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Lauren B Edelman

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ID263352
NAMELauren B Edelman
GIVEN NAMESLauren B
FAMILY NAMEEdelman
SIGNATUREEDELMAN L B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS1563
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX15
  • The power of the accused: Rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces - Addendum

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, A Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2025•References: 1

  • The power of the accused: Rights Mobilization and Gender Inequality in School Workplaces

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, A Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2024•Cited by: 1

    Law and society scholars have long studied rights mobilization and gender inequality from the vantage point of complainants in private workplaces. This article pursues a new direction in this line of inquiry to explore, for the first time, mobilization from the vantage points of complainants and those accused of violating the rights of others in public-school workplaces in the United States. We conceptualize rights mobilization as legal, quasileg…

  • Sex-Based Harassment and Symbolic Compliance

    Lauren B Edelman, Jessica Cabrera•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 33

    With the rise of the #MeToo movement, there has been a groundswell of attention to sex-based harassment. Organizations have pressured high-level personnel accused of harassment to resign, or fired them outright, and they have created or revised their anti-harassment policies, complaint procedures, and training programs. This article reviews social science and legal scholarship on sex-based harassment, focusing on definitions and understandings of…

  • Conversations in Law and Society: Oral Histories of the Emergence and Transformation of the Movement

    Calvin Morrill, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    This article uses oral histories of surviving founders to explore the emergence of law and society as a scholarly movement and its transformation to a scholarly field. The oral histories we draw on come from a unique public archive of interviews with founders of law and society titled Conversations in Law and Society, which is maintained by the Center for the Study of Law & Society (CSLS) at the University of California, Berkeley. We supplement a…

  • Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

    Lauren B Edelman•BOOK•Working Law•2016

  • Legal Discrimination: Empirical Sociolegal and Critical Race Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Aaron C Smyth et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 46

    The topic of workplace discrimination has received considerable attention in both empirical sociolegal scholarship and critical race theory. This article reviews the insights of both bodies of literature and draws on those insights to highlight a critical mismatch between the assumptions of antidiscrimination jurisprudence and extant knowledge about discrimination in the workplace. Antidiscrimination jurisprudence assumes that most discrimination…

  • Law: The Socio-Legal Perspective

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Lauren Edelman et al.•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

  • The More You Talk, the Worse It Is: Student Perceptions of Law and Authority in Schools

    Open Access•Doreet Rebecca Preiss, Richard Arum et al.•ARTICLE•Social Currents•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    Prior works have established the association between students’ perceptions of school discipline and both behavioral and academic outcomes. The interplay between disciplinary fairness and students’ perceptions of their rights, however, warrants further investigation. In an effort to better understand the development of students’ perceptions of school disciplinary climates amid variation in school legal environments, we identified students’ percept…

  • When “Best Practices” Win, Employees Lose: Symbolic Compliance and Judicial Inference in Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Cases

    Open Access•Linda H Krieger, Rachel Kahn Best et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 24

    This article provides a new account of employers' advantages over employees in federal employment discrimination cases. We analyze the effects of judicial deference , in which judges use institutionalized employment structures to infer nondiscrimination without scrutinizing those structures in any meaningful way. Using logistic regression to analyze a representative sample of judicial opinions in federal EEO cases during the first thirty‐five yea…

  • In-services and empty threats: The roles of organizational practices and workplace experiences in shaping U.S. educators’ understandings of students’ rights

    Open Access•Jason Thompson, Jason A Thompson et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 21

  • The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest

    Catherine R Albiston, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 71

    Since the Civil Litigation Research Project in the 1980s, sociolegal researchers have referenced the metaphor of the dispute pyramid to understand dispute resolution. The pyramid focuses on formal legal dispute resolution and represents disputes as a linear process of attrition in which only a small proportion of perceived injuries proceed to adjudication. Although a fertile metaphor, the dispute pyramid approach left important processes underthe…

  • Multiple Disadvantages: An Empirical Test of Intersectionality Theory in EEO Litigation

    Open Access•Rachel Kahn Best, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2011•Cited by: 49•References: 59

    A rich theoretical literature describes the disadvantages facing plaintiffs who suffer multiple, or intersecting, axes of discrimination. This article extends extant literature by distinguishing two forms of intersectionality: demographic intersectionality, in which overlapping demographic characteristics produce disadvantages that are more than the sum of their parts, and claim intersectionality, in which plaintiffs who allege discrimination on …

