The Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law will take place in San Diego from October 23 to October 25, 2008. This year’s colloquium will be co-hosted by California Western School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the University of San Diego School of Law. The annual colloquium, which was first held in 2006 at Marquette University Law School, has become an eagerly anticipated forum for American labor and employment law scholars to present and obtain feedback on works-in-progress. The timing of the colloquium, close to the beginning of the academic year, allows professors to float or try out new ideas in the presence of supportive colleagues. The call for papers deadline is July 31, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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DISORIENT: A Journal of Race, Class, Sexuality and Gender in the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington School of Law
Call for submissions to undergraduate and graduate students, professors, activists and attorneys for 2007-2008 Inaugural Issue — deadline: July 1, 2008. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008
| Law and Sexuality, Poverty Law, Law and Race, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Jurisprudence |
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The Midwest Law and Economics Association will hold its annual meeting Oct. 3-4, 2008, at Northwestern University School of Law. This year’s Meeting is sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law.
To submit a presentation, please send an abstract or paper to searlecenter[at]law.northwestern.edu. At previous MLEA meetings, scholars have presented papers on a diverse assortment of legal topics such as securities regulation, tort law, family law, environmental law, and constitutional law. The deadline for submission will be July 15th, 2008. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008
| Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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I posted information about this conference in February. Now I have new links to add, as well as a reminder: The call for proposals deadline (May 15) is approaching. Get your proposals in: the organizers look forward to reviewing them!
The University of Washington School of Law will host a small, working conference (about 40-60 participants), Legal Education at the Crossroads — Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, Sept. 5-7, 2008. The planning committee includes faculty from seven different law schools
The conference responds to the suggestions in the Carnegie Report (Sullivan, et al., Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007)) and supported by the recent study by Stuckey et al. (Best Practices for Legal Education (2007)).
While we will be championing existing transformative efforts, our principal goal is to help participants develop, expand, and assess projects anywhere along the spectrum between ideas and recently-initiated innovations. Consequently, while participants in the conference will gain a sense of what law schools are already doing to implement the Carnegie and CLEA Reports, participants’ primary benefit will be the opportunity to develop their own ideas as they share and explore those ideas in facilitated groups.
There will be no registration fee, and some meals will be provided. Participants will pay for their own transportation and hotel costs.
Requests to participate should be submitted by May 15, 2008. See the request for proposals here.
For further information, you may contact Debbie Maranville (206.685.6803, maran[at]u.washington.edu) or Michael Hunter Schwartz (785-670-1666).
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 9th, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, Education Law |
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Entries will be accepted through July 1, 2008, for the 2008 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
Established in 2007 at Chicago-Kent College of Law by alumnus Roy C. Palmer and his wife, Susan M. Palmer, the prize honors a work of scholarship that explores the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. The $10,000 prize is designed to encourage and reward public debate among scholars on current issues affecting the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of governments throughout the world.
Articles or books submitted to the competition must be in draft form or have been published within the six months prior to the July 1 deadline. As a condition of accepting the award, the winner will present his or her work at Chicago-Kent. Eligible books and articles should be submitted to Tasha Kincade, assistant to Dean Harold J. Krent, at tkincade[at]kentlaw.edu or 565 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60661-3691.
The 2007 prize was awarded to constitutional scholars David D. Cole and Jules L. Lobel for their book Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (The New Press). The award-winning book is a critical analysis of the civil liberties and geopolitical implications of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” and self-described “paradigm of prevention” with respect to terrorism.
Roy Palmer, a lawyer and real estate developer, is a 1962 honors graduate of Chicago-Kent and a member of its board of overseers. He and his wife, Susan, active in numerous civic, social and philanthropic organizations, are the recipients of the 1997 Outstanding Individual Philanthropist Award of the National Society of Fundraising Executives. In 2006, the Palmers pledged a $1 million gift to the law school earmarked to support the expansion of Chicago-Kent’s campus, located in a rapidly developing area of downtown Chicago.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent has a proud tradition of advancing and influencing legal thought through public programs, endowed lecture series, and faculty scholarship.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 8th, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law |
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The Law School Admission Council Research Grant Program funds empirical research on legal training and legal practice broadly viewed. This includes the study of precursors to legal training (including demographic variables), all varieties of legal training itself, and the work that lawyers, judges, law teachers, and other legal professionals do after they complete their training (“law jobs”).
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Although the program welcomes research on a variety of topics, three requests for proposals have been issued in the following areas . . ..
* Research on Pipeline Issues and Access to Law Schools for Minority Populations
* Research on Access to Law School for Students With Disabilities
* Research on Law School Academic Assistance Programs
For more information, visit http://members.lsacnet.org/, and choose Research Grants under Grants.
There are two reviewing cycles each year, with deadlines of Sept. 1 and Feb. 1.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 5th, 2008
| Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education |
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The Canadian Law and Economics Association will meet Sept. 26-27, 2008, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The call for papers asks for submissions “in all areas of Law and Economics. In addition, there will be a number of panels focusing on specific topics,” including Bankruptcy, Behavioural Law and Economics, Competition Policy, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime, Environmental Law and Economics, Family Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Normative Law and Economics, Norms, Regulation of the Legal Profession, Securities Law, and Taxation. The deadline for submissions is May 28, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 5th, 2008
| Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The 15th WZB Conference on Markets and Politics and the 2nd Conference of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy (RNIC), on Deterrence in Competition Policy, will take place Oct. 17-18, 2008, at the WZB.
