Past Events
Conference on New Directions in Law and Society
The Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, with support from the Law and Science Program of the National Science Foundation and the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, was delighted to host the 2022 Conference on New Directions in Law and Society (October 7-8, 2022), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the beautiful Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. This conference was designed to bring together faculty and graduate students from the diverse community of law and society scholars. We hoped to provide a collaborative setting in which to deepen law and society as a field, introduce scholars to the field, and foster ongoing dialogue for future events.
This event was generously supported by the National Science Foundation.
This event was generously supported by the National Science Foundation.
Reproductive Justice And the Supreme Court
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
The Future of Roe and Supreme Court Legitimacy |
The End of Roe?: From the Past of Reproductive Rights to the Future of Reproductive Justice
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Abortion Ban in Texas:
On the Future of Reproductive Justice
and Constitutional Rights
PRison Education Initiative
Transitional Justice in the USA Speaker Series
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.
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This panel focused on past and recent truth initiatives on the forced assimilation of Native children through boarding schools and the child welfare system. Indigenous leaders reflected 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 explored how to open the way to transformative justice, overcoming standardized or colonized transitional justice models. The panel convened in recognition of Native American Heritage Month.
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Covid-19
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Conspiracy Theories
and the COVID-19 Pandemic, June 3, 2020 |
COVID-19: Social Scientists' Views
On The Pandemic's Impact And What Comes Next, June 3, 2020 |
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Capitol Violence
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Capitol Violence, Impeachment, and Our Political Future
Featuring Paul Collins, Youngmin Yi, Brian Sargent, Alasdair Roberts, and Dean Robinson February 11, 2021 |
Capit0l Siege: Making Sense of What Happened,
Jan. 14, 2021 |
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At The Frontlines: Emerging Voices on the Practice and Politics of Criminal Justice Reform,
July 15, 2020 |
The Legacy Of RBG And
The Future Of Feminist Jurisprudence, October 5, 2020 |