Ryon Lancaster
Faculty Fellow
- 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
- 4th Floor
- Chicago, IL 60611
Joint appointment
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University
Research focus
Organizational sociology, sociology of law, economic sociology, and historical sociology.
Projects
- Corporate Purchasing of Legal Services
- Latest finding: Feb 11, 2008
- This project, which is a collaborative effort
with the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law
School, examines the
processes by which large corporations, and in particular the general…
- Employment Discrimination Litigation
- Latest finding: Feb 11, 2008, with Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen, John Donohue III, Peter Siegelman
- At the center of current debates about the role of anti-discrimination law in American society is the system of discrimination litigation. Despite the sheer magnitude of changes in employment…
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Publications
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“How Much is a Relationship Worth? Embeddedness and the Pricing of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm Market”
- Oxford University Press
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“Do Rankings Matter: The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admission Process of Law Schools”
- Law & Society Review
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Presentations
- Monks, Lawyers, and All the King’s Men
- Apr 2007
- Institutional Rupture and Local Action: Explaining the Emergence of Church Bureaucracy in Medieval England
- Aug 2006
- Social Structure and Formal Law: Social Attributes and the Outcomes of Employment Discrimination Cases (with L.B. Nielsen and R. Nelson)
- Feb 2006 Laura Beth Nielsen, R. Nelson
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Winner (with B. Uzzi), Richard C. Scott Award for
Best Article, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American
Sociological Association, 200