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Hagley Symposium — Wilmington, Delaware

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:13:55 +0000

Daniel Raff, of the Wharton School and NEBR, will present: “How to Do Things with Time: Reflections on Method and Practice in Business History,” on Friday, May 18th at 1:00 p.m. This event will take place at the Hagley Library, Copeland Room. For a copy of the paper or to attend, please contact Carol Ressler Lockman at clockman[at]hagley.org. mmb

Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion Fellowship – Lucerne, Switzerland

uwlegalscholarship — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:45:00 +0000

The UNILU (University of Lucerne) Center for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion (CCCLR) Student Research Fellows Program invites post-graduate students to participate in an international short fellowship followed by a guided individual research project. Proposals should be sent by May 1, 2012, for a summer placement and by Aug. 1, 2012, for an autumn/winter placement. Details here. mw

Human Rights Fellowship – Montreal, QC

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:18:13 +0000

The McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism invites applications for its O’Brien Human Rights Fellows in Residence Program. The program, open to journalists, activists, academics, and practitioners, covers 1-6 months in residence at the Centre. There is no deadline; applications are considered on a rolling basis.

Hat tip: SSRN. mw

Privacy Law and Policy Fellowships – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:40:15 +0000

The Information Law Institute of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy is accepting applications for one or more one-year fellowships in the area of privacy law and policy to begin in Fall 2012. Review of applications began March 10 and will continue until the position is filled. mw

Water, Environment, and Health – Waterloo, ON

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:43:32 +0000

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL), in cooperation with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), are pleased to announce the twenty-second ACUNS-ASIL Summer Workshop on International Organization Studies (SWIOS 22). For 2012, the Summer Workshop engages with the subject of “Water, Environment and Health: Addressing Knowledge, Capacity and Governance Challenges.” It will take place July 6-14, 2012, at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Ontario. Applications are being accepted. References are due March 26, 2012. mw

Empirical Research Projects – Funding, Support

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:27:10 +0000

The Searle Civil Justice Institute (SCJI) at George Mason University School of Law is seeking proposals for empirical research projects that will result in publishable-quality and policy-relevant reports. The SCJI will select proposals in a three-stage process.

Initial Preliminary Statements of Research Proposals, not to exceed one page, must be received by March 15, 2012, to receive full consideration for the 2012-13 funding cycle. SCJI will request a full proposal from selected authors by April 15, 2012. The 2011 SCJI Empirical Research Workshop will take place in June 2012.

SCJI will fully support certain accepted proposals by paying author(s) to lead the research efforts, providing in-house econometricians and legal experts as project staff, paying for necessary data (which includes employing large numbers of research assistants to find and code data that might otherwise by unavailable), and funding a comprehensive communications strategy for the final Public Policy Report.

More information is available on SSRN. mw

Grant Opportunity – Research on Congress

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:13:30 +0000

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has invested more than $840,000 to support over 400 projects. Applications are accepted at any time, but the deadline is March 1 for the annual selections, which are announced in April. A total of up to $35,000 will be available in 2012.
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Legal History Grant Granted – Washington, DC

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:40:05 +0000

The George Washington University Law School has awarded the first annual Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant to Michel Morin, a professor of the law faculty at the Université de Montréal. The Cummins Grant provides a $10,000 stipend to support short-term historical research using the Special Collections Department at GW’s Jacob Burns Law Library. Press release is here.

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

Fellowships & Projects: Institutional Corruption, Esp. in Media & Think Tanks – Cambridge, MA

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:48:40 +0000

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites scholars, practitioners, innovators and others committed to understanding and remedying institutional corruption to submit proposals. The application deadline for fellowships and projects to begin Sept. 2012 is Feb. 1, 2012.

The Lab would be particularly enthusiastic to receive proposals on topics of institutional corruption in media and think tanks, or from professionals working in those fields. Priority will be given to project proposals with a focus on innovative remedies for institutional corruption.

National Science Foundation New Funding Solicitation – Arlington, VA

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:25:08 +0000

The Law & Social Sciences (LSS) Program at the National Science Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new funding solicitation. There are full proposal target dates of Jan. 24, 2012, July 16, 2012, and July 15 annually thereafter.

The LSS program supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. The program funds the best proposals submitted within the field broadly defined, regardless of specific subfield, and strives to support an interdisciplinary community of scholars studying relevant topics.