Bill Maurer, Justin Richland, Lee Cabatingan
  • March 26, 2026

  • UC Irvine professors Bill Maurer, Justin Richland and Lee Cabatingan talk with the Law & Society Association’s Crissona Tennison

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“The 2020s are a decade defined by existential uncertainty. Reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic and the global rise of authoritarianism, people from all walks of life are struggling to find their footing in a shapeshifting new collective reality. Social scientists and other scholars who study the law face a unique challenge in this regard.

“We’re living in a world where you can’t just assume, in the classic law and society tradition, that there are exogenous forces that impinge upon the practice of law and that make things happen in certain ways, and ‘maybe we can fix it!’” explains Bill Maurer, the Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the Law and Society Review’s new General Editors. “There has always been this ameliorative gesture in a lot of law and society scholarship to ‘fix the law.’ But we’re in a world now where we don’t even know what law is, or what it’s becoming. We don’t know about its ideological or material durability going forward.”

“That’s really one of the big questions for us right now…as scholars and people in the world,” he continues. “What does the law and society movement need to become to match the moment that we’re in?””

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