UC Irvine School of Law
IRVINE, Calif. (July 3, 2024) — University of California, Irvine School of Law Professor Ari Waldman has been awarded a 2024 Law and Society Association Programming Grant. LSA also announced that Professor of Law Swethaa Ballakrishnen and co-author Suryapratim Roy, Assistant Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin, have been awarded a 2024 LSA Global Collaboration Grant for their research project, “Law & the Interloper: Comparative Projects and the Potential of Queer Theory.”
LSA’s announcement of grant recipients adds to a recent string of honors UC Irvine faculty have received from the sociolegal organization. Recently, Professor of Law Kaaryn Gustafson, Prof. Waldman, and Assistant Professor of Sociology Kelley Fong were recognized at LSA’s 2024 Annual Awards: Prof. Gustafson won the Ronald Pipkin Service Award, Prof. Waldman co-won the LSA Article Prize, and Prof. Fong co-won the Herbert Jacob Book Prize.
UC Irvine was the only university to have this many faculty receive LSA grants and awards this year, underscoring the university’s interdisciplinary excellence and deep commitment to socio-legal scholarship and service.
About Prof. Waldman’s LSA Programming Grant Proposal, “Building the Theory and Practice of Law, Technology, and Society”
Recipients of the Law and Society Association’s grant programs foster new programming opportunities for LSA members beyond the flagship Annual Meeting and Early Career Workshops, and enhance LSA’s efforts to promote sociolegal scholarship as a global field. The recipients design seminars and workshops to facilitate collaboration, mentorship and knowledge production among participants.
Prof. Waldman’s grant proposal, “Building the Theory and Practice of Law, Technology, and Society,” encourages law and technology researchers to examine their work through a sociolegal lens. The announcement reads, “After all, law and technology are two of the most potent mediums for the creation of economic, political, and social environments.” Prof. Waldman’s new collaborative will unite sociolegal scholars interested in technology to establish the first methodological and theoretical framework for the study of law, society, and technology. Through a series of workshops centered on peer feedback and facilitated discussions, participants will clarify law’s unique potential to mediate the human impact of technology in a constructive, rather than destructive, way.
About the University of California, Irvine’s Leadership in the Socio-Legal Community
The University of California, Irvine has long had a deep connection with the Law and Society Association (LSA). Many of our faculty — at the Law School and across campus — are leading scholars in the LSA. Among the Law School faculty, Prof. Veena Dubal is a current member of the LSA Board of Trustees and Profs. Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Mario Barnes and Kaaryn Gustafson previously served as trustees; Prof. Shauhin Talesh serves as General Editor of the Law and Society Review (LSR) and Profs. Ballakrishnen and Emily Taylor Poppe currently serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of LSR.
LSA has also consistently recognized our faculty’s scholarship and service — Prof. Ballakrishnen is a recipient of the LSA Global Collaboration Grant and a prior awardee of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize; Prof. Gustafson has won the Ronald Pipkin Service Award, the Herbert Jacob Book Prize and the Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award; Prof. Ari Ezra Waldman is a recipient of an LSA Programming Grant and has won the LSA Article Prize; and Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Bryant Garth has won two Herbert Jacob Book Prizes and the Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize.
UC Irvine also has significant socio-legal programming: UC Irvine’s Center in Law, Society and Culture hosts a regular interdisciplinary Socio-Legal Studies Workshop, the Center on Globalization, Law and Society plays an important role in showcasing global law and society issues, socio-legal research plays a prominent role in the UC Irvine School of Law curriculum, and students may choose an emphasis in Law, Society, and Culture.
About the University of California, Irvine School of Law
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