The University of Memphis Law Review announces its annual Spring Symposium, which this year will focus on Cultural Competency and the Death Penalty. The symposium will take place on March 30, 2012. mm
The University of Memphis Law Review presents its annual symposium, Cultural Competency and the Death Penalty March 30, 2012. To submit a paper or paper proposal, contact the symposium editor, Isaac Kimes, iukimes [at] memphis.edu. mm
The Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, the European Group of Research into Norms, Guyancourt, France, the Department of Criminology, Leicester University, the United Kingdom, the College of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University, the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, Transcrime - The Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento, Italy and ACUNS - The Academic Council on the United Nations Systems are pleased to announce the Ninth Biennial International Conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe, Contemporary Criminal Justice Practice and Research to be held at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor Ljubljana, Slovenia, Sept. 19-21, 2012.
The call for papers deadline is May 15, 2012. mw
The American University Washington College of Law’s Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law and Women and the Law Program present Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States of America: Domesticating International Law April 17, 2012, 2-5 pm. Abstracts are due by Jan. 12, 2012. Jump to full post
Oregon State University hosts Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Researching Vulnerable Populations 2012 Interdisciplinary Conference Feb. 17-18, 2012. A public lecture precedes the conference on Feb. 16. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Nov. 30, 2011. mw
The International Journal of Transitional Justice (IJTJ) invites submissions for its 2012 special issue, Transitional Justice and the Everyday: Micro-Perspectives of Justice and Social Repair, guest edited by Pilar Riaño Alcalá (Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Liu Institute for Global Studies, University of British Columbia) and Erin Baines (Assistant Professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia). The submissions deadline is April 1, 2012. Jump to full post
Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools announce the Junior Faculty Forum (the successor to the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum that has convened for the past twelve years) to be held at Harvard Law School on June 1-2, 2012, and seek submissions for this meeting.
The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.
Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.
Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)
The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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Chapman Law Review seeks articles with ties to California topics for upcoming Winter Issue. They welcome any topics related to California law, including:
The submission deadline is Sept. 30, 2011.The full call for papers is on SSRN. mw
The ClassCrits Project, American University, Washington College of Law, and the UC Davis School of Law present ClassCrits IV: Criminalizing Economic Inequality Sept. 23-24, 2011. mw
Justice Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue, Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Health
Studies, guest edited by Travis C. Pratt.
While there is a burgeoning field of research which studies violence and crime as a health outcome, little of that work originates from criminology and criminal justice. The goal of this special issue is to begin the discussion of health-related outcomes from within criminology and to ultimately build public health-criminology collaborations. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are appropriate. Theoretical and analytical papers are appropriate and welcomed as well.
The submissions deadline is Dec. 31, 2011. mw
The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy (University at Buffalo Law School) presents 40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward, Sept. 12-13, 2011.
To open the conference, the documentary “Ghosts of Attica” will be shown at the Burchfield Penny Art Center (Buffalo State College) on Sunday, Sept. 11. mw
Papers are now being sought for the volume to pay tribute to a colleague and mentor, William A. Schabas, whose lengthy title reflects Bill’s many areas of expertise: Public International Law, International Criminal Law & International Human Rights Law: A Critical Evaluation of the Scholarship of Professor William Schabas. Anyone wishing to be considered for publication should submit — either to Kathleen.Cavanaugh@nuigalway.ie or to J.Castellino@mdx.ac.uk — a 500-word abstract. It should outline the general thrust of the proposed contribution and also highlight the aspect of Schabas’ scholarship that would be engaged. Abstracts must be submitted no later than October 1, 2011. Jump to full post
St. John’s University School of Law will host The Retributivist Tradition and Its Future, a conference considering Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (Mark D. White ed. 2011) on Nov. 4, 2011 in New York. sr
The New York Law School Law Review presents Sharia in the United States Thur. Aug. 25 (4:30-6 pm) and Fri. Aug. 26, 2011. mw
The Global Business Law Review, a publication of Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, is seeking papers for presentation at our Third Annual Symposium tentatively scheduled for March 30, 2012. This year’s symposium topic is International Legal Responses to Corporate Corruption.
We will explore the effects and implications of the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act and other efforts to combat corruption from domestic, international and comparative perspectives. Each speaker’s paper will appear in the fall 2012 edition of The Global Business Law Review. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2011. There are stipends available to speakers to help offset travel expenses to Cleveland. Submissions may be sent to gblr.symp [at] law.csuohio.edu.
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The Maine Law Review, in consultation with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, is pleased to announce plans for a spring 2012 live symposium on the law of post-conviction review, and an invitation for article proposals to be considered for publication in the spring edition of the Law Review. The submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2011. Update (Aug. 19, 2011): The symposium will take place Feb. 4, 2012. Jump to full post
The ABA Criminal Justice Section and the America Association of Law Schools will host “Reducing Our Reliance on Incarceration” Oct. 27-28, 2011 in Washington, D.C. In addition to a fantastic line-up of confirmed speakers, there will be an opportunity to present works-in-progress in a roundtable format, scheduled for the first afternoon of the conference, Oct. 27th. Be on the lookout later this summer for a Call for Submissions. If you’d like more information before then, feel free to contact Giovanna Shay at gshay@law.wne.edu. sr
Rutgers School of Law - Newark presents Workshop on Vice and Crime Sept. 16, 2011. Papers will be published in Criminal Law and Philosophy. mw
The National Association of Sentencing Commissions holds its annual meeting July 31 - Aug. 2, 2011.
Sessions include Restorative Justice, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Criminal Justice, Efforts to Control Prison Populations and Costs, Recidivism Research, Criminal History Data, Disproportionate Minority Contact with the Juvenile Justice System, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Crime Perceptions and Media, Re-entry Planning. mw
The William Mitchell Law Review will devote vol. 38 issue 4 to the topic of U.S. Prisons. The editors seek papers that examine a broad range of issues and recent developments regarding this topic, including but not limited to prison medical care, education in prisons, the war on drugs, prison privatization and prison overcrowding. Submissions may either take the form of shorter commentaries or longer law review articles. The deadline for submissions is Nov. 15, 2011.
Please direct inquiries to Executive Editor Leah Graf at leah.graf [at] wmitchell.edu. Please send submissions to lreview [at] wmitchell.edu or mail them to the Editorial Office. Please note that the Law Review prefers electronic submissions in Word.
