Legal Studies News & Events Archive
Politics Professor Mark Fathi Massoud spoke with BBC World News
January 15, 2022
Politics Professor Mark Fathi Massoud spoke with BBC World News about the conflict between Somalia's president and prime minister over ongoing election delays.
Major Declaration Workshops
January 12, 2022
Interested in declaring the Legal Studies Major? Sign up for one of our Winter Quarter workshops! These workshops will go over the major's requirements, building an academic planner, and more.
Law School Panel: January 19, 2022
January 10, 2022
Join us in hearing from UCSC alumni talk about their experiences in applying to Law School. Jessica Xu, J.D. Candidate of UCLA and Alyssa Tamboura, J.D. Candidate of Yale Law School share their personal experiences and the resources that helped them get to Law School. We will also be holding a Q&A session where students can ask additional questions and advice.
Professor Asli Bali's talk: Friday, March 4, 2022
January 1, 2022
UCSC Student Draws Inspiration from her Personal Hero
December 2, 2021
Aissata Ba, a second-year legal studies major at UC Santa Cruz, didn’t think she had a chance to be selected to participate in an event with former first lady Michelle Obama
UCDC Information Session: November 10, 2021
November 2, 2021
The Office of Global Learning has collaborated with the Politics Department and Legal Studies Program to provide students with an informational session on the UCDC program.
Graduate & Professional School Forum: November 9, 2021
November 1, 2021
Join us to hear about the different Graduate and Professional School opportunities. Students can learn about different programs such as Ph.D.'s, Master's, Law, and Combined School Programs.
Legal Studies Fall Workshop with Ellie Frazier: Friday November 19, 2021
October 21, 2021
Join us to discuss Ellie Frazier’s work in progress “Adapting and Resisting: How Community Paralegals Translate Law into Action in Sierra Leone.” Gloria Paidamoyo Chikaonda, a JSD student at Stanford will serve as discussant.
Civic Education in Polarized Times: October 29-30, 2021
October 21, 2021
The Legal Studies Program co-sponsors significant national Conference: Civic Education in Polarized Times (virtual), October 29-30, 2021, hosted by the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.
STARS Summer 2021 Virtual Drop-In Hours
July 6, 2021
During the summer students can utilize our drop-in hours to talk with a Transition Mentor about Fall intentions, housing concerns, important dates and deadlines, and more.
Congratulations, Class of 2021!
June 11, 2021
Muslim women are using Sharia to push for gender equality by Professor Mark Fathi Massoud
May 21, 2021
Career Conversations
May 14, 2021
Strauss Foundation award recognizes student’s work with families affected by incarceration
May 4, 2021
Legal studies undergraduate Matt Sioson recently won $15,000 in funding from the Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation.
UCDC Legal Studies Info Session
May 3, 2021
Wednesday May 12: Distinguished Lecture: Noura Erakat
April 19, 2021
Join us Wednesday May 12, 3.30 - 5pm for the Legal Studies Program Distinguished Lecture: Professor Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
Mark Fathi Massoud Book Talk, Wednesday, May 5
April 16, 2021
Join us to discuss Shari‘a, Inshallah by Mark Fathi Massoud on Wednesday May 5, 3.30-4.45pm
Anjuli Verma Legal Studies Workshop, Friday April 16
April 16, 2021
Join us on Friday April 16th at 12-1pm, to discuss Anjuli Verma’s work in progress 'DOWNSHIFT: California’s “Great Experiment” & the Future of Decarceration in America’. Professor Craig Haney will serve as discussant. The paper will be circuated one week before the workshop, on Friday April 9.
Bordering Britain with Nadine El-Enany, Thursday, April 15
April 15, 2021
Join us to discuss the recent release of (B)ordering Britain: Law Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany. Thursday, April 15, 10:30am (UCSC) /6.30pm (UK)
Healing and Everyday Activism
April 14, 2021
UCSC CARE and the Womxn's Center will be holding a virtual Take Back the Night series focusing on healing and everyday activism
Graduate School Panel
April 7, 2021
Interested in going to graduate school? The Legal Studies Program will be hosting a live panel via zoom where we will be meeting 3 UCSC alumni who will share their experiences applying to grad school.
