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Creative confluence: Lauren Edelman's collaborations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Rachel Kahn Best*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Yan Fang
Affiliation:
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Catherine Fisk
Affiliation:
Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Linda Hamilton Krieger
Affiliation:
William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
Todd Neece
Affiliation:
Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Diana Reddy
Affiliation:
Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
*
Rachel Kahn Best Email: [email protected]

Extract

How do six collaborators—a medical sociologist, two law professors, and three graduate students at different stages of their PhD programs—meld their disparate perspectives into one coherent essay memorializing Lauren Edelman, who brought them together for a multi-year study of judicial reasoning in federal disability discrimination cases and then left them, so suddenly and so young, to carry on without her?

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Review Essay
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Copyright © 2023 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

The six authors, listed alphabetically, spent the past six years collaborating with Lauren Edelman on a study of disability litigation. In this essay, we refer to ourselves and Laurie by our first names.

References

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