| August 15, 2011 |
The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., with paper presentations by the winners of the 2012 New Voices in Gender Studies paper competition. The deadline for submission is Monday, August 15, 2011. Jump to full post
The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., with paper presentations by the winners of the 2012 New Voices in Gender Studies paper competition. The deadline for submission is Monday, August 15, 2011. Jump to full post
| August 1, 2011 |
Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions, turns 40 years old in 2012. At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the AALS in Washington D.C., the Section on Education Law and the Section on Sports and Law, with a co-sponsorship from the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, will sponsor an extended program to look at the current state of Title IX’s application to a variety of issues including bullying and harassment, the subject of this call for papers. The deadline date for submission is August 1, 2011. Jump to full post
Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions, turns 40 years old in 2012. At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the AALS in Washington D.C., the Section on Education Law and the Section on Sports and Law, with a co-sponsorship from the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, will sponsor an extended program to look at the current state of Title IX’s application to a variety of issues including bullying and harassment, the subject of this call for papers. The deadline date for submission is August 1, 2011. Jump to full post
| November 3, 2011 |
The Journal of Public Interest Law (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) presents a symposium on the recent Supreme Court case of Connick v. Thompson on Nov. 3, 2011. Papers and symposium proceedings will be published in the Spring 2012 volume of the journal. mw
The Journal of Public Interest Law (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) presents a symposium on the recent Supreme Court case of Connick v. Thompson on Nov. 3, 2011. Papers and symposium proceedings will be published in the Spring 2012 volume of the journal. mw
| January 7, 2012 | to | January 8, 2012 |
The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, in conjunction with the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford, presents The Common Law of Intellectual Property in an Era of Europeanisation: European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law, Jan. 7-8, 2012.
By considering seven specific topics relating to the making and impact of European IP Law – namely, models of harmonisation, the pursuit of harmonisation, the creation of European IP courts, the impact of constitutional rights and values on IP, the impact of general EU Law on IP, the relationship between European and national courts, and European (IP) legal methodology/ies – we hope to further understanding of the impact of Europeanisation on the substance and quality of law, the process of law-making in a Europeanised system, and the requirements for a truly “European” legal order. Thus, using IP as a case study in private law Europeanisation, we hope to generate insights of relevance and application within the fields of IP and private law generally, and to help develop a European legal methodology.
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The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, in conjunction with the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford, presents The Common Law of Intellectual Property in an Era of Europeanisation: European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law, Jan. 7-8, 2012.
By considering seven specific topics relating to the making and impact of European IP Law – namely, models of harmonisation, the pursuit of harmonisation, the creation of European IP courts, the impact of constitutional rights and values on IP, the impact of general EU Law on IP, the relationship between European and national courts, and European (IP) legal methodology/ies – we hope to further understanding of the impact of Europeanisation on the substance and quality of law, the process of law-making in a Europeanised system, and the requirements for a truly “European” legal order. Thus, using IP as a case study in private law Europeanisation, we hope to generate insights of relevance and application within the fields of IP and private law generally, and to help develop a European legal methodology.
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| September 28, 2011 | to | September 29, 2011 |
The Institute of European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford) presents The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships Sept. 28-29, 2011. mw
The Institute of European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford) presents The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships Sept. 28-29, 2011. mw
| September 12, 2011 |
Atax (the Australian School of Taxation, University of New South Wales) will host the 10th International Conference on Tax Administration on April 2-3, 2012. This biennial conference brings together tax administrators, academic researchers and practitioners from around the globe to share expertise and to extend understanding of emerging trends and challenges in tax administration. The theme for this event is Tax Administration: Risky Business. A call for papers will issue shortly with abstracts due by Sept. 12, 2011. Registration will open early 2012.
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| April 2, 2012 | to | April 3, 2012 |
Atax (the Australian School of Taxation, University of New South Wales) will host the 10th International Conference on Tax Administration on April 2-3, 2012. This biennial conference brings together tax administrators, academic researchers and practitioners from around the globe to share expertise and to extend understanding of emerging trends and challenges in tax administration. The theme for this event is Tax Administration: Risky Business. A call for papers will issue shortly with abstracts due by Sept. 12, 2011. Registration will open early 2012.
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Atax (the Australian School of Taxation, University of New South Wales) will host the 10th International Conference on Tax Administration on April 2-3, 2012. This biennial conference brings together tax administrators, academic researchers and practitioners from around the globe to share expertise and to extend understanding of emerging trends and challenges in tax administration. The theme for this event is Tax Administration: Risky Business. A call for papers will issue shortly with abstracts due by Sept. 12, 2011. Registration will open early 2012.
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| August 15, 2011 |
The Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal invites submissions for its Fall 2011 issue on all topics relating to labor and employment law. The issue is tentatively scheduled for publication in early December 2011.
Additionally, we specifically seek articles on the topic of the intersection between labor and employment law and the financial sector for our symposium to be held in November 2011. While we prefer completed papers, authors interested in the symposium but whose articles are not yet ready for publication are encouraged to contact us as we are still seeking participants/contributors.
We ask that all articles be submitted by August 15, 2011. Please submit your manuscripts (along with any appropriate supporting documents) or any questions to Ashley Behre, Managing Editor of Articles, at laboremploymentlaw [at] hofstra.edu.
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The Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal invites submissions for its Fall 2011 issue on all topics relating to labor and employment law. The issue is tentatively scheduled for publication in early December 2011.
Additionally, we specifically seek articles on the topic of the intersection between labor and employment law and the financial sector for our symposium to be held in November 2011. While we prefer completed papers, authors interested in the symposium but whose articles are not yet ready for publication are encouraged to contact us as we are still seeking participants/contributors.
We ask that all articles be submitted by August 15, 2011. Please submit your manuscripts (along with any appropriate supporting documents) or any questions to Ashley Behre, Managing Editor of Articles, at laboremploymentlaw [at] hofstra.edu.
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| February 3, 2012 | to | February 5, 2012 |
Students for the Promotion of International Law (SPIL), Government Law College, Mumbai, present the 3rd Government Law College International Law Summit Feb. 3-5, 2012. The theme for the Summit, 2012, is International Trade Law and Economic Policy.
This student conference will have two competitions (Treaty Appreciation Competition and International Judgment Deliberation) and a Call for Papers (on international arbitration and taxation). An Invite will be released in August. mw
Students for the Promotion of International Law (SPIL), Government Law College, Mumbai, present the 3rd Government Law College International Law Summit Feb. 3-5, 2012. The theme for the Summit, 2012, is International Trade Law and Economic Policy.