Source: Sentencing Law and Policy. mw
The UDC Law Review will host “Smartphones and the Fourth Amendment: The Future of Privacy in Our Hands” in spring 2012. Submissions are due Sept. 30, 2011. The full call for papers follows the jump. Jump to full post
The American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Criminal Justice Section, White Collar Crime Committee and the Golden Gate University School of Law will host an event on white collar crime prosecutions and business bankruptcy Nov. 4-5, 2011. The call for papers deadline is July 15, 2011. Jump to full post
The Journal of Public Interest Law (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) presents a symposium on the recent Supreme Court case of Connick v. Thompson on Nov. 3, 2011. Papers and symposium proceedings will be published in the Spring 2012 volume of the journal. mw
The Association of American Law Schools has issued a call for papers regarding the Importance of the Pretrial Process in Reducing Mass Incarceration and Protecting the Innocent. This call for papers is limited to those who have been teaching for six years or fewer as of July 1, 2011. The due date for submission is August 15, 2011. Any paper that has not yet been the subject of an offer of publication by August 15, 2011, is eligible for submission. The papers will be presented in conjunction with a panel sponsored by the AALS Section on Criminal Justice at the 2012 AALS annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Jump to full post
The University of Washington School of Law and the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) host the 8th International Conference on Forensic Inference Statistics July 18-21, 2011, at the School of Law.
The area of statistical reasoning applied to forensic science has undergone a rapid growth and development both theoretically but also in applied research, becoming a highly interdisciplinary field. This conference is the only forum where police officers, forensic scientists, jurists, scholars from related disciplines and statisticians meet to discuss the constraints, mechanisms and opportunities to provide statistical and inferential support to the decision making process either at level of the investigation or in court.
Short courses (July 18) cover Probabalistic Reasoning for Judges and Lawyers, Statistical Methods for DNA Evidence, and Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science. mw
The Center for Restorative Justice (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) presents Another Way: Restorative Justice for Youth June 4, 2011. mw
The ABA Criminal Justice Section and the Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics (Fordham Law) present the Second Annual Prescription for Criminal Justice Forensics, at Fordham, June 3, 2011.
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The Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (APCML) and Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) present Affective States of International Criminal Justice July 21-22, 2011, at Melbourne Law School. The deadline for abstracts was May 2, 2011. mw
The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law presents the Law of the Future Conference, taking place in The Hague’s Peace Palace on June 23-24, 2011.
The Law of the Future Forum takes place the first day. It is by personal invitation only.
The second day has two keynote addresses followed by parallel workshops:
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Elon University School of Law and the Elon Law Review will host the 2011 Symposium Terrorism’s Impact on Criminal Justice: How the Detection, Investigation, and Prosecution of Criminal Activity Has Changed Since 9/11 to be held Oct. 21, 2011 in Greensboro, NC. A call for article proposals and requests to present on topics relating generally to changes in criminal law since 9/11 has been issued with a deadline of July 1, 2011.
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Gonzaga University School of Law hosts Race and Criminal Justice in the West Sept. 23-24, 2011 in Spokane, WA. The Honorable Barbara Madsen, Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, will deliver the keynote address on Fri, Sept 23. There is a call for papers with a deadline for proposals of June 6, 2011.
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The Georgia State University Law Review will present The Criminal Justice System in a Time of Economic Meltdown: Crisis or Opportunity for Reform? in early 2012. Abstracts are due by May 13, 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 2011 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit, Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality, will take place June 9–10, 2011. The agenda is posted here.
Keynote speakers are Janet Yellen, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. Panels are:
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American University, Washington College of Law hosts ClassCrits IV: Criminalizing Economic Inequality, Sep. 23-24, 2011 in Washington, DC. There is a call for papers with a deadline of May 6, 2011. sr
The University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Community Justice Project presented How Are the Children? Part IV: A Symposium Exploring the Impacts of Parental Incarceration on Children, on March 16, 2011. mw
The Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid will host the I UAM International Conference on European Union Law, Recent trends in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2008-2011), July 14-15, 2011. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 10, 2011. The panels are:
The Panels of the Conference are:
Panel 1: Institutional system of the EU
Panel 2: Police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
Panel 3: EU Competition Law
Panel 4: EU Citizenship and free movement of persons
Panel 5: Judicial cooperation in civil matters and Private International Law
Panel 6: EU External Action
Panel 7: Internal Market
Panel 8: EU Social Policy
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The ABA presents the 25th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime March 2-4, 2011, in San Diego. mw
The call for papers deadline for Human Rights Protection and Criminal Justice in the Age of Crisis - Cork, Ireland has been extended to March 4, 2011. mw
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork is pleased to announce its fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference which will take place on Thursday, 28th April, 2011. The conference is aimed at those who are undertaking postgraduate research in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice and human rights. The Organising Committee is particularly eager to incorporate multi-disciplinary perspectives. Abstracts are welcome from scholars from disciplines outside of law (such as politics, social studies, sociology and philosophy, for example) who are working on related topics.The theme for this year’s event is “Human Rights Protection and Criminal Justice in the Age of Crisis”. The aim is to reflect upon the impact of crises on fundamental rights protection and the criminal law. We hope that this theme will encourage debate on the challenging and complex questions which arise in turbulent times. We are especially interested in papers that relate to human rights, criminal justice, criminal law or the intersection of these fields. However, we also welcome papers dealing with issues outside these areas that fall within the broader theme of the conference. Papers will be streamed thematically. Anticipated sessions include “Contemporary Discourse in Criminal Law“, “Civil Liberties, Technology and State Security Claims” and “International Law, Human Rights and Development Policy“. Session titles will be finalised based on submissions, and the Committee also invites proposals for additional streams.This international one-day event has attracted promising research scholars from Ireland, the UK and Europe in the areas of law, politics, philosophy and the related social sciences. This year’s conference aims to build on this success.Details of the keynote speaker will follow shortly.
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) to the organising committee by Friday 18th February 2011. Successful conference submissions will be notified by Friday, 4th March 2011. Submissions and further enquiries should be directed to ucclawconf [at] gmail.com.
Note from Legal Scholarship Blog: I apologize for not getting this posted until Feb. 20 — the conference organizers sent the call for papers to us on Feb. 1, but we didn’t keep up with the inbox. If you have a topic in mind, I suggest you write to the organizers immediately. Perhaps they will consider late submissions. — Mary Whisner
Update (Feb. 21, 2011): The deadline has been extended to March 4, 2011.
The Miami Law Review holds its 2011 symposium on corporate crime and compliance, From the Board Room to the Court Room: The Evolving Legal Status of Corporate Crime, Feb. 18-19, 2011. mw
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Incarcerated Mothers:Oppression and Resistance, Co-Editors: Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2011. mw
Public Information Resources, Inc. presents Law & the Brain: How Recent Advances in Neuroscience Impact the Law March 15-16, 2011. The conference is cosponsored by Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives; Center for Neuroscience and Society,University of Pennsylvania; Gruter Institute for Law and Behavior Research; Sage Center for the Study of the Mind; Learning & the Brain Foundation.
The NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies will organize a workshop in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on Internment, Incarceration and Detention: Captivation Histories in Europe Around the First and Second World War Nov. 3-4, 2011. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2011.
The University of Leiden – Campus The Hague and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, home to the Criminal Law Forum, present Post-Conflict Justice and ‘Local Ownership’: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Court, May 5-6, 2011. Abstracts are due Feb. 1, 2011.
The Maastricht University Faculty of Law will celebrate its 30th anniversary by organizing a legal conference about the challenges of teaching globalised law June 23-24, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2011.
