Russ Pearce (Fordham) and Eli Wald (Denver Sturm), “Law as a Moral Business: Reintegrating Ethics into Economics and Law”
This paper is not publicly available.
Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA Law) presents “Enforcing Immigration in Arizona and Elsewhere”
This paper is not publicly available.
Diane Marie Amann (UC Davis) presents “Women at Nuremberg”
This paper is publicly available through SSRN.
The Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) holds its second annual meeting March 4-5, 2011, at Georgetown Law.
Property related topics will cover a number of subject areas including:
- Real, Personal, and Intangible Property
- Cultural Property
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate Transactions and Finance
- Land Use and Zoning
- Urban Planning and Development
- Environmental Law
- Climate Change
- Housing
- Home
- Green Development
- Mortgages and Foreclosure
- Land Titles
- Indigenous Populations and Sovereignty
- Human Rights and Property
- Entrepreneurship and Property
- Takings and Eminent Domain
- Property Theory
- Property History
- The Economics of Property
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All papers submitted for the conference will be eligible for consideration for publication in a “themed” book to be edited as a part of the series on Law, Property, and Society published by Ashgate Publishing. If there are enough papers to form more than one good edited book, consideration will be given to publishing more than one book. Authors are free to publish papers elsewhere rather than in a proposed conference book. Papers can be works in progress (rather than finished works) for purposes of presenting at the conference.
The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law is accepting scholarly papers related to “Biotechnology and Health-Related Issues in IP Law” for its spring 2011 issue. Professionals and scholars are invited to submit a working paper or idea for consideration. Published individuals may also be invited to present their works at the RIPL symposium April 15, 2011. Proposals are due by September 10, 2010. For questions, contact questions regarding submissions, contact: Wasim K. Bleibel, Lead Articles Editor, wbleibe [at] law.jmls.edu.
The 2010 Central States Law School Association (CSLSA) Annual Conference will be held Sept. 24 -25, 2010, at the University of North Dakota School of Law. Abstracts are due by Aug. 31, 2010.
The purpose of CSLSA is to foster scholarly exchanges among law faculty across legal disciplines. The annual CSLSA conference is a forum for legal scholars, especially more junior scholars, to present working papers or finished articles on any law-related topic in a relaxed and supportive setting where junior and senior scholars from various disciplines are available to comment. More mature scholars have an opportunity to test new ideas in a less formal setting than is generally available for their work.
Althought CSLSA is a regional association, faculty from around the U.S. are encouraged to participate.
The Charleston School of Law hosts a Southeastern Law Scholars Conference Oct. 22 (dinner) and 23 (all day), 2010. This regional conference will bring together junior law school faculty to present published papers or works-in-progress across all disciplines within the law. The conference is open to all junior law faculty (one to seven years teaching experience) at law schools in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. To ensure an atmosphere conducive to feedback, space is limited to twenty participants. To participate in the conference, please send an email to Associate Professor Sheila B. Scheuerman, sscheuerman [at] charlestonlaw.edu by Sept. 20, 2010.
Source: SSRN.
The University of Puget Sound presents the second quadrennial National Race and Pedagogy Conference, Teaching and Learning for Justice: Danger and Opportunity in Our Critical Moment, Oct. 28 (7 p.m.) to Oct. 30, 2010. Plenary speakers include activist and performer, Mr. Harry Belafonte; President of University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski; Seattle University law professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic; Harvard law professor Lani Guinier. The conference will address all levels of education from many perspectives. The deadline for proposals was in March.
The University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Buea in Cameroon, with the support of UNCITRAL (United Nation Commission on International Trade Law) and OHADA (Organisation for the Harmonised Business Law in Africa) are organising an international conference entitled “The 1st African Conference on International Commercial Law.” The Conference will be held in Douala, Cameroon, Jan. 13-14, 2011. The Conference will focus on topics related to international sales law, international arbitration and unification of general contract law.
