I’ll be presenting a revised draft of my article on legal socialization next month at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities at the University of Toronto School of Law. June 22-23, Toronto, Canada.
I’ll be presenting a paper titled “Legal Socialization and Child Resistance” at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Francisco on Saturday.
Democracy in Captivity: Prisoners, patients, and the limits of self-government is now available for pre-order (link here) and is scheduled to be released this August.
I’ve been terrible about posting regular updates over the last few years — I’ll start up again this month.
This afternoon my colleagues Lucas Núñez, Jess Terman, Rob McGrath, and I will be meeting with students in the Schar School of Policy and Government’s “Virtual Learning Community” (VLC). I’m looking forward to getting to know our wonderful students at Schar a bit better.
My democratic theory and practice course (GOVT 101) last fall has been recognized as “an outstanding Mason Core Social/Behavioral Sciences course.” I enjoy teaching this introductory course and I’m looking forward to continually improving it.
A drop of good news in an ocean of bad: my article titled “Must penal law be insulated from public influence?” has been accepted at Law and Philosophy. [Accessible here.]
Later this week I’ll be one of the faculty presenters for Mason’s PhD Research Morning. The aim of Research Morning is to provide PhD students with tips and tools for navigating the proposal and dissertation stages of the program, and to begin thinking beyond the dissertation. My short talk is on “Writing Your Dissertation.” January 29, 11:15 in Research Hall.
Yesterday was the final session of my first class at Mason — thanks to my students for a wonderful term!
Christopher D. Berk 