Program and agenda
for the
Third meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Law and
Society Association (MALSA)
10 October 2015
hosted by
Contents
Meeting schedule ............................................................................ 2
Paper Session 1 (9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)........................................ 3
Coffee break (10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.) .......................................... 4
Paper Session 2 (11:15 a.m. –12:30 p.m.) ...................................... 4
Lunch: 12:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ........................................................ 7
Keynote address by Dr. Candace McCoy ....................................... 7
Paper Session 3 (2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.) ......................................... 8
Coffee break (3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.).............................................. 9
Paper Session 4 (4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.) ......................................... 9
Maps and internet access .............................................................. 11
Index of participants ..................................................................... 13
Paper sessions listed by room ....................................................... 14
Acknowledgements ....................................................................... 15
Meeting schedule
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Conference Registration
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 p.m. Paper Session 1
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Coffee break (First floor commons)
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Paper Session 2
12:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Lunch (Student Dining Hall, East side)
1:00 p.m. Keynote address by Dr. Candace McCoy, Law
and Policing Society
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Paper Session 3
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee break (First floor commons)
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Paper Session 4
*Entries designated with an asterisk indicate the Panel chair
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Session 1
Paper Session 1 (9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)
Regulation and societal organization
Room
1.81
Michael W. Raphael, CUNY Graduate Center, On the
Prospect of a Cognitive Sociology of Law
Zhanna Dubinsky, Temple University School of Law,
Data Collection and Privacy in the Classroom
Lauren Henry Scholz, Yale Law School, Administering
Privacy Claims
Paul McLaughlin, Temple University School of Law,
Dilworth Park: A Beautiful Centerpiece of a Sign
of Things to Come?
Sida Liu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Panel
chair
Human rights in context
Room
1.91
Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, The George Washington
University, When Justice Just Isn’t: Negotiating
Racial (In)justice in National and International
Law
Catherine Powell, Fordham School of Law What if
Women Ran the World – Would it be a Better
Place?: International Law as Gender Performance
Diana Margarita Fuentes Becerra, Rutgers, Universidad
del Rosario, Victimhood and technologies of
citizenship: reflections from Colombia
Thalia González*, Occidental College From Global to
Local: Rethinking the Study of Human Rights
Practice, Implementation, and Compliance in the
United States
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Session 1
Gender, identity, and punishment
Room
1.83
Grace Howard, Rutgers University, The Prosecution of
Pregnant Women in Three States
Mary Imparato, Rutgers University, Unsettling
Liberties: decriminalizing violations of traditional
sexual morality in a culture of control
Nicole Lloyd, Univ of Delaware, Pathways to
Individual Legal Consciousness: Determinants
and Deterrents
Stephanie Grey, Temple University School of Law,
Correcting the Disciplinary Process for Sexual
Offender on College Campuses
Chrysanthi (Santhi) Leon*, Univ. of Delaware, Panel
chair
Labor and employment in the U.S.
Amy Semet, Princeton University, Statutory
interpretation from the agency perspective
Gabrielle Clark, Harvard University, Coercion and
Contract at the Margins: Temporary Labor
Migrants, Forced Repatriation, and the Laws of
Employment Termination under American
Capitalism (1917-2015)
Elizabeth Nisbet* and Jennifer Craft Morgan, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, Where policy meets
practice: Employer perspectives on scheduling and
hours for home care aides
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Room
1.85
Sessions 1- 2
Socio-Legal Individual Mentoring (SLIM) sessions
Room
1.82
Haley Duschinski; Jennifer Peirce, Reforming Prison
Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean:
A Comparative Analysis
Jean Carmalt; Sarah-Jane Koulen, Between Idealism
and Reality in International Criminal Law
Description of SLIM sessions
Socio-Legal Individual Mentoring (SLIM) sessions build on the
Law and Society tradition of providing mentorship to early-career
scholars. The SLIM sessions involve ideas-in-progress that receive
individualized feedback on substance and/or methods from an
experienced law & society scholar about how to turn an idea into a
research project.