This student conference will have two competitions (Treaty Appreciation Competition and International Judgment Deliberation) and a Call for Papers (on international arbitration and taxation). An Invite will be released in August. mw
CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy is currently seeking submissions for publication in its Volume 20 editions. CommLaw Conspectus publishes thoughtful, timely, and useful articles that discuss recent developments in communications law and policy. The journal welcomes articles, essays, and book reviews written by scholars, practitioners, and other leading experts in the field of communications law. Jump to full post
| August 15, 2011 |
The Association of American Law Schools has issued a call for papers regarding the Importance of the Pretrial Process in Reducing Mass Incarceration and Protecting the Innocent. This call for papers is limited to those who have been teaching for six years or fewer as of July 1, 2011. The due date for submission is August 15, 2011. Any paper that has not yet been the subject of an offer of publication by August 15, 2011, is eligible for submission. The papers will be presented in conjunction with a panel sponsored by the AALS Section on Criminal Justice at the 2012 AALS annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Jump to full post
The Association of American Law Schools has issued a call for papers regarding the Importance of the Pretrial Process in Reducing Mass Incarceration and Protecting the Innocent. This call for papers is limited to those who have been teaching for six years or fewer as of July 1, 2011. The due date for submission is August 15, 2011. Any paper that has not yet been the subject of an offer of publication by August 15, 2011, is eligible for submission. The papers will be presented in conjunction with a panel sponsored by the AALS Section on Criminal Justice at the 2012 AALS annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Jump to full post
This week’s scholarship about scholarship:
Wolotira, Alena L., From a Trickle to a Flood: A Case Study of the Current Index to Legal Periodicals to Examine the Swell of American Law Journals Published in the Last Fifty Years (June 21, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1869328
Using the lists of journals indexed in the Current Index to Legal Periodicals from the last fifty years, this article analyzes the increase in the number of general law reviews, specialized law journals, student-edited journals, and peer-edited and refereed law journals over the last half-century. Data from the Current Index to Legal Periodicals was combined with further data collected from HeinOnline, American Bar Association statistics, and U.S. News & World Report statistics. Comparison of this data shows not only a massive increase in the number of law journal titles being published, but also suggests a correlation between the number of law journals published by a law school and its student population, length of time that it has been accredited by the American Bar Association, and its U.S. News & World Report ranking.
Levit, Nancy, MacLachlan, Lawrence Duncan and Rostron, Allen K., Submission of Law Student Articles for Publication (July 26, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1656395
Each year law students collectively write a large number of papers that could become law review articles but that are never published. Most law schools require students at some point during their time in law school to research and write an academic paper of publishable quality or seminar paper. Some of these are law review notes and comments that are not selected for publication. Others of these are papers written for specific substantive classes or to fulfill research and writing requirements.
Most of these student papers – even very worthy ones – will never be published or posted online. The publishing route for law students who want to publish in a venue other than their home law journal is not clearly marked. And many law reviews simply will not accept submissions from students outside their own school. Often, the publishing opportunities for non-law review members in their home school’s law review are also not well known.
The purposes of this essay are twofold. First, it offers a number of suggestions for law students (and implicitly for students in other graduate programs) who want to publish their research papers. Second, this essay presents a chart of the policies of 194 law reviews with respect to whether they will publish comments submitted by non-law review members who are students at their home school or notes, comments or articles submitted by law students from other schools.
We hope that this weekly listing of scholarship about scholarship alerts our readers to some interesting new work. It is not meant to be a comprehensive bibliography.
If you would like to recommend some scholarship about scholarship, send a note to legalscholarshipblog [at] gmail.com.
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| August 30, 2011 |
Erik Gerding of the University of Colorado has issued the following call for papers: Rubber Hits Road: Implementing Dodd-Frank Amid Reform Fatigue. Law teachers and other scholars are invited to submit manuscripts or abstracts dealing with any aspect of the topics described below. Junior faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts or abstracts. A review committee consisting of Section officers will select one or more papers or proposals and will invite the author(s) of each selected submission to present their work at the program session in Washington, D.C. in January 2012. Abstracts should be comprehensive enough to allow the review committee to meaningfully evaluate the aims and likely content of papers they propose.
Please send manuscripts or abstracts to the Program Chair (Erik Gerding, University of Colorado) at profgerding@gmail.com no later than August 30, 2011. Please place the name and contact information of authors only on the cover page of submissions. Jump to full post
Erik Gerding of the University of Colorado has issued the following call for papers: Rubber Hits Road: Implementing Dodd-Frank Amid Reform Fatigue. Law teachers and other scholars are invited to submit manuscripts or abstracts dealing with any aspect of the topics described below. Junior faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts or abstracts. A review committee consisting of Section officers will select one or more papers or proposals and will invite the author(s) of each selected submission to present their work at the program session in Washington, D.C. in January 2012. Abstracts should be comprehensive enough to allow the review committee to meaningfully evaluate the aims and likely content of papers they propose.
Please send manuscripts or abstracts to the Program Chair (Erik Gerding, University of Colorado) at profgerding@gmail.com no later than August 30, 2011. Please place the name and contact information of authors only on the cover page of submissions. Jump to full post
| September 7, 2011 | to | September 8, 2011 |
Fordham Law School will host the 38th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy Sept. 7-8, 2011 in New York, NY. The program focuses on a wide range of issues related to antitrust policy and enforcement.
Fordham Law School will host the 38th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy Sept. 7-8, 2011 in New York, NY. The program focuses on a wide range of issues related to antitrust policy and enforcement.
| January 15, 2012 |
The Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University will host The Carter Commission 50 Years Later: A Time for Reflection and Reform, Sept. 28-29, 2012. Proposals are due by Jan. 15, 2012. mw
| September 28, 2012 | to | September 29, 2012 |
The Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University will host The Carter Commission 50 Years Later: A Time for Reflection and Reform, Sept. 28-29, 2012. Proposals are due by Jan. 15, 2012. mw
The Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University will host The Carter Commission 50 Years Later: A Time for Reflection and Reform, Sept. 28-29, 2012. Proposals are due by Jan. 15, 2012. mw
| July 18, 2011 | to | July 21, 2011 |
The University of Washington School of Law and the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) host the 8th International Conference on Forensic Inference Statistics July 18-21, 2011, at the School of Law.
The area of statistical reasoning applied to forensic science has undergone a rapid growth and development both theoretically but also in applied research, becoming a highly interdisciplinary field. This conference is the only forum where police officers, forensic scientists, jurists, scholars from related disciplines and statisticians meet to discuss the constraints, mechanisms and opportunities to provide statistical and inferential support to the decision making process either at level of the investigation or in court.
Short courses (July 18) cover Probabalistic Reasoning for Judges and Lawyers, Statistical Methods for DNA Evidence, and Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science. mw
The University of Washington School of Law and the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) host the 8th International Conference on Forensic Inference Statistics July 18-21, 2011, at the School of Law.
