About the Center

The Center in Law, Society and Culture (CLSC) brings together UC Irvine faculty and graduate students who share interests in law, society, and culture, broadly defined.

Upcoming Events


CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Pariroo Rattan - To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen: Negotiating Digital Visibility, Privacy and Personhood in the Streets of Delhi

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Sep 25, 2026 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Andrea Armstrong - Carceral Secrecy

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Oct 2, 2026 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Meena Sadr - Theorizing Gender Apartheid in the Context of Afghanistan

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Oct 23, 2026 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Libby Adler - Governing the Terrain Called Beauty: The Queerness of Political Economy in Cuba and the United States

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Oct 30, 2026 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3750, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Monica Bell - Sentences: Empirical Poems on Motherhood, Safety, Survival & the Law

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Nov 13, 2026 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Jahaira Pacheco - Immigrant Motherhood Beyond State Recognition: Moral Claims Under a Pervasive Immigration Regime

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Nov 20, 2026 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Alex Niner - Incarcerating Ideas: A Theory of Censorship as Legal Punishment

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Jan 29, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Nathan Lee - What is Extreme and Outrageous? Rethinking Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Feb 5, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Aziza Ahmed

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Feb 12, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Li - AI as Equalizers? Chinese Immigrant Lawyers' Use of Generative AI Tools in the US

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Feb 19, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Erez Aloni - Architectures of Nonmarriage: Recognition as Distribution

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Feb 26, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Sharon Block - Revisiting Rape, Remaking History

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Mar 12, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3750, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Chinmayi Arun

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Mar 19, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Sylvia Croese - Gradualist Lawfare, Urban Politics, and Local Power in Angola

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Apr 2, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa Ballakrishnen - Blasé: Genderqueerness, Sociolegal Ambiguity and Interactional Ambivalence

Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together...

Apr 9, 2027 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

For past events, see the Events Archive

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