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

本次研讨会由隶属于本科法律与司法项目联盟（CULJP）和法律与社会协会（LSA）的法律和社会科学学者组织委员会领导，将有助于确定和推进社会法律研究的四个关键子领域中的下一波研究问题，并扩大本科生参与这项研究。 这些子领域包括法律的意识，法律的动员，事业律师，司法决策。该讲习班的目标是30个社会法学学者从主要的本科课程，将举行一天半。 一半的参与者将通过邀请选拔，另一半则接受申请。该研讨会将有助于图表和刺激社会法律奖学金的新浪潮，同时增加本科生在这项研究的参与。 研讨会的目标之一是创建一个研究活跃的社会法学学者网络，他们有兴趣在本科生社会法学课程中扩大研究项目或涉及本科生。 组织者将通过创建参与者的列表服务器和促进对话来实现这一过程，因为计划开始涉及本科生（雷乌斯）的潜在研究经验。 组织者还将准备一篇分析文章，综合研讨会的讨论和结论，以及社会法学奖学金如何在四个关键子领域扩展。 为了鼓励和扩大大学生对社会法律奖学金的参与，由此产生的出版物还将报告讲习班产生的招募和吸引大学生参与研究的战略。

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.