The Law and Society Association consists of scholars from many fields and countries, researching law in social, political, economic and cultural life.
Law and Society Association
Congrats to Susan Bibler Coutin of @ucisocialecology.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award!
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Congrats to Ed Cornelius of University of Minnesota for winning LSA’s 2026 Dissertation Prize – Honorable Mention for “Car Wash Legacies: Lawyers, Globalization, and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Penal Field”!
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Congrats to Dee Smythe of University of Cape Town for winning LSA’s 2026 International Prize!
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Congrats to Joseph Sanders of @uh.edu for winning LSA’s 2026 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize!
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Congrats to Meghan Ballard of @rand.org for winning LSA’s 2026 Dissertation Prize – Honorable Mention for “Language Access in State Courts: The Bureaucratic Interpretation, Organizational Construction, and Local Implementation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”!
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Our June #MemberSpotlight is former LSA Board Trustee and @emorylaw.bsky.social Professor Deepa Das Acevedo!
Learn more about Professor Das Acevedo’s career studying employment law and the law and politics of India here: bit.ly/3QpdoRz
Congrats to Bernadette Atuahene of @uscgould.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Herbert Jacob Book Prize - Honorable Mention for Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America!
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Congrats to @lbthatsme.bsky.social of Northwestern University and @abfresearch.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Ronald Pipkin Service Award!
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Congrats to Juhwan Seo of @rutgersu.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Graduate Student Paper Prize for “Not the ‘Love Police’? How Lawyers Shape Immigrant Families”!
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Congrats to Levi Garrett Cannon of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Undergraduate Student Paper Prize for “Defining Custody Resolution: How Parent Coordinators Construct Family Law”!
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