George Mason University School of Law hosts TPRC’s 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Oct. 1-3, 2010. TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, panel proposals, and student papers for presentation at the 2010 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC seeks submissions of disciplinary, comparative, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary excellence. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to 11 listed topics. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is March 31, 2010.
The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School invites applications for a sabbatical visitor for the 2010-2011 academic year to undertake research, writing and collaboration with Center faculty and students in ways that span traditional academic disciplines. The CGSL welcomes applications from faculty from any field who are interested in spending a semester or the academic year in residence at Columbia Law School working on scholarly projects relating to Gender and/or Sexuality Law.
Sabbatical Visitors will receive an office with phone and computer, secretarial support and full access to university libraries, computer systems and recreational facilities. In addition, Sabbatical Visitors will be expected to participate in CGSL activities and present a paper at the Center’s Colloquium Series.
Applicants should submit:
• a curriculum vitae
• a writing sample
• a research statement (of approximately 1,000 words) that describes the proposed work during the Sabbatical period
Applications are due April 1, 2010. We prefer electronic submissions to
gender_sexuality_law [at] law.columbia.edu
Direct questions to:
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Sabbatical Visitor Program
Columbia University
435 W. 116th Street
New York, N.Y. 10027
gender_sexuality_law@law.columbia.edu
It will feature panels on the “war on terror,” urban revitalization, criminal law, health care, education, immigration, human trafficking, voting rights, international and comparative law, judicial nominations, environmental justice, and corporate responsibility, among others. It will also include a Junior Faculty and Development Workshop. A media plenary session will explore the meaning of a “post-racial” society and its relevance to legal scholarship and teaching.
Exo-politics and the emergence of a New World Order
Non state actors, transnational armed groups and the regulation of hostilities in India: Should International Humanitarian Law recognize a hybrid category of armed conflict?
Does Climate Change have an impact on National Security? An Indian perspective
Can the principles of Insurance Law be applied to the Law of Outer Space?
Eligibility: undergraduate and post graduate law students enrolled in any institution in India.
The University of ArizonaCracchiolo Law Library has two to three openings for its fellowships in law librarianship. The The job ad is listed here (choose “Search Positions” and enter 44486 as the job number).
In order to be considered for the fellowship you must have a JD and be accepted for admission by the School of Information Resources and Library Science for its Master’s program at the University of Arizona.
In return for working 20 hours a week in the law library you receive free tuition, benefits and a salary of $11,000 a year. There are a few incidental university fees that the fellow must pay and the free tuition is considered income for IRS tax purposes.
For more information, contact Associate Dean Michael Chiorazzi, michael.chiorazzi [at] law.arizona.edu. mw
This conference is the first ever conference for the Next Generation of Antitrust Scholars. Much has changed in both the law and economic theory of antitrust in the past 30 years. The purpose of this event is to convene a conference of the next generation of antitrust law professors (people who started their teaching career in or after 2000) and provide them an opportunity to present their latest research. Senior antitrust scholars and practitioners in the field will comment on the papers.
Junior scholars whose home institution is outside the United States and who have held a faculty position for less than seven years, as of 2010, or whose last degree was earned less than ten years earlier than 2010 and are not U.S. citizens, are invited to apply for the 2010 session.
In coordination with the live event, the University of La Verne Law Review is publishing a Symposium Issue on Immigration Law, and will be accepting submissions through February 1, 2010.
In addition to this general call for papers, there is also a student writing competition; the winner will receive $200, publication in the Law Review, and the opportunity to present at the symposium. (Other finalists’ papers will also be considered for publication at the editors’ discretion.) The deadline for the student writing contest is Jan. 1, 2010. mw
• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law - historical foundations
• Constitutional Law - theoretical foundations
• Criminal Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Jurisprudence and Philosophy
• Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy
• Law and Humanities (including Law and Gender Studies)
• Public International Law
The deadline for submissions is March 19, 2010. mw
The 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will be held at Yale Law School Nov. 5 - Nov. 6, 2010. The conference, which is the annual meeting of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including law, economics, political science, demographics, finance, psychology, and sociology. The scholars will present their papers at multiple panel sessions throughout each day, and each presentation will be followed by discussion. In addition to the paper sessions, there will be a poster session and quantitative methods sessions.
The submission period for papers begins Jan. 1, 2010, and ends July 2, 2010. The CELS Organizing Committee will review submissions and send out acceptance notices on Sept. 1, 2010. Submissions of papers in all areas of empirical and experimental legal scholarship are invited. Papers from junior scholars are especially encouraged.
As in the past, there will be a program to help defray the cost of attending for presenters travelling from schools without budgets to cover conference expenses. Applications will be taken in September 2010.
More information and online registration will be available soon on the CELS 2010 website. mw
The Law and Society Association invites proposals (for papers or sessions) for its annual meeting, Beyond Critique, May 27-30, 2010. The submission deadline is Dec. 8, 2009.
A graduate student workshop, What’s Next for the Law and Society Paradigm?, will be held May 25-26, 2010. The application deadline is Jan. 29, 2010.
An Early Career Workshop (limited to 20 scholars) will also take place May 25-26, 2010. The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2010.
The Early Career Workshop encourages new faculty to move their research and writing toward law-and-society topics and encourages people who are already comfortable with one methodological approach to consider others. For those trained as lawyers, social science may seem a bit daunting. For those trained in one social science, other methodologies from other fields may seem foreign. But for all concerned, it might be useful to know these other methods. In this Early Career Workshop, we will help people to make transitions to new kinds of law-related work with a focus on questions of methodology. As a result, we will ask: How do law-and-society scholars do their work? And how can newcomers to the field increase their methodological range?
The call for papers is here. The steering committee for the symposium encourages authors and researchers from accredited law schools and universities, judges, lawyers, and non-profits or advocacy organization professionals to submit proposals. The steering committee additionally invites proposals from second or third year law students. The deadline for abstracts is Jan. 1, 2010; the subsequent deadline for article submission is Feb. 1, 2010. mw
Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law will hold the eighth meeting of The Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law will be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 - 5, 2010. Paper competition submissions must be received by January 8, 2010. jv
The Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference sponsored by NYU School of Law and the Antitrust Section of the ABA is accepting papers from new law professors. Submissions are due November 20, 2009. The conference will take place on January 29, 2010. jv
Penn Law will award two Sharswood Fellowships in 2010 for two years of research, writing and teaching for scholars committed to entering a career in legal academia. Applications are due January 15, 2010. jv
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