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AAI’s 13th Annual Conference, Civil Liberties and Competition Policy — Washington, D.C.

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:54:01 +0000

American Antitrust Institute‘s 13th Annual Conference, with a focus on “Civil Liberties and Competition Policy,” will be held on June 21st, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington, D.C. To view the full agenda for this conference or to register, please visit the organization’s event page. mmb

ClassCrits V, “From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream” — Madison, Wisconsin

uwlegalscholarship — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:36:36 +0000

The ClassCrits V workshop will be held November 16-17, 2012, at the University of Wisconsin Law School, in Madison, Wisconsin. More information about this event will be forthcoming here. mmb

2012 Lavender Law Conference Call for Papers — Washington, D.C.

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:23:38 +0000

Call for proposals for the 2012 Lavender Law Conference hosted by the National LGBT Bar Foundation at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. If you are interested in being a presenter, you can submit a workshop proposal by visiting: Submit a CLE Workshop Proposal. Submissions are due by Monday, April 2, at 5:00pm ET (incomplete proposals will not be considered).

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

2012 SE/SW People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference — Birmingham, AL

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:03:53 +0000

The 2012 SE/SW People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference runs from March 29 through April 1, 2012 at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.

The conference theme, Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse, examines the ways in which legal scholars are transforming our institutional and external communities through advocacy, scholarship, and community engagement.

For more information, please contact Professor Wendy Greene: wendy.greene[at]samford.edu.
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Social Justice Feminism – Cincinnati, OH

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:58:57 +0000

The University of Cincinnati College of Law‘s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice seeks submissions for its conference, Social Justice Feminism, which will be held Oct. 26-27, 2012. Abstracts are due April 1, 2012.

Possible panels include:

A social justice feminist approach to women and prison

Critical Race Feminism and SJF

The intersections of SJF and environmental justice

History and reproductive justice

New approaches to domestic violence activism

SJF and criminal justice

ClassCrits V – Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream – Madison, WI

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:30:48 +0000

The ClassCrits group presents From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream (ClassCrits V) November 16 – 17, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Please submit panel and paper-presentation proposals by e-mail to classcrits[at]gmail.com by February 17, 2012. Junior scholars are invited to submit proposals for works in progress.

Civil Rights Litigation since 9/11 Conference – Austin, TX

uwlegalscholarship — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:48:10 +0000

The University of Texas School of Law’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law will be hosting a one-day conference on February 3, 2012 entitled Barriers and Innovations in Civil Rights Litigation Since 9/11: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives. This conference is designed to bring together leading civil rights litigators, advocates, and scholars to explore the confluence of two notable trends in civil rights litigation: expanded use of civil rights damages remedies across substantive arenas including criminal justice, immigration, and national security; and constriction of the availability of such remedies via immunities, and secrecy doctrines. For more details and to register visit the conference website.
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Call for Papers: Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Junior Faculty Forum – Cambridge, MA

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:29:40 +0000

Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools announce the Junior Faculty Forum (the successor to the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum that has convened for the past twelve years) to be held at Harvard Law School on June 1-2, 2012, and seek submissions for this meeting.

The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.

Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.

Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)

The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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Call for Presentations/Papers: Disability Law Symposium – Berkeley, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:38:18 +0000

Berkeley Law is hosting a Disability Law Symposium at Boalt Hall, March 22-23, 2012. They are currently seeking presentation proposals. The focus should be on the intersection of disability and other civil rights constructs such as gender, sexuality, class, race, class, ethnicity and religion. Presentations should be grounded in law (rights, discrimination, equity) or and/or public policy. Their goal is to “re-brand” the field of Disability Rights to encourage students to think of this (1)as a subset of the broader civil rights movement and (2) as part of the larger disability-related disciplines at the University.

The BerkeleyLaw Journal of Gender, Law & Justice has agreed to publish suitable symposium papers. Please submit a 2-3 paragraph abstract by email to srosenbaum[at]law.berkeley.edu no later than November 16, 2011 and indicate whether you would like to submit a paper for publication.
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National Immigrant Integration Conference – Seattle, WA

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:40:31 +0000

The National Partnership for New Americans, a partnership of twelve immigrant rights coalitions from across the country, presents the National Immigrant Integration Conference (NIIC 2011) Oct. 24-26, 2011, in Seattle. mw