Welcome to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Center for Justice, Law, and Societies
The Center for Justice, Law, and Societies (CJLS) strives to foster research, teaching, and public engagement related to bias, inequity, and inequality in justice systems. We provide a vehicle to support interdisciplinary research that is policy-relevant and also theoretically generative. We bring together faculty and graduate students across the university working on Law and Society topics that are vital to domestic governance, such as access to justice for vulnerable populations, how court decision making shapes public policy, and the relationship between law and new technologies. In addition to our expertise in domestic justice systems, we also pressing global challenges, supporting research related to international law, globalization, migration, and cross-border conflict resolution.
UpComing Events
Five College Seminar on Justice, Law, and Societies
Of Deviance and Patriarchy: Hidden Mechanisms of Gender Discrimination in Russia's Corruption Markets
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 4PM- 5PM
The speakers will give a 20 minute presentation, followed by a 40 minute question and answer session.
Presented by Marina Zaloznaya, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Iowa
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 4PM- 5PM
The speakers will give a 20 minute presentation, followed by a 40 minute question and answer session.
Presented by Marina Zaloznaya, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Iowa
Transitional Justice in the U.S. Speaker Series:
Does Criminal Punishment of Police Contribute or Distract from Societal Reckonings of Racism?
Monday, Feb. 28th, 12:00PM to 1:30PM EST
Transitional Justice in the USA Speakers Series - NEL (nesl.edu)
This panel explores the role of police accountability in racial reckoning in the United States and discusses both the potential benefits and limitations of prosecuting police for racial violence and explores whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts to offer possible lessons for quests for retributive justice in the United States. In particular, the panel will explore whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts and what lessons we can learn from those examples that might be applicable in the United States.
Transitional Justice in the USA Speakers Series - NEL (nesl.edu)
This panel explores the role of police accountability in racial reckoning in the United States and discusses both the potential benefits and limitations of prosecuting police for racial violence and explores whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts to offer possible lessons for quests for retributive justice in the United States. In particular, the panel will explore whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts and what lessons we can learn from those examples that might be applicable in the United States.
Announcements
Professors Youngmin Yi, Joshua Kaiser, Cindy Xiong, and Jamie Rowen earn SBS Dean's Research Council Grant :
Data-Driven Justice and Progressive Prosecution
In the project, they will examine efforts to detect bias and inequality in prosecutorial decision making, and efforts to promote trust and transparency through data visualization.
Center for Justice, Law, and Societies joins the Prison Education Initiative (PEI)
FOR MORE INFORMATION : HTTPS://PEOPLE.MATH.UMASS.EDU/~RAYMOND/PRISONEDUCATIONINITIATIVE/INDEX.HTML
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