Professor Eve Darian-Smith
Dept. of Legal Studies 115 Gordon Hall 418 N. Pleasant Street 413-577-0614 darian-smith@legal.umass.edu
Professor Thomas Hilbink
Dept. of Legal Studies 110 Gordon Hall 418 N. Pleasant Street 413-545-2003 hilbink@legal.umass.edu
Office Hours:
Professor Darian-Smith -- Thursdays 10-12
Professor Hilbink --Wednesdays 3-5 (or by appointment)
Anna Curtis -- Tuesdays 2:30-4:30
Brittnie Aiello -- Tuesdays 12-2
WebCT Discussion Board
Now Open!
Extra Credit Talks (!!!)
Desmond Manderson, "The 'Coffee House': Habitus and the
Semiotics of Socialization in Law."
Friday, April 20th, 3 p.m. 620 Thompson Hall
Lynne Haney, "Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the
Regulation of Desire."
Monday, April 23rd, 4 p.m. 803 Campus Center
Phil Scraton, "Criminalizing and Punishing Young People:
'coming of age' in Britain & the north of Ireland."
Thursday, April 23rd, 4 p.m. 302 Gordon Hall
-All extra credit must follow the format outlined here.
Extra Credit Readings:
By popular demand, I am posting articles that may be read and reviewed for extra credit. The same rules apply to these as to talks. Any reflection papers are due by Tuesday, May 15th in class.
One option is to read the three part series on the New York town and village courts that was a fascinating (you'll surely agree) exposé on the way justice really works. You can write one paper for each section:
The following 5 papers are now available to be read and reviewed for extra credit. The same rules apply to these as to talks. Any reflection papers are due by Tuesday,May 15th in class. If you hand them in outside of class time, please bring them to Professor Hilbink's Mailbox in 102 Gordon Hall, the Legal Studies Main Office.
1. Adam Fairclough - The Costs of Brown
2. Dennis Dislippe - Do Whites have Rights?
3. Gael Graham - Flaunting the Freak Flag
4. Jane Dailey - Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown
5. Reynolds Holding - The Benefits of Doubt
6. John T. Casteen IV - After Blacksburg
7. Refereeing is like Judging...
More links:
-Can't get enough of legal studies? An increasing number of schools offer graduate degrees in the field of sociolegal studies. Check out the links provided by NYU's Institute for Law & Society.
-What happens when someone in the criminal justice system refuses to cooperate in the most basic way? People don't know what to do. See this article on anarchists arrested in New York during the RNC.
-NPR did a story on the Greenboro Massacre twenty years after the event. To listen, click on this link (requires Real Player)
-Prisons and Rules -- a first-person account
-The Honors Section of this semester's class will be running a blog relating to their discussions and topics. This is a place where those not in the section can learn about the honors section's discussion and learn of other aspects that Legal Studies covers.