Topics include: legal education in a global environment; skills in a legal curriculum; English as the language of law; impact of international and European law; how to compare law; development of transnational programs; lawyers as a national profession; and how to teach comparative criminal law, comparative tax law, environmental law, and private law.
Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law presents Adolescent Brains and Juvenile Justice: New Insights from Neuroscience, Genetics and Addiction Science May 12, 2011. It is sponsored by ASU’s Center for Law, Science & Innovation and Diane Halle Center for Family Justice and by the Law & Neuroscience Project.
New scientific findings regarding the adolescent brain from the fields of neuroscience, genetics and addiction science have the potential to transform the juvenile justice system by providing new evidence relevant to the culpability, deterrence, and rehabilitation potential of juvenile offenders. This evidence, which was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2010 decision in Graham v. Florida, has profound legal, policy and ethical implications for decision-makers.This multidisciplinary conference, the fourth in a series of biennual programs on neuroscience and the law held at the Phoenix federal courthouse, will examine how this new scientific information is currently being used, and could be used in the future, to improve juvenile justice. It will provide a balanced spectrum of scientific, legal and ethical perspectives by leading experts from across the nation.
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Law Review (UDC/DCSL L. Rev.) presents its 2011 symposium, War on Drugs, March 3, 2011. The symposium’s three panels are “International Approaches to Drug Usage,” “Conflicts Between State and Federal Narcotics Laws,” and “Life After the War.”
The editors have lined up a strong group of authors and speakers already, but are open to an additional submission. Contact Symposium Editor Leila Mansouri, Leila.Mansouri [at] udc.edu. The deadline for drafts is Dec. 15, 2010.
Update (Dec. 9, 2011): All of the paper slots have been filled for the symposium, so submissions are not longer being accepted.
The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender presents its symposium, Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Barriers to Access, Roadmaps to Fulfillment, on Friday, March 4, 2011.
This symposium will feature current academic discourse concerning the important issue of sexual and reproductive rights analyzed through four different frameworks, corresponding to four panels: motherhood, teenage sexuality, abortion, and international human rights. Featured on the symposium panels will be 10 preeminent scholars, who will discuss crucial topics in the field including: (1) the feminization of HIV and poverty; (2) critical race studies and intersectionality; (3) gender-motivated violence and patriarchy; (4) the shape of sexual rights in the international human rights framework; and (5) the implications of a woman’s childbearing decision-making on assessing her qualifications as a mother.
Texas Tech Law Review and Texas Tech University School of Law present Criminal Law & the 1st Amendment April 8, 2011.
The 20th Annual Northern Illinois Law Review Symposium, Human Trafficking, will be held April 15, 2011.
Illinois is home to one of the biggest human trafficking hubs in the United States and recently passed the strongest anti-human trafficking laws in the country. The Symposium will identify key areas of human trafficking, working within the U.S. court system against trafficking, and future policy regarding trafficking.
The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (Iowa) holds its 15th Anniversary Symposium, The War on… The Fallout of Declaring War on Social Issues, March 3-4, 2011. The call for papers deadline was Nov. 15, 2010.
From the War on Poverty, to the War on Crime, to the Wars on Drugs and Terror, by utilizing the “War on” rhetoric, policy and lawmakers unite the public against a common enemy and authorize themselves to act more aggressively against a group of people. Our symposium will be examining who gets swept into this class of enemies, and how this practice of declaring wars on social issues affects marginalized communities.
The Michigan Journal of International Law 2011 symposium is Successes and Failure in International Human Trafficking Law, Feb. 4-5, 2011.
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Criminal Law and the Rights of the Child Nov. 30, 2010.
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Criminal Law and the Rights of the Child Nov. 30, 2010.
Despite having ratified various relevant instruments pertaining to the protection of the rights of children in criminal matters and despite national efforts of promulgation of various legislations, several states are either unable or still reluctant to generate the required political will and legal measures in offering adequate protection for children. As a result, many children across the world are currently found in circumstances which are incompatible with the international conventions.This one day colloquium will bring together experts from a range of Muslim and non-Muslim states in order to share their research and experiences with regard to the rights of the child in criminal processes. Discussions among participants will highlight the successes and potential lacunas in various jurisdictions applicable to juvenile offenders. Each session will conclude with a question and discussion period at the end.
This event will take place during the final stage of a study on the topic undertaken by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), Office of Justice Programs, within the U.S. Department of Justice is pleased to announce the 12th National Indian Nations Conference: Justice for Victims of Crime. The Conference will be held December 9 — 11, 2010, in Palm Springs California, with the theme, “Walking in Harmony: Honoring Victim Voices to Achieve Safety, Justice & Healing.” This year’s conference is coordinated again by the Tribal Law and Policy Institute under a grant from OVC.
The Asian Society of International Law invites submissions for its Third Biennial Conference, Asia and International Law: A New Era, which will take place Aug. 27-28, 2011, in Beijing, China. The submission deadline is Dec. 1, 2010.
The organizers welcome papers dealing with the following topics for consideration:
1. Law of the Sea
2. Climate Change and Development
3. Disaster Management and International Law
4. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and Asia (including regional human rights mechanisms, Asian developments, etc.)
5. Developments in International Criminal Law: Peace and Justice, the International Criminal Court, Issues of Universal Jurisdiction
6. Migration and Dislocation: Refugees, Migrant Workers, Internally Displaced Persons
7. Armed Conflict, International Law, and Human Rights
8. Asia, Regional Arrangements and Free Trade Agreements (including comparative studies of regionalism, regionalism and security arrangements)
9. Transnational Litigation and Arbitration in Asia
10. Intellectual Property and International Law
11. The Effect of Treaties and Foreign Law in Domestic Courts in Asia
12. The Contribution of Asian Judges and Jurists to International Law
13. Asia and Third World Approaches to International Law
14. International Law Education and Research in Asia
The New York Law School Law Review and the West Point Center for the Rule of Law present Exonerating the Innocent: Pre-Trial Innocence Procedures Nov. 5, 2010. This symposium will examine “a novel approach to reducing the incidence of wrongful convictions.”
The University of Iowa College of Law invites submissions for a proposed symposium to mark the 25th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in Batson v. Kentucky (1986). The symposium is prompted by a need for reflection upon what a quarter-century of experience with the revolutionary constitutional restrictions that Batson and its progeny have imposed on peremptory jury challenges means for the criminal justice system. Submitted work should be prompted by the Batson doctrine (its impact, consequences and implications for the future) or, more broadly, by other concerns regarding the theory and function of the peremptory challenge. We encourage a broad range of doctrinal and methodological approaches to these questions, and both legal and social science scholars are welcome to participate. We anticipate a live symposium in October of 2011 and publication of the completed papers in a to-be-determined format. The conference planners reserve the right to solicit authors independently of this call for papers and to condition going forward on sufficient submissions of interest and quality.
