Legal Scholarship Blog

Law-Related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops
A Service from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law & University of Washington School of Law

Applied Storytelling in Law - Portland, OR

Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law - Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 8, 2008. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2008 | Legal Research & Writing, Law and Literature, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, CONFERENCES | no comments

September 24th Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Richard Abel (UCLA Law), Lawyers in the Dock: Learnings from New York Disciplinary Proceedings

Miami

      Scott Sunby (Miami Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: The Deliberative Process of Capital Juries

NYU Legal History

       Christina Burnett (Columbia Law),A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The Conflict over the Platt Amendments 1900-1901

Pacific McGeorge

       Miriam Cherry (Pacific McGeorge Law), Virtual Work

USC Law History and Culture

       Hilary Schor (USC English, Law), Maidens Choosing”: George Eliot, Curiosity, and the Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 24th, 2008 | Legal Profession, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Constitutional Law | no comments

August 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

UCLA Mondays

Henry Ansgar Kelly (UCLA English), Thomas More’s Trial By Jury: A Procedural Review

USC Communication Law & Policy

Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on August 25th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Uncategorized | no comments

April 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Stephen Harp (Akron History), Au Naturel: National Decency Laws and Local Tolerance of Public Nudity in Twentieth-Century France

Chicago International Law

Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Currency Manipulation and World Trade

Chicago-Kent

Peggie Smith (Iowa Law), Home Sweet Home? Workplace Casualties of Consumer-Directed Home Care for the Elderly

Connecticut Tax

Yoshihiro Masui (Tokyo Law), Japan as a Tax Treaty Partner

NYU Legal History

James Whitman (Yale Law), The Verdict of Battle

UC Hastings

Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee Law)

USC Law, History and Culture

Carolyn Sale (Alberta English), The King is a Thing: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the ‘Case of Mines’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Villanova

Tayyab Mahmud (John Marshall Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2008 | Comparative Law, Elder Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Legal History, Tax Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages

Chicago-Kent

Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)

Connecticut Tax

Joshua Blank (NYU Law), What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse

Duke International & Comparative Law

Angelos Pangratis (European Union), The Future of E.U.-U.S. Relations

Fordham

William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption

Georgetown

Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care

Harvard Internet & Society

Steve Ward (Oxford Internet Institute)

Loyola

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions

Minnesota Law & History

Tom Romero II (Hamline Law), Creating and Containing the Multiracial Hetereotopia: Kelo, Parents, and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetroplis

St. Thomas (Mn)

Charles Reid (St. Thomas (Mn) Law)

Toronto Law & Literature

Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa English), Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Empirical Evidence on Securities Arbitration

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 8th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Politics, Law and Literature, Law and Economics, Tax Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Legal History, Securities Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 2, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy

Chicago-Kent

Jeffrey G. Sherman (Chicago-Kent Law)

CUNY

Wendy Bach (CUNY Law)

Emory

Anne Dailey (UConn Law), Imagination and Choice

NYU Legal History

Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire

SMU Law & Citizenship

Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy

Texas

Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico

Toronto Law & Economics

Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting

UC Hastings

Reza Dibadj (USF Law)

UCLA Williams Institute

Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls

USC Law, History & Culture

Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Law and Economics, Business Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

March 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown

Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), The Mortgage Striptease–The Effect of Bankruptcy Strip-Down on Mortgages Markets: “Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification”

Lewis & Clark

Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark Law) & Anne Villella (Lewis & Clark Law)

Notre Dame

Bob Blakey (Notre Dame Law), RICO and Corporate Campaigns

Texas

Burt Neuborne (NYU Law), Aiding and Abetting the Unthinkable: Legal Redress Against Holocaust Profiteers

Toronto Law & Literature

Bradin Cormack (Chicago English), A Power to Do Justice

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Leonardo Felli (London School of Economics), Statute Law or Case Law?

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2008 | Law and Literature, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Property Law, Criminal Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Socio-Legal Studies Ass’n - Manchester, UK

The Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Manchester School of Law hosts the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference March 18-20, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 1, 2008.

Papers are called for in many streams: Administrative Law; Construction Law; Criminal Justice; Diversity and Judging; Education Law; Environmental Law; European Law; Family and Child Law; Gender, Sexuality and Law; Human Rights Practice; Information Technology, Law and Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Labour Law; Law and Economics; Law and Literature; Law, Race, Religion and Human Rights; Legal Education; Maths, Statistics and Scientific Legal Methodologies; Medical Law and Ethics; Mental Health and Mental Capacity; Regulation, Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; Regulation, Security and Justice; Sentencing and Punishment; Sexual Offences and Offending; Socio-legal Theory and Method; Sports Law; Transitional Justice; Victims in International Law.

To promote “dialogue across traditional subject specialisms,” the organizers also invite paper proposals under keywords: Governance; Poverty and welfare; Space (real and virtual); Vulnerability; Participation; Identities; Trust; Histories; Resistance; Change.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 14th, 2008 | Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Literature, Comparative Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, Government Law, Law and Science, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Education Law, Business Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Family Law, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

International Legal Ethics Conference - Gold Coast City, Australia

The Third International Legal Ethics Conference, co-hosted by the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland and Griffith Law School of Griffith University, will be held at the Sheraton Mirage Gold Coast resort, July 13-16, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 29, 2008. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 6th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Legal Ethics, Law and Literature, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Indigenous Law & Lit - East Lansing

Michigan State University College of Law’s Indigenous Law and Policy Center hosts its 4th Annual Indigenous Law Conference in East Lansing on October 19-20, 2007. The conference topic is American Indian Law and Literature.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 15th, 2007 | Law and Literature, Indian Law, CONFERENCES | no comments