New Directions in Law and Society

法律和社会学术是一个充满活力的研究领域，涵盖了广泛的视角，并解决了社会面临的一些最紧迫的问题。这些问题包括突出的问题，如技术对法律程序的影响、纠正持续不断的战争中的暴力行为的努力、了解和克服法律制度中的偏见以及刑事司法改革。解决这些重大社会问题的挑战之一是，研究这些问题的学者经常从不同的学科、方法或理论角度独立于其他研究相同问题的学者。解决非常重要和复杂的社会问题需要从不同的角度处理这些问题，需要学术交流与合作。为了鼓励学术交流、合作和教育，这笔赠款将把不同群体的法律和社会学者聚集在一起，于2020年10月2日至3日在马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校举行会议。首先，通过促进联网、学术交流和从关于资助和出版法律和社会研究的小组报告中学习的机会，我们计划创造新的研究活动，突出从STEM到人文科学的各种形式的法律和社会研究，并提供具体的学术进步工具。其次，大会将把新的学者带入法律和社会研究界，包括妇女、有色人种学者和来自其他代表性不足群体的学者，引导他们进入科学研究，并帮助培育新的研究项目。第三，它将通过一个研讨会为研究生提供培训机会，研究生将在研讨会上介绍他们的研究并收到资深学者的密集反馈。第四，全体会议和关键干预小组将向公众开放，并将产生经过编辑的卷，从而有助于为公众辩论提供信息。最后，我们预计与会者将广泛地将会议的成果传播到他们所在的机构和他们的教学中，从而扩大会议的影响。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Law and society scholarship is a vibrant field of study, encompassing a wide range of perspectives and addressing some of the most pressing questions facing society. These include salient issues such as the impact of technology on legal processes, efforts to redress violence from ongoing wars, understanding and overcoming bias in the legal system, and criminal justice reform. One of the challenges to solving these significant societal problems is that scholars addressing them frequently work independently from other scholars tackling the same issues from different disciplinary, methodological, or theoretical perspectives. Resolving highly significant and complex societal problems necessitates approaching those issues from a variety of perspectives, and requires scholarly exchange and collaboration. In order to encourage scholarly exchange, collaboration, and education, this grant will bring a diverse group of law and society scholars together for a conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from October 2-3, 2020. First, by facilitating opportunities for networking, scholarly exchange, and learning from panel presentations on funding and publishing law and society research, we plan to generate new research activity, highlight diverse forms of law and society research ranging from STEM to the humanities, and give concrete tools for academic advancement. Second, the conference will bring new scholars into the law and society research community, including women, scholars of color, and those from other underrepresented groups, inducting them into science research and helping to foster new research programs. Third, it will provide opportunities for graduate student training through a workshop in which graduate students will present their research and receive intensive feedback from senior scholars. Fourth, plenary sessions and critical intervention panels will be open to the public and will generate an edited volume, thus helping to inform public debate. Finally, we anticipate that participants will broadly disseminate the findings of the conference to their home institutions and in their teaching, thus expanding the conference’s impact.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.