The Journal of Indian Law & Society (West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkota, India) is currently soliciting submissions for its second issue due in December, 2010. The deadline for submissions is October 5, 2010. Please send in your submissions under the categories mentioned below. All submissions to the Journal are double blind refereed and edited by the student editorial board. For general queries relating to your submissions, see the ‘Note to Authors’ or kindly write to us at jils [at] nujs.edu. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 23rd, 2010
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The editors of the Socio-Legal Review invite submissions by students and scholars.
The Journal subscribes to an expansive view on the interpretation of “law and society” thereby keeping its basic criteria for contributions simply that of high academic merit, as long as there is a perceivable link. This would include not just writing about the role played by law in social change, or the role played by social dynamics in the formulation and implementation of law, but also writing that simply takes cognizance of legal institutions/ institutions of governance/ administration, power structures in social commentary and so on. Through this effort, the journal also hopes to fill the lacunae relating to academic debate on socio-legal matters among law students.
The deadline for submission for volume 7 (2011) is Nov. 30, 2010.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 17th, 2010
| Law and Politics, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) will present a conference in Prato, Tuscany, Italy, September, 12-14, 2011: Working with the forensic paradigm: developing effective responses across the mental health, helping and legal professions.
The conference will give particular attention to forensic work across the health, helping and legal professions. The focus is on the intersection between the forensic lens as it is applied to a range of individual and family matters: in child protection, family welfare, mental health offending, disability and addictions, and related areas.
Check here for the call for papers.
You can register your interest in notices about the conference by contacting the conference convenors, Dr. Rosemary Sheehan
(Rosemary.Sheehan [at] monash.edu) and Prof. James Ogloff (James.Ogloff [at] monash.edu).
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 17th, 2010
| Law and Society, Law and Psychology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Family Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society’s 29th Annual Conference will be “Owning the Past: Whose Past? Whose Present?” It will take place Dec. 13-15, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia.
The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the outcomes and practical challenges surrounding the construction of historical consciousness through and about law? Whose past is told and by whom? How does law’s past influence history’s present? And is there any such thing as the orderly evolution of legal ideas? This conference invites papers on the subject of ownership in history and law, and may include contributions on any of several broad themes: the contestation of memory; the ethics of representation and remembrance; the commoditization and consumption of traumatic pasts; transcultural and transgenerational trauma; new technologies of historical documentation; testimony and bearing witness; Indigenous knowledge; identity politics; citizenship; the ethics of reproducing historical narratives; colonialism and hegemony; ‘dark’ tourism and artefacts of law; and new legal imaginings and the contest with the legal past.This is an interdisciplinary conference and papers are invited from scholars across a broad range of disciplines, as well as chronological and geographical contexts.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 9th, 2010
| Law and Society, Human Rights Law, Legal History, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Property Law |
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The Association of American Geographers will hold its annual meeting April 12-16, 2011, in Seattle. The call for papers has not been posted yet, but there is a notice that abstracts will be accepted beginning August 10, 2010. (If you’re wondering why legal scholars would care about a meeting of geographers, take a look at past programs. Topics include crime modeling, immigration, indigenous peoples, land use, and trafficking.) mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2010
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The American Sociological Association will hold its 2011 annual meeting Aug. 13-16, in Chicago. The theme will be Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas. The call for papers has not yet been posted. (The deadline for the 2010 meeting was Jan. 15, 2010.)
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2010
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The American Sociological Association holds its annual meeting Aug. 14-17, 2010, in Atlanta, GA. The theme is Toward a Sociology of Citizenship: Inclusion, Participation, and Rights.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2010
| Immigration Law, Law and Society, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Mississippi’s Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS) and the London School of Economics’ Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CNSS) are pleased to host the second Beyond Rationality Workshop July 7-9, 2010.
The Beyond Rationality Workshop series is a project of the CNSS at the London School of Economics in collaboration with the CISS at the University of Mississippi. The first workshop was held in London on November 21, 2009.
