We are soliciting proposals for papers addressing the application of Title IX to bullying and harassment, including but not limited to: Title IX’s application to harassment motivated by the victim’s perceived sexual orientation or gender identity; judicial decisions applying the Court’s deliberate indifference standard for institutional liability; harassment contexts that have proven particularly challenging for schools and universities, such as online bullying and sexual abuse by and among student athletes; and the role of public enforcement, including the effectiveness of recent guidance from the Department of Education addressing institutional response to sex-, gender-, and sexual orientation-based bullying and harassment and sexual violence and abuse.

The deadline date for submission is August 1, 2011. There is no requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.

Papers will be selected after review by a joint committee consisting of members of the Section on Education Law, the Section on Sports and Law, and the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues. Accepted papers will be included in a symposium published in the Western New England Law Review. One or more papers will also be selected for presentation during the Sections’ joint program at the AALS Annual Meeting. Program participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and expenses.

Contact for submission and inquiries:
Professor Erin Buzuvis
Western New England University School of Law
ebuzuvis@law.wne.edu

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The submissions to the Journal are selected for publication on the basis of a peer-review mechanism conducted through an external Article Review Board consisting of academicians and experts in the field of technology law. The Journal is edited by an Editorial Board consisting of students from the National Law School of India University selected on an annual basis through a selection process that tests them on their editing skills and knowledge in the concerned areas of law.

The Journal accepts academic submissions in the form of articles, notes, comments or book reviews on a host of legal issues regarding the interface between law and technology, including e-commerce, cyber crime, biotechnology, bioethics, competition law, outsourcing, intellectual property, related public policy, and law and society issues posed by new technology. The Journal is also oriented towards publishing academic work that considers the aforementioned is sues from a comparative perspective and/or the perspective of the developing world.

The Editorial Board invites submissions for Volume No. 6 of 2010. The Journal follows a rolling submissions policy and the deadline for the forthcoming volume is 15 December 2009. The submissions received after this date shall be considered for the next volume. The submissions must relate to any of the broad themes mentioned above or any other law and technology-related theme.

The full call for papers is on IJLT’s website. mw

We are seeking submissions for our 2010 Almanac & Reader, which will have a baseball-and-the-law theme. We want scholarly essays on topics related to baseball and the law. We hope to select 12 essays, each between 1500 and 5000 words long. Topics in which we are particularly (but not exclusively) interested are: (a) baseball and … civil rights law; criminal law; defamation law; intellectual property law; international law; labor law; media law; property law; tax law; tort law; transportation law; (b) baseball players who were or became lawyers; and (c) roles played by lawyers in baseball.

Please send your proposals for papers to editors [at] greenbag.org.

Ross E. Davies
Professor of Law
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22201
(703) 993-8049
(703) 993-8202 fax

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