The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference offer an annual prize for the best book in business history, broadly defined. The next Hagley Prize will be presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29-31, 2012.
The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an international focus. They must be written in English and be published during the two years prior to the award (2010 or 2011).
Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to the prize coordinator, Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630 – Buck Rd. East, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630. Email: clockman [at] hagley.org.
The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 14th, 2011
| Business Law, Legal History, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School seeks candidates for the
2012-2014 Academic Fellowship Program. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1, 2011. Completed applications must be received at petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu by 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2011. Details are here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 14th, 2011
| Health Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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On September 1, 2011, the Climenko Fellowship Program will begin accepting applications for the 2012-14 term. Climenko Fellows teach in Harvard Law School’s First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program. The Fellows are aspiring legal academics who receive extensive support and mentoring for their scholarship while teaching legal research and writing. Former Fellows have gone on to tenure-track positions at Arizona State, Boston University, Florida State, Fordham, Georgetown, the University of Minnesota, and Vanderbilt, among other schools. If you are planning a career in legal academia, please consider applying for the fellowship. To apply, send a resume, law school transcript, two or three letters of recommendation, a research agenda and at least one scholarly writing sample to: Susannah Barton Tobin, Director, First-Year Legal Research & Writing Program, Harvard Law School, Griswold 1 North, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 13th, 2011
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal Education, Legal Research & Writing, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Administrative Conference of the United States is seeking requests for proposals for two new projects. The consultants selected for our projects are typically law professors. The benefits include modest payment for the work, access to the resources and contacts of the agency for research (most projects involve empirical research in the form of interviews with knowledgeable agency personnel), and a publishable work that has gone through our committee process. For administrative law professors, it’s a great opportunity to do some meaningful and unique research. The two projects involve (1) the Paperwork Reduction Act and (2) Review of Regulatory Analysis Recommendations. The application deadline is close of business August 18, 2011. Full announcement after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 13th, 2011
| Administrative Law, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference recognizes historical work (in English) on the effect business enterprises have on the economic conditions of a country in which they operate. Two prizes of $5000 are awarded annually, one for a book and second for an article. The Gomory Prize for work published in 2010 or 2011 will be presented at the BHC annual meeting (Philadelphia, March 29-31, 2012). Book nominations are accepted from publishers and article nominations from the author of the article. Nominations are due Dec. 31, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| Business Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Center for Reproductive Rights (“the Center”) and Columbia Law School offer a two-year fellowship to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. Applicants do not need to be graduates of Columbia Law School to be eligible for this program. The deadline for applying for a 2012-14 fellowship is October 31, 2011. The application is here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 17th, 2011
| Health Law, Human Rights Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will host Law and Its Accidents Dec. 14-15, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 19, 2011.
This fourth annual workshop bringing together higher research students and early career researchers, who in different disciplines and across diverse fields of scholarship, engage with law and its theoretical and methodological questions.
This year we embark on an investigation of law and its accidents, because to critically engage with legal theory is not only to track the modalities of law, but also to probe its interstices. It is to expose law’s fault lines and its exceptions, its interruptions and its crises, but also its coincidences and serendipities. This workshop will try not just to prod those fragile points where law buckles and sways, but attempt to build new jurisprudential approaches to understanding the happenstances of law. The accidents of law are neither novel nor exemplary. They often appear subtly in the narrative of a judgment, the methodologies of legal scholarship and the ceremonies of justice. In law the accident never just happens; it is embedded in the forms and materialities of law. Send abstracts of 500 words and biographies of 100 words to law-mdflt@unimelb.edu.au by Monday, 19 September 2011. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 4th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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Invitation to Present at Congress in the Classroom 2011
The Dirksen Center is accepting proposals from high school or college and university faculty to present a session on “The Impact of Redistricting on the 2012 Congressional Elections” at The Center’s summer workshop for social studies teachers, July 25-28, 2011. The session would be either Tuesday afternoon, July 26, or Thursday morning, July 28. The application deadline is May 31, 2011. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 22nd, 2011
| Law and Politics, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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Here is an announcement from Samuel J. Levine (Touro).
On behalf of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center, I am pleased to announce the initiation of the Jewish Law Syllabus Project.With the continuing emergence of Jewish Law as an area of focus in both the American law school curriculum and American legal scholarship, recent years have seen an expansion of law school courses and centers dedicated to exploring various aspects of Jewish Law. The aim of the Jewish Law Syllabus Project is to help facilitate this increasing attention to Jewish Law in American law schools, through the compilation of a collection of syllabi from Jewish Law courses. This collection will serve as a resource, for scholars who are interested in undertaking the teaching and study of Jewish Law, as well as for those who are currently pursuing these fields.
Toward that goal, I would like to invite you to participate in the Jewish Law Syllabus Project. I would appreciate if you would send to my attention copies of Jewish Law syllabi, from both current and past courses, taught by you and/or others. Please send email attachments, to: slevine [at] tourolaw.edu ; or printed copies, to: Touro Law Center, 225 Eastview Drive, Central Islip, NY 11722.
