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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Proposals for papers (up to 500 words) should be submitted by August 31, 2012, toBLHC2013[@]gla.ac.uk

The conference theme of “law and authority” relates to how sources of law and frameworks for their application have related to underlying conceptions of authority, or to the authority of other institutions, processes or actors within the legal order.

Papers concerning all jurisdictions, branches of the law, and historical periods are welcome.

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Proposals should be sent by email attachment to ctomlins@law.uci.edu. Deadline for receipt of proposals is 30 April 2012.

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This symposium caps Faculty/Student Presentation Day, which includes 15 panels in 3 time slots. mw

This year’s deadline for applying was Nov. 1, 2011, so watch for information next summer and fall for the next grant.

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This Symposium affords an excellent opportunity to remember the events of Watergate and the aftermath of those events. Alongside a discussion of the legacy of Watergate institutional and legislative reform, the symposium also provides a platform to discuss the notions of justice, procedural consequences of prosecuting government officials, the freedom of press and legal ethics.

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Routines are central to much human behavior, both within organizations and more broadly, because they facilitate the navigation of complex social, economic, and ecological environments. Too often, however, they are simplistically equated with stasis and adaptation, and unfairly counter-posed to innovation or transformation. In reality, routines can be dynamic, as the organizations and individuals that follow them encounter and respond to new situations or conditions that disrupt established behaviors. Indeed, well-designed routines can anticipate novel complications and can help manage and channel change, thereby reinforcing or enhancing traditional and vernacular practices and relationships rather than undermining them. Historically, both those routines that fail in the face of challenge and environmental shifts, and those which reflexively embrace disruption and reordering are of especial interest. While the presence of routines is most obvious in business firms, governments, militaries, labor unions, and other bureaucracies, they also are embedded in emergency response structures, research protocols, religious organizations, and settled communities. Hence exploring routines, especially their development, devolution, and transformation, can generate new insights to our understanding of the past.

Papers may be framed at any geographical scale (local, regional, national, transnational), but should detail what constitutes particular routines, how they came into being, how well adapted they may have been to environments and opportunities, how amenable they were to change, and what dynamics such changes actually provoked. We are especially interested in historical studies and ethnographies that explore how routines influence fluidity and stasis, how they organize and shape innovation, as well as how they interfere with or facilitate adaptation to new conditions. Failures often generate a search for new and more effective routines, another important process. Papers also may address the relationship between routines and “success”, e.g. how routine practices by firms or bureaucracies impede or assist an organization achieve its objectives and/or do better than others.

The deadline for receipt of paper proposals is March 31, 2012. Please send a 500 word description of your paper and the sources on which it is based along with a brief c.v. to Carol Lockman, clockman [at] Hagley.org. Travel funding will be available for presenters.