The AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint session at the upcoming 2012 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The program, entitled Theory and Praxis in Reducing Women’s Poverty, will be 1:30-3:15 pm on Jan. 7. The organizers seek papers, collaborating with the Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law (American University Washington College of Law). Abstracts are due Sept. 7, 2011. The full call for papers is on the Feminist Law Professors blog. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 15th, 2011
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The Frances Lewis Law Center (Washington and Lee University School of Law) and the Washington and Lee Law Review present Regulation in the Fringe Economy Nov. 11, 2011. The Washington and Lee Law Review will publish a symposium issue featuring the conference papers in 2012.
The symposium Regulation in the Fringe Economy represents the most significant attempt to date by legal scholars to address the vexing legal and social issues created by lenders on the fringes of the economy who offer payday, auto title, for-profit college, and refund anticipation loans. A complete list of confirmed participants and their paper topics is available at the conference website.
Manuscript submissions are due by Aug. 15, 2011. Even if you are not able to submit a paper, the sponsors invite you to attend the conference, which is free. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 13th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES, Poverty Law |
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The Law and Development Institute (a research institute in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia) invites paper proposals for the 2011 annual conference, Law and Development at the Microlevel: From Microtrade to Current Issues in Law and Development. The conference will be co-hosted with Seattle University School of Law on December 10, 2011, in Seattle.
The LDI calls for papers on any aspect of microtrade, which is a new system of international trade designed to alleviate populations of least-developed countries of extreme poverty (for a concept paper, see http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=1524185), as well as for papers on other law and development issues that can be considered broadly at the “micro level”, including but not limited to: microfinance, microinsurance, green growth and development, etc.
Abstracts must be submitted by June 30, 2011. The paper proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board of the Law and Development Review. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 13th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, International Law, Poverty Law |
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The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, an interdisciplinary law journal, is now accepting submissions for Volumes 31 and 32. For volume 31, the deadline for abstracts (optional) is June 15, 2011; manuscripts are due July 31, 2011. For volume 32, the deadline for abstracts (optional) is Oct. 15, 2011; manuscripts are due Dec. 1, 2011. See the call for papers on SSRN. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Civil Rights Law, Law and Gender, Law and Politics, Law and Race, Law and Society, Poverty Law, Public Interest Law |
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The Georgia State University Law Review will present The Criminal Justice System in a Time of Economic Meltdown: Crisis or Opportunity for Reform? in early 2012. Abstracts are due by May 13, 2011. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 18th, 2011
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The 2011 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit, Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality, will take place June 9–10, 2011. The agenda is posted here.
Keynote speakers are Janet Yellen, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. Panels are:
- The Growth of Inequalities in the U.S.
- Subsidies for Low-Income Housing
- The Impace of Foreclosures on Households
- Assets and Educational Outcomes: New Research from the Field
- Cities in Transition: What Are the Components of Stable Communities and What Policies Will Get Us There?
- Securing Greater Financial Stability
- Labor Mobility and Housing
- Schools, Neighborhoods, and Inequality
- Changes in Community Development: Innovative Approaches and Assessing What Works
- Workforce Development and the Formerly Incarcerated
- Investing in CDFIs: A Winning Return
- Asset Building in Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
- Housing Mobility Programs and Neighborhood Effects
- Low-Income Home Ownership
- Lending and Loan Performance in the Aftermath of a Crisis
- Covering the Educational Continuum in LMI Communities: From Cradle to College
- Greater University Circle Initiative Mobile Workshop
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| Business Law, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Education Law, Labor and Employment Law, Poverty Law, Property Law |
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American University, Washington College of Law hosts ClassCrits IV: Criminalizing Economic Inequality, Sep. 23-24, 2011 in Washington, DC. There is a call for papers with a deadline of May 6, 2011. sr
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2011
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Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts seeks submissions for an issue (Spring 2012) on “Land Ownership and Tenure.” The submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2011.
UN-Habitat, The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, concluded that more than one billion people live without any security of tenure in informal settlements in developing countries. While most developed countries have records that cover most of their territories, very few countries in the Global South have such records. This discrepancy underscores the unjust politics of landownership and land distribution that contributed to an inequitable world politics of social progress and human development.
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Submission of cover art that relates to the theme is welcome. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 23rd, 2011
| Agricultural Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, Law and Race, Poverty Law, Property Law |
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The University of Kentucky College of Law presents The Inaugural James and Mary Lassiter Conference, Structural Racism: Inequality in America Today, Feb. 25, 2011.