  • When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

    Lauren B Edelman, Linda H Krieger et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2011•Cited by: 68•References: 105

    This article offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of legal endogeneity—a powerful process through which institutionalized organizational structures influence judicial conceptions of compliance with antidiscrimination law. It finds that organizational structures (e.g., grievance and evaluation procedures, antiharassment policies) become symbolic indicators of rational governance and compliance with antidiscrimination laws, first within orga…

  • Legal Mobilization in Schools: The Paradox of Rights and Race Among Youth

    Open Access•Calvin Morrill, Karolyn Tyson et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 85

    In this article, we analyze ethnoracial patterns in youth perceptions and responses to rights violations and advance a new model of legal mobilization that includes formal, quasi-, and extralegal action. Slightly more than half of the 5,461 students in our sample reported past rights violations involving discrimination, harassment, freedom of expression/assembly, and due process violations in disciplinary procedures. Students, regardless of race,…

  • Rivers of Law and Contested Terrain: A Law and Society Approach to Economic Rationality

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2004•Cited by: 36•References: 51

    The theme of this year's meeting is Rivers of Law: The Confluence of Life, Work, and Justice.1 The river metaphor draws upon the topography of our host city of Pittsburgh, and it symbolically evokes many of the themes of law and society scholarship. Like law, rivers are sites of regulation and of contest; they are sites of violence and death and they help to nurture life; and, like law, rivers direct resources toward some groups and away from oth…

  • Diversity Rhetoric and the Managerialization of Law

    Lauren B Edelman, Sally Riggs Fuller et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2001•Cited by: 117•References: 37

    This article examines the rise of diversity rhetoric in U.S. management and how that rhetoric reframes ideas inherent in civil rights law. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses of the professional management literature (mid‐1980s–mid‐1990s) illustrate a managerialization of law, a process by which legal ideas are refigured by managerial ways of thinking as they flow across the boundaries of legal fields and into managerial and organizatio…

  • When the "Haves" Hold Court: Speculations on the Organizational Internalization of Law

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Mark C Suchman•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1999•Cited by: 56•References: 62

    Marc Galanter's 1974 essay, "Why the 'Haves' Come Out Ahead," portrayed large bureaucratic organizations as the archetypal repeat players in the legal system; Galanter's account, however, devoted relatively little attention to the distinctive legal capacities of organizations as organizations. This article extends Galanter's analysis by considering the ability of large bureaucratic organizations to "internalize" legal rules, structures, personnel…

  • The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth

    Lauren B Edelman, Christopher Uggen et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1999•Cited by: 173•References: 38

    Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations' responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order. Court…

  • The Legal Environments of Organizations

    Lauren B Edelman, Mark C Suchman•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•1997•Cited by: 185•References: 140

    Sociology has recently witnessed a rapprochement between research on organizations and research on law. This essay reviews a number of central developments and tendencies in this emerging literature, with a particular emphasis on the characteristics of law as an element of the organizational environment. We begin by distinguishing two metatheoretical perspectives on law and organizations: the materialist perspective, which portrays organizations …

  • Legal Rational Myths: The New Institutionalism and the Law and Society Tradition

    Open Access•Mark C Suchman, Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•1996

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Legal Rational Myths: The New Institutionalism and the Law and Society Tradition

    Open Access•Mark C Suchman, Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•1996•Cited by: 83•References: 12

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Howard S Erlanger et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1993•Cited by: 103•References: 18

    Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with gene…

  • Professional Construction of Law: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Steven E Abraham et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1992•Cited by: 67•References: 9

    Institutional theories of organizational behavior consistently implicate the professions in explaining the diffusion of new organizational practices; yet there has been little empirical study of precisely what role the professions play. We address that issue by exploring the role of the personnel and legal professions in shaping employers' understandings of law and the threat posed by law. We focus on the implied contract theory of wrongful disch…

  • Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law

    Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1992•Cited by: 318

    Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter

  • Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Stephen Petterson et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•1991•Cited by: 39•References: 16

    Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action mandates, like many other laws regulating organizations, do not clearly define what constitutes compliance. Thus compliance depends largely on the initiative and agenda of those persons within organizations who are charged with managing the compliance effort: in the case of civil rights, “affirmative action officers.” This paper draws on case studies of affirmative action officers to suggest tha…

