Nova Southeastern University School of Law will host the Joint 2011 Southeast/Southwest and Mid-West People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Mar. 31-Apr. 3, 2011 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. The theme of the conference is The Role of the Lawyer in Fostering Social, Political and Economic Equality. sr
UCLA School of Law presents Poverty and the Bureaucratic State: A Symposium in Honor of Joel Handler, March 11, 2011. mw
The UALR Law Review and the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law present the annual Ben J. Altheimer Symposium March 31, 2011. This year’s symposium, supported by the Clinton School of Public Service, is Reframing Public Service Law: Innovative Approaches to Integrating Public Service into the Legal Profession. mw
The Charleston Law Review invites submissions for its 3rd annual Symposium Issue. The editors welcome an article or essay of any length addressing topics relating to Free Speech & Civil Discourse, such as:
• The Legal Impact of Social Media
• Wikileaks: Testing the Bounds of National Security
• Speech and the Role of Torts
• Political Speech and the Call for Civility
• Legal Speech: Civility Oaths and Attorney Advertising
The Charleston Law Review and the Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University will host a symposium on Free Speech and Civil Discourse in the 21st Century on February 17-18, 2011. This two-day symposium will be the 3rd annual “Law and Society” series sponsored by the Charleston Law Review and the Riley Institute.
Persons interested in submitting a paper relating to any of the above topics should submit along with a paper, a CV, to Piper Reiff, Charleston Law Review Editor in Chief, via email: epreiff [at] charlestonlaw.edu. Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners in all disciplines. All submissions must be received by March 14, 2011.
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The Law School Admission Council invites grant proposals.
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Research Grant Program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the program’s scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. To be eligible for funding, a research project must inform either the process of selecting law students or legal education itself in a demonstrable way. Projects will be funded for amounts up to $200,000.The program welcomes proposals for research proceeding from any of a variety of methodologies, a potentially broad range of topics, and varying time frames. Proposals will be judged on the importance of the questions addressed, their relevance to the mission of LSAC, the quality of the research designs, and the capacity of the researchers to carry out the project. Eligible investigators need not be members of law school faculties. Proposals from interdisciplinary teams of law faculty and researchers from outside law schools are strongly encouraged.
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There are two reviewing cycles each year. The deadlines are September 1 and February 1. Decisions on proposals are expected to be made within three to four months following those deadlines.
The 24th Annual Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat will take place March 4-6, 2011, in Peterborough, NH. The theme is Can a Lawyer Really Save the World? Fighting for Justice and Social Change.
Every year, public interest law students, professors, and practitioners from the Eastern, Mid-Eastern, and Southern United States gather together at the Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat to network, strategize, and socialize in a beautiful, secluded setting.The retreat brings to life the vision of Robert Cover, a Yale Law School professor and social change activist. Cover’s vision encompassed four principal goals: 1) to connect students with common goals and interests from across the country; 2) to create a network of professors, peers, and practitioners for students headed toward careers in public interest; 3) to provide a forum for discussions about change and growth pertaining to public interest law; and 4) to provide a platform for change in the public interest sector and perceptions about public interest law.
The registration deadline is Feb. 15, 2011.
The Seventeenth Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference will take place at Yale Law School Feb. 18-20, 2011.
The RebLaw Conference is an annual, student-run conference that brings together practitioners, law students, and community advocates from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to law and social change.
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the twelfth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 24-25, 2011, and seek submissions for this meeting. The focus of the twelfth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are: Bankruptcy, Torts, Taxation, Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Private International Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property, The Legal Profession. The call for papers deadline is March 17, 2011. The full call is available on SSRN.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, the UALR Law Review, and the Clinton School of Public Service present the 2011 Ben J. Altheimer Symposium, Reframing Public Service Law: Innovative Approaches to Integrating Public Service into the Legal Profession, March 31, 2010. The symposium will aim to examine and re-conceptualize public service with topics including “The Healing Power of Public Service,” “21st Century Challenges Facing Access to Justice,” and “The Future of Public Interest Law.”
The American Inns of Court and Georgetown Law present Symposium on the Status of the Legal Profession: Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century at Georgetown, March 31 to April 2, 2011. The symposium is presented with assistance and support from the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in London.
