The Debt Crisis and the National Response – New Orleans, LA

The AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint program on January 5, 2013, at the AALS Annual Meeting, entitled The Debt Crisis and the National Response: Big Changes or Tinkering at the Edges? The program will explore ways in which our clients and communities have experienced the national debt crisis.

In collaboration with the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, the joint session seeks papers for presentation and publication relating to the program’s topic.  Submissions may include papers on substantive law, interdisciplinary innovation or analysis, policy, empirical work, or clinical pedagogy, that relate to the issues of debt and lending in a wide range of contexts.  Papers should be submitted by email attachment to aals.debt.papers[@]gmail.com.

Deadline: August 10, 2012.im

UPDATE (Aug. 15, 2012): The deadline has been extended to Aug. 31, 2012. More info here. mw