The area of statistical reasoning applied to forensic science has undergone a rapid growth and development both theoretically but also in applied research, becoming a highly interdisciplinary field. This conference is the only forum where police officers, forensic scientists, jurists, scholars from related disciplines and statisticians meet to discuss the constraints, mechanisms and opportunities to provide statistical and inferential support to the decision making process either at level of the investigation or in court.
Short courses (July 18) cover Probabalistic Reasoning for Judges and Lawyers, Statistical Methods for DNA Evidence, and Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science. mw
After I asked about interest in occasional posts listing recent scholarship about legal scholarship, one reader suggested that we save up citations, posting, say, on the first Friday of each month. That seems like a good idea, but I’m going to experiment with posting weekly instead of monthly. We’ll see how it goes.
If you come across an interesting piece about legal scholarship (publishing patterns, advice for scholars, etc.), please send a note to legalscholarshipblog [at] gmail.com.
This week’s scholarship about legal scholarship:
Schlag, Pierre, The Faculty Workshop (June 1, 2011). U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-12. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1857525
This essay explores the ubiquitous law school institution, “The Faculty Workshop,” as an entrée into and manifestation of contemporary American legal thought. The Faculty Workshop is examined both as a regulator and expression of legal thought – at once governance system and symptom. We close by discussing “Stage 4.”
Stockmeyer, Norman Otto, Do You SSRN? (March 18, 2011). The Scrivener, p. 4, Winter 2011 (2 pp.). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1727484
Articles published in law reviews and major legal journals are retrievable on line through searchable subscription databases. But articles of general interest in “second tier” legal periodicals would be lost if not for Google-searchable open-access repositories such as the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).This article describes SSRN’s various archiving and research functions. It explains step-by-step how to abstract and upload working papers and published articles. The primary emphasis is on how legal authors can use SSRN as a digital archive of their publications. “Green publishing” – using SSRN’s abstracting eJournals to disseminate and self-publish articles in electronic form – is also described. A bibliography of source materials is provided.
Ginsburg, Tom and Miles, Thomas J., Empiricism and the Rising Incidence of Coauthorship in Law (February 15, 2011). U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 545. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1762323
The recent growth of empirical scholarship in law, which some have termed “empirical legal studies,” has received much attention. A less noticed implication of this trend is its potential impact on the manner of scholarly production in legal academia. A common prediction is that academic collaboration rises with scholarly specialization. As the complexity of a field grows, more and more diverse types of human capital are needed to make a contribution. This paper presents two tests of whether empiricism has spurred more co-authorship in law. First, the paper shows that the fraction of articles in the top fifteen law reviews that were empirical or co-authored (or both) trended upwards between 2000 and 2010. The increase in empirical articles accounted for a substantial share of the growth in co-authored articles, and the correlation between co-authorship and empiricism persisted after controlling for numerous other influences. Second, the paper examines the articles published since 1989 in two prominent, faculty-edited journals specializing in law & economics: the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization. Co-authored articles were far more common in these journals than in the general-interest, student-edited law reviews – a pattern which itself is consistent with the specialization hypothesis. The share of articles without empirical analysis or formal models in these journals plummeted over this period, while co-authorship rose sharply. These results support the view that specialization, and specifically the growth of empirical scholarship, has contributed to the trend of co-authorship in legal academia.
Cunningham, Lawrence A., Digital Evolution in Law School Course Books: Trade-Offs, Opportunities, and Vigilance (2011). THE DIGITAL PATH OF THE LAW, Edward Rubin, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011-2012; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 546; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 546. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1798792
As we all migrate to the digital world, imagine the future of the law school course book by reflecting on its history, purposes, and promulgation over the seven generations since C.C. Langdell initiated our current mode of legal education in 1870. Some see the future of digital course books as a radical shift, akin to the original revolution of Langdell’s Contracts casebook. Others dismiss it as a simple marketing maneuver, the way post-Langdell addition of notes, questions or problems might be regarded. This look back at casebook history suggests that digital course books are more likely to be something in between, an incremental but meaningful evolution.
Schwartz, David L. and Petherbridge, Lee, Legal Scholarship and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Study of a National Circuit (December 14, 2010). Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2011-07. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1725543
It is conventional wisdom that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a court whose jurisdiction is defined by subject matter rather than by geography, is less likely than other circuit courts of appeals to use legal scholarship in its decision-making. This common belief is regularly used to substantiate a well-worn criticism of the Federal Circuit specifically, and of national courts generally; namely, that they are substantially more insular and somehow less intellectually curious than the regional circuit courts of appeals. We were therefore very surprised to find how little empirical support the conventional wisdom finds in legal literature. A review of the existing literature reveals that relatively little is known about the use of legal scholarship by the Federal Circuit – and by analogy courts whose jurisdiction is defined by subject matter rather than geography – and perhaps even less is known about how the Federal Circuit’s use of legal scholarship compares to that of the regional circuits.The study reported in this Article contributes new and original information and analysis. It empirically compares the Federal Circuit’s use of legal scholarship with that of the regional circuit courts of appeals. Perhaps the most significant finding is that the Federal Circuit’s use of legal scholarship appears quite similar to that of the regional circuits, suggesting that the court is not the outlier that many presume. This finding places the conventional wisdom into serious doubt and has obvious implications for the evaluation of other proposals for subject matter-bounded courts.
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The following items are blog posts rather than more formal scholarship, but I include them because they address important points for scholars: the value of using reference librarians to help with your research and the need to read and think about publication agreements.
Peter Conti-Brown, We Have Winners! – and a Paean to Law Librarians, The Conglomerate, May 26, 2011.
“I cannot restrain myself from praising our extraordinary librarians at Stanford Law School. I have a bucketful of examples of their extraordinary sleuthing (the Martin speech is only the latest), one of which includes going through repeated FOIA requests and appeals, losing each one, and then still securing the key document from an 80 year old researcher who had it in his own files in some barn in Vermont, or something like that. I only know SLS, so if you have other examples of librarian sleuthing that made your research possible, I’d love to hear them, as I think they are the sometimes too-well-kept secret of the academy. After all, an eminent legal authority — I think it was Ronald Coase, but it may have been Moses himself — once said that every great scholar needs a good tailor, a good priest, and a good librarian. I have no experience with the first two, but can vouch emphatically for the third.“
Jeffrey Pomerantz, My Copyfight, PomeRantz, June 14, 2011.
Librarian describes his unsuccessful efforts to get a publisher to alter its standard publication agreemen (it had an 18-month moratorium before the author could post the article). He and his coauthor withdrew the article from publication and posted it themselves.
