University — Arrest, Confinement, and Pause: Moments of Expansive Presence in Catalan Prisons
Ram Natarajan, Harvard University — Law and Closure: Argentina and Transitional Justice
Senem Kaptan, Rutgers University — Time and Justice in Judging Memories of Violence
Neoliberalization, Legal Reconfigurations, and Future Making ( I )
Sat, 5/30: 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Westin Seattle
Room: Whidbey
Discussant: Eve Darian-Smith, University of California Santa Barbara
Presentations
Rashmee Singh, University of Waterloo — Governing Crime through Community: Neoliberal Logics and Specialized Courts
Ilana Gershon, Indiana University — Mapping the Logic behind the Neoliberal Employment Contract
Allison Fish, University of California, Davis — Progress Through Everyday Experimental Practice: The Emerging Legal Consciousness of Intellectual Property and/in Yoga
Jothie Rajah, American Bar Foundation — Reconfiguring ‘Rule of Law’: The World Justice Project and the Military
Neoliberalization, Legal Reconfigurations, and Future Making ( II )
Sat, 5/30: 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Whidbey
Chair: Robert Werth, Rice University
Discussant: Amy Cohen, Ohio State University
Presentations
Matthew Canfield, New York University, Department of Anthropology — Contested Publics and the Common Good: The Rise of Stakeholder Justice
Marie-Andree Jacob, Keele University — Guardians of the Record: Editors’ Evaluation of Integrity and Misconduct
Sean Mallin, University of California, Irvine — Problems with Private Property: Making Effective Owners in New Orleans
Jordana Wright, University of Toronto — Weston 2021: The Changing Form of Suburban Regeneration Initiatives in Toronto
Neoliberalization, Legal Reconfigurations, and Future Making ( III )
Sat, 5/30: 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Westin Seattle
Room: Whidbey
Chair: Robin Conley, Marshall University
Discussant: Morag McDermont, University of Bristol Law School
Presentations
Amanda Snellinger, University of Oxford — Bringing Marginalized Youth into the Official Economic Fold: Nepal’s Post-Conflict Neoliberal Agenda
Robin Conley, Marshall University — Juries in Mexico: Tracking the Implementation of a Democratic Institution
Naomi Rodriguez, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Jason Rodriguez, Hobart and William Smith Colleges — Subcontracting the State: Humanitarianism and the Politics of Doing Good
Jessica Cooper, Princeton University — Trapped: Reluctant State Creep from Prison Cell to Psyche
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