Coffee break (10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.)
1st floor
commons
Paper Session 2 (11:15 a.m. –12:30 p.m.)
Torture and terrorism
Room
1.81
Francesca Laguardia*, Montclair State University,
Torture and Constraint: the Failure and
Promise of Lawyers' Legal Consciousness
Adam Weinstein, Temple University, Why Good
People Torture: The High Cost of War Culture,
Groundless Logic, and Ambiguous Law in the
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Sessions 1- 2
Torture of Terrorists
Miriam Abaya, Temple University School of Law,
The War Against Boko Haram: the U.S. Role in
Countering the Spread of Terrorism in Africa
Race, rights, and federal policy in the United States
Room
1.85
Lilah Thompson, Temple University, The Benefits
and Burdens of Prosecutorial Discretion: How
to fully effectuate the exercise of prosecutorial
discretion in a broken immigration system
Melissa D. Castillo, Temple University, White
Supremacy as Terrorism: Matching the
Resources to the Reality
Stephen Del Visco, University of Connecticut, White
Rights: A Historical View of White Identity in
Contemporary U.S. Conservatism
Joshua J. Eaise, Rutgers University, We Want to
Build Citizens, Not Criminals: Public Safety and
Social Welfare Rights
Sahar D. Sattarzadeh*, George Washington
University, Panel chair
Unpacking the Plea-Bargaining Decision-Making
Process for Defendants and their Attorneys
Erin M. Kerrison*, Univ. of Pennsylvania Law
School, The Give-and-Take Going Rate: Are
Plea Agreements Derived from Contract
Templates?
Reveka V. Shteynberg, SUNY Albany, A Qualitative
Examination of Plea Decision Rationales
Miko M. Wilford, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell,
Let’s Make A Deal: Developing An
Experimental Plea-Bargaining Paradigm
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Room
1.83
Sessions 1- 2
Comparative law and rights
Room
1.91
Haley Duschinski, Ohio University, Memory, Power
and Law in Contested Kashmir
Mai Taha, Harvard Law School, A Court of
Exception’: International Law, Foreign Capital,
and the Mixed Courts of Egypt (1875-1949)
Mihaela Serban*, Ramapo College of New Jersey,
Mobilizing the Courts: A Genealogy of Legal
Culture in Post- Communist Central and Eastern
Europe
Sida Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The
Ecology of Organizational Growth: Chinese
Law Firms in the Age of Globalization
Socio-Legal Individual Mentoring (SLIM) session
Mike Rowan; Smita Ghosh, Federal immigration
Detention for immigrants from the Caribbean in
the 1970s and 1980s
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Room
1.82
Lunch: 12:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
2 floor, Student dining hall (East side)
nd
Keynote address by Dr. Candace McCoy
CUNY Graduate Center
1:00 p.m.
“Law and Policing Society”
Candace McCoy, a criminal justice generalist, specializes in
the study of criminal justice policies. She has published on
such topics as sentencing, plea bargaining, jury decision
making, police practices, and drug courts. She has also taught
in the field of criminal justice ethics. Recent publications
include reviews and commentary about drug courts, a
coauthored article on bail reform published in Punishment and
Society, the chapter on “Prosecution” in the Oxford Handbook
of Criminal Justice (2011), and the edited book Holding Police
Accountable (2010). With Jerome Skolnick and Malcolm
Feeley, she coedited the textbook Criminal Justice: Cases and
Materials, 6th ed. (2004).
McCoy is now researching the effects of collaborative
police/neighborhood decision-making on police practices. She
received the American Society of Criminology’s Herbert Block
Award for distinguished service to the profession in 2003 and
has appeared as a commentator in various media. In 2006, she
was appointed as chair of the State of New Jersey’s Criminal
Disposition Commission. McCoy earned her Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley, her J.D. from the College of
Law at the University of Cincinnati, and her B.A. cum laude
from Hiram College, Ohio.