Whenever we see disparate racial outcomes in American society — in education, health care, housing, criminal justice, or work opportunities — we are seeing structural racism at work. But this is a form of racism that most white Americans do not perceive. Our society believes racism is both conscious and intentional, so that our legal system often ignores discriminatory effects unless the claimant can show explicitly racially-discriminatory intent. But sociologists discount intent when they analyze social processes. They have demonstrated that social structures and processes produce disparate racial outcomes without conscious intent.Structural racism appears in our dependence on local property taxes for public school funding, or reliance on social networks to spread information about job openings, or subjective decision-making in the workplace, or a housing market that is driven by unconscious stereotypes, or the on-going exclusion of domestic and farm workers from Social Security benefits. Each example appears on the surface to be race-neutral. Yet their outcomes consistently disadvantage people of color.
The College of Law, Prof. William Wiecek, the inaugural Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the UK College of Law, faculty from many disciplines at UK, and presenters from other area universities and organizations are pleased to share their research and work on the racial disparities in outcomes and the structural processes that produce those disparities.
The goal of the conference is to engage in a cross-disciplinary exploration of structural racism in order to enable cross-disciplinary action to dismantle structural racism.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 31st, 2011
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The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System present the seventh Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, “The Changing Landscape of Community Development: Linking Research with Policy and Practice in Low-Income Communities.” The conference will be held April 28-29, 2011, in Arlington, VA.
On the heels of the deepest recession since the pre-War period, the challenges facing low-income communities are immense. But, the current crisis also provides an opportunity to critically re-think community development. The goal of the 2011 conference is to highlight emerging and novel research that directly informs community development policy and practice and that points the way to a more inclusive vision of sustainable economic recovery.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 21st, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Poverty Law, Property Law |
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The Community Development and Research Departments of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland invite paper submissions for its 2011 annual Policy Summit, to be held June 9-10, 2011, in Cleveland, Ohio. The policy summit will focus on housing, inequality, neighborhoods, and labor market issues, with special consideration given to research related to the foreclosure crisis. The submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 21st, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Labor and Employment Law, Local Government Law, Poverty Law, Property Law |
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The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender presents its symposium, Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Barriers to Access, Roadmaps to Fulfillment, on Friday, March 4, 2011.
This symposium will feature current academic discourse concerning the important issue of sexual and reproductive rights analyzed through four different frameworks, corresponding to four panels: motherhood, teenage sexuality, abortion, and international human rights. Featured on the symposium panels will be 10 preeminent scholars, who will discuss crucial topics in the field including: (1) the feminization of HIV and poverty; (2) critical race studies and intersectionality; (3) gender-motivated violence and patriarchy; (4) the shape of sexual rights in the international human rights framework; and (5) the implications of a woman’s childbearing decision-making on assessing her qualifications as a mother.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 5th, 2010
| CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Family Law, Health Law, Human Rights Law, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Poverty Law |
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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.”
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 28th, 2010
| CONFERENCES, Legal Profession, Poverty Law, Public Interest Law |
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The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (Iowa) holds its 15th Anniversary Symposium, The War on… The Fallout of Declaring War on Social Issues, March 3-4, 2011. The call for papers deadline was Nov. 15, 2010.
From the War on Poverty, to the War on Crime, to the Wars on Drugs and Terror, by utilizing the “War on” rhetoric, policy and lawmakers unite the public against a common enemy and authorize themselves to act more aggressively against a group of people. Our symposium will be examining who gets swept into this class of enemies, and how this practice of declaring wars on social issues affects marginalized communities.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 28th, 2010
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The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues is currently accepting article submissions for Volume 13, 2010-2011. Our publication is committed to raising awareness of issues faced by minorities and other individuals who have traditionally lacked a voice in the law. The Scholar furthers legal discourse on issues concerning race, class, gender, sexual identity, class, and religion, among others. We accept submissions on a rolling basis, and prefer Bluebook citation format. Please email submissions to lawscholar [at] stmarytx.edu.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 6th, 2010
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In collaboration with the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, the Association of American Law Schools sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will be sponsoring a joint session at the upcoming AALS Annual Meeting to explore legal processes and systems – specifically the role of clinical education – as a movement within legal education to empower students to further justice and public service by molding and changing the law. Of the papers selected, a subset will be chosen for presentation at the conference. Submissions should be no more than 25,000 words and sent to gjplp18@gmail.com by September 1, 2010. kja
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 23rd, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Clinics, CONFERENCES, Empirical Legal Studies, Legal Education, Poverty Law, Public Interest Law |
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