SSSP Law and Society Division 
2021 Business Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
11:00am via Zoom


Attendance:
John Halushka
Michael Branch
Victoria Reyes
Matthew Clair
Tony Cheng
Jesus Ayala-Candia
Trenita Childers




Agenda
1. Welcome
2. Awards Announcements
   1. Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Police-community Relations as an Alternative System of Neighborhood Representation,” Tony Cheng, Yale University
   2. Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: In Someone Else's Country: Anti-Haitian Racism and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic, Trenita Brookshire Childers, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020
   3. Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Runner-Up: Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, Victoria Reyes, Stanford University Press, 2019 
   4. Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner: Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court, Matthew Clair, Princeton University Press, 2020
3. Committees
   1. Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner
      1. 2-3 person committee
         1. Graduate student participation encouraged
         2. Solicit committee members via business meeting, listserv, and newsletter
            1. Tony Cheng
            2. Michael Branch
      2. Solicit papers in Fall via newsletter and listserv
      3. Papers submitted in late January (CFP deadline)
      4. Review/decision by late spring/early summer
   2. William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award
      1. Recognize career-spanning excellence and achievement in the area of law and society.
      2. Same as above
      3. Volunteers
         1. Jesus Ayala-Candia
      4. Posthumous Award for Sally Merry?
         1. Re-naming the award in her honor?
         2. New Award in her honor?
            1. Victoria Reyes volunteers to help pursue renaming
4. Newsletter
   1. Fall newsletter
   2. Solicit announcement from listserv
      1. Grad students on the market
      2. Publications
      3. RFPs/Call for papers 
   3. Volunteers?
5. Call for papers
   1. Sole Sessions (up to 2)
      1. Law and Injustice
      2. Law and Immigration
   2. Co-sponsored sessions (up to 7)
      1. Rural Law, Crime, and Justice
         1. Crime and Juvenile Delinquency?
         2. Organizer: Michael Branch
      2. Covid-Related
         1. New regulatory regimes (vaccines)
      3. #ScholarStrike
         1. Academic Freedom and CRT
            1. Organizer: Jesus Ayala-Candia
      4. Explaining Rising and Falling Crime Rates
         1. Co-sponsor with Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
   3. Virtual sessions (?)
      1. Up to 2
      2. Each division should propose one Division-sponsored session.
      3. •  Virtual sessions are specifically targeted to increasing the participation of international members, graduate students and young scholars who cannot attend the in-person meeting for various reasons. Please consider that virtual sessions might promote themes relevant to such target audiences.
      4. •  Virtual sessions may be of any type (although roundtables may be prohibited by technological capacity) but we do want to encourage critical dialogues that may include more participants.