Law School Panel
February 10, 2021
Interested in attending Law School? Join us for this panel where you will get to hear from UCSC alumni and their experiences in applying to Law School
Graduate Fellows Program
February 9, 2021
This one year program supports UCSC graduate students in the interdisciplinary field of law and society. Fellows will receive peer mentoring support, professional development, and a research stipend of up to $750.
Winter Legal Studies Workshop
February 5, 2021
Join us to discuss Yasmeen Daifallah’s work in progress, ‘Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers’. Professor Megan Thomas will serve as discussant. The paper will be circulated one week before the workshop, on Friday January 28.
Thomas Serres Legal Studies Workshop
December 11, 2020
Join us to discuss Thomas Serres’s work in progress ‘Macron’s Authoritarian Drift or the Dangers of Radical Centrism’. Professor Mark Fathi Massoud will serve as discussant. The paper will be circulated by email one week before the workshop, on Friday December 4.
Legal Aid and Advocacy
November 13, 2020
The Legal Studies Department in collaboration with Oaks College will be offering Oaks/LGST 188A & 188B in Winter 2021. The combination of the two courses will provide students with an opportunity to learn about the legal aid profession while also putting it into practice.
UCDC Legal Studies & Politics Info Session
November 2, 2020
In collaboration with the Legal Studies Program and Politics Department, UCDC invites you to attend the following info session to learn more about studying at UCDC:
BBC Interviews Politics Professor Mark Fathi Massoud
October 26, 2020
UC Santa Cruz politics and legal studies professor Mark Fathi Massoud talked with BBC World News about the implications of a recent Trump administration deal to normalize relations between Sudan and Israel.
From Punishment to Restitution
October 23, 2020
The Politics Department and Legal Studies Program presents: Politics Fall Colloquium with Professor Ahmad Atif
A Message from our Graduating Students to our Incoming Students
October 4, 2020
We know this year looks a little more different than other years. This is why we have asked our Legal Studies Class of 2020 to share their experiences and some advice for our incoming undergraduate student.
Legal Studies Professor Jackie Gehring Recognized with Distinguished Teaching Award
June 16, 2020
Associate teaching professor of Legal Studies Jacqueline Gehring is recognized with UCSC's 2020-2021 Distinguished Teaching Award
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Proclamation
June 10, 2020
Meet Your TA's
June 4, 2020
TA's play a vital role in an undergraduate student's learning experience and we're excited for you to get to know them! Interested in learning more about your TA's? Click here to get to know who they are and the research they do.
Legal Studies Graduate Workshop Supports PhD Students at UCSC
May 8, 2020
On May 8, 2020, the UCSC Legal Studies Program hosted its Graduate Workshop. Here's what Graduate students took away from the workshop and their advice for undergraduate students.
Oct 30: André Borges: Right-wing populism and party system change in Brazil: A subnational perspective
October 30, 2019
"Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence"
October 17, 2019
Year End Reception 2019
June 7, 2019
The Politics Department and Legal Studies Program gathered at the end of the Spring quarter to celebrate the graduating class of 2019
Student to pursue career helping immigrants
June 07, 2019
First-generation college student Hector Arroyo De La Paz will graduate from UC Santa Cruz next week with a bachelor’s degree in legal studies and Latin American and Latino studies. He credits his parents for making it happen.
Strauss Foundation Awards Alyssa Tamboura $15,000 Public Service Scholarship to Carry Out Project in Her Junior Year at UC Santa Cruz
May 14, 2019
The Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation, established as a memorial to the late Don Strauss of Newport Beach and now designed to award $15,000 scholarships to as many as 15 California college sophomores and juniors annually, has announced that among the foundation’s new group of recipients is a UC Santa Cruz student, Alyssa Marie Tamboura.
Law's Wars, Law's Trials
March 6, 2019
Richard Abel discussed the fate of the rule of law when there is a perceived threat to the security of the state by describing the ways in which the rule of law was contested during the "war on terror" after 9/11 and the legal processes that justified that contestation.
Alternatives to Law School Panel
February 13, 2019
On February 13th, 2019 two UCSC Legal Studies Alumni volunteered their time to come speak to over 40 undergraduate students in the Alternatives to Law School Panel.
Stephanie Perez Embarks on A New Journey of Independent Research
January 21, 2019
Stephanie Perez, a fourth-year Legal Studies major with a minor in History, is embarking on a new research project, Law and the Early History of Bioprospecting in the Ecuadorian Amazon, which will explore the legal aspects of bioprospecting in Ecuador in the mid-twentieth century and its relationship to pharmaceutical development in the United States.
