About the Institute Overview, History.
People Administration, Fellows & Visiting Scholars
Events Lecture Series, Workshops & Conferences
Fellowships:
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Law and Society Post-Doctoral Fellowship One-year fellowship for early-career scholars who work in the "law and society" tradition and who will be competing for university-level teaching jobs in the U.S. market. Application period ends each year in January.
- Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History Biennial two-week summer session for early-career legal historians. The next Hurst Institute is scheduled for June 2013. An announcement will be posted in by summer 2012. Applications will be accepted in late 2012, with the deadline in January 2013. For more information please see the 2011 Application Information
Programs and Activities:
- Midwest Law and Society Retreat Biennial event bringing together faculty and graduate students from the
Midwest's diverse law and society programs for a weekend of
intellectual exchange and community building. The next retreat will take place Sept. 21-22, 2012. A call for proposals was circulated in March.
- The Wisconsin Contracts Project See link for general information; recent events include the following conference: "Empirical and Lyrical: Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay" October 21-22, 2011
- The "Law & ..." Workshop This interdisciplinary and international workshop promotes scholarship in law and the social sciences. UW/visiting students and faculty share papers and presentations on past and present topics on a monthly basis during the academic year.
- Program in Real Estate, Land Use,
and Community Development The Program in Real Estate, Land Use, and Community Development is a multi-disciplinary program at the Law School designed with curricular,
scholarly, and policy components to expand opportunities for students
and faculty.
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The New Legal Realism Project Jointly sponsored by
the Institute for Legal Studies and the American Bar Foundation, the
New Legal Realism Project is a network of scholars who seek to develop
an interdisciplinary paradigm for empirical research on law.
- External funding proposal support (for UW Law faculty and academic staff).
Legal History at Wisconsin
- The Wisconsin Tradition in Legal History The history of legal history. The "Wisconsin tradition" in legal history consists of both a long-standing university commitment to the teaching and study of legal history and an approach to historical studies that examines the interaction between law and social forces: "law in context," rather than law as a system unto itself.
- The Legal History Working Group, Affiliated Faculty, Courses, Resources, and more. Links to current activities, faculty webpages, course listings, campus resources, and related information.
Past Programs:
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Project on Law & the Humanities
- Interdisciplinary Feminism Project
- Family Policy and Law Colloquium Series
- Wisconsin Project on Governance & Regulation (WISGAR)
Affiliated Centers:
ILS collaborates on interdisciplinary projects with various campus departments and with two Centers at the Law School:
Related Publication Links:
Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) List of works posted by University of Wisconsin faculty or Wisconsin Law Journals.
Law and Social Inquiry Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed quarterly features both empirical and theoretical studies contributing to the understanding of sociolegal processes.
- Law and Society Review Quarterly peer-reviewed publication of work bearing on the relationship between society and the legal process.
- PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review Journal devoted to the anthropology of law and politics, broadly construed, publishing work that is distinguished by its innovative definition of problems, ethnographic orientation, or theoretical outlook.
