Maximum word limit: 25,000 (inclusive of footnotes).

Deadline: August 1, 2012. im

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 Kirsten Davis, Stetson University College  of Law, kkdavis[@]law.stetson.edu….The author of the selected paper will be notified by October 1, 2012.  The Call for Paper participant will be responsible for paying his or her own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools 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 an ad hoc committee composed of Section Executive Committee members.

From January to December 2012, the 2012 Doctoral Program on Gender and Law will include two different types of activities available to a group of Swiss and international doctoral students.
1. Intensive Doctoral Training Workshop (June 28-29, 2012).
2. Transnational Research Colloquium on Gender and Law (Nov. 16-17, 2012)

Applications are due May 5, 2012. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program.   mw

• Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 1. (Winter 2014). Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2012.
• New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2015). Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2013.

Details are here.
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Satellite workshops:

• ELSI 2.0: Planning an International Collaboratory for Genomics and Society Research, June 26, 2012.
• FAB (Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), June 25-26, 2012. (The call for papers deadline was Dec. 1, 2011.)
• WMA (World Medical Association), June 26, 2012. (The deadline for submitting abstracts was Feb. 1, 2012.)
• Circumcision: Forbid, Deter or Encourage?, June 28, 2012.

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• The deadline for Vol. 6, No. 1, an open issue, was April 1, 2012.
• The deadline for Vol. 6, No. 2, a special issue on Aging and Long-term Care, is Sept. 15, 2012.
• Vol. 7, No. 1 will have papers from FAB 2012. Submissions for that event were due Dec. 1, 2011.

Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw

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

Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw

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

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

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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.

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