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Rights, Equality, and Justice: A Conference Inspired by the Moral and Legal Theory of David Lyons - Boston

Boston University is proud to honor Professor David Lyons with a conference featuring scholars in law and philosophy presenting papers and commentaries on important topics about which he has written. Professor Lyons will give a response. Boston University Law Review will publish the papers and proceedings. Information about the conference, along with papers is posted on the BU School of Law Web site:

http://www.bu.edu/law/events/upcoming/#lyons

The conference, which is co-sponsored by the BU School of Law and Department of Philosophy, will be held at BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, and take place on Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. ajc

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 2nd, 2010 | LECTURES, Law and Philosophy, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Humanities, Legal Ethics, CONFERENCES | no comments

Music Law - Gainesville, FL

The Music Law Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is hosting its 8th annual conference on February 27, 2010.

The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. It is our goal that everyone, from the disgruntled ex-band member to the seasoned entertainment attorney, that attends the conference will leave with a new perspective on the music industry.

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 21st, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Music Law - Gainesville, FL

The University of Florida Levin College of Law will host the 8th annual Music Law Conference on Feb. 27, 2010. The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. Topics will include: digital and retail markets, new forms of music distribution, international issues, ethical issues, protecting musicians’ rights, understanding both sides of the table, the art of business, and basic do-it-yourself ideas for new artists. For updates and additional information, see the UF Music Law Conference Blog. ajc

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum - New Haven

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 | no comments

13th Annual Conference of the Association of the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities - Providence, RI

The Thirteenth Annual Conference for the Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be hosted by Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on March 19 - 20, 2010. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 23rd, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, Legal History, Jurisprudence, CONFERENCES | no comments

2010 Annual Conference of the Graduate Law Students’ Association - Toronto, Canada

The Graduate Law Students’ Association (GLSA) of Osgoode Hall Law School will host the 2010 Annual Conference of the Graduate Law Students’ Association in Toronto, Canada. This year’s theme, “Beyond Law,” focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives of law. The conference will be held May 21 - 22 in downtown Toronto. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 23rd, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Religion, Legal History, Law and Literature, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: 2010 Graduate Law Students’ Association Annual Conference

The Graduate Law Students’ Association (GLSA) of Osgoode Hall Law School invites graduate students and junior faculty to submit abstracts to its annual academic conference. Hosted in Toronto, Canada from May 21-22, 2010, this year’s theme, “Beyond Law,” welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives. The deadline for abstract proposals is February 15, 2010. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 23rd, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Religion, Law and Literature, Legal History | no comments

Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop - Los Angeles

Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law will hold the eighth meeting of The Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law will be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 - 5, 2010. Paper competition submissions must be received by January 8, 2010. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal History, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop

Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the eighth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 & 5, 2010.  Submissions must be received by January 8, 2010. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 20th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS | no comments

D Is for Digitize - Google Book Settlement - New York City

New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy presents D Is for Digitize, Oct. 8-10, 2009.

The conference will discuss Google’s plan to digitize books and the class action settlement now awaiting court approval. It will feature a lineup of academics and practitioners who will examine the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, information policy, literary culture, and the publishing industry.

The conference is timed to coincide with the rescheduled fairness hearing in the Google Book Search case, to be held on Wednesday, October 7, just five blocks away from the Law School. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009 | Civil Procedure, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Sep. 16, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

University of La Verne College of Law

Dylan Malagrino (Visiting Professor, La Verne Law), Change: A Constant Variably Defined – A look at how the disciplines of anthropology and law differ in
their interpretations of legal change.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 16th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Humanities | no comments

Call for Papers: Disorient: Critical Legal Journal of the Pacific Northwest

Disorient: Critical Legal Journal of the Pacific Northwest: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Currently accepting submissions for the Winter 2009-2010 issue of Disorient.

Disorient is a student-run, on-line, interdisciplinary law journal at the University of Washington School of Law. See our inaugural issue and mission statement here

Submissions due by August 15, 2009. Email submissions and/or questions to dislaw [at] u.washington.edu.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 19th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Jurisprudence | no comments

The Evolution of Street Knowledge: Hip Hop’s Influence on Law and Culture - Morgantown, WV

The West Virginia University College of Law presents The Evolution of Street Knowledge: Hip Hop’s Influence on Law and Culture, on February 12-13, 2009.