Those interested in participating should submit a one paragraph summary of the paper they will present and an abstract of no more than 750 words that outlines the structure and content of the paper in more detail. The deadline for expressions of interest is December 15, 2010. More detailed outlines will be due at a later date. Final manuscripts will be due three weeks before the symposium.
Submit summaries and abstracts via email in either Word or PDF format to: Prof. James Tomkovicz, james-tomkovicz [at] uiowa.edu. Inquiries about the symposium can be made to Prof. Tomkovicz.
Texas Wesleyan Law Review and the Wesleyan Innocence Project present Innocence and the Road to Exoneration Symposium Oct. 8, 2010.
The UCLA School of Law has recently launched the Human Rights & International Criminal Law Online Forum.
The Forum is an initiative of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It is designed to generate debate about issues of significance for the International Criminal Court.
The first question is whether the ICC prosecutor should have the authority to open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed in the 2008-09 Gaza conflict. The invited experts who submitted opinions were Prof. George P. Fletcher (Columbia Law), Dr. Marlies Glasius (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Michael Kearney, Legal Researcher, Al-Haq, Prof. John Quigley (Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University), and Prof. Yaël Ronen (Sha’arei Mishpat College).
The second question (open for comments Nov. 15, 2010) will address the genocide charges filed against Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir. The third topic will address gender crimes under ICC jurisdiction, in particular those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kivu Provinces, and Darfur.
LatCrit XV (and the 8th Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop) will take place Oct. 7-10, 2010, in Denver. The deadline to register is September 15, 2010, but the organizers appreciate early registration to help their planning. Online registration is here.
LatCrit’s annual conference returns to Colorado ten years after LatCrit V., LatCrit Theory and Praxis in a World of Economic Inequality, was held in Breckenridge, CO. LatCrit XV allows us to revisit some of the issues explored then in this year’s theme, The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up.
The Global Financial Crisis peaked in September 2008 when stock markets crashed and numerous banks, mortgage lenders and insurance companies failed. Almost two years later , relief for the hardest hit – people of color, low-income communities, and women – has yet to materialize. Communities of color have moved beyond recession and are now experiencing a depression, yet the media has paid little attention to the effects of this crisis on the most vulnerable. In examining the workings of subordinated identities — race, gender, sexual orientation and class (economic status) — class stands alone as a putative indicator of merit. Net worth and social worth are equated in a capitalism that holds itself out as a tool of anti-subordination. But such an account of capitalism ignores its historical and societal underpinnings, and how capitalism functions to entrench the status quo. This conference will explore, from diverse vantage points, the causes, conditions and ramifications of the economic crisis.
Thanks to an overwhelming response to our Call for Papers/Panels, LatCrit XV promises to be a dynamic and engaging conference. Joining illustrious plenary speakers and honorees will be an extensive and diverse roster of notable speakers on panels, roundtables and in work-in-progress colloquia. Register Early! We look forward to seeing you there!
Rashmi Goel, Associate Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law (a branch of the International Law Association) is pleased to hold the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference from May 29 to June 1, 2011, in Taipei, Taiwan. The theme of the conference will be Contemporary International Law Issues in the Asia Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges. Paper and panel proposals must be submitted electronically by December 20, 2010, to ila [at] nccu.edu.tw. A proposal of no more than 300 words should include the author’s name and full contact information.
The call for papers is available here.
Subject areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- General Public International Law
- The Use of Force
- Asia-Pacific Security
- Territorial Disputes
- Teaching and Research of International Law
- The Law of the Sea
- International Frameworks on Fisheries Conservation
- International Criminal Law
- International Protection of Human Rights
- International Economic Law
- The WTO, APEC and ASEAN
- FTAs and the Cross-Strait ECFA
- United Nations and Regional Organizations
- Private International Law
- Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and Court Judgments
Other inquiries about the conference can be directed to Professor Pasha Hsieh, Conference Co-organizer, at pashahsieh [at] smu.edu.sg.
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
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society announces its 2011 Symposium, Gender, Justice, & Victim Rights: A Gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System. It will take place Feb. 25, 2011. The editors seek original scholarship, from both scholars and practitioners, that addresses the intersections of law and gender in the role and treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. Interested parties should send an abstract to WJLGS.Symposium [at] gmail.com by Oct. 31, 2010. Those selected for the Symposium will be notified by December 2010. The Journal’s Symposium issue will be published in Winter 2011. Questions may be addressed to Symposium Editor Erin Welsh, ebwelsh [at] wisc.edu.
The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s Professor Andy Silverman will speak on the Justice Project - Old Code Lifers and the Communication Process on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. The event is free, open to the University community, legal community and the public. This event is also eligible for CLE credit for Arizona attorneys. Professor Silverman will speak in Room 156 at the College of Law at 12:15pm, lasting about one hour, and will be accompanied by pizza prior to the opening of Professor Silverman’s presentation.
The Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) will present a conference in Prato, Tuscany, Italy, September, 12-14, 2011: Working with the forensic paradigm: developing effective responses across the mental health, helping and legal professions.
The conference will give particular attention to forensic work across the health, helping and legal professions. The focus is on the intersection between the forensic lens as it is applied to a range of individual and family matters: in child protection, family welfare, mental health offending, disability and addictions, and related areas.
Check here for the call for papers.
You can register your interest in notices about the conference by contacting the conference convenors, Dr. Rosemary Sheehan
(Rosemary.Sheehan [at] monash.edu) and Prof. James Ogloff (James.Ogloff [at] monash.edu).
The Centre for Transnational Law and Justice (University of Windsor Faculty of Law) presents Legal Measures Against Corruption in Global Perspective: Principles, Politics, Prospects Oct. 1-2, 2010. The deadline for submission of paper proposals has been extended to Sept. 3, 2010.
The Innocence Network and the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law will host the first-ever conference dedicated to exploring the phenomenon of wrongful conviction of the innocent in the international arena. This event, An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction, will take place April 8-10, 2011. The objective of the conference will be to bring selected scholars, lawyers and exonerees from around the world together in one place to interact and learn from one another. The hope is that the conference will galvanize the innocence movement into a unified international human rights movement.
The University of Cincinnati Law Review will publish a symposium issue in connection with the conference. And the Freedom Center Journal, will publish a special issue dedicated solely to essays, poetry and visual art created by exonerees, as well as letters from prison written by inmates who were later exonerated or who claim innocence. The Freedom Center Journal is a scholarly publication of the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest seeks articles for a fall symposium on alternative court systems. Articles could address issues related to Family Court, Drug Court, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Benefits, Effects on Recidivism, and all other relevant topics. Submission is rolling, but deadline is August 10, 2010. Articles will be published Fall 2010. Authors may be invited to speak at the symposium at the University of Richmond. Submission guidelines are here.
The Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest is the scholarly voice for issues pertaining to social welfare, public policy, and a broad spectrum of jurisprudence. Published four times a year, the Journal publishes its content online to reach the widest audience possible, while also publishing one annual print issue focused on the work of the Virginia General Assembly. Our authors have included experienced practitioners, esteemed legal professors, and insightful individuals working to change the world around them.
Criminal Justice & Behavior announces a forthcoming special issue on “Diversion from the Criminal Justice System.” The deadline for submitting manuscripts is Dec. 15, 2010.
This special issue is being edited by David DeMatteo, JD, PhD, and Kirk Heilbrun, PhD.
Manuscripts that address a wide variety of topics related to diversion from the criminal justice system will be considered for this special issue. Of particular interest are manuscripts that address diversion of adult and juvenile offenders based on mental health disorders or substance abuse, and interventions that can be targeted at various points in the criminal justice process (ranging from initial contact with law enforcement to re-entry into the community following release from incarceration). Both empirical and theoretical manuscripts are welcome.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is December 15, 2010. Manuscripts should be 25-35 double-spaced typewritten pages, including graphs, charts, figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts should adhere to the guidelines contained in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition, 2001). Abstracts should not exceed 120 words, and three to seven keywords should be included. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Word format to Dave DeMatteo (dsd25 [at] drexel.edu) or Kirk Heilbrun (kh33 [at] drexel.edu). Inquiries regarding manuscripts for this special issue can be addressed to either special issue editor.
Source: American Psychology-Law Society. mw
The Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the Melbourne Law School hosts Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials October 15-16, 2010. Questions about the symposium can be directed to Kevin Heller at kheller@unimelb.edu. To present a paper at the symposium, send a 300-500 word abstract and short CV to Gerry Simpson c/o Cathy Hutton, Administrator, APCML at c.hutton@unimelb.edu.au no later than May 30, 2010. kja
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law is accepting papers to be presented at a joint symposium of the Texas Wesleyan Law Review & the Wesleyan Inncocence Project on October 8, 2010. Interested authors and presenters should submit an abstract of approximately 500 words by June 14, 2010. Additional information can be found here, on the law school’s website. ajc
The 2011 Innocence Network conference will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 8-10. mw
The Innocence Network conference, New Science to Right Old Wrongs, hosted by the Georgia Innocence Project, April 16-18, 2010. mw
The Merkourios, the Utrecht Journal for European and International Law, is issuing a call for articles to place in its forthcoming edition on Criminal Justice and Human Rights. The article may contain a maximum of 6000 words and address any aspect of this field of international law. The deadline for submission is June 15. ajc
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (University College Cork) will host its fourth annual postgraduate conference on Thursday, 29 April, 2010. The theme for this year’s event is “Borders of Justice: Locating the Law in Times of Transition.” mw
The International Bar Association Criminal Law Section presents the 13th Transnational Crime Conference June 3-5, 2010, in Paris. mw
The National Crime Victim Law Institute will host the 9th annual Crime Victim Law Conference in Portland, Oregon on June 10 and 11. This year’s theme, “Due Process for Victims: Meaningful Rights in Every Case,” is about securing fairness for crime victims. ajc
Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Sept. 9-12, 2010. The conference theme is Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era.
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.
Calls for papers or proposals:
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Brooklyn Law School presents the David G. Trager Public Policy Symposium - Sharing the Blame: the Law and Morality of Punishing Collective Entities Feb. 5, 2010. mw
The Campbell Law Review’s spring 2010 issue will be dedicated to torture, enhanced interrogation, and related national security matters.
We are looking for full-length articles, essays, book reviews, and other scholarly works. Citations should conform to The Bluebook, a Uniform System of Citation (18th ed. 2005). We encourage electronic submissions, which should be emailed to culawreview [at] email.campbell.edu. Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word format, and preferably include your curriculum vitae as well as a short article abstract. Our intended publication date is May 10, 2010. Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis, and should be submitted no later than March 10, 2010. Questions may be directed to the Editor in Chief at culawreview [at] email.campbell.edu or 919-865-5860.
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The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Juvenile Justice Program presents 2010 Juvenile Justice Conference: Juvenile Justice: Passages, Prevention, and Intervention Feb. 19 & 20, 2010. (The deadline for abstracts was Sept. 1.) mw
The Thirteenth Annual Liman Colloquium, “Imprisoned,” will be held at Yale Law School March 4-5, 2010. The Colloquium, co-sponsored by Yale Law School, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, will examine the changing populations, rules, and enduring problems of prisons.
More information, including the list of confirmed participants, will be posted shortly on the Liman website. mw
The 11th Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum will take place at Yale June 18-19, 2010. The topics will cover public law and the humanities:
• 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 Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice presents The 2009 Caleb Foote Symposium: New Directions for American Drug Policy? on Nov. 13, 2009 (1-5 pm). mw
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
Notre Dame Law School will host the 2009 Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) annual meeting on October 9-10, 2009 at Eck Hall of Law. Topics to be covered at the conference include: torts and health care, criminal law and welfare economics, and intellectual property and competition law. jv
The New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement and the New England School of Law seek
submissions due December 21, 2010 concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts involving changes in procedures for admitting forensic evidence in criminal trials. Jump to full post
Vanderbilt University Law School now has a Criminal Justice Program, directed by Professor Christopher Slobogin. The Program sponsored its first Roundtable on September 11 & 12 of this year. On January 29 and 30, 2010, it will sponsor a Roundtable for faculty who are early in their careers. Jump to full post
Adam Kolber (University of San Diego), The Subjective Experience of Punishment.
Rutgers School of Law–Newark will host a “Conference on the Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law” on Friday and Saturday, September 25-26, 2009. Conference organizers are Antony Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, and Stuart P. Green, Rutgers School of Law–Newark.
Call for Articles and Essays: Recent Developments in New York Law
Proposals due October 1, 2009.
The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to our second annual issue addressing recent developments in New York law to be published in Spring 2010.
This issue will explore a wide range of recent developments in the laws of New York State, including but not limited to areas of criminal law, civil litigation, family law, property law, constitutional law, tax law, bankruptcy law, and municipal law. Authors may also discuss proposed changes to New York law, at the state or local level.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr [at] law.pace.edu by October 1, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and should relate to an area of New York State law. Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. We expect to make publication offers by October 8. We encourage clear, concise, and accessible writing that will be of use to lawmakers, attorneys, and students.
Completed manuscripts will be due November 24, 2009.
CRN East Asian Law and Society (Law and Society Association) and Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong present the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations. The conference takes place Feb. 5-6, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong.
organized with this vision.
The organizers invite proposals for papers and panels that are related to the conference theme (Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations) or fall within any of the following streams on East Asian law and society:
* Legal Education and Training
* Legal and Quasi-legal Professions
* Dispute Resolution and Civil Litigation
* Lay Participation and Other Forms of Democratic Justice
* Gender in Law
* Criminal Justice
* Constitutional Law.
The deadline for proposals and papers is Sept. 30, 2009. All paper or panel proposals must be in English and sent by email to: Professor Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), hfukurai [at] ucsc.edu. Submission details here.
