The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review presents a colloquium online and in person. CRCL’s online companion, Amicus, presents Prof. Libby Adler’s piece, Gay Rights and Lefts: Rights Critique and Distributive Analysis for Real Law Reform. On March 2, twenty-one commentators’ responses (300-1000 words) will be posted. The journal hosts an in-person follow-up colloquium March 9, 2011, at 5pm. At the event, Professor Adler will present her paper, followed by responses from Shannon Minter and Professor Adrienne Davis. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 22nd, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Jurisprudence, Law and Sexuality |
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Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Incarcerated Mothers:Oppression and Resistance, Co-Editors: Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 31st, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law, Family Law, Health Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality |
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Third Space: A Journal of Feminism and Culture seeks submissions for a special issue on Generations of Feminism.
We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Submissions from researchers working within, or among, the disciplines of geography, sociology, literature, area studies, cultural studies, film/media studies, art, history, education, law, and women’s/gender studies are particularly encouraged.We accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students.
The submission deadline is Feb. 28, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 30th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality |
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Drake University Law School‘s Constitutional Law Center marks the first anniversary of the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision opening marriage to same-sex couples with a lecture and symposium on the topic.
Thur. March 25, 2010, Michael Dorf (Cornell) speaks on “Same-Sex Marriage, Labels, and Social Meaning.”
The 2010 Constitutional Law Symposium titled “The Same-Sex Marriage Divide” will be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2010
| CONFERENCES, Family Law, Law and Sexuality, LECTURES |
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The Modern American, the award-winning legal publication dedicated to diversity and the law from American University Washington College of Law, is seeking submissions for its Spring 2010 issue. Although the target date of March 1, 2010, has passed, the editors will still accept papers.
The Modern American is a unique forum that addresses legal topics that affect marginalized communities, articulates under-represented experiences within the law, and offers a platform for critical studies work, particularly as these areas relate to race, nationality, gender, class, ability, and sexuality. Our publication explores the interesting intersections between the law and policy, as well as tensions between the legal and non-legal world. Our most recent fall issue published work on critical gender theory and US asylum law’s application to domestic violence survivors; racial politics submerging equal protection jurisprudence in a post-identity Court; and a historical myth-busting on orphan trains and the law.
With a broad audience from law practitioners to activists, we reach a wide intellectual community across the country and even overseas. We can be found on every major legal database, including Westlaw, LexisNexis and Vlex.com, and maintain a large subscriber database to individuals and institutions in the US.
We are looking for cutting-edge legal scholarship for our newest issue. Our publication prefers short essays (20 pages or fewer), legal commentary, and other non-traditional formats on timely topics. We are especially eager to publish legal commentary from published law faculty or essays from practitioners and emerging scholars whether new faculty or law students.
Please submit your piece for consideration to tma@wcl.american.edu with a cover letter and resume by Monday, March 1st. We accept papers on a rolling basis with a preference for earlier submissions.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 19th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Civil Rights Law, Law and Gender, Law and Humanities, Law and Politics, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Poverty Law, Public Interest Law |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010
| CONFERENCES, Human Rights Law, Law and Gender, Law and Philosophy, Law and Sexuality, LECTURES |
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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
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 24th, 2010
| Civil Rights Law, CONFERENCES, Family Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality |
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The American Historical Association holds its annual meeting in San Diego, Jan. 7-10, 2010.
