The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society announces its 2011 Symposium, Gender, Justice, & Victim Rights: A Gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System. It will take place Feb. 25, 2011. The editors seek original scholarship, from both scholars and practitioners, that addresses the intersections of law and gender in the role and treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. Interested parties should send an abstract to WJLGS.Symposium [at] gmail.com by Oct. 31, 2010. Those selected for the Symposium will be notified by December 2010. The Journal’s Symposium issue will be published in Winter 2011. Questions may be addressed to Symposium Editor Erin Welsh, ebwelsh [at] wisc.edu.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 28th, 2010
| Courts, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Crit: A Critical Studies Journal (University of Idaho College of Law) is hosting uproot sow cultivate: Critical Thought, Critical Action – Fall 2010 Critical Legal Studies Conference, Sept. 24-25, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 12th, 2010
| Poverty Law, Public Interest Law, Law and Philosophy, Law and Politics, Law and Gender, Law and Race, CONFERENCES |
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University College Cork (Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights and the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century) hosts a workshop for Ph.D. students and early career researchers, Subjects Before the Law: Membership, Recognition and the Religious Dimensions of Women’s Citizenship, Sept. 9, 2010. Applications are due May 1, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 31st, 2010
| Law and Politics, Human Rights Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Law and Religion, CONFERENCES |
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The International Bar Association presents the 4th World Women Lawyers Conference April 15-16, 2010, in London. Plenary sessions are on rainmaking and legal management. Focus groups are on trafficking of women and children, bankruptcy and finance, corporate social responsibility, and mergers and acquisitions. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 30th, 2010
| Legal Profession, Human Rights Law, Legal Associations, Law and Gender, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Modern American, the award-winning legal publication dedicated to diversity and the law from American University Washington College of Law, is seeking submissions for its Spring 2010 issue. Although the target date of March 1, 2010, has passed, the editors will still accept papers.
The Modern American is a unique forum that addresses legal topics that affect marginalized communities, articulates under-represented experiences within the law, and offers a platform for critical studies work, particularly as these areas relate to race, nationality, gender, class, ability, and sexuality. Our publication explores the interesting intersections between the law and policy, as well as tensions between the legal and non-legal world. Our most recent fall issue published work on critical gender theory and US asylum law’s application to domestic violence survivors; racial politics submerging equal protection jurisprudence in a post-identity Court; and a historical myth-busting on orphan trains and the law.
With a broad audience from law practitioners to activists, we reach a wide intellectual community across the country and even overseas. We can be found on every major legal database, including Westlaw, LexisNexis and Vlex.com, and maintain a large subscriber database to individuals and institutions in the US.
We are looking for cutting-edge legal scholarship for our newest issue. Our publication prefers short essays (20 pages or fewer), legal commentary, and other non-traditional formats on timely topics. We are especially eager to publish legal commentary from published law faculty or essays from practitioners and emerging scholars whether new faculty or law students.
Please submit your piece for consideration to tma@wcl.american.edu with a cover letter and resume by Monday, March 1st. We accept papers on a rolling basis with a preference for earlier submissions.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 19th, 2010
| Law and Humanities, Law and Politics, Poverty Law, Public Interest Law, Law and Sexuality, Law and Race, Civil Rights Law, Law and Society, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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The University of Tulsa College of Law’s 14th Annual John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture will feature Catharine A. MacKinnon speaking on “Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality,” Thursday, March 4, 2010.
The next day, March 5, the Tulsa Law Review presents its Legal Scholarship Symposium, “The Scholarship of Catharine MacKinnon.” mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010
| Law and Philosophy, Human Rights Law, LECTURES, Law and Sexuality, Law and Gender, CONFERENCES |
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The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, Jan. 4-8, with paper presentations by the winners of the New Voices in Gender Studies paper competition.
Submissions should be of scholarship relating to (1) women in legal education, (2) any aspect of women’s relationship to the law, or (3) gender, sexuality and the law. There is a maximum 30,000 word limit (inclusive of footnotes) for the submission. Since this is a paper presentation opportunity, and not one for publication, submitted papers can be committed for publication prior to their submission, but cannot be actually in print prior to their submission. Each professor may submit only one paper for consideration.
Papers will be reviewed anonymously. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information. The manuscript itself, including title page and footnotes, must not contain any references that identify the author or the author’s school. The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes.
To be considered, papers must be submitted electronically to Professor Linda Jellum, Mercer University School of Law, jellum_l@law.mercer.edu. The deadline for submission is Monday, August 16, 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by October 1, 2010. Call for Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
Full-time faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools, who have been teaching for seven or fewer years as of August 16, 2010, are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting (and not full-time on a different faculty) and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.
Papers will be selected after review by members of the Executive Committee and Advisory Board of the Section, including Professor Bridget Crawford, Professor Nancy Levit, Professor Kathryn Stanchi, and Professor Ettie Ward.
Any inquiries about the Call for Papers should be submitted to:
Professor Nancy Levit
Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law
UMKC School of Law
(816) 235-2391
levitn [at] umkc.edu
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010
| Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, CONFERENCES |
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The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School invites applications for a sabbatical visitor for the 2010-2011 academic year to undertake research, writing and collaboration with Center faculty and students in ways that span traditional academic disciplines. The CGSL welcomes applications from faculty from any field who are interested in spending a semester or the academic year in residence at Columbia Law School working on scholarly projects relating to Gender and/or Sexuality Law.
Sabbatical Visitors will receive an office with phone and computer, secretarial support and full access to university libraries, computer systems and recreational facilities. In addition, Sabbatical Visitors will be expected to participate in CGSL activities and present a paper at the Center’s Colloquium Series.
Applicants should submit:
• a curriculum vitae
• a writing sample
• a research statement (of approximately 1,000 words) that describes the proposed work during the Sabbatical period
Applications are due April 1, 2010. We prefer electronic submissions to
gender_sexuality_law [at] law.columbia.edu
Direct questions to:
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Sabbatical Visitor Program
Columbia University
435 W. 116th Street
New York, N.Y. 10027
gender_sexuality_law@law.columbia.edu
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Law and Sexuality, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Gender |
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Lavender Law, the National LGBT Bar Association’s Annual Career Fair and Conference, will take place Aug. 26-28, 2010, in Miami Beach. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 24th, 2010
| Law and Sexuality, Law and Gender, Civil Rights Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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Capital University Law Review presents the 6th Annual Wells Conference, The Future of the Family: Modern Challenges in Adoption Law, March 11, 2010. Topics may include:
- The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Families
- The Impact of Assisted Reproduction on Families
- Overcoming Barriers to the Creation of Families for Members of the GLBT Community.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 23rd, 2009
| Law and Sexuality, Poverty Law, Law and Gender, Family Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES |
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Equality Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2010 will take place in Vienna July 14-16. This is the third annual EDI conference.
The conference has 15 streams. The call for papers gives information applicable to all. “The call for papers will open in the first week of January, and will close on 1 May, 2010. Final session lists for each stream are due on 15 June 2010.”
The legal stream, organized by Jackie Jones (Bristol Law School) and Todd Brower (Western State University College of Law) has its own call for papers.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009
| Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Law and Gender, Labor and Employment Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The 11th Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum will take place at Yale June 18-19, 2010. The topics will cover public law and the humanities:
• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law - historical foundations
• Constitutional Law - theoretical foundations
• Criminal Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Jurisprudence and Philosophy
• Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy
• Law and Humanities (including Law and Gender Studies)
• Public International Law
The deadline for submissions is March 19, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2009
| Law and Gender, Labor and Employment Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Humanities, Poverty Law, Law and Philosophy, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Family Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (Berkeley Law) presents its fall symposium, ReProducing Justice, Nov. 12-13, 2009.
The regulation of bodies, sexualities, and reproduction by the state has traditionally been addressed through a “reproductive rights” lens. In practice, however, the reproductive rights movement, with its emphasis on individual “choice” and rights to specific practices such as abortion, has neglected the needs and demands of people of color, poor people, and those whose bodies are marked as inappropriate or incapable of reproducing or enjoying sexuality. Now, a new generation of lawyers and activists, under the new framework of “reproductive justice,” seek to eradicate the reproductive oppressions that have exploited the bodies, sexualities, and reproduction of our most marginalized individuals and communities for decades.The reproductive justice movement — a movement recognizing that power inequities inherent in our society’s institutions, environment, economics and culture affect people’s abilities to exercise self-determination in their reproductive lives — is burgeoning, yet legal scholarship, pedagogy, and advocacy lags behind. We are inviting you to participate in the conference and help us to galvanize a new generation of lawyers and legal scholars who are committed to uniting all those whose reproductive agency is endangered by enforcement of oppressive stereotypes and economic and cultural inequities. The conference will bring activists together with scholars from within law and outside law to address a host of interconnecting social justice and human rights issues that affect people’s bodies, sexuality, and reproduction.
The event is cosponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice (Boalt Chapter & National Office), Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, Berkeley Law Critical Race Scholars Society, Law Students of African Descent, Women of Color Collective. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 8th, 2009
| Poverty Law, Law and Sexuality, Law and Gender, Health Law, CONFERENCES |
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