Eyes on the ICC is published annually by the Council for American Students in International Negotiations. The journal invites quality submissions from scholars, jurists, and professionals in fields related to international criminal law and policy. Occasionally, exceptional student work will be accepted. Manuscripts are accepted on a rolling basis until August 31.
Manuscripts must be computer generated and submitted electronically, via e-mail or Berkeley Electronic Press’s Expresso (http://law.bepress.com/expresso/) submission service. Each submission should contain
1. an abstract;
2. a letter of introduction;
3. CV; and
4. appropriate contact information.
Articles may range in length from some 25 to 80 pages, double-spaced. Book reviews run from some 1,000 to 2,500 words.
Please adhere closely to the Chicago Manual of Style and cite sources in legal format according to the Harvard Blue Book.
Peer Review: Submissions outside the expertise of the editorial board are subjected to external, double-blind peer review. Additionally, authors are encouraged to seek comments on their manuscripts from colleagues within their discipline. The journal invites commentary on the quality of its submissions, whether by private correspondence or published letter.
Submissions and other editorial correspondence should be addressed to icc [at] americanstudents.us.
The International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2009) is organized by the School of Business at the University at Albany, State University of New York (UAlbany) in collaboration with the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) and Create-Net. We are also working closely the New York State Police (NYSP) and the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) who are cosponsoring the event.
“This is a unique conference encompassing not only technical, but also the social, legal, and business aspects of forensics.”
The submission deadline for papers and presentation proposals has been changed from May 15, 2009 to June 15, 2009.
The National Institute of Justice holds its annual conference June 15-17, 2009, in Arlington, VA. Advance registration has closed, but there will be on-site registration.
For more than a decade, NIJ’s annual conference has brought together criminal justice scholars, policymakers, and practitioners at the local, state and federal levels to share the most recent findings from research and technology.The conference showcases what works, what doesn’t work and what the research shows as promising. It puts a heavy emphasis on the benefits to researchers and practitioners who work together to create effective evidence-based policies and practices. The DNA Grantees Workshop, formerly a separate event, is now an integral part of the NIJ Conference. Combining the former DNA Grantees Workshop with the NIJ Conference allows us to feature innovations in forensic sciences and related policy and resource issues.
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.
The American Society of International Law’s (ASIL) independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its report at a press conference on Friday, March 27, 2009, during the ASIL Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
In the fall of 2008, the American Society of International Law convened this blue-ribbon task force to examine the U.S. relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ASIL Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the ICC studied the Court’s work to date, reviewed current U.S. policy toward the Court, and developed recommendations that can inform the U.S. approach toward the Court.
The full report, as well as transcripts and audio of the announcement, are available at the Task Force’s website.
Yesterday (April 14, 2009), Mary Margaret Giannini (Florida Coastal) delivered “Searching for Reasonableness: Procedural Justice and the Victim’s Right to be Reasonably Protected from the Accused” as the Stephanie K. Seymour Lecture at the University of Tulsa College of Law.
Gregory O’Meara (Marquette Law),If Jeffrey Dahmer Isn’t Crazy, Then Who Is? Thoughts on an Insanity Trial 17 Years Later…
Marshall Tracht (New York Law)
Wisconsin Law, War, and Human Securities
Alex Downes (Duke Poli. Sci.),
The Irish Centre for Human Rights (National University of Ireland, Galway) runs annually two Summer Schools; one on the International Criminal Court and one that focuses on the rights of Minorities and Indigenous peoples. Both courses offer five days of intensive lectures delivered by specialists in the fields and a series of social events, providing a fruitful environment for knowledge, debate, stimulation and social interaction.This year the summer schools are being run back-to-back in order to provide participants with the opportunity to attend both summer schools.
Registration deadline is April 30th 2009, so make sure you register now in order to secure your place!!!
For all information, details and registration, please visit the Summer Schools’ websites:
Minority Rights, Indigenous People and Human Rights Law Summer School, June 15-20 2009 (*check in 14 June, check out 20 June). Questions and Queries: s.megy1 [at] nuigalway.ie
International Criminal Court Summer School, June 21-26 2009 (*check in on 21 June, check out 27 June), Questions and Queries: iccsummercourse [at] hotmail.com
The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law presents its Triennial Symposium, Gender on the Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities, April 10, 2009, 9:30 am- 5:00 pm. Jump to full post
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society presents Gender and Criminal Justice: The Impact of Gender in Criminal Law from Legislation through Incarceration tomorrow, March 7, 2009.
The University of Manchester School of Law project on the Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice will host Good, Bad or Indifferent: Medicine and the Criminal Process on Nov. 3-4, 2009.
Day 1 will focus on the prosecution of doctors; in the afternoon there will be workshops on Tainted Blood; The Role of the Criminal Process, The Role of the Coroner, Assisted Dying, Tourism and Covert Acceptance; and lastly a workshop on the Selling of Body Parts. Day 2 will focus on Ethical Conflicts in Criminal Courts.
The deadline for submissions is April 17, 2009.
Jennifer Robbennolt (Illinois Law), Apologies and Litigation
Daniel Solove (George Washington Law), Understanding Privacy
Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), The Court of Life and Death: The Two Tracks of Constitutional Sentencing Law and the Case For Uniformity
Justin Richland (UC Irvine Criminology, Law, and Society), Arguing with Tradition in Hopi Tribal Court
Omri Ben-Shahar (Chicago Law), Myths of Consumer Protection: Information Litigation and Access
Lisa Laplante (Marquette Law), Outlawing Amnesty: The Return of Criminal Justice in Transitional Justice Schemes
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork is pleased to announce its third annual postgraduate conference. The theme for this year’s event is “The Promise of Law: Political Claims and the Boundaries of Justice.” The conference will focus on the intersection of law and politics and the tensions between liberty and political expediency in view of contemporary challenges to civil and human rights principles.
The conference will take place on April 30, 2009. Submit abstracts (max. 300 words) to the organising committee by February 13, 2009. Successful conference submissions will be notified by February 27th 2008. For full details and contact information, see the Centre’s website.
Betsey Stevenson (Penn. Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Joseph Miller (Lewis and Clark Law), Hoisting Originality
Orin Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach
Julie Oseid (St. Thomas Law), War Stories: Mentoring New Lawyers Through Storytelling
Pennsylvania Law and Philosophy
Bill Edmundson (Georgia State Law), Political Authority, Moral Powers, and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience
Elena Baylis (Pittsburgh Law), Bellweather Trials: From Mass Torts to Mass Atrocities
Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality
Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law
Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer
Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening
Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions
Devon W. Carbado (UCLA Law), After Obama: Three Post-Racial Challanges
Northwestern Law and Economics
Robert Marquez (Arizona State Business) Stockholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)
JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception
Martin Hevia and Joanna Erdman (Toronto Law), Denied Access to Medical Care as a Violation of the Rights Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: A Case Study on Anencephalic Pregnancy
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Rosalind Dixon (Chicago Law) Gender, Courts & Feminist Amplification
Guyora Binder (Buffalo Law) Victims and the Significance of Causing Harm
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Morality and Normativity, Liberal Democracy and Human Rights
Kristin Hickman (Minnesota Law), In Search of the “Modern” Skidmore Standard
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law), Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Jennifer F. Reinganum (Vanderbilt Econ.), Privacy, Publicity, and Choice
Risa Goluboff (NYU Law), Vagrancy Laws
Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources
Art Baggett (California Water Resources Control Board), Global Warming and Other Developments in the Regulation of Water Rights
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), The President and Immigration Law
Olga Semukhina (Marquette), Criminal Procedure in Modern Russia: The Path of Reforms
Jeannette Cox (Dayton Law), Looking Forward: The Amended Americans with Disabilities Act
The Tennessee Law Review and the University of Tennessee College of Law present a Death Penalty Colloquium: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty Feb. 6-7, 2009.
