For more information or to register please call (323) 235-4243 or (626) 244-4009, or by email, danae_tapia87[at]yahoo.com, or go to this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2BFJ9TS
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In collaboration with the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, the joint session seeks papers for presentation and publication relating to the program’s topic.  Submissions may include papers on substantive law, interdisciplinary innovation or analysis, policy, empirical work, or clinical pedagogy, that relate to the issues of debt and lending in a wide range of contexts.  Papers should be submitted by email attachment to aals.debt.papers[@]gmail.com.

Deadline: August 10, 2012.im

On July 22–25, 2012, the Children’s Defense Fund will sponsor, “Pursuing Justice for Children and the Poor With Urgency and Persistence: A Community and Youth Empowerment Conference,” in Cincinnati, Ohio. The conference will present the latest research findings, best practices, community-building models, and empowerment strategies to meet the needs of children and the poor, including a focus on diminishing child and youth involvement in the juvenile justice system. mmb

The conference theme, Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse, examines the ways in which legal scholars are transforming our institutional and external communities through advocacy, scholarship, and community engagement.

For more information, please contact Professor Wendy Greene: wendy.greene[at]samford.edu.
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The Self-Represented Litigation Network presents a pre-conference on May 16. Details on Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice Blog. mw

The deadlines for the fall and winter issues are January 9, 2012 and March 5, 2012. Double-spaced manuscripts should be e-mailed to Jim Kelly, Editor-in-Chief, at J.Kelly[at]nd.edu and Wendy Smith, Managing Editor, at wjsmith[at]staff.abanet.org. Additional guidelines are available here.
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We invite papers that consider the following questions.

• What are the political and ideological implications of the gap between the demographic realities of Appalachia and outsiders’ perceptions of those same demographics? . . .
• As the touchstone of many of the “white poverty” stories we tell ourselves, it’s important to consider the particular metaphorical space Appalachia occupies within these stories. . . . What lessons about race, culture, and class should we be drawing . . .?
• The plight of Appalachia’s natural resources defines Appalachian studies and politics. . . . How do these [boom and bust] cycles influence cultural and political realities? What kinds of interventions by activists and practitioners do the misuses of natural resources demand? . . .

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For more information about the Journal and our submission policy, please see our website. Please send article or proposal submissions, along with your curriculum vitae to Whitney Smith at whitney-e-smith@uiowa.edu. The deadline is Jan. 30, 2012.
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The goal of the Symposium, which is invitation-only, is to bring together the nation’s top experts, including academics, private attorneys, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and government officials, to discuss research and policy related to credit scoring and credit reporting, including their impact on communities of color and other protected groups.TOPICS: We invite paper proposals that are empirical, qualitative, theoretical or policy-oriented. . . .

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