Int’l Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) – Philadelphia, PA

Stanford Law School and Penn Law

Stanford Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School present the International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) in Sept. or Oct. 2016 (date to be determined) at Penn. Abstracts must be submitted by Jan. 16, 2016.

Sponsored by Stanford Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) was established to stimulate the exchange of ideas and research among younger legal scholars from around the world. The IJFF is designed to foster transnational legal scholarship that surmounts barriers of time, space, legal traditions and cultures, and to create an engaged global community of scholars. The Ninth IJFF will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in late September or early October 2016 (the exact date has not yet been fixed).

Speakers must be non-US citizens who have held a faculty position for fewer than seven years in 2016, and papers may be on any legally relevant subject and can make use of any relevant approach. Stanford and Penn will cover expenses of travel, including airfare, lodging, and food.

Abstracts and CVs from interested speakers must be submitted no later than Friday, January 16, 2016 to both Maria O’Neill,moneill@law.stanford.edu, and Norva Hall, nhall@law.upenn.edu, with the subject line, International Junior Faculty Forum. For complete submission requirements and additional details about the 2016 International Junior Faculty Forum, please go to http://conferences.law.stanford.edu/2016-international-junior-faculty-forum/.

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