Each year, the Lavender Law Conference provides a challenging and rewarding learning experience for attendees and presenters. In addition to day-long seminars focused on family law and transgender issues, the 2012 conference will feature dozens of continuing legal education (CLE) workshops on cutting edge legal issues affecting LGBT individuals, their families and the community. Topics covered in recent years include marriage equality, HIV/AIDS, immigration, LGBT issues in criminal law, LGBT youth issues and many others.

The 2012 conference will also feature workshops geared specifically towards corporate counsel and business practitioners. Topics in previous years included intellectual property, outsourcing and globalization, best practices for winning business from clients interested in LGBT diversity, employment law issues from both the management and plaintiffs’ perspective and others. Distinguished speakers for the 2012 Lavender Law Conference will include representatives from Wells Fargo, Kellogg, Bank of America, Starbucks, Microsoft and many more! mb

The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012. Please email submissions and CVs to the attention of Patricia Lui and Jennifer Hanley, Senior Editors of Solicitation, at JIBL.Solicitations[at]hofstra.edu. ae

LJ Jackson’s review of civil costs and the ensuing legislative process to enact his recommendations highlights the importance of, and necessity for, academics and their research in the development of policy and law reform. The requirement in the 2014 REF exercise to demonstrate the impact of research provides a strong impetus for the relationship between research and law reform and policy to be explored and invigorated.

This conference aims to provide a unique opportunity to do that by bringing together academics, parliamentarians, civil servants, judges and other users of research.

Contributions are invited primarily from academics in the field of law – including doctrinal and theoretical research as well as socio-legal approaches – but also in political science, sociology and economics. In particular we welcome research papers which:

• identify needs for reform
• have contributed to law reform processes in the last 5 years or are likely to in the near future
• have influenced the development of precedent or other judicial decision making
• capture impacts of law reform
• have improved, or are intended to improve, the depth and quality of policy debate and legal argument
• capture how law making has changed or is changing.

Suggested topics/themes for parallel workshop sessions include:

• (Legal) Business Environment – e.g. EU and domestic laws regulating business transactions (EU contract law, AML), regulation of entities, cyberlaw
• Rights of the individual (and opposing rights)/legal person environment – e.g employment, family justice, human rights/civil liberties, access to justice, medico-legal, migration
• Criminal Justice – e.g. sentencing, victim perspectives, juries
• Rule of Law/Public Law
• International perspectives on law reform

(***examples are provided as a guide and are not intended to be exclusive)

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We invite submissions of abstracts for 20 minute papers on any aspect of law reform (broadly defined as the process of examining existing laws and advocating and implementing changes in a legal system but also including work which contributes to government legislative programmes and Bill processes, and judicial decision making).

Submission details:
Please email a Microsoft Word document containing your contact details, institution and position, along with a 700 word abstract to tara.chittenden@lawsociety.org.uk and nina.fletcher@lawsociety.org.uk and indicating the workshop subject stream the paper is most suited for.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 March 2012
Word limit: 700 words
Notification: 6 April 2012
Full manuscript: chosen authors are required to submit the full manuscript by September 14, 2012.

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To submit a presentation, e-mail Professor Eric C. Chaffee at echaffee1[at]udayton.edu with an abstract or paper by April 15, 2012. Please title the e-mail message NBLSC Submission – [Name]. If you would like to attend, but not present, please send Professor Chaffee an e-mail message with the following subject line: NBLSC Attendance. Please specify in your e-mail message whether you’re willing to serve as a commentator or moderator. A conference schedule will be circulated in early June.

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