Ryon Lancaster

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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University

Research focus

Organizational sociology, sociology of law, economic sociology, and historical sociology.

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…

Contesting Workplace Discrimination in Courts: Characteristics and Outcomes of Federal Employment Discrimination in Courts 1987-2003: Report
“How Much is a Relationship Worth? Embeddedness and the Pricing of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm Market”: Oxford University Press
“Do Rankings Matter: The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admission Process of Law Schools”: Law & Society Review

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

Winner (with B. Uzzi), Richard C. Scott Award for Best Article, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American Sociological Association, 200