Legal scholars might be interested in, among others:
- Events of the AHA Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage (15 events over the 4 days of the conference)
- An Archeology of Agency in the Civil Law Tradition: Early Modern Spain, France, and Colonial Spanish America
- The Law and Its Uses? A View from South America
- A World of Hurt: Medieval Marriage Practice and Law in a Century of Crisis
- Control, Discipline, and Order in Modern China
- (Dis)Inheriting Slavery: Property, Power, and Belief in the Last Requests of Masters and Slaves
- Recursive Subjects: Sexuality and the “State” in South Asia
- Mutiny Beyond the Line: Sexual Subjugation in the White Supremacist South and the African American Sedition, 1930–51
- Disability in Global Perspective
- Drugs in Chains: The Illicit Commodity in World History
- Fathers of Illegitimate Children in Public Policy and the Courts: Chile, Brazil, and the Anglophone Caribbean from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty First Centuries
- Educational Equality and the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Schools, Head Start, and the Supreme Court
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 28th, 2009
| Civil Rights Law, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, Education Law, Family Law, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Legal History |
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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:
- The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Families
- The Impact of Assisted Reproduction on Families
- Overcoming Barriers to the Creation of Families for Members of the GLBT Community.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 23rd, 2009
| CONFERENCES, Family Law, Health Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality, Poverty Law |
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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.
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 8th, 2009
| CONFERENCES, Health Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality, Poverty Law |
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The Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School announce a two-year fellowship (CRR-CLS Fellowship) “designed to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers, with a focus on reproductive health and human and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs.” The application deadline for the current cycle is Feb. 1, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 1st, 2009
| Family Law, Health Law, Human Rights Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Sexuality |
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The Florida Coastal School of Law and Florida Coastal Law Review announce the Law Review’s second annual Law Symposium, scheduled for March 5, 2010: Family, Life, and Legacy Planning Issues for the GLBT Community.
The Law Review invites the submission of articles, notes, essays, and other scholarly writing. We encourage submissions from practitioners, authors, and academia. The Law Review will select five to seven authors to present their papers and participate in panel discussions within each topic. Articles by symposium participants will also be included in a special issue of the Florida Coastal Law Review.
We encourage submissions regarding topics of concern within the GLBT community, such as discrimination, policy changes, social impact, and financial concerns. Florida Coastal Law Review will consider all proposals for publication even if the proposal is not suitable for this year’s symposium.
Proposals should be in the form of abstracts, not to exceed 500 words, and accompanied by the author’s name, contact information, and CV. The deadline for submission is December 1, 2009. Please direct inquiries and submissions to Symposium Manager, Nathan R. Ross, at nathan.r.ross [at] law.fcsl.edu. The Law Review prefers electronic submissions; however, submissions may also be mailed to the Law Review Office at: Florida Coastal Law Review, c/o Symposium Manager, 8787 Baypine Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32256. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Estate Planning, Family Law, Law and Sexuality |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Immigration Law, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Poverty Law |
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Brooklyn Law
Wendy Gordon (Boston Law), Computer Technology, Moral Philosophy, and Copyright: The Grokster Case
Harvard Health Law
Arti Rai (Duke Law), The Promise (and Limits) of Facially Neutral Patent Standards
NYU Legal History
R. Owen Williams (NYU Law), An Impartial Jury of the State”—A Flash of Nationalism in 1880
Pacific McGeorge
Sionaidh Douglas Scott (Oxford Law)
SMU
Jeffery Kahn (SMU Law)
St. Louis
Jeff A. Redding (St. Louis Law), Dignity, Legal Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage
Toledo
Scott Hershovitz (Michigan Law), Harry Potter and the Purpose of Tort Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 1st, 2009
| Civil Rights Law, CONFERENCES, Intellectual Property, Law and Sexuality, Law and Technology, Legal History |
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American University Washington College of Law hosts the Fourteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc.) Conference on October 1-4, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outside Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime. The Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), will take place concurrently with the conference.
The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites the submission of proposals for panels and papers propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities, including (but by no means limited to) economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law and the death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law (including gender and LGBT equality, reproductive and disability rights), immigration, political and electoral (dis)enfranchisement, communications policy and intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment.
Please submit panel and paper proposals through the online process at the LatCrit website no later than April 27, 2009. For full information and submission protocols, please refer to the call for papers and panels.
Thanks to Professor Ezra Rosser of Poverty Law Prof Blog for this information.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009
| Civil Rights Law, CONFERENCES, Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society |
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