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
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN THE USA
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, the first panel in Part II of our Transitional Justice in the USA Speakers Series will take place Wednesday, November 3, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST online via Zoom. We hope you'll join us.
This panel will focus on past and recent truth initiatives on the forced assimilation of Native children through boarding schools and the child welfare system. Indigenous leaders will reflect on the experience of the Maine Wabanaki-Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Federal bill to create a national truth commission, and the official investigations launched by the Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland this past summer, upon the revelation of mass graves located at boarding schools. The panel will explore how to open the way to transformative justice, overcoming standardized or colonized transitional justice models. The panel is convened in recognition of Native American Heritage Month.
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Panelists:
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FOR THE FULL LIST OF CO-SPONSORS, AND TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS, VISIT THEIR WEBPAGE.
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Announcements
AN INTERVIEW WITH CJLS FELLOW CARLY MCCANN AND HER CO-AUTHOR DON TOMASKOVIC-DEVEY
ON THEIR RECENT WORK ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CHARGES IN THE U.S.
HTTPS://WWW.CHANNEL3000.COM/I-HAD-A-BULLSEYE-ON-MY-BACK-WISCONSIN-STATE-EMPLOYEE-FILES-FEDERAL-DISCRIMINATION-COMPLAINT/?MC_CID=67D8A2393E&MC_EID=4CBB15B84C
The Center for Justice, Law, and Societies joins
the Prison Education Initiative (PEI)
for more Information : https://people.math.umass.edu/~raymond/prisoneducationinitiative/index.html
Welcome to our CJLS Graduate Fellows!
Graduate Student and Junior Scholar Conference
Oct. 8-9, 2021
See Student Resources for More Information
Oct. 8-9, 2021
See Student Resources for More Information
Research from CJLS Fellow Carly McCann and
Professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
July, 2021
"Who Files Discrimination Charges?"
Click here for the pdf
Professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
July, 2021
"Who Files Discrimination Charges?"
Click here for the pdf
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