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10/10/2021

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Time flies. Each evening I fall in bed exhausted, having once again postponed the idea of writing down the impressions I have gotten during the day.
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Routine takes its toll. I work for home office, although I really try to cut the hours as my academic projects are lingering. I try to go for a walk each day and most days I succeed, even if this is just a walk along Norwottuck Rail Trail (a 11-mile bicycle/pedestrian paved path linking Northampton, Hadley,. Amherst and Belchertown). Only today I finally got to finish the last class in academic research course. Next projects are in line 
But two days in this week were special: in a workshop organized by Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, established at UMass and lead by prof. Jamie Rowen and Paul Collins.
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The idea of the workshop was to give an opportunity for junior scholars to meet and discuss their papers. We read each other’s papers, and there were two senior scholars – discussants, who have their feedback. This was worth a billion! To have your paper read by an expert in the field, and other scholars, who have got their impressions, questions, comments – it was very valuable. I have downloaded 18 (!) articles based on the recommendations and comments I heard.
In the workshop there were also “panel discussions”, where experts shared their opinion or expertise on various subjects. There were three main topics: how to publish an article (or book), how to find funding, and where is the future of law & society scholarship. While funding issues were of least interest to me (simply, I do not qualify), the other panels were valuable. I'm a fan of prof. Kim Scheppele (she is a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, has interesting works on authoritarianism in Central Europe, and is overall admirable and her talks – interesting. I got to know law professor from Amherst College prof. Austin Sarat, and was inspired by talk by prof. Laura Beth Nielsen, who is both a professor at the American Bar Foundation and a director of the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern University.  
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Similar workshops will take place in future as well, it looks like that both online and in person. I strongly encourage to follow the homepage of CJLS and apply for the next one!
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