#LawAndSociety graduate students: have you submitted your applications for the LSA Student Fellows Program yet? Apply by this Thursday, October 9th for an opportunity to gain valuable conference planning experience and mentorship from seasoned #Sociolegal scholars! bit.ly/LSAStudentFellows

Our member spotlight for October is new LSA Secretary and @utoronto.ca Professor Ellen Berrey! Learn more about her work on #RacialInequality, #CampusProtests, and cultural meanings of law here: bit.ly/LSABerrey

For our latest #CRNSpotlight, we spoke with @dorfmandoron.bsky.social (Seton Hall Law School), who co-chairs CRN 40: Disability Legal Studies alongside @odeliabay.bsky.social (York University, Osgoode Hall Law School). Read here! bit.ly/CRN40Spotlight #DisabilityRights #LawAndSociety

What are “closeted” cause lawyers, and what is their relationship to #RuleOfLaw? Check out the latest LSR issue to learn more! bit.ly/LSRSep25 @kieranmcevoy.bsky.social @batesmith.bsky.social

LSA Members—we want to hear your exciting news! Whether it’s a new publication, award, job change, call for papers, publishing opportunity, or job opening—send it our way and we’ll feature it in our monthly newsletter: bit.ly/LSAMemberNews #LawAndSociety #AcademicCommunity

Have you developed your paper or session idea for the LSA 2026 Annual Meeting yet? Submissions close on October 21, 2025! Theme: Sanctuary Submission requirements: bit.ly/LSASF2026 Submit here (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601 #CallForPapers #LSASF2026

ICYMI: “…even ostensibly similar countries can have wildly different lay participation systems…By creating a respectful space for exploring these differences, CRN 4 has become a resource, not just for scholars, but for governments around the globe.”

ICYMI: Learn more about Professor Shah's career studying migration studies and immigrant justice!

For our latest CRN Spotlight, we interviewed the co-chairs of CRN 4: Lay Participation in Legal Systems: @cornelllaw.bsky.social Prof Valerie Hans (@jurygirl.bsky.social), UT Austin Prof Mary Rose, and Michigan State University Prof Sanja Kutnjak Ivković. Read here! bit.ly/CRN4Spotlight

It’s official: LSA is accepting paper & session proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA! Theme: Sanctuary Find submission requirements here: bit.ly/LSASF2026 Submit here (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601 #CallForPapers #LSASF2026

Our member spotlight for September is @raginishah.bsky.social, Suffolk University Law School professor and author of Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities! Learn more about her career studying #ImmigrationJustice here: bit.ly/LSAShah

LSR Volume 59 Number 3 is out now! Learn more about cause lawyering in Cambodia, legal mobilization for workplace harassment in China, “Academic Copaganda,” and more here: bit.ly/LSRSep25 @cambup-law.cambridge.org @ashleytrubin.bsky.social

LSA Past President @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) spoke at the Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop on May 21, 2025 in Chicago. Watch the video to learn more about personal integrity in #AcademicCareers: bit.ly/3HCQ1Q9

ICYMI: “Many [Chilean law and society] scholars couldn’t maintain their research agenda under the dictatorship…many were exiled, and they were unable to foster the field from abroad.” bit.ly/ChileLSA25

Watch “Building the Disciplines with Law & Society” from LSA2025 here! bit.ly/lsa25build Mark Massoud @ucsantacruz.bsky.social Asad Asad @stanfordsoc.bsky.social Lynette Chua Renee Cramer Jeffrey Omari @seattleulaw.bsky.social Nurfadzilah Yahaya @yale.edu Emily Zackin @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

ICYMI: Learn more about President Barnes's career studying #LawAndInequality and #CRT!

An excerpt of @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Professor @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social’s 2025 LSA Presidential Address is now available online! Watch an excerpt of “To be a Citizen: What it Means to be a Person” here: bit.ly/lsa25presaddress

ICYMI: Learn more about how #LSAGrant funds are supporting the redevelopment of Chile’s #LawAndSociety field!

Pinochet’s regime silenced Chile’s emerging #LawAndSociety field. 50 years later, LSA grantees João Vitor Cardoso and Salvador Millaleo are reclaiming and restoring Chile’s rich tradition of #Sociolegal scholarship. Learn more: bit.ly/ChileLSA25

An LSR paper has won @asanews.bsky.social's 2025 “Distinguished Article Award.” Congrats Sandra Levitsky (@umichlaw.bsky.social, Jesse Yeh (Northwestern), & @elarmstr.bsky.social (@umich.edu)! “Litigation Politics: Social Movement Activity in Campus Sexual Assault Litigation” bit.ly/4msyLM1

Our August member spotlight is none other than new #LSA President Mario L. Barnes! (@ucirvinelaw.bsky.social‬) Learn more about Professor Barnes here: bit.ly/LSABarnes #LawAndSociety #CriticalRaceTheory #AcademicCommunity

Submissions open soon for the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA! Watch this space for more information in the coming weeks. #LSASanFrancisco2025 #LawAndSociety #AcademicCommunity

ICYMI: “CRT sees racial subordination and the marginalization of other disempowered groups as foundational to how law and democracy are organized and function... In many ways, CRT is the proverbial millennial that seems forever young but, in reality, is now middle aged.”

Lily Hu and Issa Kohler-Hausmann’s recent LSR article, “What is Perceived When Race is Perceived and Why it Matters for Causal Inference and Discrimination Studies” is available via open access on @cambup-law.cambridge.org Read it here: bit.ly/LSRHu25

For #ThrowbackThursday, a picture from the Fun Run at the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting in Chicago! Participants braved the early morning hours to exercise, meet new friends, and take in gorgeous views of Lake Michigan. #LSACHICAGO2025 #AcademicCommunity

Check out LSA Member and University of Minnesota Professor @chrisuggen.bsky.social‬’s comments on the concept of public #Sociology in an interview with @contexts.org ‬! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Learn more about CRN 02: #Citizen & #Immigration Co-Chair Carrie Rosenbaum here! bit.ly/LSARosenbaum

Attention #LawAndSociety scholars: @constlstudies.bsky.social is back! Published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law, the newly multilingual and #OpenAccess journal covers the theory and practice of #ConstitutionalGovernments globally.

LSA Advance Grant proposals are due in just over 24 hours! Send us your programming ideas before tomorrow’s deadline at noon ET. #LSAGrants #LawAndSociety #SociolegalResearch #AcademicCommunity

ICYMI: “Ongoing events…have made it a particularly fraught time for teachers, scholars, and public intellectuals…of immigration law. CRN 02 members provide one another with informal support as they navigate urgent questions about the most effective ways to use their voices.”

Our member spotlight for the month of July is CRN02: Citizenship and Immigration co-chair and Santa Clara University School of Law Professor Carrie Rosenbaum! Learn more about her career studying #Citizenship, #Immigration, and belonging here: bit.ly/LSARosenbaum

The final deadline for LSA Advance Grant proposals is ONE WEEK AWAY! Finalize and submit your ideas for specialized LSA programming by Tuesday, July 15th at 12pm ET. Learn more: bit.ly/LSAGrants25 #LSAGrants #LawAndSociety #SociolegalResearch #AcademicCommunity

For our next #CRN Spotlight, we talked with Santa Clara University School of Law Professor Carrie Rosenbaum about CRN 02: Citizenship and Immigration. Find out more about how members are supporting one another as they grapple with the effects of current events on their field: bit.ly/CRN2Spotlight

Mario Barnes’ (@ucirvinelaw.bsky.social) and Osagie Obasogie’s (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) ‪open access LSR article, “Introduction to the special issue on empirical methods and critical race theory,” is available now via @cambup-law.cambridge.org! #CRT #LawAndSociety bit.ly/LSR_CRT25

“The ideas, collaborations, and friendships I’ve seen grow out of LSA are inspiring…LSA is welcoming, warm, and a great space to try out ideas and meet new people.” (Kathryne M. Young) bit.ly/LSAYoung #AcademicCommunity #LawAndSociety

Great news: we have extended the deadline for LSA Advance Grants Program proposals! Submissions are now due July 15, 2025 at 12pm ET. Learn more: bit.ly/LSAGrants25 #LSAGrants #LawAndSociety #CfP

We are excited to check out LSA member and @ucirvine.bsky.social ‪Professor Susan Bibler Coutin’s new book, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, upon its release in August! @ucpress.bsky.social #Immigration #Citizenship #LawAndSociety Learn more: www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the...

ICYMI: learn more about outgoing LSA Secretary Kathryne M. Young here! bit.ly/LSAYoung

LSR Volume 59 Number 2, “Special Issue on New Perspectives on Empirical Methods and Critical Race Theory,” is out now! Learn more about race’s central role in law and legal thought here: bit.ly/LSRJun25 @cambup-law.cambridge.org @ashleytrubin.bsky.social #CRT #CriticalRaceTheory #LawAndSociety

Ramapo College of New Jersey (@ramapocollegenj.bsky.social) has issued a #CallForPapers for the Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association Conference on October 4, 2025! Proposals are due July 11th. www.midatlanticlsa.com/call-for-par... #CfP #LawAndSociety

#ThrowbackThursday: Five years ago, we interviewed 2025 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award co-winner Veronica Fynn Bruey about her journey from Liberian War survivor to prolific #LawAndSociety scholar. @athabascau.bsky.social Read the article here! bit.ly/LSAStoryBruey

Our member spotlight for the month of June is outgoing #LSA Secretary and GW Law ‪(@gwu1821.bsky.social‬) Professor Kathryne M. Young! Learn more about her career studying #AccessToJustice and #LegalConsciousness here: bit.ly/LSAYoung

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting! We are sad to see the meeting come to a close…but we look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco next year! #LSACHICAGO2025 #GlobalCommunity #LawAndSociety

Congrats to our Honorable Mentions! bit.ly/LSAAwards2025 Iván Vargas-Roncancio, YorkU: Jacob Book Prize @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social, @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social‬: Article Prize @faithmdeckard.com‬, UCLA: Dissertation Prize @gperrone.bsky.social, @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social‬: Franklin Prize

Congrats to Penny Andrews of New York Law School for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Ronald Pipkin Service Award! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025

Congrats to Susan S. Silbey of @mit.edu ‪for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Ronald Pipkin Service Award! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025

Congrats to Herbert M. Kritzer of @umnlawschool.bsky.social for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025

Congrats to Veronica Fynn Bruey of @athabascau.bsky.social for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025

Congrats to Robert L. Nelson of Northwestern University and @abfresearch.bsky.social for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025

Congrats to Valerie P. Hans (@jurygirl.bsky.social) of @cornelllaw.bsky.social for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025