We’re thrilled to have so many authors presenting at this year’s Law & Society Association’s annual conference. See below for our list of acclaimed authors and where and when to catch them at the conference.

The full conference program is here.

(All events at the Caribe Hotel, San Juan)


Kathryn Abrams, author Open Hand, Closed Fist

6/2 10AM: Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State

By offering a richly empirically illustrated and well-researched inside look into the Arizona movement, the book solves a piece of the puzzle in accounting for the spectacular rise of the immigrant rights movement in the United States.”—Social Forces


Janet Garcia-Hallett, author of Invisible Mothers

6/3 10AM: Feminist Legal Theory (CRN #7) New Books in the Field

“This book is filled with the voices and understandings of marginalized mothers, and we come to see how their invisibility and hypervisibility delineate their lives and their experiences as mothers after incarceration.”—Michelle Hughes Miller, co-editor of Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance


Shannon Gleeson, author of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights (co-authored by Xochitl Bada)

6/2 8AM: Immigrants and Refugees Navigating Law, Policy, and Bureaucracy New Books in the FIeld
6/2 10AM: Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State

“Highly original and timely, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights shines a light on underexplored actors in the labor rights and protection enforcement process…—Leah F. Vosko, author of Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize 


Leigh Goodmark, author of Imperfect Victims

6/2 10AM: Author Meets Reader: Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
6/3 10AM: Feminist Legal Theory (CRN #7) New Books in the Field

“An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances.”—Library Journal


Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court

6/2 2:45PM: Prison Control and Resistance
6/3 12:45PM: Terror Courts
6/3 2:45PM: Author Meets Reader Session 

“[Hajjar] does an excellent job of systematically examining the political and legal dimensions of the subject, bringing everything up to date.”—CHOICE


Lynne Haney, author of Prisons of Debt

6/3 12:45PM: Familial Debt and the Carceral State
6/3 2:45PM: Author Meets Reader Session 

“This book uncovers structural inequalities and offers potential solutions. Highly recommended.”—CHOICE


Geniece Crawford Mondé, author of This Is Our Freedom

6/1 2:45PM: Author Meets Reader Session
6/3 10AM: Feminist Legal Theory (CRN #7) New Books in the Field

“A deeply insightful, thoughtful, and rigorous look into the lives of incarcerated mothers.”—Jerry Flores, author of Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration


Christopher Seeds, author of Death by Prison

6/3 10AM: Aging and Dying Incarcerated
6/3 12:45PM: Author Meets Reader Session

“A masterful account of how a shockingly cruel punishment became a widespread practice in the United States.”—Marie Gottschalk, author of Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics