GW Law's Associate Professor of Law Kathryne "Katie" Young has been elected to serve a two-year term as the Secretary of the Law & Society Association (LSA). In the Law & Society Association, Katie has served on the Board of Trustees and numerous committees. She also co-founded two Collaborative Research Networks (CRN 39: Everyday Legality and CRN 24: Law and Rurality). Young also serves on the Editorial Board of Law & Society Review and American Sociological Review.
"LSA has been a primary intellectual home for scholars of law and the social sciences for over 50 years. I’m honored to have been elected as secretary and look forward to serving the Association,” said Professor Young.
The Law & Society Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization committed to social scientific, interpretive, and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts. For sociolegal scholars, law consists not only of the words of official documents. Law also can be found in the diverse understandings and practices of people interacting within domains that law governs, in the claims that people make for legal redress of injustices, and in the coercive power exercised to enforce lawful order. Sociolegal scholars also address evasions of law, resistance and defiance toward law, and alternatives to law in structuring social relations.