New Directions in Law and Society

法律与社会奖学金是一个充满活力的研究领域，涵盖广泛的观点，并解决社会面临的一些最紧迫的问题。其中包括一些突出的问题，如技术对法律的程序的影响、努力纠正正在进行的战争造成的暴力、理解和克服法律的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，解决这些问题的学者经常独立于从不同学科，方法论或理论角度解决相同问题的其他学者。解决高度重要和复杂的社会问题需要从各种角度来处理这些问题，并需要学术交流和合作。为了鼓励学术交流、合作和教育，这笔赠款将于2020年10月2日至3日将不同的法律和社会学者聚集在一起，参加在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学举行的会议。首先，通过促进网络，学术交流和从资助和出版法律和社会研究的小组演讲中学习的机会，我们计划产生新的研究活动，突出从STEM到人文学科的各种形式的法律和社会研究，并为学术进步提供具体的工具。第二，会议将使新的学者进入法律和社会研究界，包括妇女，有色人种学者和其他代表性不足的群体，引导他们进入科学研究，并帮助促进新的研究计划。第三，它将通过一个讲习班为研究生培训提供机会，研究生将在讲习班上介绍他们的研究，并从资深学者那里得到深入的反馈。第四，全体会议和关键干预小组将向公众开放，并将产生一个编辑的卷，从而有助于为公众辩论提供信息。最后，我们期望与会者将会议的成果广泛传播到他们的家乡机构和他们的教学中，从而扩大会议的影响力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.