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 and triangulate the CSLS oral histories with published sources that recount the history of law and society research. Our discussion begins with a brief review of the oral history approach and how the CSLS archive was constructed. We draw on the social movements literature to trace the emergence of the law and society field as a scholarly movement, showing how the movement drew strength from the political opportunities of the 1960s and 1970s; the mobilizing structures through which scholars created space for research and training; and the framing processes that crystallized the meanings, identities, and sentiments of the movement. We then present the founders’ perspectives on the characteristics of law and society as it became a scholarly field.While never becoming institutionalized as a discipline in the academy, law and society nonetheless spawned other scholarly movements and continues to influence research and teaching in social science disciplines and in law schools.

中文翻译：

---

法律与社会中的对话：运动兴起与转型的口述历史

本文使用在世创始人的口述历史来探讨法律和社会作为学术运动的出现及其向学术领域的转变。我们所引用的口述历史来自一个独特的公共档案，该档案是由加州大学伯克利分校的法律与社会研究中心 (CSLS) 维护的，名为 Conversations in Law and Society 的对法律和社会创始人的采访. 我们通过叙述法律和社会研究历史的已发表资料补充和三角剖析 CSLS 口述历史。我们的讨论首先简要回顾了口述历史方法以及 CSLS 档案是如何构建的。我们利用社会运动文献来追溯法律和社会领域作为学术运动的出现，展示该运动如何从 1960 年代和 1970 年代的政治机会中汲取力量；学者们创造研究和培训空间的动员结构；以及将运动的意义、身份和情感具体化的框架过程。然后，我们介绍了创始人对法律和社会特征的看法，因为它已成为一个学术领域。虽然法律和社会从未在学术界被制度化为一门学科，但仍然催生了其他学术运动，并继续影响社会科学的研究和教学学科和法学院。和运动的情绪。然后，我们介绍了创始人对法律和社会特征的看法，因为它已成为一个学术领域。虽然法律和社会从未在学术界被制度化为一门学科，但仍然催生了其他学术运动，并继续影响社会科学的研究和教学学科和法学院。和运动的情绪。然后，我们介绍了创始人对法律和社会特征的看法，因为它已成为一个学术领域。虽然法律和社会从未在学术界被制度化为一门学科，但仍然催生了其他学术运动，并继续影响社会科学的研究和教学学科和法学院。