Law and Society Association
Steven Boutcher currently serves as the Executive Officer of the Law and Society Association, a role held since June 2018, and maintains positions as a Research Affiliate at the Center for Employment Equity and a Board Member for the Consortium of Social Science Associations, both also since July 2018. Additionally, Boutcher has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research since June 2017 and previously held the position of Executive Director at the Center for Employment Equity, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from June 2017 to July 2018. Prior academic experience includes serving as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from September 2010 to May 2017 and as a Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center from September 2009 to September 2010. Steven Boutcher earned a PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine in 2010 and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 2002.
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Law and Society Association
The Law and 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 is not only 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.