The UALR Law Review is calling for the submission of articles for its upcoming Ben J. Altheimer Paper Symposium, eConflicts Resolved: Evaluations of Legal Solutions to Information-Age Conflicts, which is scheduled for publication in May 2012. The deadline is Jan. 31, 2012. The editors request interested authors let them know of their intent to submit. Jump to full post
The New York Law School Law Review and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy will present Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal and Employment Discrimination April 23, 2012 at New York Law School. The “symposium that will examine the high failure rates of plaintiffs on pre- and post-trial motions in employment discrimination cases and explore potential strategies to reverse this growing trend.” mw
FIU College of Law will host the Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop on February 2-4, 2012.
The workshop is open to non-tenured and recently tenured academics who teach and write in Federal Courts, Civil Rights Litigation, and associated topics. Those who do not currently hold a faculty appointment but expect to do so beginning in fall 2012 are welcome. The program is also open to scholars wanting to attend, read, and comment on papers but not present. There is no registration fee.
Abstracts are due by Nov. 15, 2011. Details on PrawfsBlawg. mw
Vanderbilt Law School and the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program announce the 2012 New Voices in Civil Justice Scholarship Workshop to be held at Vanderbilt on April 20, 2012, and invite submissions for the workshop. Jump to full post
The Oregon Law Review host a symposium called “Miller’s Courts: Media, Rules, Policy, and the Future of Access to Justice” April 13, 2012. At this event, we will honor Professor Arthur Miller’s diverse professional achievements while facilitating substantive discussions on modern access challenges in the civil system. We would like the event to be a sort of intense festshrift, an opportunity both to celebrate his career and to engage the kinds of issues he has worked on throughout his career.
To that end, we are soliciting submissions that either (1) focus on specific contributions of Professor Miller with respect to access to justice inside and outside the legal academy, or (2) speculate as to future trends and possible issues relating to access in the civil system.
Submissions must be received by Jan. 2, 2012.
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The AALS Section on Federal Courts announces a call for papers in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (Jan. 4–8, 2012, Washington, D.C.). The topic of the section program at the 2012 Annual Meeting (Sat., Jan. 7, 1:30–3:15 p.m.) is “War, Terrorism, and the Federal Courts Ten Years After 9/11.” One paper will be selected from the call, and will be published in Volume 61 of the American University Law Review. The deadline for submission of papers is Aug. 29, 2011. Contact: Prof. Steve Vladek, American University Washington College of Law, (svladeck [at] wcl.american.edu). The full call for papers is on PrawfsBlawg. mw
The Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure invites the submission of papers for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the AALS January 4-8, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
The topic of our panel (Jan. 6, 8:30-12:15) will be “Procedural Reform: Rulemaking v. Legislation.” Procedural reform has enjoyed (or suffered from, depending on one’s point of view) considerable attention in recent years. Procedural topics are in the mainstream media. Supreme Court cases have reformed bedrock principles. Rulemakers regularly debate amendments to an ever-expanding corpus of rules. And the legislative branch seeks to undo some reforms while initiating still others.
Papers presented by the panel will put this constellation of procedural reforms into a broader perspective. The debate about whether procedural reform is more properly the province of rulemakers or lawmakers is neither new nor, perhaps, even resolvable. Yet it remains relevant-urgent, even, given the stakes. We invite the submission of papers that address this topic in whole or in part. Papers that address the topic in whole might, for example, consider the use of empirical evidence as an engine for procedural reform. Or institutional choice theory might be applied to the procedural landscape. Even if your work addresses the topic only in part, we encourage you to submit it; we will be selecting papers so that the panel, considered as a whole, will generate a dialogue to explore the broader issues.
Drafts of the papers submitted for consideration must be received by September 1, 2011. Submissions should be sent to tmain[at]pacific.edu. Papers already accepted for publication will be considered.
mw; updated 6/12/11 mw.
The Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure invites the submission of papers on the topic of Procedural Reform: Rulemaking v. Legislation for presentation at the AALS Annual Meeting Jan. 4-8, 2012, in Washington, D.C. Drafts of the papers submitted for consideration must be received by Sept. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
The Ph.D. students of the Queen Mary University School of Law present the Queen Mary PhD Conference 2011, Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries, June 7, 2011.
The call for papers deadline has been extended to April 25, 2011.
We invite papers from all areas of law, including:Intellectual Property | Public International | Human Rights | Criminal | Competition | Commercial & Corporate | Banking & Finance | Tax | European Union | Litigation | Constitutional | Arbitration | Information Technology
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The University of Missouri School of Law Center for Dispute Resolution hosts Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration Oct. 21, 2011. Papers will be published in the Journal of Dispute Resolution.
A works-in-progress conference will be held on Thursday, October 20, 2011. The deadline for submitting abstracts is May 20, 2011.
A student writing competition, sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) North American Branch, is also connected with the conference. Entries are due Aug. 15, 2011. mw
Kyushu University hosts a conference entitled “Collective Actions: Enhancing Access to Justice and Reconciling Multilayer Interests?” on February 12 and 13, 2011 in Fukuoka, Japan. Experts from various jurisdictions will explore some of the current issues surrounding collective actions (such as representative actions, group actions, class actions and test case procedures). mw
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents The Brussels I Review Proposal Feb. 10, 2011.
On December 14, 2010 the European Commission has published its proposal to review the Brussels I Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. This proposal suggests various changes of the current Brussels I regime. Those changes are discussed by an international expert panel during this one-day seminar. Topics include the abolition of exequatur, choice of court agreements, lis pendens, provisional (including protective measures), improved access to justice, the arbitration exception, the extension of the regulation’s jurisdiction rules to third States defendants and the relation of the new regime to the Lugano Convention.
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Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the twelfth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 24-25, 2011, and seek submissions for this meeting. The focus of the twelfth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are: Bankruptcy, Torts, Taxation, Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Private International Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property, The Legal Profession. The call for papers deadline is March 17, 2011. The full call is available on SSRN.
The Northern Kentucky Law Review Spring 2011 Symposium, Third Party Litigation Finance in the United States, will take place February 19, 2011, 9 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 2011 Symposium, Foreign State Immunity at Home and Abroad, will take place Feb. 4, 2011.
The National Consumer Law Center presents the Consumer Rights Litigation Conference and Consumer Class Action Symposium, Nov. 11-14, 2010, in Boston.
The American Antitrust Institute presents the 4th Annual Future of Antitrust Enforcement Symposium Dec. 7, 2010.
This year’s program will cover some of the most current and relevant issues in antitrust, including Congress’s action on ACPERA, Iqbal’s expansion of Twombly’s reach, interpretations of FTAIA, and the ongoing challenges to class certification.
The 24th Annual Corporate Law Center Symposium at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, The Principles and Politics of Aggregate Litigation: CAFA, PSLRA, and Beyond, will take place April 1, 2011.
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Valparaiso University School of Law will hold the 25th Annual Monsanto Lecture/Conference on Tort Law and Jurisprudence Feb. 18, 2011. The conference theme is Civil Litigation as a Tool for Regulating Climate Change. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2010. Jump to full post
The Drake Law Review and the American Judicature Society are pleased to announce the eighth annual American Judicature Society-Drake Law Review symposium issue, Jury-Rigged: The Increasingly Precarious State of Common Jury Practices in the United States Judicial System. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 3, 2010. Jump to full post
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