Registration is open for the 7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs on August 3-5, 2026! Learn more here: bit.ly/4uUVfte

ICYMI: “LSA is where I can be all the things—an anthropologist, a legal scholar, someone who studies work law, constitutional law, religious freedom, higher education—everything. The Association’s “big tent” approach to scholarship is rare and valuable...”

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! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

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”! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

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”! bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to @lbthatsme.bsky.social of Northwestern University and @abfresearch.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Ronald Pipkin Service Award! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to Susan Bibler Coutin of @ucisocialecology.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to Joseph Sanders of @uh.edu for winning LSA’s 2026 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to Dee Smythe of University of Cape Town for winning LSA’s 2026 International Prize! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

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”! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

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”! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to Dr. Shruti Iyer of @cam.ac.uk for winning LSA’s 2026 Dissertation Prize for “Silicosis and the State: Valuing Life and Labour in Contemporary India”! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to Alice Abrokwa of @uvalaw.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 John Hope Franklin Prize for “Too Stubborn to Care For: The Impacts of Discrimination on Patient Noncompliance”! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to @gillianslee.bsky.social of @universityofga.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Article Prize for “Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry”! View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to @serenamayeri.bsky.social of @penncareylaw.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 James Willard Hurst Book Prize for Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law! @yalepress.bsky.social View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

Congrats to @joesoss.bsky.social and @joshpage.bsky.social of @umncla.bsky.social, @univofminnesota.bsky.social for winning LSA’s 2026 Herbert Jacob Book Prize for Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice! @uchicagopress.bsky.social View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

We are excited to celebrate our #LSA2026 Annual Award Winners this evening! #LSASF2026 #LawAndSociety View the full list of winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

This time next week we'll be in San Francisco! We look forward to fellowship with our #AcademicCommunity #LSASF2026 #LawAndSociety

Congratulations to our 2026 LSA Award winners! #LawAndSociety #LSASF2026 View our full list of winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2026

ICYMI: “LSA…is simply part of my core social identity as an academic. Every year it seems I meet…the kind of person I want to listen to and learn from because they are so smart; but also, they are the kind of people you want to be friends with.”

LSA 2026 attendees! CRN 6’s annual Day of Dialogue will be May 27, 1pm – 4pm. DoD invites local sex work orgs to educate scholars on best practices for effectively and ethically studying their populations. More details are available in our Program Book!

Our May #MemberSpotlight is LSA Board Trustee and University of Texas at Austin Professor Mary Rose! Learn more about Professor Rose’s career studying lay perceptions of and participation in justice systems here: bit.ly/LSARose26

LSA Past-President and @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Professor @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social has penned an article for @thenation.com about the history of U.S. voter disenfranchisement in the wake of SCOTUS’s 6-3 Louisiana v. Callais decision. Read the piece here: bit.ly/GoodwinVRA

The LSA 2026 Annual Meeting is one month away! We look forward to seeing our friends, colleagues, and mentors in historic San Francisco. Is this your first #ConferenceSeason? Watch our video for advice from past LSA Trustees! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGb... #LSASF2026 #LawAndSociety

With support from the LSA Advance Grant, the International Conference of Critical Legal Geography assembled about 100 scholars at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile! Learn more here: bit.ly/LSACLG2026 #LSAGrants

ICYMI: LSR’s 60th Anniversary issue features Past President @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social's 2025 Presidential Address, “To Be a Citizen: Or What it Means to Be a Person or Property”!

The @slsauk.bsky.social has awarded an LSR piece, “‘Closeted’ Cause Lawyering in Authoritarian Cambodia,” with the 2026 SLSA Article Prize. Congratulations @batesmith.bsky.social (@lawatleeds.bsky.social) and @kieranmcevoy.bsky.social (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social)!

The SBE Directorate offers critical support to core areas of law and society scholarship. Check out @cossa.bsky.social’s Action Center for guidance on how to communicate with your representatives in Congress! #LawAndSociety #SaveSBE

The latest issue of LSR features a symposium, Building the Disciplines within Law and Society, edited by Mark Fathi Massoud. Check it out here: bit.ly/LSRApr26 @cambup-law.cambridge.org

ICYMI: “I’m the general counsel of the American Association of University Professors…in AAUP v. Rubio, we got a declaratory judgement that the ideological deportation policy is unconstitutional, thus protecting the academic freedom and safety of noncitizen scholars.”

