CRN 3 Activities at the 2023 LSA Meeting

The program for the 2023 Law and Society Association meeting is online, and we have an exciting CRN 3 schedule!

On Saturday, June 3rd, we will host a New Books panel from 8:00AM to 9:45AM (Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B), followed by our Annual Business meeting from 10:00AM to 11:45AM (Room: Executive Ballroom of the Caribe Hilton).

The New Books panel features books by:

• Simón Escoffier – Mobilizing at the Urban Margins Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile 
• Jonathan Liljeblad – Indigenous Rights, Human Rights, and the Environment in Myanmar: Local Engagement with Global Rights Discourses
• Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland – Political Children: Violence, Labor and Rights in Peru
• Rebecca Monson – Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land?
• Mayur Suresh – Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts
• Dimitri Van den Meerssche – The World Bank’s Lawyers: The Life of International Law as Institutional Practice
• Zoha Wassem – Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters, and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi

The full list of CRN 3 activities includes:

Friday, June 2nd

8:00AM – 9:45AM: The Potential and Limits of Law, Justice, and Art, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B

10:00AM – 11:45AM: The Law in Action: Tackling Social Problems on the Frontlines of Work, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B

12:45PM – 2:30PM: Prison Control and Resistance – Panel I, In and After Prison, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B 

2:45PM – 4:30PM: Prison Control and Resistance – Panel II, Society in Prison, Prison in Society, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B 

4:45 PM – 6:30 PM: Law’s Politics: The Politics of (De)Legitimating Knowledge Claims in Legal Processes, Room: Beach Wing – Flamingo B 

Saturday, June 3rd

8:00AM – 9:45AM: New Books Panel, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B 

10:00AM – 11:45AM: Ethnography, Law & Society Business Meeting, Room: Executive Boardroom 

10:00AM – 11:45AM: Engaging Students in Research on Human Rights, Inequality, and Social Justice, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B 

12:45PM – 2:30PM: Author Meets Reader: Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Room: Beach Wing – Conference Center

12:45PM – 2:30PM: Terror Courts, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B 

2:45PM – 4:30PM: Author Meets Reader: Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B 

4:45PM – 6:30PM: Critical Kashmir Studies: Unsettling Knowledge Production on Sovereignty and Self-Determination in South Asia, Room: Beach Wing – Tropical B

Does Your LSA Paper Need a Home? Do You Have a New Book?

The deadline to submit proposals for the LSA meeting in Puerto Rico is November 8, 2022 at 12 NOON ET (USA and Canada). For more information about submissions and participation, check out the conference website here.

In preparation for the 2023 conference, please let note the following:

• If you want to share information about a proposed panel and/or are looking for participants for a panel, you should send the information as soon as possible so we can circulate the information among the CRN 3 membership list.

• If you have a book that has been published in 2022 or will be coming out January through May of 2023, please let us know if you would like to be part of the CRN 3 New Books in the Field panel. We would love to feature your work. Please get in touch with Emma Nyhan (emma.nyhan@anu.edu.au) no later than 24 October.

The CRN 3 administrative team will be in touch with additional details regarding paper submissions, panel organization, and other activities as soon as they are available.

2023 Annual Meeting on Law and Society – Call for Participation

Submissions are now open for the 2023 Annual Meeting on Law & Society. The deadline is November 8, 2022 at 12:00 pm ET (USA and Canada). The theme is Separate but Unequal.

The meeting will take place in person at Caribe Hilton. Due to logistical challenges, this conference will not offer virtual or online sessions. Please refer to the conference webpage for more details about the timeline and registration.

Click here to submit an abstract for an individual and/or a session for the annual meeting. It requires logging into your LSA profile first (using your username and password). To ensure your abstract is considered for inclusion in our CRN’s activities, select CRN3 as part of your submission. Please also remember that LSA enforces participation limitations.

If you have not yet created an LSA profile, you can set one up for free by selecting one of our non-member or student non-member options here.

The CRN 3 administrative team will be in touch with additional details regarding paper submissions, panel organization, and other activities as soon as they are available.