Here’s what you need to know:

1) Essays cannot exceed 1,500 words and should describe how you teach the course and why you teach it as you do.  The word length will be strictly enforced and footnotes, if any, should be kept to a minimum.

2) While we’re open to a wide variety of styles and approaches, we really want practical (as opposed to theoretical) pieces.  In other words, we want to know what people are really doing in their classrooms when they teach legal history.

3) Although we appreciate that many folks include a lot of legal history in their non-legal history courses (particularly if they teach, for example, constitutional law), this symposium is limited to actual legal history courses.

4) We’ve come up with a sample paper that shows what we’re looking for.  Please e-mail Bob Jarvis, the Journal’s Advisory Board chair, for a copy by contacting him atjarvisb@nsu.law.nova.edu.

5) While we don’t know the exact number of papers that we are going to publish, we are shooting for around 30 pieces, so if you contribute a piece there’s a very good chance it will be accepted.

6) Lastly, the symposium will lead off with a piece that traces the evolution of legal history courses in U.S. law schools.

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The full call for papers is available on Feminist Law Professors.

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Hosted by Professors Jason Yackee and Alexandra Huneeus
A light lunch will be provided starting at 11:45
CLE/EPR Credit Approved by the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners

No Fee — Same-day registration on site.

Timeline:
11:45  Buffet Lunch
12:05-12:10 Introduction of Speaker
12:10-12:40 Presentation
12:40-1:10 Questions and Discussion
1:10  Adjourn

Paper:  A draft paper can be downloaded at this site.

Speaker Bio:  Charles Geyh teaches and writes in the areas of judicial conduct, ethics, procedure, independence, accountability and administration. He is the author of When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America’s Judicial System(University of Michigan Press 2006) and Disqualification: An Analysis Under Federal Law(2d ed. Federal Judicial Center 2011); coauthor of Judicial Conduct and Ethics (4th ed., Lexis Law Publishing 2007) (with Alfini, Lubet and Shaman); and editor of What’s Law Got to Do With it? What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What’s at Stake (Stanford University Press 2011). His scholarship has appeared in over 60 books, articles, book chapters, reports and other publications.

Geyh has served a number of governments and governmental organizations. He has been a consultant to: the Parliamentary Development Project on Judicial Independence and Administration for the Supreme Rada of Ukraine; the United States Department of Justice in the corruption trial of Pennsylvania Judge Mark Ciavarella; the Administrative Office of California Courts Task Force on Judicial Campaign Practices; the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the impeachment and removal of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen; and the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal. In addition, he has served as an expert witness in the United States House and Senate on the impeachment and removal of District Judge G. Thomas Porteous and as legislative liaison to the Federal Courts Study Committee.

Geyh has also assisted a range of other organizations on issues relating to the administration of justice. He has served the American Bar Association as director of and consultant to its Judicial Disqualification Project and as Reporter to four Commissions (the Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, the Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary, the Commission on the Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns, and the Commission on the Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence). He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Justice at Stake Campaign; as Reporter to the Constitution Project Task Force on the Distinction between Intimidation and Legitimate Criticism of Judges; as Director of the American Judicature Society’s Center for Judicial Independence; and as chair of the editorial committee for the jour! nal Judicature. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

A recipient of the Leon Wallace Teaching Award and a two-time recipient of the IU Trustees’ Teaching Award, Geyh teaches courses on civil procedure, legal ethics, federal courts, and the relationship between courts and legislatures.

Following graduation from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Geyh clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Professor Geyh began his teaching career in 1991 at the Widener University School of Law and joined the law faculty at Indiana in 1998.

If you have questions about this event, please contact Pam Hollenhorst, Associate Director, Institute for Legal Studies, at pshollen@wisc.edu.

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Some of the themes which we expect to be covered include: How do globalization and legal pluralism affect our understanding of law, legal education or both? In its interaction with other disciplines, how does law preserve its disciplinary identity? Can a renewed understanding of particular fields of law shed light on our evolving understanding of the discipline? How is the teaching and research of basic private law—contracts, civil wrongs, property, the law of persons—affected by the increasingly transnational and transdisciplinary focus of legal scholarship?

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