The recent banking crisis and the rise of religious fundamentalism as a political cause have prompted people to reflect on the seeming irrationality of thinking relevant to these events. These examples join a host of other occasions when the thoughts and actions of people seem to be irrational. Drawing on the notion that “one person’s irrationality is another’s rationality,” this event explores the boundaries of ‘rationality’ from different points of view as illuminated by philosophical or psychological studies such as akrasia, weakness of will, and formal fallacies.
Beyond Rationality II aims to continue the exploration of the meaning of ideas related to rationality in discussions of contemporary problems such as economic decisions, the recruitment of jihadists, terrorism, the banking crisis, risk assessment, conflict resolution, and the climate change debate.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 29th, 2010
| National Security Law, Law and Psychology, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Environmental Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, CONFERENCES |
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The American Political Science Association’s 106th Annual Meeting & Exhibition will be held September 2-5, 2010, in Washington, DC. The theme is “The Politics of Hard Times: Citizens, Nations, and the International System under Economic Stress.”
Legal scholars might be especially interested in programs by the following divisions:
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 24th, 2010
| Law and Politics, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Society, CONFERENCES |
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The 2010 Critical Legal Conference to be held in Utrecht, Netherlands on September 10-12, 2010 is accepting papers on the theme of “Great Expectations”: Multiple Modernities of Law. The panel invites perspectives and readings from those working in the field of law and culture, broadly conceived, who are interested in using the tropes of “law and literature” and “law as literature” to interrogate practices of legal critique. The deadline for submitting a paper proposal is May 21. For additional information, please click here. ajc
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2010
| Law and Philosophy, Law and Literature, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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Laws Locations: The Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies will be held at the University of Wisconsin Law School on April 23-25, 2010. The conference is held in conjunction with the annual symposium of the Wisconsin International Law Journal. It is part of the Research Circle on Role of Law in Developing and Transition Countries.
The conference is held in honor of Professor David Trubek, Voss Bascom Emeritus Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE). The gues speaker is Richard Abel (UCLA Law). Speaker bios and abstracts are posted on the conference webpage. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2010
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The Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, presents Law and Disciplinarity: Thinking Beyond Borders April 23-24, 2010.
In the twenty-first century, traditional legal borders – geographic and intellectual – have been increasingly contested. Many observers have questioned whether the long-held conception of sovereign state boundary remains salient in a world of technology-accelerated trans-boundary flows of people, capital, and information. Meanwhile, in unprecedented ways, scholars with training in anthropology, critical theory, communication, ethics, economics, history, information sciences, media studies, sociology, political science, and law have begun crossing disciplinary borders to use each other’s tools and to engage in meaningful and sustained dialogue about “law” in its dramatically changing global context. What are the nature and implications of these two shifting legal borders? What does the future hold for them? And what role do new technologies play in this evolving story?
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2010
| Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, Law and Society, International Law, Jurisprudence, CONFERENCES |
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The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) presents the Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop, Geographies of Intellectual Property, at American University in Washington, DC, Sept. 24-26, 2010. The prospectus submission deadline is June 5, 2010. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2010
| Law and Society, Legal History, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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St. John’s University School of Law Center for Law, Religion, and the Global Community is accepting papers to be presented at the second annual symposium on Religious Legal Theory on November 5, 2010. The theme is “Religion in Law and Law in Religion,” encompassing papers on traditional religion/state questions as well as papers that discuss the concept of law in different religious traditions. Please submit abstracts (500 words) by May 24, 2010. For more details, please click here. ajc
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2010
| Law and Religion, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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University of St. Thomas School of Law will host its spring law journal symposium on “Islamic Law and Constitutional Liberty” Monday, April 12. The event will feature scholars from half a dozen U.S. law schools; keynote speaker will be Noah Feldman, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor at Harvard Law School. Additional information can be found here. ajc
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 4th, 2010
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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
| Law and Humanities, Law and Politics, Poverty Law, Public Interest Law, Law and Sexuality, Law and Race, Civil Rights Law, Law and Society, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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The National Crime Victim Law Institute will host the 9th annual Crime Victim Law Conference in Portland, Oregon on June 10 and 11. This year’s theme, “Due Process for Victims: Meaningful Rights in Every Case,” is about securing fairness for crime victims. ajc
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 14th, 2010
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