During this conference early career researchers also have the opportunity to present recent research papers relating to the topics of the conference. Early career researchers interested in submitting abstracts are invited to do so before Oct. 1, 2010. The abstract should be submitted as a word or pdf document with 12-point font, 1.5 line spacing and should not exceed 1500 words. The abstract should be sent via email to Jeanalain.Penda [at] unibas.ch. A jury of established academics will select the successful eight abstracts. The researchers of the selected abstracts will be given 10 minutes to present their papers during the “Early Career Researchers Panel.” The travel and accommodation expenses of the selected candidates will be covered.
Who is an Early Career Researcher?
Early Career Researchers are people who are within two years of the start of their research careers when submitting their abstract. They should be currently undertaking a dissertation, Ph.D. thesis or the like, or have received a doctoral degree not earlier than 2008.
For additional information please contact:
Jean Alain Penda at Jeanalain.Penda [at] unibas.ch or
Stephanie Wassem at Stephanie.Wassem [at] unibas.ch
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society announces its 2011 Symposium, Gender, Justice, & Victim Rights: A Gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System. It will take place Feb. 25, 2011. The editors seek original scholarship, from both scholars and practitioners, that addresses the intersections of law and gender in the role and treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. Interested parties should send an abstract to WJLGS.Symposium [at] gmail.com by Oct. 31, 2010. Those selected for the Symposium will be notified by December 2010. The Journal’s Symposium issue will be published in Winter 2011. Questions may be addressed to Symposium Editor Erin Welsh, ebwelsh [at] wisc.edu.
The AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law is seeking participants for a roundtable discussion at the AALS Annual Meeting and is also separately soliciting essays for a print symposium to follow. The topic for both is the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (CARD Act). The roundtable discussion will take place Jan. 8, 2011. The deadline for nominating speakers (including self-nominations) is Sept. 23, 2010. The deadline for proposals for pieces in the print symposium (Utah Law Review) is Oct. 1, 2010. Jump to full post
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law will host Professor Richard Weisberg of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University as he presents “The First Amendment Degraded: Milkovich v. Lorain and A Continuing Sense of Loss on its 20th Birthday.” The presentation will be held on Tuesday, August 24, 2010.
The editors of the Socio-Legal Review invite submissions by students and scholars.
The Journal subscribes to an expansive view on the interpretation of “law and society” thereby keeping its basic criteria for contributions simply that of high academic merit, as long as there is a perceivable link. This would include not just writing about the role played by law in social change, or the role played by social dynamics in the formulation and implementation of law, but also writing that simply takes cognizance of legal institutions/ institutions of governance/ administration, power structures in social commentary and so on. Through this effort, the journal also hopes to fill the lacunae relating to academic debate on socio-legal matters among law students.
The deadline for submission for volume 7 (2011) is Nov. 30, 2010.
The Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) will present a conference in Prato, Tuscany, Italy, September, 12-14, 2011: Working with the forensic paradigm: developing effective responses across the mental health, helping and legal professions.
The conference will give particular attention to forensic work across the health, helping and legal professions. The focus is on the intersection between the forensic lens as it is applied to a range of individual and family matters: in child protection, family welfare, mental health offending, disability and addictions, and related areas.
Check here for the call for papers.
You can register your interest in notices about the conference by contacting the conference convenors, Dr. Rosemary Sheehan
(Rosemary.Sheehan [at] monash.edu) and Prof. James Ogloff (James.Ogloff [at] monash.edu).
The Centre for Transnational Law and Justice (University of Windsor Faculty of Law) presents Legal Measures Against Corruption in Global Perspective: Principles, Politics, Prospects Oct. 1-2, 2010. The deadline for submission of paper proposals has been extended to Sept. 3, 2010.
The Midwest Law and Economics Association annual meeting will be Friday, October 8th, and Saturday, October 9th, 2010, at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado.
For those who have not been to MLEA before, you need not be a midwesterner, nor an economist; the event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of law and economics content, ranging from empirical analyses and formal economic modeling to legal philosophy and doctrinal papers infused with economic thinking. There is no membership or registration fee.
This year’s meeting is sponsored by the University of Colorado Law School as well as its Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Presentations will start Friday morning and end mid-late Saturday afternoon; there will be an on-campus dinner and reception Friday night, as well as an informal off-campus dinner Saturday night following the end of the conference.
