CHICAGO 2025
Keywords & CRNs
Primary and Secondary Keywords help the Program Committee organize your paper with others into sessions. Please click here to view our current list of CRNs!
Expression of Interest in a Particular CRN
If you wish to participate actively in one of the CRNs you should identify yourself by sending an email to organizers: https://lawandsociety.org/collaborative-research-networks/. In the email message describe your research interest and how it might fit in the subject of the CRN.
2025 Keywords:
| Abolition |
| Access to Justice, Adjudication, and Dispute Resolution (including Negotiation and Arbitration) |
| Aesthetics, Art, and Law |
| Africa, African Studies, African Law and Society |
| Aging |
| Asian Law and Society, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia |
| Authoritarianism, Autocracy, and Populism |
| Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Russia, and Eurasian Law and Society |
| Citizenship |
| Civil Society and Non-State Actors |
| Class and Inequality |
| Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Decolonialism |
| Comparative Law and Society |
| Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism |
| Corporate Law, Securities, and Transactions |
| Courts, Trials, Litigation, and Civil Procedure |
| Crime, Victimization, and Violence |
| Criminal Justice and Criminal Procedure |
| Democracy, Elections, Governance, State Theory |
| Disabilities |
| Discrimination and Segregation |
| Economy, International Trade, Global Economy and Law |
| Education, Schools, Higher Education |
| Emotions |
| Environment, Natural Resources, Energy, Sustainability, Water, and Climate Change |
| Ethics, Bioethics, and the Law |
| Ethnography |
| Family, Youth, and Children |
| Femicide & Gender Violence |
| Feminist Jurisprudence |
| Gender and Sexuality |
| Geographies and Law |
| Health and Medicine |
| Human Rights and International Human Rights |
| Indigenous People and Indigenous Law |
| Intellectual Property, Culture, and Cultural Heritage |
| International Law, International Organizations, International and Regional Courts |
| Islam and Islamic Studies |
| Juries (including Decision-making, Selection, Bias, and Judgment) and Lay Participation |
| Labor and Employment |
| Land, Housing, and Property |
| Language, Linguistics |
| Latin American and Caribbean Law and Society |
| Law and Development |
| Law and Justice |
| Legal Actors: Judges & Judging |
| Legal Actors: Lawyers, Law Firms, and other Legal Actors |
| Legal Consciousness |
| Legal Culture |
| Legal Actors: Law Students, Professors, Legal Education & Reform |
| Legal History |
| Legal Pluralism |
| Mass Atrocity, Disasters, Pandemics |
| Middle Eastern Law and Society |
| Migration and Refugees |
| Police and Policing |
| Popular Culture, Media, Literature, and the Law |
| Prisons |
| Psychology and Law |
| Punishment and Sentencing |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Critical Race Research |
| Regulation and Administration |
| Religion and the Law |
| Transitional Justice, Reparations |
| Rights, Representation and Identities |
| Sex Work |
| Social Movements, Legal Mobilization, and Solidarity |
| Social or Political Theory and the Law |
| Social Welfare Programs, Poverty, Food |
| Taxation and Fiscal Policies |
| Technology, Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Science, and the Law |
| War, Conflict, Terrorism, Civil Strife |
| Western Europe, European Union |
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