I thank you in advance for your participation, and I welcome any questions and comments you may have about the project.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 28th, 2011
| Law and Religion, Legal Education, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute seeks proposals from schools interested in hosting the 2014 LWI Biennial Conference.
[The] 2010 LWI conference was held at a resort in Marco Island, Florida, and the 2012 conference will be held at a resort in Palm Desert, California. Because the evaluations of the 2010 conference were quite positive, the Board is not averse to choosing another hotel or resort location for the 2014 conference. However, the Board would also like to consider options for hosting a conference at a law school in order to minimize costs for our members and maximize the potential profits to fund LWI’s programs. Accordingly, the Board is asking law schools who are interested in hosting the 2014 Biennial Conference to submit a proposal by May 15, 2011.
For more information, contact LWI president kenneth D. Chestek (kchestek [at] iupui.edu) or Board member Alison Julien (alison.julien [at] marquette.edu). mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 25th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Legal Research & Writing, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 11th, 2011
| Empirical Legal Studies, Legal Education, Legal Profession, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for seven postdoctoral fellowships for the research project Rechtskulturen: Confrontations Beyond Comparison.
We welcome candidates in particular from the disciplines of law, sociology, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, theology, and area studies, representing a broad range of diverse approaches to the law, including gender studies, comparative research, law & literature, critical approaches to international law, administrative sciences, transitional justice, the law of development cooperation, and classical problems of legal philosophy. We encourage and welcome applications from all regions of the world. Fellows are given the opportunity to pursue their individual research projects within a transdisciplinary and transregional context.
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The postdoctoral fellow program Rechtskulturen (‘legal cultures’) is designed to explore the law in new and innovative ways. We intend to create a space of reflection and communication where fundamental and salient questions of the law and its context(s) can be re-negotiated from a variety of disciplinary and regional perspectives, and re-connected with jurisprudence and legal methodology.
The application deadline is Jan. 17, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2010
| Comparative Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Society, Legal History, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning (ILTL) (Gonzaga University School of Law and Washburn University School of Law) has established an alert service in order to provide our colleagues with teaching and learning ideas throughout the year.
To sign up for this free resource go to: http://lawteaching.org/getalerts/
The Institute will use the service to distribute:
· A teaching and learning idea (monthly);
· A review of and link to a noteworthy article about legal pedagogy (monthly);
· Periodic updates about and links to additional information and resources available on the ILTL website;
· The Law Teacher newsletter (fall and spring);
· Announcements of ILTL conferences and programs.
Members of the alert service can expect to receive an e-mail message from the ILTL about every two weeks (beginning October 2010). The service is distribution only; a number law teaching and learning discussion lists already exist and the ILTL does not wish to duplicate these efforts.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 21st, 2010
| Legal Education, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 19th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Profession, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The University of Wisconsin Law School announces two fellowship opportunities:
Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at Wisconsin
Next biennial session will take place in June 12-25, 2011; apply by Jan. 15, 2011.
Synopsis: The Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History is a biennial event sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School in conjunction with the American Society for Legal History (ASLH). A committee appointed by the ASLH reviews applications from early-career faculty members, doctoral students with completed or nearly completed dissertations, and recent J.D. graduates demonstrating interest in an academic career with a focus on legal history, and selects 12 promising scholars as Institute Fellows. The Fellows come to Madison for two weeks in June to participate in daily seminars, meet other legal historians, and analyze and discuss each other’s work. Each biennial Institute is organized and chaired by senior legal historians and includes visiting scholars who lead specialized sessions.
Law and Society Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Wisconsin
One-year fellowship for early-career scholars who work in the “law and society” tradition and who will be competing for university-level teaching jobs in the U.S. market.
Application period ends each year in January. For 2011-12 academic year, apply by Jan. 7, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2010
| Law and Society, Legal History, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Law and Courts Section of the APSA is seeking a new editor for its newsletter Law and Courts. The deadline for nominations and self-nominations is Oct. 1, 2010.
More information here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 26th, 2010
| Courts, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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Participants are being sought for a collaborative and comparative project in legal theory.
The Comparative Legal Theory project aims to place legal theory in its social, historical, and comparative context. Our goal is to produce jurisdictional reports on legal theory on the basis of a questionnaire prepared by the project organisers and through ongoing collaborative workshops.
A roundtable on the project will be held in Catania [Sicily] on Friday, 29 October 2010. Participants will be able to assist in creating the questionnaire to be used and to identify potential reporters.
The project managers are Seán Patrick Donlan (Limerick), Margaret Martin (Western Ontario), and Alessio Lo Giudice (Catania). Please email sean.donlan [at] ul.ie for additional information.
Please feel free to circulate this message to other individuals, institutions, blogs, etc.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 17th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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