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  • Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law

    Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1992•Cited by: 318

    Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter

  • The Legal Environments of Organizations

    Lauren B Edelman, Mark C Suchman•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•1997•Cited by: 185•References: 140

    Sociology has recently witnessed a rapprochement between research on organizations and research on law. This essay reviews a number of central developments and tendencies in this emerging literature, with a particular emphasis on the characteristics of law as an element of the organizational environment. We begin by distinguishing two metatheoretical perspectives on law and organizations: the materialist perspective, which portrays organizations …

  • Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace

    Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1990•Cited by: 179

    This article examines the effect of legal environments on the expansion of due process in organizational governance. Event-history analyses of personnel practices in 52 organizations show that the civil rights mandates of the 1960s created a normative environment that threatened the legitimacy of arbitrary organizational governance. This precipitated a diffusion of formal grievance procedures for nonunion employees. Proximity to the public sphere…

  • The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth

    Lauren B Edelman, Christopher Uggen et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1999•Cited by: 173•References: 38

    Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations' responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order. Court…

  • Diversity Rhetoric and the Managerialization of Law

    Lauren B Edelman, Sally Riggs Fuller et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2001•Cited by: 117•References: 37

    This article examines the rise of diversity rhetoric in U.S. management and how that rhetoric reframes ideas inherent in civil rights law. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses of the professional management literature (mid‐1980s–mid‐1990s) illustrate a managerialization of law, a process by which legal ideas are refigured by managerial ways of thinking as they flow across the boundaries of legal fields and into managerial and organizatio…

  • Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Howard S Erlanger et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1993•Cited by: 103•References: 18

    Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with gene…

  • Legal Rational Myths: The New Institutionalism and the Law and Society Tradition

    Open Access•Mark C Suchman, Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•1996•Cited by: 83•References: 12

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

    Lauren B Edelman, Linda H Krieger et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2011•Cited by: 68•References: 105

    This article offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of legal endogeneity—a powerful process through which institutionalized organizational structures influence judicial conceptions of compliance with antidiscrimination law. It finds that organizational structures (e.g., grievance and evaluation procedures, antiharassment policies) become symbolic indicators of rational governance and compliance with antidiscrimination laws, first within orga…

  • Professional Construction of Law: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Steven E Abraham et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1992•Cited by: 67•References: 9

    Institutional theories of organizational behavior consistently implicate the professions in explaining the diffusion of new organizational practices; yet there has been little empirical study of precisely what role the professions play. We address that issue by exploring the role of the personnel and legal professions in shaping employers' understandings of law and the threat posed by law. We focus on the implied contract theory of wrongful disch…

  • When the "Haves" Hold Court: Speculations on the Organizational Internalization of Law

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Mark C Suchman•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1999•Cited by: 56•References: 62

    Marc Galanter's 1974 essay, "Why the 'Haves' Come Out Ahead," portrayed large bureaucratic organizations as the archetypal repeat players in the legal system; Galanter's account, however, devoted relatively little attention to the distinctive legal capacities of organizations as organizations. This article extends Galanter's analysis by considering the ability of large bureaucratic organizations to "internalize" legal rules, structures, personnel…

  • Multiple Disadvantages: An Empirical Test of Intersectionality Theory in EEO Litigation

    Open Access•Rachel Kahn Best, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2011•Cited by: 49•References: 59

    A rich theoretical literature describes the disadvantages facing plaintiffs who suffer multiple, or intersecting, axes of discrimination. This article extends extant literature by distinguishing two forms of intersectionality: demographic intersectionality, in which overlapping demographic characteristics produce disadvantages that are more than the sum of their parts, and claim intersectionality, in which plaintiffs who allege discrimination on …

  • Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Stephen Petterson et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•1991•Cited by: 39•References: 16

    Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action mandates, like many other laws regulating organizations, do not clearly define what constitutes compliance. Thus compliance depends largely on the initiative and agenda of those persons within organizations who are charged with managing the compliance effort: in the case of civil rights, “affirmative action officers.” This paper draws on case studies of affirmative action officers to suggest tha…

  • Rivers of Law and Contested Terrain: A Law and Society Approach to Economic Rationality

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2004•Cited by: 36•References: 51

    The theme of this year's meeting is Rivers of Law: The Confluence of Life, Work, and Justice.1 The river metaphor draws upon the topography of our host city of Pittsburgh, and it symbolically evokes many of the themes of law and society scholarship. Like law, rivers are sites of regulation and of contest; they are sites of violence and death and they help to nurture life; and, like law, rivers direct resources toward some groups and away from oth…

  • Legal Mobilization in Schools: The Paradox of Rights and Race Among Youth

    Open Access•Calvin Morrill, Karolyn Tyson et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 85

    In this article, we analyze ethnoracial patterns in youth perceptions and responses to rights violations and advance a new model of legal mobilization that includes formal, quasi-, and extralegal action. Slightly more than half of the 5,461 students in our sample reported past rights violations involving discrimination, harassment, freedom of expression/assembly, and due process violations in disciplinary procedures. Students, regardless of race,…

  • The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest

    Catherine R Albiston, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 71

    Since the Civil Litigation Research Project in the 1980s, sociolegal researchers have referenced the metaphor of the dispute pyramid to understand dispute resolution. The pyramid focuses on formal legal dispute resolution and represents disputes as a linear process of attrition in which only a small proportion of perceived injuries proceed to adjudication. Although a fertile metaphor, the dispute pyramid approach left important processes underthe…

  • When “Best Practices” Win, Employees Lose: Symbolic Compliance and Judicial Inference in Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Cases

    Open Access•Linda H Krieger, Rachel Kahn Best et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 24

    This article provides a new account of employers' advantages over employees in federal employment discrimination cases. We analyze the effects of judicial deference , in which judges use institutionalized employment structures to infer nondiscrimination without scrutinizing those structures in any meaningful way. Using logistic regression to analyze a representative sample of judicial opinions in federal EEO cases during the first thirty‐five yea…

  • Sex-Based Harassment and Symbolic Compliance

    Lauren B Edelman, Jessica Cabrera•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 33

    With the rise of the #MeToo movement, there has been a groundswell of attention to sex-based harassment. Organizations have pressured high-level personnel accused of harassment to resign, or fired them outright, and they have created or revised their anti-harassment policies, complaint procedures, and training programs. This article reviews social science and legal scholarship on sex-based harassment, focusing on definitions and understandings of…

  • Legal Discrimination: Empirical Sociolegal and Critical Race Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Aaron C Smyth et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 46

    The topic of workplace discrimination has received considerable attention in both empirical sociolegal scholarship and critical race theory. This article reviews the insights of both bodies of literature and draws on those insights to highlight a critical mismatch between the assumptions of antidiscrimination jurisprudence and extant knowledge about discrimination in the workplace. Antidiscrimination jurisprudence assumes that most discrimination…

  • The More You Talk, the Worse It Is: Student Perceptions of Law and Authority in Schools

    Open Access•Doreet Rebecca Preiss, Richard Arum et al.•ARTICLE•Social Currents•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    Prior works have established the association between students’ perceptions of school discipline and both behavioral and academic outcomes. The interplay between disciplinary fairness and students’ perceptions of their rights, however, warrants further investigation. In an effort to better understand the development of students’ perceptions of school disciplinary climates amid variation in school legal environments, we identified students’ percept…

  • Conversations in Law and Society: Oral Histories of the Emergence and Transformation of the Movement

    Calvin Morrill, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    This article uses oral histories of surviving founders to explore the emergence of law and society as a scholarly movement and its transformation to a scholarly field. The oral histories we draw on come from a unique public archive of interviews with founders of law and society titled Conversations in Law and Society, which is maintained by the Center for the Study of Law & Society (CSLS) at the University of California, Berkeley. We supplement a…

  • In-services and empty threats: The roles of organizational practices and workplace experiences in shaping U.S. educators’ understandings of students’ rights

    Open Access•Jason Thompson, Jason A Thompson et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 21

  • The power of the accused: Rights Mobilization and Gender Inequality in School Workplaces

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, A Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2024•Cited by: 1

    Law and society scholars have long studied rights mobilization and gender inequality from the vantage point of complainants in private workplaces. This article pursues a new direction in this line of inquiry to explore, for the first time, mobilization from the vantage points of complainants and those accused of violating the rights of others in public-school workplaces in the United States. We conceptualize rights mobilization as legal, quasileg…

  • Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace

    Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1990•Cited by: 179

    This article examines the effect of legal environments on the expansion of due process in organizational governance. Event-history analyses of personnel practices in 52 organizations show that the civil rights mandates of the 1960s created a normative environment that threatened the legitimacy of arbitrary organizational governance. This precipitated a diffusion of formal grievance procedures for nonunion employees. Proximity to the public sphere…

  • Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Stephen Petterson et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•1991•Cited by: 39•References: 16

    Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action mandates, like many other laws regulating organizations, do not clearly define what constitutes compliance. Thus compliance depends largely on the initiative and agenda of those persons within organizations who are charged with managing the compliance effort: in the case of civil rights, “affirmative action officers.” This paper draws on case studies of affirmative action officers to suggest tha…

  • The Transformation of Corporate Control.Neil Fligstein

    Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1991

  • Professional Construction of Law: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Steven E Abraham et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1992•Cited by: 67•References: 9

    Institutional theories of organizational behavior consistently implicate the professions in explaining the diffusion of new organizational practices; yet there has been little empirical study of precisely what role the professions play. We address that issue by exploring the role of the personnel and legal professions in shaping employers' understandings of law and the threat posed by law. We focus on the implied contract theory of wrongful disch…

  • Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law

    Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1992•Cited by: 318

    Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter

  • Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Howard S Erlanger et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1993•Cited by: 103•References: 18

    Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with gene…

  • Legal Rational Myths: The New Institutionalism and the Law and Society Tradition

    Open Access•Mark C Suchman, Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•1996

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Legal Rational Myths: The New Institutionalism and the Law and Society Tradition

    Open Access•Mark C Suchman, Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•1996•Cited by: 83•References: 12

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • The Legal Environments of Organizations

    Lauren B Edelman, Mark C Suchman•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Sociology•1997•Cited by: 185•References: 140

    Sociology has recently witnessed a rapprochement between research on organizations and research on law. This essay reviews a number of central developments and tendencies in this emerging literature, with a particular emphasis on the characteristics of law as an element of the organizational environment. We begin by distinguishing two metatheoretical perspectives on law and organizations: the materialist perspective, which portrays organizations …

  • When the "Haves" Hold Court: Speculations on the Organizational Internalization of Law

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Mark C Suchman•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•1999•Cited by: 56•References: 62

    Marc Galanter's 1974 essay, "Why the 'Haves' Come Out Ahead," portrayed large bureaucratic organizations as the archetypal repeat players in the legal system; Galanter's account, however, devoted relatively little attention to the distinctive legal capacities of organizations as organizations. This article extends Galanter's analysis by considering the ability of large bureaucratic organizations to "internalize" legal rules, structures, personnel…

  • The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth

    Lauren B Edelman, Christopher Uggen et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•1999•Cited by: 173•References: 38

    Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations' responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order. Court…

  • Diversity Rhetoric and the Managerialization of Law

    Lauren B Edelman, Sally Riggs Fuller et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2001•Cited by: 117•References: 37

    This article examines the rise of diversity rhetoric in U.S. management and how that rhetoric reframes ideas inherent in civil rights law. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses of the professional management literature (mid‐1980s–mid‐1990s) illustrate a managerialization of law, a process by which legal ideas are refigured by managerial ways of thinking as they flow across the boundaries of legal fields and into managerial and organizatio…

  • Rivers of Law and Contested Terrain: A Law and Society Approach to Economic Rationality

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2004•Cited by: 36•References: 51

    The theme of this year's meeting is Rivers of Law: The Confluence of Life, Work, and Justice.1 The river metaphor draws upon the topography of our host city of Pittsburgh, and it symbolically evokes many of the themes of law and society scholarship. Like law, rivers are sites of regulation and of contest; they are sites of violence and death and they help to nurture life; and, like law, rivers direct resources toward some groups and away from oth…

  • Legal Mobilization in Schools: The Paradox of Rights and Race Among Youth

    Open Access•Calvin Morrill, Karolyn Tyson et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 85

    In this article, we analyze ethnoracial patterns in youth perceptions and responses to rights violations and advance a new model of legal mobilization that includes formal, quasi-, and extralegal action. Slightly more than half of the 5,461 students in our sample reported past rights violations involving discrimination, harassment, freedom of expression/assembly, and due process violations in disciplinary procedures. Students, regardless of race,…

