The Thirteenth Annual Liman Colloquium, “Imprisoned,” will be held at Yale Law School March 4-5, 2010. The Colloquium, co-sponsored by Yale Law School, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, will examine the changing populations, rules, and enduring problems of prisons.
More information, including the list of confirmed participants, will be posted shortly on the Liman website. mw
The Center for the Study of Law and Society (Berkeley Law) invites applications for visiting scholars for 2010-2011. The Center fosters empirical research and theoretical analysis concerning legal institutions, legal processes, legal change, and the social consequences of law. The application deadline is Nov. 13, 2009. mw
The Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property CRN (Collaborative Research Network No. 14) of the Law and Society Association is organizing panel proposals for the upcoming annual meeting (May 27-30, 2010). The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2009, but earlier proposals are encouraged. The call for papers is on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog. mw
The Law and Society Association invites proposals (for papers or sessions) for its annual meeting, Beyond Critique, May 27-30, 2010. The submission deadline is Dec. 8, 2009.
A graduate student workshop, What’s Next for the Law and Society Paradigm?, will be held May 25-26, 2010. The application deadline is Jan. 29, 2010.
An Early Career Workshop (limited to 20 scholars) will also take place May 25-26, 2010. The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2010.
The Early Career Workshop encourages new faculty to move their research and writing toward law-and-society topics and encourages people who are already comfortable with one methodological approach to consider others. For those trained as lawyers, social science may seem a bit daunting. For those trained in one social science, other methodologies from other fields may seem foreign. But for all concerned, it might be useful to know these other methods. In this Early Career Workshop, we will help people to make transitions to new kinds of law-related work with a focus on questions of methodology. As a result, we will ask: How do law-and-society scholars do their work? And how can newcomers to the field increase their methodological range?
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The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development (St. John’s University School of Law) will hold a two-day symposium Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Ronald H. Brown’s Graduation from the School of Law, Nov. 13-14, 2009.
The symposium honors his illustrious legal career by showcasing the important scholarship and programs of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development (the “Center”) and the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development (formerly the St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary), an official publication of the Center.
The first day of the symposium will feature scholarly presentations by St. John’s law faculty on modern adaptations of issues of racial, social, economic justice. The second day will explore ways to increase diversity in the legal profession and will feature the Center’s signature pipeline programs. mw
The 10th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations will take place on July 19-20, 2010 at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Conference will focus on issues of diversity and community, and the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalized society. The deadline for paper submissions is November 16, 2009. jv
The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School will hold the symposium, “Families, Fundamentalism, and the First Amendment.” The conference will take place on November 6, 2009 at William & Mary Law School. jv
The University of South Carolina School of Law hosts the 2010 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference March 25-28, 2010. The theme is Equality and Justice in the Obama Era. The call for proposals deadline was Oct. 2, 2009. mw
Golden Gate University School of Law and SALT will co-sponsor a two-day teaching conference, Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law Teaching, March 19-20, 2010. The conference will examine the latest theories and data collected by social scientists on poverty so that this new information can be effectively incorporated into legal education across the curriculum.
Watch this SALT page for calls for proposals, registration information, and program as it develops. mw
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
Vanderbilt University Law School now has a Criminal Justice Program, directed by Professor Christopher Slobogin. The Program sponsored its first Roundtable on September 11 & 12 of this year. On January 29 and 30, 2010, it will sponsor a Roundtable for faculty who are early in their careers. Jump to full post
The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy invites academics, practitioners and policymakers to submit an article, essay, or speech for possible publication in our Spring 2010 symposium issue. Our Journal’s unique approach focuses each issue on one pertinent legal or policy topic and explores the ethical issues related to that topic. In Spring 2010, the Journal will address “The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class.” The deadline for drafts is January 15, 2010.
The mission of the Journal is to explore the legal, ethical, and policy considerations of each topic within the framework of the Judeo-Christian intellectual and moral tradition. We seek to publish authors who address that tradition while forming a compelling analysis of issues relevant to the current legal landscape. Past contributors include presidents, Supreme Court justices, congressmen, religious leaders, professors, and other prominent figures from within their respective fields.
Interested authors may submit an optional abstract for review and feedback before the submission deadline. Submissions should include a cover letter, resume, and a copy of the manuscript. Please direct inquiries and submissions to Lee Metzger, Solicitation Editor, at emetzger [at] nd.edu, or submit by ExpressO to the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy. mw
ESTATE PLANNING: MORAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
The Creighton Law Review announces the third annual multidisciplinary symposium on Friday, April 16, 2010, at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. The Law Review is soliciting papers to be presented at the symposium, which will explore the theme of moral, religious, and ethical perspectives in estate planning, including issues affecting wills, trusts, estates, and taxation. Authors from legal or social science perspectives are invited to submit papers for discussion at the symposium.