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| August 29, 2011 |
The AALS Section on Federal Courts announces a call for papers in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (Jan. 4–8, 2012, Washington, D.C.). The topic of the section program at the 2012 Annual Meeting (Sat., Jan. 7, 1:30–3:15 p.m.) is “War, Terrorism, and the Federal Courts Ten Years After 9/11.” One paper will be selected from the call, and will be published in Volume 61 of the American University Law Review. The deadline for submission of papers is Aug. 29, 2011. Contact: Prof. Steve Vladek, American University Washington College of Law, (svladeck [at] wcl.american.edu). The full call for papers is on PrawfsBlawg. mw
| January 7, 2012 | ||
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The AALS Section on Federal Courts announces a call for papers in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (Jan. 4–8, 2012, Washington, D.C.). The topic of the section program at the 2012 Annual Meeting (Sat., Jan. 7, 1:30–3:15 p.m.) is “War, Terrorism, and the Federal Courts Ten Years After 9/11.” One paper will be selected from the call, and will be published in Volume 61 of the American University Law Review. The deadline for submission of papers is Aug. 29, 2011. Contact: Prof. Steve Vladek, American University Washington College of Law, (svladeck [at] wcl.american.edu). The full call for papers is on PrawfsBlawg. mw
The AALS Section on Federal Courts announces a call for papers in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (Jan. 4–8, 2012, Washington, D.C.). The topic of the section program at the 2012 Annual Meeting (Sat., Jan. 7, 1:30–3:15 p.m.) is “War, Terrorism, and the Federal Courts Ten Years After 9/11.” One paper will be selected from the call, and will be published in Volume 61 of the American University Law Review. The deadline for submission of papers is Aug. 29, 2011. Contact: Prof. Steve Vladek, American University Washington College of Law, (svladeck [at] wcl.american.edu). The full call for papers is on PrawfsBlawg. mw
Last week the Texas Law Review launched Dicta, a website to publish reviews of legal books.
This website—the first devoted only to legal book reviews—responds to the observed decline in law review publication of legal book reviews. This void was illustrated by Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas School of Law in his essay, The Vanishing Book Review in Student-Edited Law Reviews and Potential Responses, 87 Texas L. Rev. 1205 (2009). While the top twenty law reviews devoted over 2,200 pages to book reviews in 1987–1988, they devoted less than half of this space to book reviews in 2007–2008.The new Dicta website is designed to alleviate this problem, allowing professors and practitioners to share their
thoughts and recommendations about legal books of interest through short reviews published online. Dicta is
currently accepting proposals for online book reviews to be edited and published online during the 2011–2012
school year. Proposals, including a short abstract and CV, may be submitted to Stephen Fraser at
dicta [at] texaslrev.com. More information about submissions is available at Dicta’s Guidelines page.
For more information about Dicta, please contact Stephen Fraser, Online Content Editor, at dicta [at] texaslrev.com. mw
Video of International Law and the Changing Face of War (June 20-22, 2010) is available on the U.S. Naval War College‘s website. The event was hosted by the International Law Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies and co-sponsored by the University of Texas School of Law, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo, Italy, and the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, American Society of International Law, with support from the Naval War College Foundation and Israel Yearbook on Human Rights.
Papers will soon be published in the International Law Studies (Blue Book) Series, which is available in PDF 1979-date.
The proceedings of this year’s conference—Non-international Armed Conflict in the 21st Century (June 21-23, 2011)—will also be recorded and posted on the website. mw
| July 1, 2011 |
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management has begun a multi-year effort designed to encourage research into, and disseminate further knowledge of, international experience in the field of corporate governance codes and standards. The Center is requesting proposals for existing and original research on the role of corporate governance codes and standards, as developed and implemented by governments, private sectors, commercial bodies and the like, on markets, regulation, investors, company performance and behavior, or the practices of intermediaries. Submissions are encouraged from all academic disciplines including, but not limited to, finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, international business, economics and law. Selected authors may participate in a conference scheduled to take place at Yale University in March 2012.
The preliminary call for papers is available on SSRN. (Check the center’s website here for updates.) Abstracts are due by July 1, 2011. mw
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management has begun a multi-year effort designed to encourage research into, and disseminate further knowledge of, international experience in the field of corporate governance codes and standards. The Center is requesting proposals for existing and original research on the role of corporate governance codes and standards, as developed and implemented by governments, private sectors, commercial bodies and the like, on markets, regulation, investors, company performance and behavior, or the practices of intermediaries. Submissions are encouraged from all academic disciplines including, but not limited to, finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, international business, economics and law. Selected authors may participate in a conference scheduled to take place at Yale University in March 2012.
The preliminary call for papers is available on SSRN. (Check the center’s website here for updates.) Abstracts are due by July 1, 2011. mw
| June 16, 2011 | to | June 17, 2011 |
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance (Yale School of Management) hosts the Yale Governance Forum 2011 June 16-17, 2011. This year’s theme is “Governance Fit for the Long Term.” mw
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance (Yale School of Management) hosts the Yale Governance Forum 2011 June 16-17, 2011. This year’s theme is “Governance Fit for the Long Term.” mw
| August 1, 2011 |
The Center for International Law Studies (CILS) (Lembaga Pengkajian Hukum Internasional (LPHI)) of the Faculty of Law Universitas Indonesia, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law Universitas Gadjah Mada, is holding the 2nd CILS Conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Nov. 21-22, 2011.
The conference theme this year is “the ASEAN’s Role in Sustainable Development.” Within this broad conference theme, there are four parallel sessions which will focus on the following sub-themes: (1) Security Cooperation; (2) Economic Cooperation; (3) Socio-Cultural Cooperation (4) General Topic.
The full call for papers is available on the CILS website. Selected papers from the subthemes may be considered for publication in special issues of the Indonesian Journal of International Law (IJIL). Abstracts (for both papers and panel proposals) are due by Aug. 1, 2011.
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| November 21, 2011 | to | November 22, 2011 |
The Center for International Law Studies (CILS) (Lembaga Pengkajian Hukum Internasional (LPHI)) of the Faculty of Law Universitas Indonesia, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law Universitas Gadjah Mada, is holding the 2nd CILS Conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Nov. 21-22, 2011.
The conference theme this year is “the ASEAN’s Role in Sustainable Development.” Within this broad conference theme, there are four parallel sessions which will focus on the following sub-themes: (1) Security Cooperation; (2) Economic Cooperation; (3) Socio-Cultural Cooperation (4) General Topic.
The full call for papers is available on the CILS website. Selected papers from the subthemes may be considered for publication in special issues of the Indonesian Journal of International Law (IJIL). Abstracts (for both papers and panel proposals) are due by Aug. 1, 2011.
