WORKSHOP: Future Directions In Law and Social Science

这个研讨会评估了在法律和社会科学领域内在更大程度上实现知识统一方面的进展；这是一个由对使用实证社会科学方法研究法律感兴趣的学者组成的领域。这是此类研讨会的第一次，目的是调查研究生培训的新方法和这一领域的学术新方向在多大程度上可以促进更大范围的法律和社会科学学科内的统一感。到目前为止，这一学科已经由各种不同的研究运动组成，它们具有相对独立的专业协会、期刊、会议、研究生课程等。目前的研讨会汇集了初级和高级学者--犯罪学家、社会学家、法律学者、经济学家、人类学家、政治学家和心理学家？思考大学课程、期刊和协会如何在保持这些不同学科背景带来的优势的同时，促进学者和学术之间的凝聚力增强。这次研讨会为法律和社会科学领域的未来智力发展提供了一个新的视角--特别是与未来学者的培训和预期的研究方向有关的。讲习班的讨论和建议预计将通过该领域的主要期刊传播。

This workshop assesses progress toward greater intellectual unification within the Law and Social Sciences field; a field comprised of scholars interested in the study of law using empirical, social scientific methods. It is the first workshop of its kind designed to investigate the extent to which new approaches to graduate training and new directions in scholarship in this field might facilitate a greater sense of unification within the larger discipline of Law and Social Sciences. To date, this discipline has been comprised by a variety of disparate research movements with relatively independent professional associations, journals, conferences, graduate programs, etc. The current workshop brings together junior and senior scholars -- criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars, economists, anthropologists, political scientists, and psychologists ? to consider the means by which university programs, journals, and associations might maintain the strengths brought by these divergent disciplinary backgrounds, while simultaneously fostering increasing cohesion among scholars and scholarship.This workshop provides a fresh perspective on the future intellectual development of the Law and Social Sciences field -- particularly as it relates to the training of future scholars and expected research directions. The discussion and recommendations of the workshop are expected to be disseminated via the leading journals in the field.