Arizona Economics, Law, and the Environment
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn Law), Open Tenancies in Common
Carlos M. Vazquez (Georgetown Law), Not a Happy Precedent: The Story of Ex parte Quirin
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law), Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
Katherine T. Bartlett (Duke Law), Good Intentions, Unconscious Bias and the Law
Peter Joy (Washington Law) and Robert R. Kuehn (Alabama Law), Lawyering in the Academy: The Intersection of Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Comparative Nature of Punishment
David Kaye (Arizona State Law)
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Melissa Murray (Berkeley Law), Strange Bedfellows: Criminal Law, Family Law, and the Legal Construction of Intimate Life
Tabatha Abu El-Haj (NYU Law), The Neglected Right of Assembly
Danie Visser (University of Capetown)
Henry Richardson (Georgetown Philosophy)
William Nelson (NYU Law), The Height of Sophistication: Law and Progessionalism in the City-State of Charleston, South Carolina, 1670-1775
Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Buzz Thompson (Stanford Law), Liquid Gold: Solving the World’s Freshwater Sustainability Challenges
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), The Pivotal Mechanism and Organizational Control
The Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law and the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Yeshiva University present the symposium, Looking Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Evidentiary Standards from Christian Theology to Guantanamo, on January 23, 2009. Panels on “Probability & Reasonable Doubt in Christian Theology” and Confessions, Torture and Reasonable Doubt” will address critical issues concerning the principle of reasonable doubt.
The National Network for Youth and The American Bar Association’s Commission on Youth at Risk, Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, and Center on Children and the Law present Symposium 2009:Celebrating Youth, Inspiring Leadership, and Creating Change, Jan. 25-28, 2009, in Washington, DC.
The National Network for Youth continues to partner with the American Bar Association to develop state public policy and legal practice resources and learning opportunities for law professionals and for organizations serving and advocating for unaccompanied youth. Symposium 2009 Homeless Youth and the Law will follow-up on the successful summer 2008 Homeless Youth and the Law Conference, which brought together providers, judges, attorneys, and state legislators to discuss and develop model and best practices around state public policy. Experts from each topical area will provide recommendations for addressing these critical challenges.
Topics will focus on legal issues facing homeless youth in the following areas:
Karen Mathis, Past President of the American Bar Association, will speak at Monday’s luncheon. David Plouffe, President-Elect Obama’s campaign director, will speak at the luncheon on Tuesday.
Forensic Science for the 21st Century: The National Academy of Sciences Report and Beyond
The Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University will host an international conference on April 3-4, 2009, in Tempe, Ariz., on the future of forensic science, with special attention to the highly anticipated report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, “Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community.”
The Santa Clara University School of Law’s Journal of International Law is hosting a symposium entitled The Future of International Criminal Justice on March 13-14, 2009. Topics to be discussed are:complementarity and the International Criminal Court; terrorism as an international crime; extra-territorial penal jurisdiction; and collective responsibility for international crimes. The keynote speaker of the event will be M. Cherif Bassiouni, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in the creation of the International Criminal Court.
The Santa Clara Journal of International Law will publish a “Symposium Edition” of the Journal featuring articles by the Symposium panelists.
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork is pleased to announce its third annual postgraduate conference. The theme for this year’s event is “The Promise of Law: Political Claims and the Boundaries of Justice.” The conference will take place on April 30th 2009.The conference will focus on the intersection of law and politics and the tensions between liberty and political expediency in view of contemporary challenges to civil and human rights principles. This international one-day conference will attract promising research scholars from Ireland, the UK and Europe. Although a young event, it has become a significant fixture on the Irish legal calendar, and the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights has established a reputation for excellence in this area of scholarship.
We are especially interested in papers that relate to human rights, criminal justice or the intersection of these fields. However, we also welcome papers dealing with issues outside these areas that fall within the broad theme of the conference. It is envisaged that the best papers delivered at the conference may be published online.
The keynote address will be delivered by Barbara Hudson, Professor in Law at Lancashire Law School, whose areas of expertise include cosmopolitan theories of justice and feminist jurisprudence. The closing address will be delivered by Maleiha Malik, Reader in Law at King’s College London, who has written extensively on discrimination law, minority protection and feminist theory.
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) to the organising committee by Friday February 13th 2009. Successful conference submissions will be notified by February 27th 2008. Submissions and further enquires should be directed to ucclawconf@gmail.com.
Richard Lazarus (Georgetown Law)
Harvard Health Law Policy, Bitechnology & Bioethics Workshop
I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law), Patients with Passports: Legal and Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism
Randy Bezanson (Iowa Law), Trespassory Art
Justin Wolfers (Pennsylvania Business), Underestimating Female CEOs
Barry Feld (Minnesota Law) and Shelley Schaefer, The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court: Law Reform, Judicious Non-Intervention, and Unintended Consequences
Northwestern Law and Economics
John Coates (Harvard Law), Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis
Ruth Okediji (Minnesota Law), Beyond Fragmentation: WIPO-WTO Relations and the Future of Global IP Norms
The first conference on the Supreme Court of California will be held by University of California, Berkeley School of Law on Friday, November 14, 2008. The proceedings will address the following issues: Review of the Supreme Court of California’s 2007-08 Term; The Death Penalty and the Appellate Process; Arbitration and Private Judging; and Access to Justice in Family Court.
The keynote address will be presented by Pete Wilson, Former Governor of California. The proceedings will be followed by a reception and dinner featuring an address by Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California.
Stephanos Bibas (Pennsylvania Law), Assembly-Line Criminal Justice
David Frisch (Miami Law), Commercial Law Minimalism
Brian Z. Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), Understanding Legal Realism
Anthony Colangelo (SMU Law), De Facto Sovereignty: Boumediene and Beyond
Michael Steinberger (Williams Institute), The Sexual Orientation Gap in Labor Force Participation Rates: The Role of Children
Karen Cunningham (UCLA English), The Inns of Court and Shakespearean Comedy
Frederick Gedicks (BYU Law), Pluralism, Oppression, and the Ambiguous “Revival” of Religion
Ani Satz (Emory Law), Equal Protection of Animals
James Oldham (Georgetown Law), Under the Radar: Informal Law-Making by the Twelve Judges in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Mark Gergen (Texas Law), Why Strong Third Party Penalties are an Essential Tool for Discouraging Taxpayers from Taking Aggressive Positions in Reporting on Matters of Factual or Legal Uncertainty
Glenn C. Loury (Brown Economics), Incarceration Policy and the Effects on Black Men
Chris Stone (USC), Does the Climate Have Standing?