The 17th Commonwealth Law Conference will take place in Hyderabad, India, Feb. 5-9, 2011. Organizers expect over 1,000 lawyers, judges, and legal academics from 54 Commonwealth countries to attend. The theme of the conference is Emerging Economies and the Rule of Law: Challenges and Opportunities and the diverse business programme will cover human rights and the rule of law, corporate and commercial law and the legal and judicial professions.
The Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions and the Law Journal of the University of St. Thomas School of Law (MN) host a one-day conference, Empirical Professional Ethics, featuring leading researchers on ethical professional formation, including Dr. Anne Colby, from the Carnegie Foundation; and law professors from Georgetown, Harvard, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Georgia State University, and the University of St Thomas. The event takes place Nov. 6, 2010.
Presentations will focus on empirical research concerning professionalism, ethical professional identity, law firm or department ethical culture, rules compliance, preventive law and risk management. This conference will include discussion of the future research agenda for empirical professional ethics.
Submissions and nominations of articles are now being accepted for the first annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility. To honor Fred’s memory, the committee will select from among articles in the field of Professional Responsibility with a publication date of 2010. The prize will be awarded at the Professional Responsibility Section program at the 2011 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Please send submissions and nominations to Professor Samuel Levine at Touro Law Center: slevine@tourolaw.edu. The deadline for submissions and nominations is November 1, 2010.
Berkeley Law hosts The Mindful Lawyer Oct. 29-31, 2010. Sponsors include the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, the University of Buffalo Law School, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy (Buffalo) the University of San Francisco School of Law, the University of Florida Levin College of Law, CUNY School of Law, and the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (Berkeley).
The Mindful Lawyer: Practices & Prospects for Law School, Bench, and Bar is a national conference that will bring together the pioneers who have been developing programs integrating meditation and contemplative practices with legal education and practice, and others in the legal profession who are interested in exploring this work.Many law professionals have found that meditation practice has sharpened their legal skills, helped them to manage the stresses of their challenging work, increased their empathy, and deepened their commitment to creating a more just society. The conference will offer a blend of scholarly presentation, practical experience and discussion, and recent developments in neuroscience and psychology relevant to meditation practice. We invite lawyers, law professors, judges, mediators and other dispute resolution professionals, and law students to explore the connections between law and meditation, and to learn and practice meditation.
The Mindful Lawyer conference will begin with an optional half-day meditation retreat on Friday afternoon. The conference officially convenes on Friday evening and runs through mid-afternoon on Sunday.
NALP‘s Annual Education Conference 2011 will be held April 27-30, 2011, in Palm Springs, CA. The deadline for proposals has already passed. (NALP was originally the National Association for Law Placement but is now known only by the acronym.)
Laws Locations: The Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies will be held at the University of Wisconsin Law School on April 23-25, 2010. The conference is held in conjunction with the annual symposium of the Wisconsin International Law Journal. It is part of the Research Circle on Role of Law in Developing and Transition Countries.
The conference is held in honor of Professor David Trubek, Voss Bascom Emeritus Professor of Law and Senior Fellow, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE). The gues speaker is Richard Abel (UCLA Law). Speaker bios and abstracts are posted on the conference webpage. mw
The Society of American Law Teachers is organizing an invitation-only meeting for deans, state supreme court justices and bar examiners on April 23, 2010: SALT Alternatives to the Bar Exam: Introduction to the Daniel Webster Scholars Honors Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center. mw
The Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara University Announces the 2010 Women and the Law Stories Conference, The Power of Women’s Stories ll: Examining Women’s Role in Law and the Legal System. It will take place April 16, 2010. mw
The University of Denver Sturm College of Law hosts the Colorado Access to Justice Commission‘s conference, Moving Forward for Equal Justice, April 23-24, 2010. mw
Charlotte School of Law will host the Assessment and Student Outcomes Conference on May 27, 2010, in light of recently proposed ABA Standard on Student Learning Outcomes that will require law schools to be more versed in assessing and measuring the development of their students. This conference seeks to further the dialogue by introducing in more detail methods by which such assessment may be accomplished. More information may be found here. ajc
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