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“Respect” Skills & Workshop Strategy Sessions to End the School-to-Jail Track — Los Angeles, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:10:53 +0000

The Center for Restorative Justice and The Youth Justice Coalition at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, invites you to: “Respect” Skills & Workshop Strategy Sessions to End the School-to-Jail Track. Three sessions are scheduled for May 16th, 23rd, and 30th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

For more information or to register please call (323) 235-4243 or (626) 244-4009, or by email, danae_tapia87[at]yahoo.com, or go to this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2BFJ9TS
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Exploding Prison Populations and Drug Offenders: Rethinking State Drug Sentencing – Valparaiso, IN

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 May 2012 05:05:02 +0000

Valparaiso University Law School is hosting a conference November 9, 2012, and invites submissions on the topic Exploding Prison Populations and Drug Offenders: Rethinking State Drug Sentencing. The conference will examine (1) whether the current drug sentencing system can be justified; (2) the deterrent effect on drug usage of long-term incarceration and widespread imprisonment; and, (3) whether the likelihood of apprehension and conviction affects the market for drugs.

Submissions relating to drug sentencing are welcomed, especially submissions on the following subjects:

The costs and benefits to taxpayers of incarcerating low-level drug offenders

The impact of drug sentencing laws on minority groups and other affected communities

Whether the science of addiction can inform decisions regarding optimal responses to drug use and sales

Legislative approaches to the challenges of incarceration for drug offenses

Call for Papers Deadline: August 27, 2012.

Submissions should be addressed to Melissa Mundt, Associate Director of Academic Services, Valparaiso University Law at Melissa.Mundt[@]valpo.edu. im

International Criminal Law – National Adjudication of International Crimes – Amsterdam, the Netherlands

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:11:38 +0000

The VU University Amsterdam presents Pluralism v. Harmonization: National Adjudication of International Crimes June 14-15, 2012. The conference is part of the university’s ICL research project Common Civility, and its main objective is to explore the background and the consequences of ICL’s fragmentation at the international and national level. mw

Criminal Justice Forensics – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:23:35 +0000

The ABA Criminal Justice Section and the Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics will host the Third Annual Prescription for Criminal Justice Forensics on June 1,2012 at Fordham University School of Law. More information can be found here. gf

Mobile Money in Developing Countries – Seattle, WA

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:47:51 +0000

The University of Washington School of Law, Deakin University School of Law, and UNCITRAL present Mobile Money in Developing Countries: Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity April 20, 2012, at the University of Washington. The event is being webcast (register here and here). mw

Call for Papers: Teaching About Domestic Violence

uwlegalscholarship — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:39:56 +0000

Violence Against Women (a journal published by Sage) seeks manuscripts for a special issue, Teaching About Domestic Violence. Manuscripts are due by Oct. 1, 2012.

The full call for papers is available on Feminist Law Professors.

Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw

Race and Criminal Justice – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:53:45 +0000

NYU’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law presents its fourth annual conference, New Frontiers in Race and Criminal Justice, Tues., April 17, 2012. mw

From the Classroom to the Courtroom, Children in Justice System – Minneapolis, MN

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:49:13 +0000

The Community Justice Project of the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services at the University of St. Thomas will hold its annual symposium which explores the question, “How are the Children?” This year’s symposium is “Part V: From the Classroom to the Courtroom; Exploring a Child’s Journey through the Justice System.” The symposium takes place Wed., March 14, 2012, 9-4. mw

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

Empirical Research Projects – Funding, Support

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:27:10 +0000

The Searle Civil Justice Institute (SCJI) at George Mason University School of Law is seeking proposals for empirical research projects that will result in publishable-quality and policy-relevant reports. The SCJI will select proposals in a three-stage process.

Initial Preliminary Statements of Research Proposals, not to exceed one page, must be received by March 15, 2012, to receive full consideration for the 2012-13 funding cycle. SCJI will request a full proposal from selected authors by April 15, 2012. The 2011 SCJI Empirical Research Workshop will take place in June 2012.

SCJI will fully support certain accepted proposals by paying author(s) to lead the research efforts, providing in-house econometricians and legal experts as project staff, paying for necessary data (which includes employing large numbers of research assistants to find and code data that might otherwise by unavailable), and funding a comprehensive communications strategy for the final Public Policy Report.

More information is available on SSRN. mw