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Law and Social Science
Beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing for about a decade, Russell Sage sponsored a program in socio-legal studies--the application of social science to a variety of questions about how legal institutions operate, how citizens relate to the legal system, and the risks and limits of efforts to bring about social change through law, among other topics. The Foundation provided a grant for a symposium, organized by Robert Kagan of the University of California at Berkeley, Austin Sarat of Amherst College, and Patricia Ewick of Clark University, that will assess, both retrospectively and prospectively, the field of socio-legal studies. Papers prepared for the conference will be published, with the concluding chapter to be written by Stanton Wheeler of Yale University who directed the RSF program.