Summer Institutes on the Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship

法律与社会协会将与2005-2007年法律与社会协会社会研究暑期研习会的主要主办单位合作，举办两个暑期研习会，作为三个暑期研习会的一部分，分别于2005年在英国牛津、2006年在南非约翰内斯堡和2007年在美国圣巴巴拉举行。各研究所将建立关系网络和出版活动，扩大和丰富国际外联。来自三大洲的约72名该领域的“新进入者”将参加由来自美国和国际机构的杰出教师领导的为期四天的强化课程。这三个研究所将以权利与规制的交叉为知识主题统一起来。在2005-2007年研究所三大洲性质的背景下，该主题将通过发展其跨国和比较维度以及通过系统地将子领域（特别是监管和权利）联系起来的方式，推进社会法律研究中的知识和理解，这也可能为其他人未来的研究提供一个模型。三套具体活动将把各个研究所联系起来，以扩大它们的影响：建立一个网站，在高质量的网络出版物中展示新兴学者的工作；与LSA已建立的现有合作研究网络建立协同联系；三个研究所之间的编辑合作将协调传统的出版目标（主要社会法律期刊的特刊）。各研究所和将它们联系起来的活动的综合影响将是三重的。首先，美国学生和初级教师将有机会接触到国际社会法律奖学金，这将促进与外国同行的个人关系和未来的合作。第二，各研究所将扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，并促进该领域的多样性，特别是种族和地域的多样性。第三，各研究所将通过一个跨国网络加强跨学科研究和教育的基础设施（并展示其潜力），该网络将提供出版物，特别是该领域初级学者的著作。该项目得到了美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室的部分支持。

The Law and Society Association (LSA), in collaboration with the Lead Organizers for the 2005-2007 LSA Summer Institutes in Sociolegal Studies, will conduct two Summer Institutes that form part of a sequence of three, to be held in 2005 in Oxford, UK, in 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in 2007 in Santa Barbara, USA. The Institutes will build networks of relationships and publishing activities that will expand and enrich international outreach. Approximately 72 "new entrants" to the field over three continents will participate in intensive four-day Institutes, led by distinguished faculty from both the US and international institutions. The three Institutes will be unified by the intellectual theme of the intersection of rights and regulation. In the context of the tricontinental nature of the 2005-2007 Institutes, this theme will advance knowledge and understanding within sociolegal studies by developing its transnational and comparative dimensions as well as by systematically linking sub-fields (specifically those of regulation and rights) in ways that may also provide a model to others for future research. Three sets of concrete activities will link the sequence of Institutes to broaden their impact: a website that will showcase the work of emerging scholars in a high quality web-based publication; synergistic links with existing Collaborative Research Networks already established by LSA; and editorial collaboration across the three Institutes that will coordinate traditional publication objectives (special issues in leading sociolegal journals). The combined impact of the Institutes and the activities that link them will be three-fold. First, U.S. students and junior faculty will gain exposure to international sociolegal scholarship in a context that initiates personal relationships and fosters future collaboration with foreign counterparts. Secondly, the Institutes will broaden the participation of under-represented groups and foster diversity in the field, especially racial and geographic diversity. Thirdly, the Institutes will enhance the infrastructure (and demonstrate the potential) for interdisciplinary research and education through a transnational network that feeds into publication, particularly of the work of junior scholars in the field. This project was supported in part by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.