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The Center for International Law Studies (CILS) (Lembaga Pengkajian Hukum Internasional (LPHI)) of the Faculty of Law Universitas Indonesia, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law Universitas Gadjah Mada, is holding the 2nd CILS Conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Nov. 21-22, 2011.
The conference theme this year is “the ASEAN’s Role in Sustainable Development.” Within this broad conference theme, there are four parallel sessions which will focus on the following sub-themes: (1) Security Cooperation; (2) Economic Cooperation; (3) Socio-Cultural Cooperation (4) General Topic.
The full call for papers is available on the CILS website. Selected papers from the subthemes may be considered for publication in special issues of the Indonesian Journal of International Law (IJIL). Abstracts (for both papers and panel proposals) are due by Aug. 1, 2011.
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| July 6, 2011 |
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts seeks submissions for an issue (Winter 2012) on “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” The new submission deadline is July 6, 2011.
There is little doubt that from its origins in the 16th century through its end in the 19th century the transatlantic slave trade dramatically shaped the trajectories of many millions of lives on at least four continents (Africa, Europe, North America, and South America, and the Caribbean). Whether, in what forms, by what means, and to what effect the slave trade continues to leave social, cultural, institutional, familial and personal impressions in the present day are matters of considerable debate and even tension – in the former slave-trading and slave-hosting nations, in West and Central Africa, but also in countries whose involvement was less obvious.* * *The Transatlantic Slave Trade most immediately touched societies and lives in France, Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, the Netherlands, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Central Africa. We especially welcome analyses, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others living and working in these countries and regions or working on issues that implicate developments and dynamics in these places. Of course, the work of scholars, advocates, activists and practitioners in all disciplines working elsewhere are also welcome.
mw/update – sr
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts seeks submissions for an issue (Winter 2012) on “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” The new submission deadline is July 6, 2011.
There is little doubt that from its origins in the 16th century through its end in the 19th century the transatlantic slave trade dramatically shaped the trajectories of many millions of lives on at least four continents (Africa, Europe, North America, and South America, and the Caribbean). Whether, in what forms, by what means, and to what effect the slave trade continues to leave social, cultural, institutional, familial and personal impressions in the present day are matters of considerable debate and even tension – in the former slave-trading and slave-hosting nations, in West and Central Africa, but also in countries whose involvement was less obvious.* * *The Transatlantic Slave Trade most immediately touched societies and lives in France, Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, the Netherlands, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Central Africa. We especially welcome analyses, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others living and working in these countries and regions or working on issues that implicate developments and dynamics in these places. Of course, the work of scholars, advocates, activists and practitioners in all disciplines working elsewhere are also welcome.
mw/ update – sr
This blog focuses on posting upcoming conferences, calls for papers, and current colloquia and in-house workshops.
Readers, do you think it would be a helpful addition to include some citations to recent scholarship about legal scholarship? For example:
Our goal would not be to create comprehensive bibliographies–just to share some items we come across that might interest you. If you’d like to comment on this idea (or anything else related to the blog), please send a note to legalscholarshipblog [at] gmail.com.
mw
| January 5, 2012 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:15 pm |
AALS Section on Law and Humanities seeks panelists for a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (Jan. 4-8, 2012), “Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum” (Jan. 5, 10:30-12:15). Statements of interest are due by March 31, 2011.
Details here. mw; updated 6/12/11 mw
| January 7, 2012 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:15 pm |
In connection with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Washington, D.C., the AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution will be sponsoring a panel discussion on “The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration,” Jan. 7, 2012, 10:30am – 12:15pm. Jump to full post
| January 6, 2012 | ||
| 10:30 am |
The AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation and the Section on Law & Economics will hold a joint program on Behavioral Economics and Antitrust Law during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The program, Jan. 6, 2012, 10:30am to 12:15 pm, will focus on the influence of Behavioral Economics on Antitrust Law and Policy. Jump to full post
| June 1, 2011 |
The editors of the Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to an issue slated for publication during the Fall of 2011. This issue focuses on the changing landscape of Labor and Employment in the modern market. The deadline for submissions was June 1, 2011, but the executive articles editor reports that the editors are still collecting articles on the theme. mw
The editors of the Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to an issue slated for publication during the Fall of 2011. This issue focuses on the changing landscape of Labor and Employment in the modern market. The deadline for submissions was June 1, 2011, but the executive articles editor reports that the editors are still collecting articles on the theme. mw
| August 15, 2011 |
The AALS Section on Securities Regulation will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. (Jan. 4-8). The topic is “Exploring the Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis.” The program will include presentations by SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes, Professor Lynn Stout (UCLA), Professor Robert Thompson (Georgetown), and two additional speakers.
Faculty members of AALS member schools are eligible to submit papers. Faculty members of fee-paid law schools, foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.
Eligible faculty members interested in presenting a paper should send a draft or proposal to William Sjostrom, william.sjostrom [at] law.arizona.edu, by Aug. 15, 2011. Decisions will be announced by September 15, 2011.
Contact Information:
William Sjostrom
Chair, AALS Section on Securities Regulation
University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
1201 E. Speedway Boulevard
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, AZ 85721
520.626.6451
william.sjostrom [at] law.arizona.edu
Source: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
| January 6, 2012 10:30 am | to | January 10, 2012 12:15 pm |
The AALS Section on Securities Regulation will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. — Jan. 6, 2012, 10:30am to 12:15pm. The topic is “Exploring the Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis.” The program will include presentations by SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes, Professor Lynn Stout (UCLA), Professor Robert Thompson (Georgetown), and two additional speakers.
Faculty members of AALS member schools are eligible to submit papers. Faculty members of fee-paid law schools, foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.
Eligible faculty members interested in presenting a paper should send a draft or proposal to William Sjostrom, william.sjostrom [at] law.arizona.edu, by Aug. 15, 2011. Decisions will be announced by September 15, 2011.
Contact Information:
William Sjostrom
Chair, AALS Section on Securities Regulation
University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
1201 E. Speedway Boulevard
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, AZ 85721
520.626.6451
william.sjostrom [at] law.arizona.edu
Source: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
The AALS Section on Securities Regulation will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. — Jan. 6, 2012, 10:30am to 12:15pm. The topic is “Exploring the Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis.” The program will include presentations by SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes, Professor Lynn Stout (UCLA), Professor Robert Thompson (Georgetown), and two additional speakers.
Faculty members of AALS member schools are eligible to submit papers. Faculty members of fee-paid law schools, foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.
Eligible faculty members interested in presenting a paper should send a draft or proposal to William Sjostrom, william.sjostrom [at] law.arizona.edu, by Aug. 15, 2011. Decisions will be announced by September 15, 2011.