  • Multiple Disadvantages: An Empirical Test of Intersectionality Theory in EEO Litigation

    Open Access•Rachel Kahn Best, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Society Review•2011•Cited by: 49•References: 59

    A rich theoretical literature describes the disadvantages facing plaintiffs who suffer multiple, or intersecting, axes of discrimination. This article extends extant literature by distinguishing two forms of intersectionality: demographic intersectionality, in which overlapping demographic characteristics produce disadvantages that are more than the sum of their parts, and claim intersectionality, in which plaintiffs who allege discrimination on …

  • When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

    Lauren B Edelman, Linda H Krieger et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2011•Cited by: 68•References: 105

    This article offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of legal endogeneity—a powerful process through which institutionalized organizational structures influence judicial conceptions of compliance with antidiscrimination law. It finds that organizational structures (e.g., grievance and evaluation procedures, antiharassment policies) become symbolic indicators of rational governance and compliance with antidiscrimination laws, first within orga…

  • The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest

    Catherine R Albiston, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 71

    Since the Civil Litigation Research Project in the 1980s, sociolegal researchers have referenced the metaphor of the dispute pyramid to understand dispute resolution. The pyramid focuses on formal legal dispute resolution and represents disputes as a linear process of attrition in which only a small proportion of perceived injuries proceed to adjudication. Although a fertile metaphor, the dispute pyramid approach left important processes underthe…

  • Law: The Socio-Legal Perspective

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Lauren Edelman et al.•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

  • The More You Talk, the Worse It Is: Student Perceptions of Law and Authority in Schools

    Open Access•Doreet Rebecca Preiss, Richard Arum et al.•ARTICLE•Social Currents•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    Prior works have established the association between students’ perceptions of school discipline and both behavioral and academic outcomes. The interplay between disciplinary fairness and students’ perceptions of their rights, however, warrants further investigation. In an effort to better understand the development of students’ perceptions of school disciplinary climates amid variation in school legal environments, we identified students’ percept…

  • When “Best Practices” Win, Employees Lose: Symbolic Compliance and Judicial Inference in Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Cases

    Open Access•Linda H Krieger, Rachel Kahn Best et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Social Inquiry•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 24

    This article provides a new account of employers' advantages over employees in federal employment discrimination cases. We analyze the effects of judicial deference , in which judges use institutionalized employment structures to infer nondiscrimination without scrutinizing those structures in any meaningful way. Using logistic regression to analyze a representative sample of judicial opinions in federal EEO cases during the first thirty‐five yea…

  • In-services and empty threats: The roles of organizational practices and workplace experiences in shaping U.S. educators’ understandings of students’ rights

    Open Access•Jason Thompson, Jason A Thompson et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 21

  • Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

    Lauren B Edelman•BOOK•Working Law•2016

  • Legal Discrimination: Empirical Sociolegal and Critical Race Perspectives on Antidiscrimination Law

    Open Access•Lauren B Edelman, Aaron C Smyth et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 46

    The topic of workplace discrimination has received considerable attention in both empirical sociolegal scholarship and critical race theory. This article reviews the insights of both bodies of literature and draws on those insights to highlight a critical mismatch between the assumptions of antidiscrimination jurisprudence and extant knowledge about discrimination in the workplace. Antidiscrimination jurisprudence assumes that most discrimination…

  • Sex-Based Harassment and Symbolic Compliance

    Lauren B Edelman, Jessica Cabrera•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 33

    With the rise of the #MeToo movement, there has been a groundswell of attention to sex-based harassment. Organizations have pressured high-level personnel accused of harassment to resign, or fired them outright, and they have created or revised their anti-harassment policies, complaint procedures, and training programs. This article reviews social science and legal scholarship on sex-based harassment, focusing on definitions and understandings of…

  • Conversations in Law and Society: Oral Histories of the Emergence and Transformation of the Movement

    Calvin Morrill, Lauren B Edelman et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Law and Social…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    This article uses oral histories of surviving founders to explore the emergence of law and society as a scholarly movement and its transformation to a scholarly field. The oral histories we draw on come from a unique public archive of interviews with founders of law and society titled Conversations in Law and Society, which is maintained by the Center for the Study of Law & Society (CSLS) at the University of California, Berkeley. We supplement a…

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