Submissions: To submit a presentation, email scott.moss [at] colorado.edu with an abstract or paper by September 1, 2010. Please title the email “MLEA Submission – {Name}” or there is a chance Scott will lose it. A conference schedule, and RSVP information for conference meals, will be circulated in September. Submission is open to all, so feel free to share this announcement with colleagues.
Thanks: PrawfsBlawg.
Lewis & Clark Law School hosts the 18th Annual Animal Law Conference, Animals in Crisis: Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need, Oct. 15-17, 2010. Topics include animals in the wake of the oil spill and other disasters, climate change, and agriculture.
The Innocence Network and the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law will host the first-ever conference dedicated to exploring the phenomenon of wrongful conviction of the innocent in the international arena. This event, An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction, will take place April 8-10, 2011. The objective of the conference will be to bring selected scholars, lawyers and exonerees from around the world together in one place to interact and learn from one another. The hope is that the conference will galvanize the innocence movement into a unified international human rights movement.
The University of Cincinnati Law Review will publish a symposium issue in connection with the conference. And the Freedom Center Journal, will publish a special issue dedicated solely to essays, poetry and visual art created by exonerees, as well as letters from prison written by inmates who were later exonerated or who claim innocence. The Freedom Center Journal is a scholarly publication of the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Suffolk University School of Law will host “Contract as Promise at 30: The Future of Contract Theory” on March 25, 2011. Papers will be published in the Suffolk University Law Review. Jeffrey Lipshaw writes:
In 1981, Professor Charles Fried published a book on contract theory entitled Contract as Promise. For almost thirty years, the book has been the seminal work on the moral or deontological justification for the state’s enforcement of private promises. No scholarly discussion of the field can be complete without addressing its claims, whether one agrees or not with its original and provocative stand.
On Friday, March 25, 2011, Suffolk University Law School in Boston will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the book’s publication with a day-long symposium, “Contract as Promise at 30: The Future of Contract Theory.” After reflections from Professor Fried, some of the academy’s foremost contract theorists will offer papers and commentary, with ample opportunity for questions and discussion. Participants presently scheduled include the Honorable Richard Posner, Randy Barnett, Barbara Fried, T.M. Scanlon, Jean Braucher, Richard Craswell, Avery Katz, Henry Smith, Lisa Bernstein, Seana Shiffrin, Daniel Markovits, Juliet Kostritsky, John C.P. Goldberg, Rachel Arnow-Richman, Curtis Bridgeman, Nathan Oman, Roy Kreitner, Gregory Klass, Carol Chomsky, and Robert Scott.
This is an opportune moment to step back, review the alternative approaches to contract theory that have developed since 1981, and to offer views about future doctrinal or inter-disciplinary developments, whether based in moral philosophy, welfare economics, sociology, or other disciplines.
Thanks: ContractsProf Blog.
The Twentieth British Legal History Conference will be held in Cambridge Wed. July 13 to Sat. July 16, 2011. The conference theme will be “Law and Legal Process.” The call for papers deadline is Aug. 31, 2010.
The 4th International Congress on Psychology and Law, which includes the American Psychology-Law Society, the European Association of Psychology and Law, and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law will be held in Miami, Florida, March 2-5, 2011. Pre-conference workshops (full- and half-day) will be held on Wed., March 2. The conference begins Thur. morning, March 3 and runs through Sat., March 5. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 15, 2010.
The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society’s 29th Annual Conference will be “Owning the Past: Whose Past? Whose Present?” It will take place Dec. 13-15, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia.
The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the outcomes and practical challenges surrounding the construction of historical consciousness through and about law? Whose past is told and by whom? How does law’s past influence history’s present? And is there any such thing as the orderly evolution of legal ideas? This conference invites papers on the subject of ownership in history and law, and may include contributions on any of several broad themes: the contestation of memory; the ethics of representation and remembrance; the commoditization and consumption of traumatic pasts; transcultural and transgenerational trauma; new technologies of historical documentation; testimony and bearing witness; Indigenous knowledge; identity politics; citizenship; the ethics of reproducing historical narratives; colonialism and hegemony; ‘dark’ tourism and artefacts of law; and new legal imaginings and the contest with the legal past.This is an interdisciplinary conference and papers are invited from scholars across a broad range of disciplines, as well as chronological and geographical contexts.
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