American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces its 7th Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held April 16, 2010. kja
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
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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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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Lavender Law, the National LGBT Bar Association’s Annual Career Fair and Conference, will take place Aug. 26-28, 2010, in Miami Beach. mw
The 2010 Transgender Law Institute will be held in Miami Beach, FL, on August 26, 2010, as part of the National LGBT Bar Association’s annual Lavender Law Career Fair and Conference. mw
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:
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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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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
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
The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School will hold the symposium, “Families, Fundamentalism, and the First Amendment.” The conference will take place on November 6, 2009 at William & Mary Law School. jv
The Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara Law will host the 2010 Women and the Law Stories Conference April 16, 2010. This year’s is The Power of Women’s Stories ll: Examining Women’s Role in Law and the Legal System. mw
The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association will be held on October 4-5 at Notre Dame Law School. Program after the break.
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society has announced that its 2010 Symposium, “Law, Gender and Citizenship: Contemporary Issues for American Indians and Immigrants,” will be on March 5, 2010 at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison.
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The University of Baltimore School of Law’s Center on Applied Feminism presents the Third Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Applied Feminism and Marginalized Communities, March 4-5, 2010.
The organizers see workshop proposals and paper abstracts. The initial deadline for both is Oct. 16, 2009. See details here. mw
CRN East Asian Law and Society (Law and Society Association) and Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong present the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations. The conference takes place Feb. 5-6, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong.
organized with this vision.
The organizers invite proposals for papers and panels that are related to the conference theme (Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations) or fall within any of the following streams on East Asian law and society:
* Legal Education and Training
* Legal and Quasi-legal Professions
* Dispute Resolution and Civil Litigation
* Lay Participation and Other Forms of Democratic Justice
* Gender in Law
* Criminal Justice
* Constitutional Law.
The deadline for proposals and papers is Sept. 30, 2009. All paper or panel proposals must be in English and sent by email to: Professor Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), hfukurai [at] ucsc.edu. Submission details here.
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces its 7th Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held April 16, 2010.
Over the past seven years, the IP/Gender symposium has provided a forum to examine and discuss research on gendered dimensions of intellectual property law. Because issues of gender in intellectual property have been under-appreciated and remain under-theorized, much of this work has been exploratory and pioneering. Topics discussed in past years have ranged from the impact of intellectual property law and policy on gender-related imbalances in wealth, cultural access, political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and of actual and rhetorical feminization and masculinization of participant roles upon intellectual property stakeholders; the gendered development of IP doctrines and doctrinal categories; related issues in the teaching and practicing of intellectual property; feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law; and female fan cultures and intellectual property.
The Spring 2010 symposium will again offer an opportunity to present and critique innovative research, related to the special theme, that is either currently underway or now under contemplation. As in previous years, anticipate the program and the audience will be highly interdisciplinary, including historians, social scientists, legal academics, cultural scholars, and practicing lawyers bringing their disciplinary perspectives to bear on the theme. A limited number of spaces is available on the program.
The coordinators invite proposals for papers on gender issues relating to the production and use of inventions, broadly defined. Appropriate topics might include: gendered patterns in the history of invention or creation; gendered regulation of inventive activities; gendered models of individual and collective inventive activities; gendered aspects in licensing or assignment of technologies; and related subjects. Abstracts should be received by Monday, October 30, 2009. Papers will be selected for presentation and possible publication by November 15, 2009, and will be due by March 1, 2010.
Additional guidelines and links to the web forms for submission are available at the conference website.
Rutgers School of Law - Newark, Women’s Rights Law Reporter would like to introduce the topic of our Fall 2009 Symposium, occurring on Friday, November 13, 2009: Women In Economics, Where are We Today?
This symposium is focused on the recent downturn in our economy, and how our latest economic crisis has had an effect on women. We invite discussion on topics such as: women in the workplace today; women’s positions in our economic sphere as it stands today and, possibly, as compared with ten years ago; women’s ability to obtain loans for either small businesses, homes, or the like; the bailout and its effect on women; all current legal issues associated with women and economics, and finally, differing feminist perspectives on where the women of today are headed in the future in terms of this economy. This is a fairly broad topic, but our main concern to answer the question of where this recent economic crisis has left women today, and the legal battles that they may be facing in the future.
We invite proposals for articles, essays and book reviews in conjunction with this symposium topic, however, such proposals are not required for participation in this event. Also, publication of any article, essay or book review is subject to the quality of the piece, and is within the sole discretion of our editors.
We welcome brief submissions of 250 words or less as to what issues you would be able to speak on concerning our Fall 2009 Symposium. I expect to get back to potential speakers as soon as possible, as this event if fast approaching. Please feel free to contact me. Christine Burke, Symposium Editor (burke.christine5 [at] gmail.com).
The Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC) 2009 will take place October 23-25 at the University at Buffalo Law School in Buffalo, New York.
During last year’s NEPOC, we experienced the monumental collapse of Lehman Brothers and subsequently, our financial and real estate sectors. Our nation and economy have been suffering since that time and there have been many interesting changes. This year our theme is “America’s New Class Warfare?”
For more details on the theme, please see the conference webpage.
Instead of relying solely on invitations, this year’s NEPOC will also do a call for papers for the plenary panels. In addition, we are seeking works in progress, leaders for professional development workshops and nominees for the Haywood Burns – Shanara Gilbert Awards. The deadline for the submission of all these materials is June 30th.
Victoria Nourse (Wisconsin Law), A Tale of Two Lochners (Why Lochner and Roe are Not Twins)
Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden)
Daniela Caruso (Boston Law), The Law of Autism
Dara Strolovicth (Minnesota Poli. Sci.), Affirmative Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis
Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook (7th Circuit), Public Choice and Legal Interpretation
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