AALS New Law Professor Section
2010 AALS Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Law Professors Section is hereby issuing a call for papers from new law professors. Four top quality papers will be selected from those submitted. The author of each of those pieces will be invited to speak at the New Law Professors Panel at the AALS annual meeting that will be held in New Orleans January 6-10, 2010. The goal of the call for papers is to give newer law professors opportunities to present and get feedback on their work, network with more established scholars in their field, and hone their presentation skills.
As with our section’s first call for papers in 2007, the theme of the submissions coordinates with the theme for the AALS’s annual meeting. The theme for the AALS’s annual meeting for 2010 is Transformational Law. Thus, the papers submitted should be related to the transformative nature of the law. Included in that broad category are any papers that suggest legal reform. Papers might focus on legal initiatives to help remediate the current economic crisis. Papers might more generally suggest legislative reform, policy initiatives, or particular judicial perspectives or interpretations. Papers might also focus on the intersection of law with other social sciences to better address needs and suggestions for social and political transformation.
Submissions are due by 5:00 pm on August 15, 2009. Only faculty members who have been full-time law teachers for five years or fewer as of July 1, 2009, are eligible to submit works. In order to submit a work, please e-mail a one page abstract of the article, plus a draft to: call4papers [at] law.stetson.edu, with a copy of the e-mail going to jmorriss [at] law.stetson.edu. Authors will also be expected to publish their articles in a special issue of the Stetson Law Review dedicated to this call for papers. The papers will be evaluated by the officers of our section and by Professor Mike Finch, the faculty advisor for the Stetson Law Review.
Any questions can be addressed to the Chair of the New Law Professors Section, Professor Joe Morrissey at Stetson Law, jmorriss [at] law.stetson.edu.