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Session 3
Paper Session 3 (2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
Domestic criminal justice and urban areas
Room
1.83
Tanya Whittle, University of Delaware, Justice
Dissonance and Prisoner Reentry: Service
Providers' Discretion and Perceptions of Law,
Justice and Fairness
Alison Neveil, Temple University Beasley School of
Law, Where is the Brotherly Love? Combatting
Gun Violence in Philadelphia
Mike Rowan, John Jay College-CUNY*, Does
Neoliberalism Need to Punish the Poor?
Tax, fraud, and white collar crime
Room
1.81
Joseph Rivera, University of Florida, Testing the
Impact of Collateral Consequences
Carla Spivack*, School of Law, Oklahoma City
University, Distrust of the Trust: A Study of Law,
Tax and Culture
Harris Cornell, Temple University Beasley School of
Law, Canada Eh? Burger King's Inversion and
Why Congress Needs to Overhaul the Tax Code
Marie Springer, CUNY John Jay, Affinity Fraud within
Immigrant Communities and the Social Dynamic
of Trust
Pedagogy panel: Designing an undergraduate law and Room
society curriculum
1.91
Mihaela Serban, Ramapo College of New Jersey;
Haley Duschinski, Ohio University; Francesca
Laguardia, Montclair State University
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Session 3-4
Socio-Legal Individual Mentoring (SLIM) session
Room
1.82
Amy Semet, Rachel MacMaster, Separation of powers
in US Constitutional law
Coffee break (3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
1st floor
commons
Paper Session 4 (4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.)
Justice in the College Classroom & Beyond
Room
1.91
Mike Rowan, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice; Leslie-Ann Bolden, John Jay College
of Criminal Justice
Health and environmental justice
Megan Moore, Temple University School of Law, Live
Again: Environmental Justice Considerations on
Goods Movement and Hazardous Waste
Transportation
Damali K. Martin, Temple University School of Law,
Saving TRIPS to Save Lives
Vinita Banthia, University of Minnesota Law School,
Biosimilars, Biodifferents, and Biobetters: Altering
the International Biologics Landscape and
Providing New Meaning for the Doha Declaration
Matthew Canfield, New York University, Translation
or Equivocation? Asymmetries of Global Power
and the Transnational Food Sovereignty
Movement
Jean Carmalt*, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
Panel chair
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Room
1.85
Session 4
Marriage, social norms, and children
Room
1.83
Samantha Godwin, Yale Law School, Cultural
Practices and Children's Rights
Claire Rasmussen, Univ. of Delaware, Only the Lonely:
A Queer History of Marriage Equality
Natalie Johnson, Francis Marion University, Status
update or status quo: Marriage Development in the
20th Century
Michael Yarbrough*, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, Panel chair
Criminal law, coalitions, and legal history
Donald W. Rogers, Central Connecticut State
University, Jersey City Policing and Civil
Liberties in the Years Before Hague v. CIO
Ian J. Drake, Montclair State University, Aiding the
Jury by Clarifying the Reasonable Doubt Standard
Leslie F Goldstein, Univ. of Delaware, Mendez v.
Westminster: The case that brought together
Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, African Americans,
Jewish Americans, And Asian Americans, and
What Drove the Coalition Apart
John Brigham*, Univ. of Massachusetts (Amherst),
Panel chair
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Room
1.81
Maps and internet access
Guest wifi name: malsa
Guest wifi password: malsa
All rooms are in John Jay’s New Building, located at 524 West 59th
Street, New York, NY 10019
First floor (location of all paper sessions and coffee breaks):
First floor commons
(coffee breaks)
59th Street (entrance on L level)
Haaren Hall
11th Avenue (entrance at L3)
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Second floor (Lunch and Keynote in the Student Dining Hall):
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Index of participants
Name
Abaya, Miriam
Banthia, Vinita
Bolden, Leslie-Ann
Brigham, John
Canfield, Matthew
Carmalt, Jean
Castillo, Melissa D.