The WZB is the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin).
The call for papers deadline is Aug. 1, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 5th, 2008
| Empirical Legal Studies, Antitrust Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The Pacific Legal Foundation’s Program for Judicial Awareness will award $10,000 to one junior faculty member for an original contribution to legal scholarship on the following question.
The Fifth Amendment mandates that government may not take private property for public use without payment of just compensation. Some legal commentators have argued that the law of governmental takings should be balanced by a theory of “givings,” such that compensation for the taking of property should be offset by the amount of value attributable to the existence of general governmental programs and services. Explain why the “givings” rationale is inconsistent with the purpose and function of the Takings Clause.
The deadline for submissions is May 30, 2008. Details about the competition are here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 4th, 2008
| Local Government Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, Property Law |
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Proposals to Advance Measurement of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the United States, 2008 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data - proposals due May 13, 2008.
The 2007 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data brought together over 100 researchers and data providers to examine thirty-eight new and recently updated data sets. While the availability of these data sets is exciting and promising for research, substantial gaps exist in our knowledge bout innovation and entrepreneurship remain. One path for advancing our current understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation is to enhance existing data collection efforts through such means as adding questions, revising existing ones, and modifying methodologies.
The Kauffman Foundation will host the 2008 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data in order to provide a forum for proposing and discussing changes in data collection efforts. As with the 2007 event, researchers, data providers, and policy analysts will be invited. The Symposium will be held in November 2008 in Washington, DC.
In preparation for the Symposium, the Kauffman Foundation seeks to commission a series of short papers proposing incremental changes in existing U.S.-based data efforts that would significantly advance the study of entrepreneurship and innovation over the next five years.</blockquote>Full call for proposals is here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008
| Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy is now accepting papers for the two issues of Vol. XXIII, due out next spring. Issue 1 will be on the Environment, and Issue 2 will be on Immigration. A limited number of papers will also be selected for presentation by their authors at our symposia (dates still tba, but the Environment symposium will be in the fall and Immigration in the spring).
The Journal’s leadership firmly believes that any serious discussion of the great legal and policy questions of our day must be informed by a consideration of morality and ethics. The Journal welcomes for consideration articles or essays of any length treating seriously upon an issue within its upcoming topic areas. We look for thoughtful contemplation and passionate writing.
Submissions should be emailed to: njlepp[at]nd.edu
Documents should be in Word format, double-spaced, with footnotes conforming to the Bluebook. In matters not directly addressed by the Bluebook, the Chicago Manual of Style should be consulted. Submissions for both issues will be accepted from now until Nov. 15.
Any questions should be directed to: Noah J. Stanzione, the current Editor-in-Chief, stanzione.1[at]nd.edu
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008
| Immigration Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Environmental Law |
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Western New England College School of Law Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship will host its Third Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development, Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy, October 17, 2008. Panels will be: Environmental Justice; Globalization, Immigration, and Effects on Entrepreneurship; Finance and Entrepreneurship; Looking Ahead: Political Outcomes & Entrepreneurial Policy.
The call for papers deadline was April 15, but final papers aren’t due until Aug. 15. Who knows? You might be able to submit a proposal even though I’m late posting this.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008
| Immigration Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Environmental Law, Business Law |
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The Organizing Committee has begun reviewing papers submitted for the September 12-13, 2008 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies to be held at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. In light of a number of requests for extensions and mindful of a deadline that falls near the end of a semester, the CELS Organizing Committee will continue to accept papers for consideration for the conference for a limited period after the April 15 deadline. Papers submitted after April 15 will be considered for inclusion in the conference subject to the availability of space. We expect a hard cutoff date of May 16.
Authors who have already submitted papers may use the SSRN system to submit a revised version. Peer reviewers will consider whichever version is available at the time they undertake their peer reviews.
Here are links to information about the Call for Papers and the Conference.
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 22nd, 2008
| Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The 6th European Conference on Ecological Restoration will be held at the International Convention Center in Ghent, Belgium, Sept. 8-12, 2008. See list of partners here. The deadline for the calls for proposals is April 15, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 14th, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Sixth Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law will focus on Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection. It will be hosted by the Metropolitan Autonomous University–Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Nov. 10-15, 2008. The call for papers deadline is June 30, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 14th, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES |
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National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop (Winston-Salem, NC, May 23, 2008):
Wake Forest University School of Law and the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School announce a workshop for military and civilian junior faculty working in the area of national security law (broadly understood to include the full range of constitutional, statutory, and international law concepts implicated by national security issues). Our aim is to provide an informal setting for participants to present and discuss works-in-progress, for civilian and JAG faculty to get to know one another, and for civilian faculty to receive instruction from JAG faculty concerning current issues in the law of war.
The call for papers deadline is April 4, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 24th, 2008
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, National Security Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Constitutional Law |
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