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.

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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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!

If you are interested in being a presenter at the 2012 Lavender Law Conference, you can submit a workshop proposal by visiting: Submit a CLE Workshop Proposal.

Note: The deadline for Workshop Proposals has passed and was on Monday, April 2.

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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

The daylong conference will feature some of the nation’s foremost thinkers on race and sexual equality, holding panel discussions on topics including the feasibility of “authentic conversations about difference,” the role of identity and culture in the pursuit of economic justice; next steps in race, sexual orientation and social justice; and family and youth.

Speakers include john powell (Berkeley Law); Gerald Torres (University of Texas); Shannon Price Minter (legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights); and Francie Kendall. Bios for all of the speakers can be found here.

Future conferences will be held at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, October 26, 2012, and University of Maryland School of Law, in spring 2013. im

For more information about the Journal and our submission policy, please see our website. Please send article or proposal submissions, along with your curriculum vitae to Whitney Smith at whitney-e-smith@uiowa.edu. The deadline is Jan. 30, 2012.
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The Symposium will facilitate a long-overdue dialogue on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues throughout Asia and Oceania and will be a venue for the sharing of ideas and experiences among scholars, politicians, and community activists in attendance. We aim for a conduit of cross cultural intellectual exchange and concrete results for GLBT communities throughout the Asia and Oceania regions.

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The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.

Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.

Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)

The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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