ICYMI: “There has always been this ameliorative gesture in a lot of law and society scholarship to ‘fix the law.’ But we’re in a world now where we don’t even know what law is, or what it’s becoming…What does the law and society movement need to become to match the moment…?”

LSR’s first 60th anniversary issue, a Special Issue on Building the Disciplines within Law and Society, is out now! Check out the latest installment, feat. commentary on @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social’s 2025 Presidential Address: bit.ly/LSRApr26 @cambup-law.cambridge.org @ashleytrubin.bsky.social

LSR’s new editorial terms have started! Learn what Bill Maurer (@ucisocsci.bsky.social), Justin Richland, Lee Cabatingan (@ucisocialecology.bsky.social), @melissacrouch.bsky.social (UNSW Sydney), + Amy Cohen (@templelaw.bsky.social) have planned: bit.ly/LSREditors26 @cambup-law.cambridge.org

Our April #MemberSpotlight is LSA Board Trustee and @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social Professor @veenadubal.bsky.social! Learn more about Professor Dubal’s career studying technology, labor, social movements, and law here: bit.ly/LSADubal26

LSA Past President and @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Professor @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social spoke with @velshimsnow.bsky.social about Ohio’s HB 754, which would allow the government to track every pregnancy from beginning to end. bit.ly/4uNNG8I

“Haunting Dispossession: A Workshop on Indigenous Methodologies” happens tomorrow at 2pm CT as part of the “Critical and Interpretive Methods in Law and Society” workshop series for graduate + early career scholars. Register here: bit.ly/4sttnfm #LSAAdvanceGrants

ICYMI: LSA leadership nominations are still open!

#LSAMembers: Childcare Grants for the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting are due tomorrow! #LSAGrants #LSASF2026

“ICYMI: For Professor Francis and many other CRN 9 members, getting to the root cause…of social issues…is essential to the struggle for social justice. Their findings, after all, can inform decision-making by advocates, policy makers, and the general public.”

ICYMI: “No matter what your field of study, the law and broader society impact you and your work. I especially encourage colleagues to attend LSA meetings—it’s the best place to […] get exposure to research you may not otherwise learn about.”

New York Law School has shared video coverage of their Oct 2025 program celebrating @univofmaryland.bsky.social Professor @mgraber1.bsky.social’s latest book, Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty. Learn more: bit.ly/LSANYLS26 #LSAAdvanceGrants @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

For our latest #CRNSpotlight, we spoke with @utah.edu Professor Leslie Francis, who co-chairs CRN 9: Law and Health alongside @doritreiss.bsky.social (@uclawsf.bsky.social) and @amwhelan.bsky.social (Georgia State University)! bit.ly/CRN9Spotlight #HealthLaw #VaccineLaw

Our March #MemberSpotlight is LSA Board Trustee, @thelssse.bsky.social Director and Southwestern Law School Professor @meeradeo.bsky.social! Learn more about Professor Deo’s career studying wellness in #LegalEducation and the legal profession here: bit.ly/LSADeo26 #LawAndSociety #Belonging

The UMass Amherst Center for Justice, Law and Societies, with support from the LSA Advance Grant, is accepting applications for their October 2, 2026 Graduate Student & Junior Scholar Workshop! Apply here by March 30th: bit.ly/26NLSR #LSAGrants

Jamee Moudud (Sarah Lawrence) visited @bloomberg.com's “Odd Lots” podcast to discuss his book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire? (@routledgebooks.bsky.social) and "Zohranomics": bit.ly/MoududBloomberg @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social

The March 1st deadline for 2026 SERA-LSA Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program applications is coming up! Don’t miss this opportunity to obtain funding for critical research on economic and social rights. #LSAGrants #HumanRights #LawAndSociety

The most recent issue of LSR features book reviews for Empire of Purity by Eva Payne, The Black Tax by Andrew W. Kahrl, The Taft Court by Robert C. Post, and Home and International Law by Henrietta Zeffert. Read here! bit.ly/LSRDec25 @cambup-law.cambridge.org #LawAndSociety

ICYMI: “Much of the world we inhabit—and study—sits at the intersection of law and society. While disciplinary tools remain important, LSA offers a rare space for sustained intellectual cross-pollination.”

Nominations are open for LSA’s next President-Elect, Secretary-Elect, and Class of 2029 Board of Trustees! If you know an LSA member with strong leadership and collaboration skills, please submit a nomination by Monday, April 6th bit.ly/LSA2026Noms (LSA Login Required)