Clark, Gabrielle
Cornell, Harris
Del Visco, Stephen
Drake, Ian J.
Dubinsky, Zhanna
Duschinski, Haley
Eaise, Joshua J.
Fuentes Becerra,
Diana Margarita
Godwin, Samantha
Goldstein, Leslie F
González, Thalia
Grey, Stephanie
Howard, Grace
Imparato, Mary
Johnson, Natalie
Kerrison, Erin
Koulen, Sarah-Jane
Laguardia,
Francesca
Leon, Chrysanthi
Liu, Sida
Lloyd, Nicole
MacMaster, Rachel
Martin, Damali
McCoy, Candace
McLaughlin, Paul
Moore, Megan
Morgan, Jennifer
Craft
Neveil, Alison
Page
5
9
9
10
9
4, 9
5
3
8
5
10
2
4, 6, 8
5
2
Name
Nisbet, Elizabeth
Peirce, Jennifer
Powell, Catherine
Raphael, Michael
Rasmussen, Claire
Rivera, Joseph
Rogers, Donald W.
Rowan, Mike
Sattarzadeh, Sahar
Scholz, Lauren
Henry
Semet, Amy
Serban, Mihaela
Shteynberg,
Reveka
Spivack, Carla
Springer, Marie
Taha, Mai
Thompson, Lilah
Weinstein, Adam
Whittle, Tanya
Wilford, Miko M.
Yarbrough,
Michael
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10
2
3
3
3
10
5
4
4, 8
3
2, 6
3
9
9
7
2
9
3
8
13
Page
3
4
2
2
10
8
10
6, 8, 9
2, 5
2
3, 9
6, 8
5
8
8
6
5
4
8
5
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Paper sessions listed by room
Room 1.81
Session 1:
Session 2:
Session 3:
Session 4:
Regulation and societal organization
Torture and terrorism
Tax, fraud, and white collar crime
Criminal law, coalitions, and legal history
Room 1.83
Session 1: Gender, identity, and punishment
Session 2: Unpacking the Plea-Bargaining Decision-Making
Process for Defendants and their Attorneys
Session 3: Domestic criminal justice and urban areas
Session 4: Marriage, social norms, and children
Room 1.85
Session 1:
Session 2:
Session 3:
Session 4:
Labor and employment in the US
Race, rights, and federal policy in the US
Open
Health and environmental justice
Room 1.91
Session 1: Human rights in context
Session 2: Comparative law and rights
Session 3: Pedagogy panel: Designing an undergraduate law and
society curriculum
Session 4: Pedagogy panel: Justice in the college classroom and
beyond
Room 1.82
Session 1:
Session 2:
Session 3:
Session 4:
SLIM sessions
SLIM sessions
SLIM sessions
Open
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Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following people who have made this
conference possible:
Organizing Committee
Michael Yarbrough (chair)
Jean Carmalt
Karin Martin
MALSA Coordinating
Committee
Rose Corrigan
Dan Filler
Jon B. Gould
Chrysanthi Leon
Mary Mitchell
Shannon Portillo
Danielle Rudes
Corey Shdaimah
Program Committee
Jean Carmalt (chair)
Michael Friedson
Ellen Hamrick
Karin Martin
Elizabeth Nisbet
Samuel Novacich
Mike Rowan
Mihaela Serban
Corey Shdaimah
Marie Springer
Michael Yarbrough
John Jay Support
Helen Cedeno
Cheryl D’Antonio
Oneil Hinds
Joseph Laub
Mashika Patterson
Daniel Stagemen
Johnny Taveras
Student volunteers
Levi Bain
Aida Garcia
Raquel Maragh
Tannuja Rozario
Many thanks also for support provided by The Office for the
Advancement of Research (OAR) at John Jay
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