Oregon State University hosts Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Researching Vulnerable Populations 2012 Interdisciplinary Conference Feb. 17-18, 2012. A public lecture precedes the conference on Feb. 16. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Nov. 30, 2011. mw
The International Journal of Transitional Justice (IJTJ) invites submissions for its 2012 special issue, Transitional Justice and the Everyday: Micro-Perspectives of Justice and Social Repair, guest edited by Pilar Riaño Alcalá (Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Liu Institute for Global Studies, University of British Columbia) and Erin Baines (Assistant Professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia). The submissions deadline is April 1, 2012. Jump to full post
Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools announce the Junior Faculty Forum (the successor to the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum that has convened for the past twelve years) to be held at Harvard Law School on June 1-2, 2012, and seek submissions for this meeting.
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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The Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International Sociological Association) invite papers for their joint annual meeting in Honolulu, HI June 5-8, 2012. The theme of the meeting is “Sociolegal Conversations Across a Sea of Islands” although other law & society topics are welcome. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 6, 2011.
In addition, the tax section of the meeting has a call for papers deadline of Nov. 29, 2011.
The Law Review for the University of the District of Columbia School of Law will be hosting a symposium on System Change & Clinical Legal Education on Jan. 9, 2012, the day after the AALS conference, in Washington, D.C. Details are to come. nh
Berkeley Law presents the Center for the Study of Law and Society‘s 50th Anniversary Conference, The Future of Law and Society, Nov. 3 (2-8pm) and Nov. 4 (8-5:30), 2011. The Conference is free, but registration is required. mw
The University of Wisconsin Law School, Global Legal Studies Center & the Institute for Legal Studies present the Fifth Annual South Asia Legal Studies Pre-Conference Thur., Oct. 20, 2011. The program is here. mw
The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis will host a Junior Faculty Interdisciplinary Scholarship Workshop March 22-23, 2012. The Workshop will explore “Objectivity in the Law” and is open to non-tenured academics whose research is interdisciplinary in nature. Interested participants must submit a 500 work abstract to Professor Cynthia Adamas at cmadams[at]iupui.edu before Nov. 15, 2011. Submitted papers should focus on a chosen area of law and examine that law’s objective purpose and the relationship between its purpose and its actual implementation. The program is also open to other scholars wanting to attend, read, and comment on the papers but not present. There is no registration fee. nh
The American Bar Foundation invites applications for the ABF Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social Science, 2012 – 2013. The deadline is Dec. 15, 2011.
The Law and Society Association, in collaboration with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation, seeks applications for the Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring Program (LSS Fellowship). The deadline is Dec. 1, 2011.
Hat tip: Legal History Blog. mw
Hofstra Law School will host Exploring the American Family, Nov. 3-5, 2011. The event is sponsored by the Conference of Asian American Law Faculty (CAPALF) and Northeast People of Color Conference (NEPOC).
Scholars will address how law, culture and society play a critical role in defining the meaning, scope and boundaries of the family in the United States. Scholars will address how law, culture and society play a critical role in defining the meaning, scope and boundaries of the family in the United States.
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The ClassCrits Project, American University, Washington College of Law, and the UC Davis School of Law present ClassCrits IV: Criminalizing Economic Inequality Sept. 23-24, 2011. mw
The Editorial Board of The Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice (“RGSJ”) invites submissions for consideration in its inaugural Volume I publication.
RGSJ is a legal journal designed to utilize legal analysis and interdisciplinary research to discover new conclusions that aim to ameliorate the racial, gender, and social injustices plaguing today’s society. The goal of RGSJ is to provide an interdisciplinary forum that allows individuals to discuss these topics in depth, so people will be thoroughly educated by various works in its publication. As a result, RGSJ will play a key role in framing the debate on race, gender, and social justice issues by raising awareness, offering intelligent analyses, and propositioning solutions.
Written works that will be considered for publication are case studies, case comments, narrative submissions, and articles. In the 2011-2012 academic year, RGSJ will publish one issue. Articles for the issue will be considered throughout the fall and into the early spring on a rolling basis. To be considered for the first issue, required materials MUST be submitted no later than 11:59 PM EST on November 4th, 2011. Jump to full post
The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy (University at Buffalo Law School) presents 40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward, Sept. 12-13, 2011.
To open the conference, the documentary “Ghosts of Attica” will be shown at the Burchfield Penny Art Center (Buffalo State College) on Sunday, Sept. 11. mw
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society announces its 2012 Symposium, When Gender Norms Become Law: Recognizing and Correcting for Gender Bias, which will take place Feb. 10, 2012. Abstracts are due Oct. 1, 2012.
We are seeking original scholarship, from both scholars and practitioners, addressing ways in which gender norms are reflected in legislation, judicial precedent, and administrative findings. Ideally, proposals would highlight:
- An analysis of the inherent and functional gender biases in these policies and practices and
- Recommendations as to how the same policies could be pursued without the resulting gender disparity.
Topics could include: findings of fact that shape evolving areas of law, the role of social sciences in evidence, and differing approaches to gender considerations across legal systems. Interested parties should send an abstract to WJLGS.Symposium [at] gmail.com by October 1, 2011. Those selected for the Symposium will be notified by November 2011. The Journal’s Symposium issue will be published in Fall 2012. Questions may be addressed to Symposium Editor Meredith Davis at mdavis7 [at] wisc.edu.
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Juris Diversitas and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law will host The Concept of ‘Law’ in Context: Comparative Law, Legal Philosophy, and the Social Sciences to be held from Oct. 21-22, 2011 at the Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland. sr
San Francisco State University will host the 2011 Rights Conference exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society on Sept. 15-16, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. Our goal is to bring together a wide variety of people from a range of academic, activist, legal, and community spaces to examine the place of rights within both the context of American society (as situated within a boarder global political community). To that end, we welcome participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars, graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers. sr
The Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev hosts the 16th Annual International Workshop, Socio-legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in and beyond the Middle East, June 4-6, 2012. Proposals are due Sept. 30, 2011. Details available on H-Net. mw
The National Association of Sentencing Commissions holds its annual meeting July 31 – Aug. 2, 2011.
Sessions include Restorative Justice, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Criminal Justice, Efforts to Control Prison Populations and Costs, Recidivism Research, Criminal History Data, Disproportionate Minority Contact with the Juvenile Justice System, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Crime Perceptions and Media, Re-entry Planning. mw
The 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia. The theme for the conference is “Business and the State.” Proposals—for individual papers or entire panels—are due Oct. 1, 2011. mw
The editors of the Socio-Legal Review invite submissions by students and scholars. The deadline for submission for volume 8 (2012) is Nov. 15, 2011.
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 editors seek Articles (up to 8000 words), Short Articles (up to 5000 words), and Notes from the Field (shorter pieces designed to provide a glimpse into a new legal strategy, political initiative or advocacy technique applied in the field, a current problem or obstacle faced in, legal reform or development work, or a new issue that has not yet received much attention and needs to be brought to light) (up to 3000 words). See Author Guidelines on the journal’s website. mw
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