Contact Information:
William Sjostrom
Chair, AALS Section on Securities Regulation
University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
1201 E. Speedway Boulevard
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, AZ 85721
520.626.6451
william.sjostrom [at] law.arizona.edu
Source: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
| August 15, 2011 |
The Frances Lewis Law Center (Washington and Lee University School of Law) and the Washington and Lee Law Review present Regulation in the Fringe Economy Nov. 11, 2011. The Washington and Lee Law Review will publish a symposium issue featuring the conference papers in 2012.
The symposium Regulation in the Fringe Economy represents the most significant attempt to date by legal scholars to address the vexing legal and social issues created by lenders on the fringes of the economy who offer payday, auto title, for-profit college, and refund anticipation loans. A complete list of confirmed participants and their paper topics is available at the conference website.
Manuscript submissions are due by Aug. 15, 2011. Even if you are not able to submit a paper, the sponsors invite you to attend the conference, which is free. mw
| November 11, 2011 |
The Frances Lewis Law Center (Washington and Lee University School of Law) and the Washington and Lee Law Review present Regulation in the Fringe Economy Nov. 11, 2011. The Washington and Lee Law Review will publish a symposium issue featuring the conference papers in 2012.
The symposium Regulation in the Fringe Economy represents the most significant attempt to date by legal scholars to address the vexing legal and social issues created by lenders on the fringes of the economy who offer payday, auto title, for-profit college, and refund anticipation loans. A complete list of confirmed participants and their paper topics is available at the conference website.
Manuscript submissions are due by Aug. 15, 2011. Even if you are not able to submit a paper, the sponsors invite you to attend the conference, which is free. mw
The Frances Lewis Law Center (Washington and Lee University School of Law) and the Washington and Lee Law Review present Regulation in the Fringe Economy Nov. 11, 2011. The Washington and Lee Law Review will publish a symposium issue featuring the conference papers in 2012.
The symposium Regulation in the Fringe Economy represents the most significant attempt to date by legal scholars to address the vexing legal and social issues created by lenders on the fringes of the economy who offer payday, auto title, for-profit college, and refund anticipation loans. A complete list of confirmed participants and their paper topics is available at the conference website.
Manuscript submissions are due by Aug. 15, 2011. Even if you are not able to submit a paper, the sponsors invite you to attend the conference, which is free. mw
The Michigan Journal of Private Equity and Venture Capital Law will be published semi-annually by students of the University of Michigan Law School in conjunction with the ABA Committee on Private Equity and Venture Capital.
The Journal addresses the regulatory, securities, corporate, tax intellectual property, and other legal issues involved with private equity and venture capital, including with respect to both investments by funds and the formation of funds.
The Journal is currently accepting scholarly papers and paper proposals for publication in our first issue. We anticipate publishing the issue in late fall 2011. Articles for this issue are generally between 25 and 40 pages long.
Please send drafts, proposals, or inquiries to Jeffrey Koh, Executive Article Editor, at mjpvl.articles [at] gmail.com, or via ExpressO.
mw
| July 1, 2011 |
APPEAL and the University of Zululand have announced a conference on Preparing Students for the Practice of Law, which will be held from the evening of December 7 through the afternoon of December 9, 2011, at the Tradewinds Country Inn in Mtunzini, South Africa, located about 90 minutes north of Durban.
The conference will focus on:
- teaching multilingual students
- working with students with an inadequate secondary education
- designing legal writing programs in universities with limited resources
- teaching legal reading
- teaching writing in large classes
- teaching writing in clinical programs
- diagnosing writing problems and commenting on student work
- learning theories
- teaching methods
If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a proposal to Laurel Oates, chair of the Program Committee, loates [at] seattleu.edu no later than July 1, 2011. The Program Committee expects to make decisions on proposals and issue invitations by September 1, 2011. Registration materials for the conference will be circulated in September 2011.
For questions regarding the conference, please contact one of the Conference Co-chairs, Janet Dickson, dicksonj [at] seattleu.edu or Olugbenga Oke-Samuel, lawville [at] yahoo.com.
Source: Legal Writing Prof Blog (via Faculty Law Conference Updates). mw
| December 7, 2011 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
| December 8, 2011 | ||
APPEAL and the University of Zululand have announced a conference on Preparing Students for the Practice of Law, which will be held from the evening of December 7 through the afternoon of December 9, 2011, at the Tradewinds Country Inn in Mtunzini, South Africa, located about 90 minutes north of Durban.
The conference will focus on:
- teaching multilingual students
- working with students with an inadequate secondary education
- designing legal writing programs in universities with limited resources
- teaching legal reading
- teaching writing in large classes
- teaching writing in clinical programs
- diagnosing writing problems and commenting on student work
- learning theories
- teaching methods
If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a proposal to Laurel Oates, chair of the Program Committee, loates [at] seattleu.edu no later than July 1, 2011. The Program Committee expects to make decisions on proposals and issue invitations by September 1, 2011. Registration materials for the conference will be circulated in September 2011.
For questions regarding the conference, please contact one of the Conference Co-chairs, Janet Dickson, dicksonj [at] seattleu.edu or Olugbenga Oke-Samuel, lawville [at] yahoo.com.
Source: Legal Writing Prof Blog (via Faculty Law Conference Updates). mw
APPEAL and the University of Zululand have announced a conference on Preparing Students for the Practice of Law, which will be held from the evening of December 7 through the afternoon of December 9, 2011, at the Tradewinds Country Inn in Mtunzini, South Africa, located about 90 minutes north of Durban.
The conference will focus on:
- teaching multilingual students
- working with students with an inadequate secondary education
- designing legal writing programs in universities with limited resources
- teaching legal reading
- teaching writing in large classes
- teaching writing in clinical programs
- diagnosing writing problems and commenting on student work
- learning theories
- teaching methods
If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a proposal to Laurel Oates, chair of the Program Committee, loates [at] seattleu.edu no later than July 1, 2011. The Program Committee expects to make decisions on proposals and issue invitations by September 1, 2011. Registration materials for the conference will be circulated in September 2011.
For questions regarding the conference, please contact one of the Conference Co-chairs, Janet Dickson, dicksonj [at] seattleu.edu or Olugbenga Oke-Samuel, lawville [at] yahoo.com.
Source: Legal Writing Prof Blog (via Faculty Law Conference Updates). mw
| June 30, 2011 |
The Law and Development Institute (a research institute in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia) invites paper proposals for the 2011 annual conference, Law and Development at the Microlevel: From Microtrade to Current Issues in Law and Development. The conference will be co-hosted with Seattle University School of Law on December 10, 2011, in Seattle.
The LDI calls for papers on any aspect of microtrade, which is a new system of international trade designed to alleviate populations of least-developed countries of extreme poverty (for a concept paper, see http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=1524185), as well as for papers on other law and development issues that can be considered broadly at the “micro level”, including but not limited to: microfinance, microinsurance, green growth and development, etc.
