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THE ASA SOCIOLOGY of LAW SECTION: Sociology of Law SECTION OFFICERS REFLECTIONS on the FIRST DECADE 2001-2002 Summer 2002 Volume 9 - Number 2 Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. THE ASA SOCIOLOGY OF LAW SECTION: Sociology of Law SECTION OFFICERS REFLECTIONS ON THE FIRST DECADE 2001-2002 Chair ORIGINAL IDEALS AND CONTINUING CHALLENGES John Hagan, Northwestern University Terence C. Halliday American Bar Foundation Chair-Elect [email protected] Carol Heimer, Northwestern University It is a pleasant surprise to discover that already the Section on the Sociology of Law has survived its first decade and thrives. The lively program of the Section Secretary/Treasurer owes everything to the extensive activities of many committed people. As we Elizabeth Chambliss, enter a new decade of activity, now is a good time to recall some of our original Harvard Law School ideals and to emphasize their continuing relevance. Council Members Original Ideals Mia Cahill, When Joachim Savelsberg first broached the question of an ASA section on the New York University Sociology of Law, we struggled with two questions. What was its justification on its own terms? And what distinctive contribution could it make that was not Mark Cooney, already being made by the Law and Society Association, since it made no sense University of Georgia to duplicate functions or to compete? Patricia Ewick, Clark University The answers to the first question were straightforward. After all, sociology’s theoretical tradition since the 19th century took law seriously, perhaps most Valerie Jenness, notably in Weber’s sociology of law and the economy. Echoes of this centrality UC-Irvine appeared in Talcott Parsons’ theory, where law was elevated to a “medium of Lisa Sanchez, exchange” and legal institutions were an integral element of social structure. The UCLA history of civilizations itself could be styled in part in terms of shifts in the Matthew Silberman, —See Decade page 3. Bucknell University Newsletter Editor Mathieu Deflem, Univ. of South Carolina www.amicionline.org Page 2 Amici, Summer 2002 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— THE SOSOCIOLOGYCIOLOGY OF LAW SECTION Editorial Note AT THE ASA ANNUAL MEETING, CHICAGO, As some readers may have AUGUST 1515---19,19, 2002 noticed, the online edition of the newsletter was temporarily unavailable few months ago. The section day of the Sociology of Law at the ASA Annual Meeting is Fortunately, in the meantime, Monday, August 19. The section has sponsored the following events: the newsletter has relocated to a better server. The website 8:30 a.m. Paper Session: Law and Inequality URL, www.amicionline.org, Organizer and Presider: Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation Flexible Formalization and Limited Legalization: Managing Flexible Work should always remain valid. Arrangements in U.S. Organizations. Erin Kelly, University of Minnesota; Alexandra Kalev, Princeton University As always, section members Driver Race and Ethnicity, Vehicle Searches by Police, and Vehicle Search "Hit" are encouraged to submit their Rates: The Contacts Between Police and Public 1999 National Survey. Richard ideas for contributions to the J. Lundman, Ohio State University Newsletter Editor. Responses Struggles Against Inequlaity in Everyday Life.: Putting Politics in Legal to the special on our section's Consciousness. Anna-Maria Marshall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign first decade are particularly Contradictory Legal Consciousness: Race, Legal Beliefs, and the Experiences of encouraged, as are essays on Capital Jurors. Benjamin D. Steiner, University of Delaware Defining Sexual Harassment. Justine Tinkler, Stanford University teaching in the sociology of law, and books in our 10:30 a.m. Paper Session: Law, Health, and Healthcare (co-sponsored with sociological specialty to be the ASA Section on Medical Sociology) considered for a symposium. Organizer: Mark C. Suchman, University of Wisconsin Organizer: Sydney A. Halpern, University of Illinois, Chicago Mathieu Deflem, Placing a Standard of Care in Context: The Impact of Witness Potential and Amici Newsletter Editor, Attorney Reputation in Medical Malpractice Litigation. Ralph Peeples and University of South Carolina, Catherine T. Harris, Wake Forest University; Thomas B. Metzloff, Wake Forest [email protected] University Anticipating the Organizational, Professional and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information Technologies in Health Care. Mark C. Suchman, University of Wisconsin ...Amici Quotes... Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law: Explaining the Advent of Human-Subjects Regulations. Sydney A. Halpern, University of Illinois, Chicago "You're busted, buddy". Social Dehumanization Through Biotechnology in Public Ethics. John H. Evans, University of California, San Diego —Slogan on the VideoVigilante Discussion: Carol Heimer, Northwestern University website that posts videos of cops beating up suspects and 12:30 a.m. Refereed Roundtables other such dirty data. Organized by Elizabeth Hoffmann and Carol Heimer. www.videovigilante.com 1:30 p.m. Business Meeting Amici 2:30 p.m. Paper Session: Reconsidering the Classics of the Sociology of Law Volume 9, No. 2 Organizer and Presider: Mark Gould, Haverford College Summer 2002 John Dewey and the Legal Realists: A Call for Reviving the Early American Pragmatists' Theory of the Self. Susan D. Carle, American University The Ideal and the Real in Classical Contract Law. Arthur Jacobson, Yeshiva TABLE OF CONTENTS University Sociology of Law as a Science of Justice. Philip Selznick, University of California, Reflections on the Section's First Berkeley Decade, by Halliday, Savelsberg, Scheppele, and Kidder................1 The section RECEPTION will be held jointly with the Crime, Law and Deviance section in the Robert Woods Conference center of the American Section Sessions at the Annual Bar Foundation, 750 North Lake Shore Drive at 6:30 p.m. on August 18. Meeting.......................................2 Finals Fun, by Marx...................10 Much more information about the Annual Meeting can be found online: http://www.asanet.org/convention/2002/index.html Section Election Results...........12 The Section's First Decade Continuing Exchanges: —Halliday continued from page 2. The Case of Economic Sociology Let me offer one example of ways the original vision will differentiation and autonomy of law. In the occasional continue to be realized from an exciting frontier of subfield of sociology, such as organizations, eminent sociology. scholars such as Selznick and Stinchcombe also reminded the discipline as a whole that sociology’s Economic sociology currently is a dynamic emerging theoretical aspirations could scarcely be satisfied without field. Although some kind of economic sociology has comprehending the explanatory force of law and its been around for a long time —indeed Marx, Weber, institutions. Polanyi, Parsons, Stinchcombe, and many others might be styled economic sociologists— it is only in the last In the drift away from law in the post-Parsonian era of five years or so that it has begun to carve out for itself a social theory, law also seemed marginal to most sub- coherent organizational niche in sociology, not least by fields of sociology. Part of our vision, therefore, was a forming a section on economic sociology within the ASA. zeal to “bring law back in.” We believed that social Economic sociology offers a fertile relationship with the theory and sociological practice are impoverished sociology of law, so much so that one of its leaders, without a clear encounter with law in its many Richard Swedberg, has recently called for an economic manifestations. sociology of law.1 Since we sensed that a sociology alienated from a core One does not need to dig very deeply to discover that part of its founding theory needed to be confronted with critical issues for economic sociology implicitly or the possibility of law, we sought to formulate ways in explicitly engage law. Following Granovetter, it is a which a section on the sociology of law might central premise of economic sociology that the model of simultaneously benefit sociology and offer a unique neo-classical economics, where autonomous actors value to the law and society movement. We believed freely exchange goods and services in open markets as that a new section could set up a two-way traffic if the market itself is institutionally unstructured, is a between law and other aspects of sociology that would myth. In fact, markets are structured heavily by simultaneously multiply benefits in several directions. embedding institutions of all sorts. Carruthers discovered that political affiliations stratified trading in early English First, we sought to proselytize others. We argued that financial markets; many observers point to the widely the sociologies of family, stratification, collective observed phenomenon of quanxi in Chinese trading behavior, race and ethnicity, organizations, culture — relationships; family ties heavily structure the internal most every subfield of sociology itself would benefit from trading among companies within the largest Indonesian an engagement with an active section that showed how conglomerates. And in a world of imperfect information, sociology could mobilize law for theory, research and problems of trust and uncertainty in market exchanges practice. are solved in part through social networks, as Karpik has shown in his work on French professional services. Second, we wanted to inspire ourselves. In this export- import modality, we hoped that the sociology of law In fact, studies of
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