Reel Work Labor Film Festival Together to End Solitary, Cruel and Unusual – the Story of the Angola 3
March 20, 2018
Three black men, with together over 113 years in solitary confinement torture in the USA, were framed for organizing against injustice inside Angola Prison in Louisiana. The film follows their decades-long struggle for justice and the building of a national and international movement to end solitary confinement.
Rights, Reinscription, & Legal Consciousness: Racist and Sexist Speech at Work and on the Street
January 10, 2018
This presentation combines a presentation of work from Nielsen’s first book, License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy & Offensive Public Speech, with her new book, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality, to explore a foundational question: When and how can law successfully intervene to remedy existing structures of inequalities of unearned privilege? In other words, what is the appropriate role of law in addressing the pressing social problems of racism, sexism, ableism, and other loci of discrimination in different contexts.
ACLU Forum on First Amendment after Charlottesville
December 5, 2017
The violence that occurred in Charlottesville caused civil libertarians around the country to examine their historic, staunch, and absolutist defense of the First Amendment when it comes into conflict with co-equal Constitutional rights, such as Equal Protection, and other vital civil liberties, including racial justice. What should lovers of civil liberties do when the goal of those seeking to exercise their rights to free speech and assembly is to deny others those same rights and/or to harm others? This Conversation explored this complex, thorny issue in depth.
Recent Alum Shows that After Graduation, Anything is Possible
December 5, 2017
When Anna Jean Kaiser (Cowell, Politics ’12) graduated from UC Santa Cruz, she decided to move to a country where she knew no one. Now, she is a successful reporter writing for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other publications.
Understanding the First Amendment: A Campus Workshop on Expression
November 7, 2017
This workshop on November 14, 2017 presented a keynote by Elizabeth Beaumont, Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Legal Studies at UCSC, introducing participating UCSC students, staff, and faculty to a historical overview of the First Amendment and its basic principles. The keynote was followed by a facilitated round table discussions and activities.
Valeria Chavez-Ayala ('17)
October 14, 2017
Valeria Chavez-Ayala, a 2017 Legal Studies graduate, has found a new home at UCSC's Office of Undocumented Student Services.
Ruth Langridge Awarded NSF Grant
June 28, 2017
Ruth Langridge, associate researcher and lecturer with the Politics department, has been awarded the Science of Science and Innovation (SciSIP) Grant from the Nationa Sciene Foundation (NSF).
Legal Studies Distinguished Speaker Series: Erwin Chemerinsky
May 22, 2017
On Thursday March 2, 2017 the honorable Judge Vince Chhabria, United States District Court for the Northern District of California and graduate of UCSC, class of '91 visited campus as part of the Legal Studies Program's Distinguished Speakers Series.
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
May 7, 2017
Professor Frymer is the director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs and a professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles and three books: Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (Reissued 2010), Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (2008), and Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion (2017), all published by Princeton University Press. Professor Frymer was previously the Director of Legal Studies at UCSC.
Prop. 8 plaintiff Kris Perry receives Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
March 24, 2017
"You only win your civil rights by fighting for them," says alumna Kris Perry, who will be honored at a reception on Friday, April 28.
The Rule of Law: Why It Matters, What Threatens It, and What It Is, Martin Krygier
March 16, 2017
Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, UNSW. Honorary Professor at RegNet, ANU, visiting professor at the Graduate School of Social Research, Warsaw, and the International Institute of Sociology of Law, Onati. In 2016 he was awarded the Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory.
Federal Judge Vince Chhabria Speaks at UCSC
March 2, 2017
On Thursday March 2, 2017 the honorable Judge Vince Chhabria, United States District Court for the Northern District of California and graduate of UCSC, class of '91 visited campus as part of the Legal Studies Program's Distinguished Speakers Series.
Mark Fathi Massoud
November 18, 2016
Professor Massoud teaches courses and advises students in the Politics Department and Legal Studies Program. He works in the areas of international law, human rights, comparative law, and the politics of law and religion.
Mark Fathi Massoud: “Three important points to help in understanding South Sudan’s worsening crisis”
July 12, 2016
In an op-ed in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog on politics, politics professor and award-winning researcher Mark Fathi Massoud analyzes the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
