The Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) holds its second annual meeting March 4-5, 2011, at Georgetown Law.
Property related topics will cover a number of subject areas including:
- Real, Personal, and Intangible Property
- Cultural Property
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate Transactions and Finance
- Land Use and Zoning
- Urban Planning and Development
- Environmental Law
- Climate Change
- Housing
- Home
- Green Development
- Mortgages and Foreclosure
- Land Titles
- Indigenous Populations and Sovereignty
- Human Rights and Property
- Entrepreneurship and Property
- Takings and Eminent Domain
- Property Theory
- Property History
- The Economics of Property
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All papers submitted for the conference will be eligible for consideration for publication in a “themed” book to be edited as a part of the series on Law, Property, and Society published by Ashgate Publishing. If there are enough papers to form more than one good edited book, consideration will be given to publishing more than one book. Authors are free to publish papers elsewhere rather than in a proposed conference book. Papers can be works in progress (rather than finished works) for purposes of presenting at the conference.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 28th, 2010
| Law and Economics, Local Government Law, Human Rights Law, Agricultural Law, Legal History, Indian Law, CONFERENCES, Intellectual Property, Environmental Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Property Law |
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The Twentieth British Legal History Conference will be held in Cambridge Wed. July 13 to Sat. July 16, 2011. The conference theme will be “Law and Legal Process.” The call for papers deadline is Aug. 31, 2010.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 10th, 2010
| Civil Procedure, Legal History, CALLS FOR PAPERS, 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 2010 meeting of the American Society for Legal History will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 18-21, 2010. The call for proposals deadline has passed. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 24th, 2010
| Legal History, CONFERENCES |
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The editors of Roman Legal Tradition welcome submissions in English for the forthcoming issue.
Roman Legal Tradition is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the civilian tradition in ancient, medieval, and modern civil law. It is published by the Ames Foundation and the University of Glasgow School of Law.
The journal adheres to the principles of Open Access. Contents are available without charge, and may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial purposes. Contributors are encouraged to distribute published submissions to colleagues and students, and to upload to electronic repositories.
Contents are distributed by HeinOnline, and available for download from the journal website.
Roman Legal Tradition is edited by Ernest Metzger (University of Glasgow School of Law) with the support of an international board of editors. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2010
| Comparative Law, Legal History, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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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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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
| Law and Race, Comparative Law, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Education Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Graduate Law Students’ Association (GLSA) of Osgoode Hall Law School will host the 2010 Annual Conference of the Graduate Law Students’ Association in Toronto, Canada. This year’s theme, “Beyond Law,” focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives of law. The conference will be held May 21 - 22 in downtown Toronto. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 23rd, 2009
| Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Religion, Legal History, Law and Literature, CONFERENCES |
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The Graduate Law Students’ Association (GLSA) of Osgoode Hall Law School invites graduate students and junior faculty to submit abstracts to its annual academic conference. Hosted in Toronto, Canada from May 21-22, 2010, this year’s theme, “Beyond Law,” welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives. The deadline for abstract proposals is February 15, 2010. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 23rd, 2009
| Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Religion, Law and Literature, Legal History |
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Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law will hold the eighth meeting of The Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law will be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 - 5, 2010. Paper competition submissions must be received by January 8, 2010. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009
| Law and Humanities, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal History, CONFERENCES |
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Penn Libraries is holding the 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in Philadelphia, PA on October 30 - 31, 2009. This year’s symposium is dedicated to the history of handwritten law and legal documents in Western Europe and the Middle East up to the early modern period. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 30th, 2009
| Law Librarianship, Legal History, CONFERENCES |
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The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield will present a conference, “Culture and Conflict: The United States and the 1954 Hague Convention,” to consider the domestic and international ramifications of U.S. ratification on October 22 - 23, 2009 in Washington, DC.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 30th, 2009
| Legal History, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Washington Disability Studies Program presents a public symposium, Eugenics and Disability: History and Legacy in Washington, Oct. 9, 2009.
In 1909, Washington became the second state to pass a law allowing for the forced sterilization of people with disabilities and other citizens in the name of improving society. Why was eugenics so widely popular during the early 20th century? What is the significance of the hidden and complex history of eugenics in 2009? This one-day symposium will provide a forum for dialogue about Washington’s eugenic past and its present-day implications for the lives of people in our communities. The roundtable format will feature local and national speakers, with ample time for audience discussion.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 28th, 2009
| Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES |
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The American University Law Review is currently accepting papers for its Spring 2010 Symposium Issue, Troubled Waters: Combating Modern Piracy with the Rule of Law.
For centuries the threat of piracy in international and territorial waters has prompted the development of laws to address piracy’s economic and human cost. The results can be seen everywhere from Congress’ Article I power to define and punish piracy to broader international efforts such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Despite these efforts, there have been hundreds of attacks off the Horn of Africa and throughout the South Pacific in this year alone. Are existing laws the most effective response available? Do the economic and social costs of piracy warrant stronger legal initiatives? The Law Review’s Symposium will provide a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss these and other issues. Papers should focus on a particular legal issue, including:
- International Treaties
- Related Legal History
- Jurisdiction Governing Detention and Prosecution
- Continuing Development of Maritime and Admiralty Law
- Eliminating the Economic Incentives for Piracy
- Best Practices of the Shipping Industry
- The Cost of Naval Responses
- Insurance & Risk
Please submit articles or abstracts for consideration to Michael Distefano at lawrev-symposium-editor [at] wcl.american.edu. Authors interested in publishing should contact the Law Review by October 1, 2009. Reasonable progress is expected throughout the winter months with final articles due by March 1, 2010.
Full articles as well as shorter essays (25 to 35 pages) are welcome. Papers should be in Microsoft Word format, 12-point font. Please include an Author biography or Curriculum Vitae. Articles should be properly supported and contain full Bluebook citations (18th ed.).
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 26th, 2009
| Insurance Law, National Security Law, Legal History, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law |
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A Supreme Sesquicentennial: The Oregon Supreme Court at 150 Years and Beyond - Oct. 9, 2009.
The Willamette University Center for Law and Government, together with the Oregon State Bar Appellate Litigation Section and the University of Oregon Kenneth O’Connell Conference, is pleased to sponsor a conference to celebrate the Oregon Supreme Court’s 150 years of service to the state of Oregon. Among the topics to be discussed are the history of the Court, the manner in which its members are selected and retain their seats, and the Court’s contributions to American law. In addition, the current chief justice and several current and former members of the Oregon Supreme Court will discuss the Court’s place within the state judicial system and the Oregon legal community more broadly.
A pdf brochure is here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 10th, 2009
| Courts, Legal History, CONFERENCES |
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The Institute for Consitutional History — hosted by George Washington University Law School and by the New York Historical Society — announces a semester-length seminar on Lincoln’s Constitution.
Designed for graduate students and junior faculty in history, political science, law and related disciplines, the seminar will be taught by the distinguished scholars Akhil Reed Amar (Yale College and Yale Law School) and James Oakes (CUNY Graduate Center). Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 3rd, 2009
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal History, Constitutional Law |
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On April 9-10, 2010, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will be hosting a conference to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne. This conference will feature a host
of excellent presentations, looking back and looking forward, from the Statute of Anne to the future of copyright in the digital age. A symposium issue of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal will feature articles by leading copyright scholars who will be presenting at the conference.
Information about this event is being distributed via CyberProf.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2009
| Legal History, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES |
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