Law, Culture, and Inclusion/ExclusionASA Section on Sociology of Law 2017 Pre-Conference Workshop

Room 312 New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill University Faculty of Law

August 11, 2017

Draft Workshop Program

8:00 – 8:30 Welcome! (coffee/tea + light breakfast)

8:30 – 8:50 Introductory Remarks

9:00 – 10:30 Session I: Citizenship and LawJuan José Bustamante, University of Arkansas

‘La Polimigra’: A Social Construct behind the ‘Deportation Regime’ in the Greater Northwest Arkansas Region

Jessie K. Finch, Stockton University‘You Might Think It’s Unjust, But It’s Perfectly Legal:’ Role Strain and Competing Identity Management in Operation Streamline Attorneys

Tiffany D. Joseph, Stony Brook UniversityThe Growing Citizen-Noncitizen Divide: Life along the Documentation Status Continuum

Jane Lilly López, University of California, San DiegoRedefining American Families: The Disparate Effects of IIRIRA Automatic Bars to Reentry and Sponsorship Requirements on Mixed-Citizenship Couples

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 12:15 Session II: Gender, Sexuality, Rights

Abigail Saguy and Juliet A. Williams, University of California, Los AngelesReimagining Gender: Gender Neutrality in the News

Rashmee Singh, University of Waterloo“‘Setting a Good Example for the Ladies:’” Example Setting as a Technique of Penal Reform in Specialized Prostitution Court

Stefan Vogler, Northwestern University

How Law Knows Sexuality: Knowledge Making and the Disunity of Legal Epistemology

Michael Yarborough, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeI Now Declare You . . .: Making Marital Status in Law and Everyday Life in Post-Apartheid South Africa

12:15 – 1:30 Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 Session III –– Cultural Politics of Law

Meredith Hall, The New School for Social ResearchThe Possession of Color: Changes in the Legal Evaluation of a Disputed Commodity

Trevor Hoppe, University of AlbanyHIV on Trial: Stigma and the Illusion of Harm in American Courtrooms

Kai Lin, University of DelawareConceptions of Rights in Contemporary China: An Empirical Study of College Students

Matthew Unger, Concordia UniversityRight to speech: Accusation, Rhetoric and Criminal Entryways in BC Colonial Law

3:00 – 3:15 –– Break

3:15 – 4:45 –– Session IV –– Law and the State

Laura E. Masson, Universidad Nacional de San MartinGender Policies in the Military: Nationalism, Gender and Ethnicity

Rebecca Sanders, University of Cincinnati“A Hell of a Lot Worse than Waterboarding”: Can Legal Norms Constrain American State Violence?

Preet Kaur Virdi, SOAS, University of LondonFamily justice in multicultural Canada: A case study of Grewal v Kaur

Anna Banchik, University of Texas at AustinToo Dangerous to Disclose? A Case Study on the Legal Struggle over Detainee Abuse Images

The organizers would like to thank McGill University Faculty of Law for their generous support.