The University of Auckland Faculty of Law and the Department of Commercial Law is hosting the 2010 Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference July 4-7, 2010. The conference theme is: Power, Regulation and Responsibility: Lawyers in Times of Transition.
Keynote speakers at the plenary sessions will be Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, Professor Jeremy Waldron of the New York University School of Law, Stephen Gageler SC and David Collins QC, the respective Solicitors-General of Australia and New Zealand, Associate Professor Mary Keyes of Griffith Law School and Dr Robert Joseph of Waikato Law School. A strong interest group programme will also be at the heart of the conference. The venue will be the brilliant new Owen G Glenn Building of the Business School, with dinners at the University’s famous Fale Pasifika and the harbour front headquarters of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. We encourage you to come to New Zealand and attend the conference. Decide now that you will present a paper to one of the interest groups. Be part of what promises to be an exciting intellectual and social occasion.
Important dates
2 April 2010 Abstract submissions close
7 May 2010 Early registrations close
14 June 2010 Full paper submissions close
4 to 7 July 2010 Conference
Email: alta2010 [at] auckland.ac.nz
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010
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Reminder: the early-bird registration deadline for the Commonwealth Regional Law Conference (Ajuna, Nigeria) is Dec. 31, 2009. For more information, see earlier post. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2009
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The 2010 Commonwealth Regional Law Conference focusing on comparative law and professional experiences of lawyers in commonwealth countries will be held April 8 - 10 in Abuja, Nigeria. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009
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The Stanford Center on the Legal Profession will host the fourth International Legal Ethics Conference, at Stanford Law School on July 15-17, 2010. This will be the first time the conference will occur in the United States.
The conference, titled “The Legal Profession in Times of Turbulence,” will focus on a broad range of issues including the conditions of legal practice, bar regulatory structures, law firm culture, access to justice, diversity, cause lawyering, client relationships, conflicts of interest, globalization, and legal ethics education.
The call for papers deadline was Oct. 1, 2009. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2009
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The annual SALT Robert Cover Retreat will be held on Friday-Sunday, February 26-28, 2010, at Camp Sargent, Peterborough, NH. The Retreat is being organized by the students at Western New England College School of Law. The theme is Turning Point: Shaping Public Interest Law for 2015. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2009
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The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
- corporate governance (several panels), securities litigation, the financial crisis, tax, bankruptcy, business entities
- law and politics (several panels), elections, lobbying
- capital punishment, policing, criminal evidence, prisons
- law and neuroscience, behavioral law and economics
- law schools, the legal profession
- courts, jurors, victims and witnesses, attitudes and decisionmaking, settlement
- civil rights, environmental law, property, torts, family law, medical malpractice, contracts, administrative law, patent, international law
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2009
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The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2009, Judges and Jurists: Reflections on the House of Lords, will take place Nov. 5-6, 2009, at the Law Society’s Hall in London. Itl marks two events in 2009: the Centenary of the Society of Legal Scholars, and the transition from the House of Lords to the new United Kingdom Supreme Court. There will be a range of reflections on judicial reasoning and the interaction between judges, academics and the professions over a century of transformation. It is being organised by Birmingham Law School (although it is taking place in London).
There is an early booking discount on bookings made before the end of Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 16th, 2009
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The National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) invites full-time, adjunct, and clinical law professors, practitioners, and others who are committed to promoting ethics and professionalism to apply for its Fall 2009 workshop on November 6-8, 2009. The workshop will be held at Red Top Mountain State Park and Lodge in Cartersville, Georgia, 40 miles northwest of Atlanta. Click here for the application and other workshop information. Fellowship applications are due by Sept. 11, 2009.
THEME ONE : What explicit information and implicit messages are today’s law students and beginning lawyers receiving from popular culture, legal education and the profession about what it means to be a lawyer? How can law teachers and practitioners work together to improve that information and modify those messages, especially to promote ethics and professionalism?
THEME TWO : How can we better identify in our own teaching, mentoring and supervision the implicit messages we convey about what it means to be a lawyer?’
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 30th, 2009
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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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 12th, 2009
| Law and Gender, Comparative Law, Courts, Legal Profession, Law and Society, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Education, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The editorial board of St. Mary’s Law Journal requests submissions for publication in Volume 41, Issue 2 (to be published in November 2009); Volume 41, Issue 3 (tentatively scheduled for publication in April 2010); Volume 41, Issue 4 (tentatively scheduled for publication in May or June 2010); and Volume 42, Issue 1 (tentatively scheduled for publication in November 2010).
The Journal strives to publish articles on a broad range of topics that are timely and useful to Texas practitioners—especially those relating to procedural issues. In addition, Issue 4 specifically addresses issues relating to professional responsibility and legal malpractice.
If you have an article you would like to have considered for publication in Volume 41, Issue 2, please submit a completed draft of the article by Thursday, August 20, 2009. If you have an article or article topic you would like to have considered for possible publication in Volume 41, Issue 3 or 4, please submit by Monday, September 21, 2009, either (1) an abstract describing the topic to be covered, or (2) a draft of the article. Submissions received after the deadline will be considered, if space permits. For an article to be considered for Volume 42, Issue 1, the editors would appreciate an abstract or draft received by Monday, February 8, 2010.
The final, completed version of any articles selected for publication in Volume 41, Issues 3 and 4 must be completed by January 4, 2010; the final, completed version of articles for Volume 42, Issue 1 must be completed by June 1, 2010. Intermediate deadlines for article drafts will be tailored as necessary.
For further submission guidelines and contact information, please visit the Journal’s submission page.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 9th, 2009
| Legal Profession, Legal Ethics, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 10th, 2009
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In connection with the law school’s 20th anniversary celebration, the Texas Wesleyan Law
Review is pleased to host a symposium on Friday, October 2 , 2009, on the topic of “The Role of Lawyers of Color: Past, Present, & Future.” The purpose of the symposium is to explore and examine a range of historical, current, and future issues that surround lawyers of color.
The editors are now accepting proposals for papers and panel presentations on issues related to this symposium topic. Examples of the types of topics include but are not limited to:
The historical relevance and importance of lawyers of color
- Lawyers of color and the NAACP
- Lawyers of color and specific topics, including criminal law, immigration, and civil rights
- Lawyers of color of specific racial groups, including Latinas/os, Asian-Americans, and African Americans
- The Obama phenomenon: are we living in a post racial society? Does the race of lawyers matter?
- The future of lawyers of color; including the pipeline to the legal profession; the position of lawyers of color in the legal profession and the role of affirmative action in legal education
Interested authors and presenters should submit an abstract of not more than 250 words to symposiumeditor@law.txwes.edu by May 15, 2009. Authors and presenters will be informed by June 15, 2009 of the outcome of the initial review process. Final papers will be due on October 30, 2009. Accepted papers will be published in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review in a special symposium issue, and authors will be expected to present at the symposium.
For full panel proposals, please submit the panel topic as well as possible panelists. If you would like to serve as the panel moderator, please indicate that on your proposal.
The law review expects to be able to offer limited honorariums to help offset the cost of travel and accommodations.
Questions and requests for further information can be directed to Amanda Buffington, Symposium Editor Texas Wesleyan Law Review at symposiumeditor@law.txwes.edu. Faculty advisors include Professors Carla Pratt and Jason Gillmer.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 19th, 2009
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