WORKSHOP: Future Directions In Law and Social Science

本次研讨会评估了法律和社会科学领域内更大的知识统一的进展；法学：由对运用实证的、社会科学的方法研究法律感兴趣的学者组成的领域这是第一个此类研讨会，旨在调查研究生培训的新方法和该领域学术的新方向在多大程度上可能促进法律和社会科学这一更大学科内更大的统一感。迄今为止，这一学科已经由各种不同的研究运动组成，有相对独立的专业协会、期刊、会议、研究生项目等。目前的研讨会汇集了初级和高级学者——犯罪学家、社会学家、法律学者、经济学家、人类学家、政治学家和心理学家。考虑大学项目、期刊和协会如何保持这些不同学科背景带来的优势，同时促进学者和学术之间的凝聚力。本次研讨会为法律和社会科学领域的未来智力发展提供了一个新的视角，特别是因为它与未来学者的培训和预期的研究方向有关。预计讲习班的讨论和建议将通过该领域的主要期刊传播。

This workshop assesses progress toward greater intellectual unification within the Law and Social Sciences field; a field comprised of scholars interested in the study of law using empirical, social scientific methods. It is the first workshop of its kind designed to investigate the extent to which new approaches to graduate training and new directions in scholarship in this field might facilitate a greater sense of unification within the larger discipline of Law and Social Sciences. To date, this discipline has been comprised by a variety of disparate research movements with relatively independent professional associations, journals, conferences, graduate programs, etc. The current workshop brings together junior and senior scholars -- criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars, economists, anthropologists, political scientists, and psychologists ? to consider the means by which university programs, journals, and associations might maintain the strengths brought by these divergent disciplinary backgrounds, while simultaneously fostering increasing cohesion among scholars and scholarship.This workshop provides a fresh perspective on the future intellectual development of the Law and Social Sciences field -- particularly as it relates to the training of future scholars and expected research directions. The discussion and recommendations of the workshop are expected to be disseminated via the leading journals in the field.