Jointly coordinated by the Sports and Entertainment Law Society, the West Virginia University Festival of Ideas, the Center for Black Culture and Research, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the WVU Office of Social Justice, the WVU Black Law Student Association and Wolter Kluwer/Aspen Publishers, this symposium presents a progressive exploration into the impact that hip hop music and culture is having on U.S. law and on global culture. Keynote addresses for this event will be provided by Cornel West and Talib Kweli.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 2nd, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Society, CONFERENCES | no comments

Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights Conference - Chicago, IL

Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment will be held on April 17-18, 2009 at the University of Chicago Law School hosted by the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and the University of Chicago. The conference explores the past and present significance of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and provided constitutional authority for eradicating its badges and incidents and, ultimately, for invalidating Jim Crow’s legacies and myriad forms of involuntary labor.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, Law and Literature, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: Legal Visual Semiotics

Call for contributions for two-volume Treatise on Legal Visual Semiotics, Anne Wagner, Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy and Richard Sherwin, eds.

The overall aim of the proposed two volumes is to fill the gap between law, semiotics and visuality. As an original
project, its aim is to provide a comprehensive analytical overview of legal visual semiotics. The two volumes will endeavor to adopt a comparative perspective with a view to identifying a common ground for semiotics analyses of the converging and/or merging aspects of law and the visual.

Contributions should reflect the interdisciplinary nature of legal semiotics research. They should focus on:

- Theories and conceptualization of legal visual semiotics
- Pictorial semiotics and law
- Visuality of legal language
- Media and the law

Expression of interest should be addressed by e-mail to: valwagnerfr@yahoo.com.  Abstracts should be submitted by February 15, 2009.

Full details available at SSRN.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 26th, 2009 | Law and Philosophy, Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, CALLS FOR PAPERS | no comments

IP/Gender - Female Fan Cultures and Intellectual Property - Washington, DC

IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections
6th Annual Symposium
April 24, 2009

Special Theme: Female Fan Cultures and Intellectual Property

Sponsored by
American University Washington College of Law’s
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Women and the Law Program
Journal of Gender Social Policy & Law

In collaboration with
American University’s Center for Social Media
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University
Francesca Coppa, Muhlenberg College

Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 19, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 12th, 2008 | Law and Humanities, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Third Int’l Conf. on Design Principles & Practices - Berlin

The Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices will be held at UdK University of the Arts, in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 15-17, 2009. The deadline for the current round of the call for papers is Dec. 25, 2008.

This conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The conference is a cross- disciplinary forum which brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism.In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, telecommunications, urban planning and visual design.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2008 | Law and Technology, Law and Humanities, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Law, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century - Denver

The 2009 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association Thursday, May 28 through Sunday, May 31, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the city of Denver. The theme is Law, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 24th, 2008 | Law and Humanities, Legal Associations, LECTURES, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Race, Civil Rights Law, Law and Society, CONFERENCES | no comments

October 23rd Colloquia/Workshops

Iowa

       Aya Gruber (Florida International University Law), Rape in the Feminist War on Crime

Marquette

      John Lovett (Loyola-New Orleans Law), The Winding Road to Recovery: Observations on Property Relations Three Year After Hurricane Katrina

Michigan Law and Economics

       Eric Talley (Berkeley Law), Public Ownership, Firm Governance, and Litigation Risk

Minnesota Works in Progress

       Nicole Garnett (Norte Dame Law), Ordering the City

Oregon Center for Law and Politics

       Lani Guinier (Harvard Law) and Gerald Torres (Texas Law), Changin the Wind: The Demonsprudence of Law and Social Movements

Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop

       Martha Mahoney (Miami Law), Electronic Voting

St. Thomas

       Chad Oldfather (Marquette Law)

Vanderbilt

       Mary Dudziak (USC Law), Law, War and the History of Time

Washington Law Through Global Lense Series

       David T. Johnson (Hawaii Sociology), The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia

Washington University in St. Louis

       Scott Sundby (Washington and Lee), Group Think and Capital Juries

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Courts, Law and Humanities, Law and Gender, International Law, Law and Society, Property Law | no comments

Sociolegal Methods in International Law

University of Pittsburgh School of Law is hosting today Sociolegal Methods in International Law, a workshop to explore the role of sociolegal methodologies in describing and defining the contours of international law.  The list of workshop participants is here.  For more information, contact Professor Elena Baylis.

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Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 5th, 2008 | Law and Humanities, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments