WORKSHOP: Strengthening Sociolegal Research: Approaches That Involve Undergraduates, Washington, DC metro area, Summer of 2014

本次研讨会由隶属于法学与司法本科项目联合会（CULJP）和法学与社会协会（LSA）的法学与社会科学学者组织委员会领导，将有助于确定和推进社会学研究中四个关键子领域的下一波研究问题，并扩大本科生对这一研究的参与。这些子领域包括法律意识、法律动员、诉讼代理和司法决策。该研讨会将以30名本科社会法学学者为对象，为期一天半。一半的参与者将被邀请，另一半将接受申请。研讨会将有助于规划和激发社会法学研究的新浪潮，同时增加本科生对这一研究的参与。研讨会的目标之一是建立一个研究活跃的社会法学学者网络，这些学者对扩大本科生社会法学课程的研究项目或涉及本科生感兴趣。组织者将通过创建参与者列表和促进对话来实现这一过程，因为计划开始涉及本科生（reu）的潜在研究经验。组织者还将准备一篇分析性文章，综合研讨会的讨论和结论，以及社会法学术如何在四个关键子领域扩展。为了鼓励和扩大大学生参与社会法学研究，由此产生的出版物还将报告讲习班为征聘大学生并使其参与研究而制定的战略。

This workshop, led by an organizing committee of law and social science scholars affiliated with the Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs (CULJP) and the Law and Society Association (LSA), will help identify and advance the next wave of research questions among four key subfields of sociolegal studies and expand the involvement of undergraduates in this research. Those subfields include legal consciousness, legal mobilization, cause lawyering, and judicial decision making.The workshop is targeted to 30 sociolegal scholars from primarily undergraduate programs and will be held over one and a-half days. Half of the participants will be selected by invitation with the other half open to application. The workshop will help chart and stimulate new waves of sociolegal scholarship while increasing the involvement of undergraduates in this research. One of the goals of the workshop is to create a network of research-active sociolegal scholars who are interested in expanding research projects at undergraduate sociolegal programs or involving undergraduates. The organizers will enable this process by creating a listserv of participants and facilitating conversations as planning begins for potential research experiences involving undergraduates (REUs). The organizers also will prepare an analytical article that synthesizes the discussions and conclusions of the workshop and how sociolegal scholarship might expand in four key subareas. In order to stimulate and broaden the participation of undergraduates in sociolegal scholarship, the resulting publication also will report on strategies derived from the workshop to recruit and involve undergraduates in research.