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D-Index
30
Citations
9512
World Ranking
260
National Ranking
189

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2000 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Lauren B. Edelman was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the social sciences, with notable contributions in law, political science and international relations, public administration, gender studies, and sociology and political science.

Edelman published extensively on topics related to law in society and culture, judicial and constitutional studies, international labor and employment law, discrimination and equality law, labor movements and unions, sexual assault and victimization studies, as well as workplace violence and bullying.

Frequent publication venues for Edelman included the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Law & Society Review, and Frontiers in Endocrinology. Among recent papers, notable works included:

  • Sex-Based Harassment and Symbolic Compliance, 2020, Annual Review of Law and Social Science
  • The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces, 2024, Law & Society Review
  • The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces - ADDENDUM, 2024, Law & Society Review

Some coauthors frequently collaborating with Edelman were Calvin Morrill, A. Wright, Karolyn Tyson, Richard Arum, and Rachel Kahn Best.

The scholar received awards such as the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association in 2018 and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

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

    Lauren B. Edelman

  • The endogeneity of legal regulation: Grievance procedures as rational myth

    Lauren B. Edelman;Christopher Uggen;Howard S. Erlanger

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

    Lauren B. Edelman

  • The Legal Environments of Organizations

    Lauren B. Edelman;Mark C. Suchman

  • Diversity Rhetoric and the Managerialization of Law

    Lauren B. Edelman;Sally Riggs Fuller;Iona Mara‐Drita

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

    Mark C. Suchman;Lauren B. Edelman

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

    Lauren B. Edelman;Steven E. Abraham;Howard S. Erlanger

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

    Lauren B. Edelman;Mark C. Suchman

  • When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

    Lauren B. Edelman;Linda H. Krieger;Scott R. Eliason;Catherine R. Albiston

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

    Rachel Kahn Best;Lauren B. Edelman;Linda Hamilton Krieger;Linda Hamilton Krieger;Scott R. Eliason

  • The Expansion of Due Process in Organizations

    Frank R Dobbin;Lauren Edelman;John W Meyer;W Richard Scott

  • On Law, Organizations, and Social Movements

    Lauren B. Edelman;Gwendolyn Leachman;Doug McAdam

  • Symbols and Substance in Organizational Response to Civil Rights Law

    Lauren Edelman

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

    Lauren B. Edelman

  • Legal Readings: Employee Interpretation and Mobilization of Law

    Sally Riggs Fuller;Lauren B. Edelman;Sharon F. Matusik

  • A Sociological Approach to Law and the Economy

    Lauren B. Edelman;Robin Stryker

  • Legal mobilization in schools: the paradox of rights and race among youth.

    Calvin Morrill;Karolyn Tyson;Lauren B. Edelman;Richard Arum

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

    Lauren B. Edelman

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

    Lauren B. Edelman

  • The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest

    Catherine Ruth Albiston;Lauren B. Edelman;Joy Milligan

  • Law at Work: The Endogenous Construction of Civil Rights

    Lauren B. Edelman

  • Professional Construction of the Legal Environment: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge

    Lauren Edelman;Steven E Abraham;Howard S Erlanger

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

    Lauren B. Edelman;Christopher Uggen;Howard S. Erlanger

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

    Howard S. Erlanger;Lauren B. Edelman;John Lande

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Uggen
Christopher Uggen University of Minnesota
John W. Meyer
John W. Meyer Stanford University
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University

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