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IALS Conference on Constitutional Law - Washington, DC

September 11, 2009toSeptember 12, 2009

The International Association of Law Schools just held IALS Conference on Constitutional Law at American University Sept. 11-12, 2009. Working papers are available here, grouped into Comparative Constitutional Law; Religion, State and Constitution; Gender and Constitution; Constitutional Adjudication and Democracy; Distributive Justice; Contemporary Challenges to Executive Power; and Miscellaneous.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 16th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

AALS Calls for Papers Deadlines - New Orleans

Calls for papers from AALS sections for the January 2010 meeting are listed here.  Most of the deadlines have passed, but there are a few still open. Here they are, arranged in order by deadline:

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

AALS Calls for Papers Deadlines - New Orleans

Calls for papers from AALS sections for the January 2010 meeting are listed here.  Most of the deadlines have passed, but there are a few still open. Here they are, arranged in order by deadline:

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

AALS Calls for Papers Deadlines - New Orleans

September 11, 2009
September 18, 2009
September 25, 2009

Calls for papers from AALS sections for the January 2010 meeting are listed here.  Most of the deadlines have passed, but there are a few still open. Here they are, arranged in order by deadline:

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

AALS Calls for Papers - New Orleans

Calls for papers from AALS sections for the January 2010 meeting are listed here.  Most of the deadlines have passed, but there are a few still open. Here they are, arranged in order by deadline:

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | Poverty Law, Human Rights Law, National Security Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Tax Law, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers Deadline: Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure (AALS) - New Orleans

October 2, 2009

This call for papers seeks submissions for the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section’s 2010 publication of selected papers. The Section will meet during the American Association of Law School’s Annual Conference on Jan. 8, 2010. The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section Meeting will focus on “Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure.” The Washburn Law Journal will be publishing the papers on this topic accepted for publication. Abstracts are due Oct. 2, 2009. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure (AALS) - New Orleans

January 8, 2010

This call for papers seeks submissions for the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section’s 2010 publication of selected papers. The Section will meet during the American Association of Law School’s Annual Conference on Jan. 8, 2010. The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section Meeting will focus on “Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure.” The Washburn Law Journal will be publishing the papers on this topic accepted for publication. Abstracts are due Oct. 2, 2009. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure (AALS) - New Orleans

This call for papers seeks submissions for the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section’s 2010 publication of selected papers. The Section will meet during the American Association of Law School’s Annual Conference on Jan. 8, 2010. The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section Meeting will focus on “Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure.” The Washburn Law Journal will be publishing the papers on this topic accepted for publication. Abstracts are due Oct. 2, 2009. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | Indian Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Sep. 11, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

 Norte Dame Law School

Professor Michael Heise (Cornell Law School), Why ADR Programs Aren’t More Appealing: An Empirical Perspective.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Alternative Dispute Resolution | no comments

Sep. 11, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

September 11, 2009

 Norte Dame Law School

Professor Michael Heise (Cornell Law School), Why ADR Programs Aren’t More Appealing: An Empirical Perspective.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 10th, 2009 | EVENTS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS | no comments

Application Deadline: Teaching Ethics and Professionalism - Cartersville, GA

September 11, 2009

The National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) invites full-time, adjunct, and clinical law professors, practitioners, and others who are committed to promoting ethics and professionalism to apply for its Fall 2009 workshop on November 6-8, 2009. The workshop will be held at Red Top Mountain State Park and Lodge in Cartersville, Georgia, 40 miles northwest of Atlanta. Click here for the application and other workshop information. Fellowship applications are due by Sept. 11, 2009.

THEME ONE : What explicit information and implicit messages are today’s law students and beginning lawyers receiving from popular culture, legal education and the profession about what it means to be a lawyer? How can law teachers and practitioners work together to improve that information and modify those messages, especially to promote ethics and professionalism?

THEME TWO : How can we better identify in our own teaching, mentoring and supervision the implicit messages we convey about what it means to be a lawyer?’

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 30th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

Investment Treaty Forum, Arbitration - London

September 11, 2009

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Thirteenth Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference: Ethics, Issue Conflicts and Arbitrator Challenges Sept. 11, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 10th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

Lavender Law ‘09 (incl. Junior Scholars’ Forum) - Brooklyn

September 10, 2009toSeptember 12, 2009

This year’s National LGBT Bar Association (formerly NLGLA) Conference (”Lavender Law”) takes place on September 10-12, 2009, in Brooklyn, New York. Lavender Law offers academics the unique opportunity to come together with other law and sexuality scholars, as well as the attorneys who litigate and the judges who hear the cases that appear in our scholarly work.

This year, Lavender Law is expanding our Junior Scholars’ Forum. If you are a law professor who is just beginning to write scholarship focusing on law and sexuality issues, we encourage you to submit a proposal to the Junior Scholar’s Forum. If your proposal is accepted, you will receive extensive feedback and guidance from academics who have been working in the field.

To submit a proposal click here . The deadline for submissions is March 6, 2009.
To participate in the Junior Scholars program, send an email to Liz Glazer (Elizabeth.Glazer [at] Hofstra.edu) and Julie Greenberg (julieg [at] tjsl.edu).

Julie A. Greenberg (on behalf of the Academic Advisory Committee to the National LGBT Bar Association)
Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
2121 San Diego Avenue
San Diego, CA 92110

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 17th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

Lavender Law - Brooklyn

September 10, 2009toSeptember 12, 2009

The Lavender Law Career Fair and Conference — the annual conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association — will be in Brooklyn Sept. 10-12, 2009. A newsletter announcement is here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 16th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments