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Learning from Laurie Edelman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Catherine R. Albiston ,
Osagie K. Obasogie  and
Calvin Morrill
Catherine R. Albiston*
Affiliation:
School of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Osagie K. Obasogie*
Affiliation:
School of Public Health and School of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Calvin Morrill*
Affiliation:
School of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
*
Catherine R. Albiston, Osagie K. Obasogie, and Calvin Morrill, Center for the Study of Law and Society, School of Law, University of California, 2240 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Email: calbiston@berkeley.edu, obasogie@berkeley.edu, and cmorrill@berkeley.edu
Catherine R. Albiston, Osagie K. Obasogie, and Calvin Morrill, Center for the Study of Law and Society, School of Law, University of California, 2240 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Email: calbiston@berkeley.edu, obasogie@berkeley.edu, and cmorrill@berkeley.edu
Catherine R. Albiston, Osagie K. Obasogie, and Calvin Morrill, Center for the Study of Law and Society, School of Law, University of California, 2240 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Email: calbiston@berkeley.edu, obasogie@berkeley.edu, and cmorrill@berkeley.edu
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Faculty members, students, policymakers, practitioners, and laypersons will learn from Laurie Edelman's brilliant scholarship for generations to come. She developed not only a new theory and a conceptual vocabulary for understanding the interplay of law and organizations—think, “legal endogeneity,” “managerialization of law,” or “symbolic structures” (Edelman, 2016)—but also a more precise account of the mutual influence between law and society. In this essay, we hold her scholarly contributions aside for a moment to explore what the three of us learned from Laurie in two of her most cherished professional roles as mentor and research collaborator. In many ways, she seemed happiest in these roles, whether advising students and early-career faculty (especially those most likely to be marginalized in academic circles, such as persons identifying as women and/or LGBTQ+, persons of color, persons with disabilities, or first-generation scholars) or working with scholars of diverse expertise and statuses on large, empirical projects.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 404 - 409
Copyright
Copyright © 2023 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

The authors presented portions of this essay at memorials honoring Laurie Edelman at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and the 2023 annual meetings of the Law & Society Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. We thank the Editors of the Law & Society Review for their comments. Catherine R. Albiston is Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program), Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Osagie K. Obasogie is Haas Distinguished Chair, Professor of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program) and Professor of Bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley. Calvin Morrill is Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program) and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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