Abstracts must be submitted by June 30, 2011. The paper proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board of the Law and Development Review. mw
| December 10, 2011 |
The Law and Development Institute (a research institute in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia) invites paper proposals for the 2011 annual conference, Law and Development at the Microlevel: From Microtrade to Current Issues in Law and Development. The conference will be co-hosted with Seattle University School of Law on December 10, 2011, in Seattle.
The LDI calls for papers on any aspect of microtrade, which is a new system of international trade designed to alleviate populations of least-developed countries of extreme poverty (for a concept paper, see http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=1524185), as well as for papers on other law and development issues that can be considered broadly at the “micro level”, including but not limited to: microfinance, microinsurance, green growth and development, etc.
Abstracts must be submitted by June 30, 2011. The paper proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board of the Law and Development Review. mw
The Law and Development Institute (a research institute in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia) invites paper proposals for the 2011 annual conference, Law and Development at the Microlevel: From Microtrade to Current Issues in Law and Development. The conference will be co-hosted with Seattle University School of Law on December 10, 2011, in Seattle.
The LDI calls for papers on any aspect of microtrade, which is a new system of international trade designed to alleviate populations of least-developed countries of extreme poverty (for a concept paper, see http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=1524185), as well as for papers on other law and development issues that can be considered broadly at the “micro level”, including but not limited to: microfinance, microinsurance, green growth and development, etc.
Abstracts must be submitted by June 30, 2011. The paper proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board of the Law and Development Review. mw
| June 23, 2011 | to | June 24, 2011 |
The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) initiated the Law of the Future, a joint action programme involving some of the world’s best academics and leading practitioners. The programme aims at setting a world standard in thinking ahead, to guide decision makers today. The outcome, Law Scenarios to 2030, will be presented at the Law of the Future Conference June 23-24, 2011. mw
The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) initiated the Law of the Future, a joint action programme involving some of the world’s best academics and leading practitioners. The programme aims at setting a world standard in thinking ahead, to guide decision makers today. The outcome, Law Scenarios to 2030, will be presented at the Law of the Future Conference June 23-24, 2011. mw
The Appalachian Journal of Law (Appalachian School of Law) currently seeks articles on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and related topics for publication in our Spring issue of 2012.
Since ADR has been the traditional focus of our Spring issue, and we have an established ADR readership base, the Appalachian Journal of Law is the ideal journal for your article on ADR. Because all of our associate editors are required to take at least one ADR course, those who edit your article will have a familiarity with the ADR process and many of the relevant issues being discussed in ADR today. You may submit your article to the Appalachian Journal of Law in one of two of ways:
* e-mail your article to us directly at law_journal [at] my.asl.edu, or
* submit your article through the ExpressO online delivery service at www.law.bepress.com/expresso/.Whichever submission method you use, we kindly ask that all submissions include a cover letter and résumé. We have a limited number of spaces and consider articles for publication on a rolling basis, so we ask that you submit your article as early as possible.
Thanks: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) is a new journal published by Cambridge University Press, under the editorship of Thijs Etty and Veerle Heyvaert. The online version of the inaugural issue will go live at the end of 2011, followed by its publication in print in Spring 2012. Jump to full post
| November 18, 2011 | to | November 19, 2011 |
The University of Wisconsin Law School and the Wisconsin Business Law Initiative announce the 2011 Wisconsin Law Review Symposium: Who’s in the House? The Changing Role and Nature of In-House and General Counsel, Nov. 18-19, 2011. The event is cosponsored by the UW Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies, the East Asian Legal Studies Center, and the Global Legal Studies Center. mw
The University of Wisconsin Law School and the Wisconsin Business Law Initiative announce the 2011 Wisconsin Law Review Symposium: Who’s in the House? The Changing Role and Nature of In-House and General Counsel, Nov. 18-19, 2011. The event is cosponsored by the UW Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies, the East Asian Legal Studies Center, and the Global Legal Studies Center. mw
| July 15, 2011 |
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) (“a global network for scholars of Internet governance”) presents the GigaNet Sixth Annual Symposium in cooperation with Research ICT Africa. The event will take place Sept. 26, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya (one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the same city).
Organizers encourage submissions on the following topics:
Other proposals on more general questions of Global Internet Governance will also be considered.
Abstracts are due by July 15, 2011. mw
| September 26, 2011 |
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) (“a global network for scholars of Internet governance”) presents the GigaNet Sixth Annual Symposium in cooperation with Research ICT Africa. The event will take place Sept. 26, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya (one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the same city).
Organizers encourage submissions on the following topics:
Other proposals on more general questions of Global Internet Governance will also be considered.
Abstracts are due by July 15, 2011. mw
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) (“a global network for scholars of Internet governance”) presents the GigaNet Sixth Annual Symposium in cooperation with Research ICT Africa. The event will take place Sept. 26, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya (one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the same city).
Organizers encourage submissions on the following topics:
Other proposals on more general questions of Global Internet Governance will also be considered.
Abstracts are due by July 15, 2011. mw
| July 20, 2011 | to | July 22, 2011 |
St. John’s School of Law presents Worlds of Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across the Globe, July 20-22, 2011, at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. A detailed schedule is here.
The conference is hosted by the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution (both at St. John’s). mw
St. John’s School of Law presents Worlds of Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across the Globe, July 20-22, 2011, at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. A detailed schedule is here.
The conference is hosted by the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution (both at St. John’s). mw
| June 15, 2011 |
The University of California, San Diego will host the Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean Nov. 3-5, 2011. The event is organized and sponsored by ERIP (LASA Section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples), CILAS-UCSD (Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego), CLAS-SDSU (Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University) and LACES (Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, journal published by Taylor & Francis and housed at UCSD).
The deadline for submitting papers and panel proposals is June 15, 2011. mw
| November 3, 2011 | to | November 5, 2011 |
The University of California, San Diego will host the Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean Nov. 3-5, 2011. The event is organized and sponsored by ERIP (LASA Section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples), CILAS-UCSD (Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego), CLAS-SDSU (Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University) and LACES (Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, journal published by Taylor & Francis and housed at UCSD).
The deadline for submitting papers and panel proposals is June 15, 2011. mw
The University of California, San Diego will host the Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean Nov. 3-5, 2011. The event is organized and sponsored by ERIP (LASA Section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples), CILAS-UCSD (Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego), CLAS-SDSU (Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University) and LACES (Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, journal published by Taylor & Francis and housed at UCSD).
The deadline for submitting papers and panel proposals is June 15, 2011. mw
The proceedings of the symposium held on March 25, 2011, at Suffolk University Law School, Contract as Promise at 30: The Future of Contract Theory, are now available for free download from iTunes. Jump to full post
| July 1, 2011 |
The World Maritime University holds the International Conference on Piracy at Sea (ICOPAS 2011) in Malmö, Sweden, October 17-19, 2011. The deadline for abstract proposals is July 1, 2011. mw
| October 17, 2011 | to | October 19, 2011 |
The World Maritime University holds the International Conference on Piracy at Sea (ICOPAS 2011) in Malmö, Sweden, October 17-19, 2011. The deadline for abstract proposals is July 1, 2011. mw
The World Maritime University holds the International Conference on Piracy at Sea (ICOPAS 2011) in Malmö, Sweden, October 17-19, 2011. The deadline for abstract proposals is July 1, 2011. mw
| July 5, 2011 | to | July 15, 2011 |
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL), in cooperation with the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver), are pleased to announce the twenty-first ACUNS-ASIL Summer Workshop on International Organization Studies July 5-15, 2011, in Denver, CO. This year’s topic is Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in War-Torn Societies.
The workshop is designed for junior professors in international relations, international law or other relevant disciplines, post-doctoral and advanced doctoral level students, young lawyers and practitioners from civil society groups, policy staff from international organizations, and others at similarly early stages of their professional careers.
Applications are now closed. mw
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL), in cooperation with the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver), are pleased to announce the twenty-first ACUNS-ASIL Summer Workshop on International Organization Studies July 5-15, 2011, in Denver, CO. This year’s topic is Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in War-Torn Societies.
The workshop is designed for junior professors in international relations, international law or other relevant disciplines, post-doctoral and advanced doctoral level students, young lawyers and practitioners from civil society groups, policy staff from international organizations, and others at similarly early stages of their professional careers.
Applications are now closed. mw
| June 20, 2011 |
The Naval War College presents the second annual International Law Department
workshop, Professional Military Education: Teaching Law at War and Staff Colleges, on June 20, 2011. Although tailored to law faculty members at domestic and international military institutions, the workshop is open on a space available basis to others who may be interested. For more information – or to recommend agenda items – please contact Professor Dennis Mandsager at dennis.mandsager [at] usnwc.edu. To register for the workshop, email jayne.vanpetten [at] usnwc.edu. mw
The Naval War College presents the second annual International Law Department
workshop, Professional Military Education: Teaching Law at War and Staff Colleges, on June 20, 2011. Although tailored to law faculty members at domestic and international military institutions, the workshop is open on a space available basis to others who may be interested. For more information – or to recommend agenda items – please contact Professor Dennis Mandsager at dennis.mandsager [at] usnwc.edu. To register for the workshop, email jayne.vanpetten [at] usnwc.edu. mw
| June 21, 2011 | to | June 23, 2011 |
The U.S. Naval War College‘s International Law Conference, Non-international Armed Conflict in the 21st Century, will take place June 21-23, 2011. Registration is closed. mw
The U.S. Naval War College‘s International Law Conference, Non-international Armed Conflict in the 21st Century, will take place June 21-23, 2011. Registration is closed. mw
| June 14, 2011 | to | June 15, 2011 |
Fordham Law School hosts the 6th Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation June 14-15, 2011. mw
Fordham Law School hosts the 6th Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation June 14-15, 2011. mw
| June 7, 2011 | to | June 8, 2011 |
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty presents the 2011 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing June 7-8, 2011, in Washington, DC. mw
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty presents the 2011 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing June 7-8, 2011, in Washington, DC. mw
| June 3, 2011 | to | June 4, 2011 |
The Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage & the Arts, the University of Siena, and the European University Institute present Defending Aphrodite: Enforcing International Cultural Property Law – June 3-4, 2011, in Siena, Italy. mw
The Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage & the Arts, the University of Siena, and the European University Institute present Defending Aphrodite: Enforcing International Cultural Property Law – June 3-4, 2011, in Siena, Italy. mw
| June 20, 2011 |
The Americal Society of International Law (ASIL) holds its next annual meeting March 28-31, 2012, in Washington, DC. The Society welcomes submissions from practitioners and academics on a range of topics within the conference theme, Confronting Complexity. Proposals are due June 20, 2011. mw
| March 28, 2012 | to | March 31, 2012 |
The Americal Society of International Law (ASIL) holds its next annual meeting March 28-31, 2012, in Washington, DC. The Society welcomes submissions from practitioners and academics on a range of topics within the conference theme, Confronting Complexity. Proposals are due June 20, 2011. mw
The Americal Society of International Law (ASIL) holds its next annual meeting March 28-31, 2012, in Washington, DC. The Society welcomes submissions from practitioners and academics on a range of topics within the conference theme, Confronting Complexity. Proposals are due June 20, 2011. mw
| June 14, 2011 |
UCLA hosts the 8th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society Jan. 16-18, 2012. The call for papers deadline is June 14, 2011. mw
| January 16, 2012 | to | January 18, 2012 |
UCLA hosts the 8th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society Jan. 16-18, 2012. The call for papers deadline is June 14, 2011. mw
UCLA hosts the 8th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society Jan. 16-18, 2012. The call for papers deadline is June 14, 2011. mw
| August 15, 2011 | to | August 26, 2011 |
The University of Helsinki presents the Helsinki Summer Seminar of International Law Aug. 15-26, 2011. The theme is Lisbon, Kadi and After: The EU in the Global Legal Order. mw
The University of Helsinki presents the Helsinki Summer Seminar of International Law Aug. 15-26, 2011. The theme is Lisbon, Kadi and After: The EU in the Global Legal Order. mw
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| December 1, 2011 |
The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, an interdisciplinary law journal, is now accepting submissions for Volumes 31 and 32. For volume 31, the deadline for abstracts (optional) is June 15, 2011; manuscripts are due July 31, 2011. For volume 32, the deadline for abstracts (optional) is Oct. 15, 2011; manuscripts are due Dec. 1, 2011. See the call for papers on SSRN. mw
The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, an interdisciplinary law journal, is now accepting submissions for Volumes 31 and 32. For volume 31, the deadline for abstracts (optional) is June 15, 2011; manuscripts are due July 31, 2011. For volume 32, the deadline for abstracts (optional) is Oct. 15, 2011; manuscripts are due Dec. 1, 2011. See the call for papers on SSRN. mw
| June 15, 2011 |
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is organizing the Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. The event will begin on Friday morning, October 21 and end midday on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2011. See call for papers on SSRN. mw
| October 21, 2011 | to | October 22, 2011 |
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is organizing the Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. The event will begin on Friday morning, October 21 and end midday on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2011. See call for papers on SSRN. mw
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is organizing the Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. The event will begin on Friday morning, October 21 and end midday on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2011. See call for papers on SSRN. mw
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