Michael Madison (Pittsburgh Law), Notes on a Geography of Knowledge
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, Bioethics Workshop
Mark A. Hall (Wake Forest Law), Government-Sponsored Reinsurance: Purpose and Performance
Thomas Gallanis (Minnesota Law)
Kentucky
Cynthia Lee (George Washington Law), Allowing the “Gay Panic” Defense: The Importance of Making Sexual Orientation Salient
Dan Klerman (USC), Legal Origin and Economic Growth
Charles Silver (Texas Law), Managing Lead Attorneys’ Compensation in Multi-District Litigation
Northwestern Law and Economics
Yaniv Geinstein (Cornell Finance), The Market for CEO Talent: Implications for CEO Compensation
Pennsylvania Law and Philosophy
Dan Markovits (Yale Law), Solidarity at Arm’s Length
Judy Nadler (Santa Clara), Campaigning Ethics and Financing
Yuanyuan Shen (Harvard Law), From Plan to Market: The Development of China’s Food Safety Law
Yale Law Economics & Organization
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton Economics), “Dodging Up” to College or “Dodging Down” to Jail
Grainne de Burca (Fordham Law)
Patricia Cain (Santa Clara Law), Taxing Families Fairly: Next Steps
Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton), Form and Function in the National Security Constitution
Orin S. Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach
Traci Burch (Northwesten Poli. Sci.), Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Neighborhood Voter Registration in Atlanta
USC Communications Law and Policy
University of Central Missouri Department of Criminal Justice presents Crime and Popular Culture - A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration - An International Academic Conference, October 28-30, 2008.
The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform holds its 9th Annual Legal Reform Summit Oct. 29, 2008.
This year’s summit will cover a variety of timely topics, including:
- The Congressional landscape for legal reform post-election;
- The public’s stake in preserving pre-dispute arbitration provisions in contracts;
- Parameters of federal preemption;
- The challenge of discovery abuse in federal and state court;
- Foreign activities of the U.S. plaintiffs’ bar; and,
- The role of criminal law in promoting compliance and rational enforcement.
The Hon. Carlos M. Gutierrez, United States Secretary of Commerce, will deliver the morning keynote address on the U.S. legal environment’s impact on foreign investment. Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will deliver the luncheon keynote address on the future of legal reform.
Three new pieces of research will be released at the summit, including:
- A whitepaper on the proper role of criminal law as it relates to corporate conduct authored by former Enron prosecutor Andrew Weissmann;
- The findings of ILR’s discovery survey;
- A practitioner’s handbook on federal preemption.
Stefano Maffei (University of Parma), Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Europe
New York City Law Review: A Call for Papers
The Legal System’s Response to Violence in New York CityThe New York City Law Review — a student-run law journal based out of the City University of New York School of Law – is currently seeking papers for our Spring 2009 symposium on the legal system’s response to violent behavior. With a particular emphasis on violent behavior within New York City, we will critically explore the increase in criminalization, mandatory arrests, and zero tolerance policies through four panels on the areas of domestic violence, sex offenses, juvenile justice, and police brutality. We will be highlighting progressive legal responses within the present legal system, as well as ideas for new responses both within and without the legal framework. The symposium will take place on February 13, 2009 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. We are in the process of securing CLE credits.If you are interested in submitting a paper, please email nyclawreviewsymposium [at] gmail.com by November 1, 2008 with your name, school or organizational affiliation, and an abstract of no more than 250 words describing your article. Selected authors may be invited to serve as panelists at the symposium. Selected articles will be published in the spring of 2009. All completed articles must be submitted by January 1, 2009.
Juan E. Mendez (International Center for Transitional Justice)
Michael O’Hear (Marquette Law), Explain Yourself: Procedural Reasonableness in Federal Sentencing After Rita v. United States
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Darius Lakdawalla (Rand Corporation), The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability
Matt Stephenson (Harvard Law), Political Accountability under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Christopher Springman (Virginia Law), The Emergence of IP Norms in Stand-Up Comedy
New York University Law and Society
Maneesha Deckha (Victoria Law), Racialized Animals and Animalized Cultures: Species, Intersectionality and Posthumanist Justice
Justin McCrary (Berkeley Law), Crime, Punishment, and Myopia
Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop
Joaquin Avila (Seattle University Law), Obstacles to Latina/o Political Empowerment and Solutions
The 19th International Symposium on the Forensic Sciences, sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society (ANZFSS), takes place Oct. 6-9 in Melbourne.
Lewis & Clark Law School’s Spring Symposium, Jan. 30, 2009, focuses on Giles v. California, the most recent Confrontation Clause case decided by the United States Supreme Court. Giles v. California involved the historic forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause. The 4-2-3 split among the Justices indicates that Giles v. California is not the last word on this Confrontation Clause exception.The Symposium will feature many of the top scholars in the contemporary Confrontation Clause debate. Hostedy by Lewis & Clark Law Professor Doug Beloof, the expected presenters are Thomas Davies (Tennessee), Jeffrey Fisher (Stanford), Richard Friedman (Michigan), Robert Kry (firm of Baker Botts), Tom Lininger (Oregon), Robert Mosteller (Duke) and Deborah Tuerkheimer (Maine).
Lonny Sheinkopf Hoffman (Houston Law)
David A. Weisbach (Chicago Law), Climate Change and Discounting the Future: A Guide for the Perplexed
Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania Law), International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and a New Argument for Tax Sparing: Preventing Double Taxation by Crediting Implicit Taxes
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts
UC Berkeley CSLS Speaker Series
Andreas Abegg (Freiburg Law), The Contracting State and its Courts - A Comparative Historical Inquiry
Lynn Stout (UCLA Law), Is The Homo Economicus Model a Self -Fulfilling Prophecy
Washington University in St. Louis
Melissa Murray (UC Berkeley), The Space Between: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Family Law
The War Crimes Research Office and the Women and International Program of American University Washington College of Law, in collaboration with the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, present Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Before Internation/ized Criminal Courts Oct. 14, 2008.
This full-day conference will bring together experts in international criminal law and feminist jurisprudence to examine advances and missed opportunities in the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes before the International Criminal Court and the ad hoc and hybrid criminal tribunals. Patricia Viseur Sellers, former legal advisor for gender and trial attorney athe the International Criminal Tribunal for the Yugoslavia will give the keynote address.
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Michael Zimmerman (Loyola-Chicago Law), A Pro-Employee Supreme Court? - The Retaliation Decisions
George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary Effect Legislation, Political, Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint
