Summer Institutes on the Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship

法律和社会协会与2005-2007年法律和社会协会社会法律研究暑期班的主要组织者合作，将举办两次暑期班，这是2005年在联合王国牛津、2006年在南非约翰内斯堡和2007年在美国圣巴巴拉举办的三次暑期班的一部分。各研究所将建立关系网络和出版活动，以扩大和丰富国际外联活动。大约72名来自三大洲的该领域的“新进入者”将参加为期四天的密集研究所，由来自美国和国际机构的杰出教师领导。这三个研究所将由权利和监管交叉的知识主题统一起来。在2005-2007年研究所的三大洲性质的背景下，这一主题将通过发展其跨国和比较方面，以及通过系统地将分领域（特别是监管和权利）联系起来，从而促进社会法律研究中的知识和理解，这种方式也可能为其他人提供未来研究的模式。三套具体的活动将把各研究所的工作联系起来，以扩大其影响：一个网站，将在高质量的网络出版物中展示新兴学者的工作;与LSA已经建立的现有合作研究网络的协同联系;以及三个研究所之间的编辑合作，将协调传统的出版目标（主要社会法律期刊的特刊）。各研究所和将它们联系起来的活动的综合影响将是三方面的。首先，美国学生和初级教师将在启动个人关系并促进未来与外国同行合作的背景下接触国际社会法律奖学金。第二，各研究所将扩大代表性不足群体的参与，促进该领域的多样性，特别是种族和地域多样性。第三，各研究所将通过一个跨国网络加强跨学科研究和教育的基础设施（并展示其潜力），该网络将为出版物，特别是该领域初级学者的著作提供信息。 该项目得到了NSF国际科学与工程办公室的部分支持。

The Law and Society Association (LSA), in collaboration with the Lead Organizers for the 2005-2007 LSA Summer Institutes in Sociolegal Studies, will conduct two Summer Institutes that form part of a sequence of three, to be held in 2005 in Oxford, UK, in 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in 2007 in Santa Barbara, USA. The Institutes will build networks of relationships and publishing activities that will expand and enrich international outreach. Approximately 72 "new entrants" to the field over three continents will participate in intensive four-day Institutes, led by distinguished faculty from both the US and international institutions. The three Institutes will be unified by the intellectual theme of the intersection of rights and regulation. In the context of the tricontinental nature of the 2005-2007 Institutes, this theme will advance knowledge and understanding within sociolegal studies by developing its transnational and comparative dimensions as well as by systematically linking sub-fields (specifically those of regulation and rights) in ways that may also provide a model to others for future research. Three sets of concrete activities will link the sequence of Institutes to broaden their impact: a website that will showcase the work of emerging scholars in a high quality web-based publication; synergistic links with existing Collaborative Research Networks already established by LSA; and editorial collaboration across the three Institutes that will coordinate traditional publication objectives (special issues in leading sociolegal journals). The combined impact of the Institutes and the activities that link them will be three-fold. First, U.S. students and junior faculty will gain exposure to international sociolegal scholarship in a context that initiates personal relationships and fosters future collaboration with foreign counterparts. Secondly, the Institutes will broaden the participation of under-represented groups and foster diversity in the field, especially racial and geographic diversity. Thirdly, the Institutes will enhance the infrastructure (and demonstrate the potential) for interdisciplinary research and education through a transnational network that feeds into publication, particularly of the work of junior scholars in the field. This project was supported in part by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.