The University of Chicago Legal Forum is now accepting abstracts and drafts for our 2010 Volume and symposium, Crime, Criminal Law, and the Recession. Authors selected for publication must present their article at the University of Chicago Legal Forum Symposium on October 23-24, 2009, at the law school and submit a publication draft by early January 2010.
The symposium will provide one of the first opportunities to explore an overlooked aspect of the current recession — changes in crime and criminal law. It will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines — law, economics, sociology, political science, and public policy. Topics may include the impact of inequality or unemployment on crime rates, social trends in crime during recessions, the impact of crime on economic growth, changes in state drug laws, and reevaluations of the cost of punishment.
Interested authors should submit a CV and abstracts or drafts via email at UChicago.LegalForum [at] gmail.com. The submission deadline is August 1, 2009.