Interested authors must submit their papers to the Law Review by December 15, 2009. Jump to full post
The University of Maine School of Law and the Justice Action Group present Expanding Justice in Maine: Upstream Solutions to Downstream Problems Oct. 2, 2009.
CRN East Asian Law and Society (Law and Society Association) and Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong present the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations. The conference takes place Feb. 5-6, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong.
organized with this vision.
The organizers invite proposals for papers and panels that are related to the conference theme (Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations) or fall within any of the following streams on East Asian law and society:
* Legal Education and Training
* Legal and Quasi-legal Professions
* Dispute Resolution and Civil Litigation
* Lay Participation and Other Forms of Democratic Justice
* Gender in Law
* Criminal Justice
* Constitutional Law.
The deadline for proposals and papers is Sept. 30, 2009. All paper or panel proposals must be in English and sent by email to: Professor Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), hfukurai [at] ucsc.edu. Submission details here.
The Fourteenth Annual LatCrit Conference will be held at American University Washington College of Law Oct. 1-4, 2009. The theme is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outsider Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime.
The preliminary conference schedule has now been posted.
LatCrit/SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop: The Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), will begin at 9:00 am, Thursday, Oct. 1, and continue through Friday morning.
The registration deadline is Sept. 14, 2009. (Registration is still possible after that, but rates are higher.)
St. Mary’s University School of Law is soliciting articles for upcoming volumes of The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues. The Scholar furthers legal discourse on issues surrounding race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, and sexual identity, among others. Accordingly, the editors will consider any article that focuses on a legal issue of concern to disenfranchised groups.
The editors are currently looking for several articles to begin editing on August 31 through September 28. Articles for publication in the forthcoming volume must be received by August 17, though submissions will continue to be accepted past that date. Any author extended an offer would be published by November 10, 2009.
Guidelines for submission and additional information regarding The Scholar may be found at The Scholar’s website.
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.
The Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting will be in New Orleans Jan. 6-10, 2010.
In 2010, we will be meeting in New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina forced the relocation of our 2006 Annual Meeting. During my Presidential year, I am adopting the theme of “Transformative Law,” mindful of the symbolic significance of our return there as well as of the successes and failures of the legal profession in addressing this perilous past decade. Our meeting this year takes place at a time of crisis in our economy, our ecology, and our international standing as the leader of the free world. Many lawyers (including our President, Vice-President, and many Cabinet officials and congressional leaders) must tackle these challenges. Media coverage of their efforts, however, portrays these public servants as people who happen to be lawyers, not as lawyers whose leadership grows out of their mastery of law and whose accomplishments represent the pinnacle of their professional pursuits. To a significant degree, the news accounts reflect the fact that these leaders have not pursued a traditional law firm practice but instead have devoted themselves to government and public service. The image of the citizen-lawyer, whose training can be used to advance the common good, has so thoroughly disappeared from the popular imagination that those who pursue this path are no longer centrally defined as lawyers. . . .
Rachel Moran, AALS President
AALS New Law Professor Section
2010 AALS Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Law Professors Section is hereby issuing a call for papers from new law professors. Four top quality papers will be selected from those submitted. The author of each of those pieces will be invited to speak at the New Law Professors Panel at the AALS annual meeting that will be held in New Orleans January 6-10, 2010. The goal of the call for papers is to give newer law professors opportunities to present and get feedback on their work, network with more established scholars in their field, and hone their presentation skills.
As with our section’s first call for papers in 2007, the theme of the submissions coordinates with the theme for the AALS’s annual meeting. The theme for the AALS’s annual meeting for 2010 is Transformational Law. Thus, the papers submitted should be related to the transformative nature of the law. Included in that broad category are any papers that suggest legal reform. Papers might focus on legal initiatives to help remediate the current economic crisis. Papers might more generally suggest legislative reform, policy initiatives, or particular judicial perspectives or interpretations. Papers might also focus on the intersection of law with other social sciences to better address needs and suggestions for social and political transformation.
Submissions are due by 5:00 pm on August 15, 2009. Only faculty members who have been full-time law teachers for five years or fewer as of July 1, 2009, are eligible to submit works. In order to submit a work, please e-mail a one page abstract of the article, plus a draft to: call4papers [at] law.stetson.edu, with a copy of the e-mail going to jmorriss [at] law.stetson.edu. Authors will also be expected to publish their articles in a special issue of the Stetson Law Review dedicated to this call for papers. The papers will be evaluated by the officers of our section and by Professor Mike Finch, the faculty advisor for the Stetson Law Review.
Any questions can be addressed to the Chair of the New Law Professors Section, Professor Joe Morrissey at Stetson Law, jmorriss [at] law.stetson.edu.
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