The University of Texas School of Law’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law will be hosting a one-day conference on February 3, 2012 entitled Barriers and Innovations in Civil Rights Litigation Since 9/11: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives. This conference is designed to bring together leading civil rights litigators, advocates, and scholars to explore the confluence of two notable trends in civil rights litigation: expanded use of civil rights damages remedies across substantive arenas including criminal justice, immigration, and national security; and constriction of the availability of such remedies via immunities, and secrecy doctrines. For more details and to register visit the conference website.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 28th, 2011
| Immigration Law, National Security Law, Civil Rights Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy of the University of Texas School of Law is currently seeking submissions of articles for Volume 18 of their journal, scheduled for publication in Spring 2012. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 8, 2012. Articles should be submitted electronically to Submissions Editor, Monica Ochoa at thjlp[at]law.utexas.edu. Authors are highly encouraged to submit a CV along with their academic article.
The Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy is an academic publication that aspires to be a forum for issues relevant to Latino legal, political and social issues.The Journal invites ideas and points of views from within and from outside the legal community, as viewed by Latinos and non-Latinos.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 27th, 2011
| Immigration Law, Law and Politics, Public Interest Law, Law and Humanities, Law and Race, Law and Economics, Law and Society, Labor and Employment Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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The National Partnership for New Americans, a partnership of twelve immigrant rights coalitions from across the country, presents the National Immigrant Integration Conference (NIIC 2011) Oct. 24-26, 2011, in Seattle. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 18th, 2011
| Immigration Law, Civil Rights Law, CONFERENCES |
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Hofstra Law School will be hosting a symposium on the interplay between immigration issues and family courts’ obligations to serve families and children in November 2012. Hofstra’s Family Court Review will be publishing a special issue on the same topic and is currently soliciting papers. They are especially interested in submissions from clinical professors. The deadline for paper submission is June 1, 2012. For more information contact Professors Theo Liebmann and Lauris Wren, Special Issue Editors, at lawtsl[at]hofstra.edu and lawlpw[at]hofstra.edu.
Hat Tip: Calls for Paper and Presentation Blog
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2011
| Immigration Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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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 state budget crisis and the ability of state agencies to provide legally required services
- possible changes in state drug laws
- same-sex marriage
- the immigration debate and the California Dream Act
The submission deadline is Sept. 30, 2011.The full call for papers is on SSRN. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 20th, 2011
| Law and Sexuality, Government Law, Immigration Law, Administrative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 19th, 2011
| Immigration Law, Law and Politics, Poverty Law, Law and Society, Legal Education, Criminal Law, Business Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Rochester Institute of Technology College of Liberal Arts presents the Conable Conference in International Studies, Refugees, Asylum Law, and Expert Testimony: The Construction of Africa & the Global South in Comparative Perspective April 12-14, 2012.
The call for papers deadline was Sept. 1, 2011. (A copy is on ImmigrationProf Blog.)
Update (Sept. 15): the deadline has been extended to Sept. 30, 2011.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 15th, 2011
| Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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Atlanta’s John Marshall Law Journal invites submissions for its Spring 2012 symposium focused on immigration law. Although papers on any immigration-related topic are welcome, the editors are especially interested in papers that may have particular relevance to immigration issues in Georgia or the Southeast. Accepted papers will be featured at a conference/CLE to be held on February 8, 2012 and will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of the Journal. Please e-mail papers or proposals to articleseditor [at] johnmarshall.edu by Sept. 26, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| Immigration Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong, presents Recognition and the Politics of Identity and Inclusion in the 21st Century: Managing Diversity in Plural Societies, April 28-29, 2011.
Migration has generated an increasingly borderless world which has challenged the nation-state model as an effective tool for the governance of multiplicities and the management of diversity. As the nation-state is faced with the challenge of dealing with immigrants, non-nationals, refugees and others with newly emerging identities, there is a need to reassess existing frameworks for recognition of the claims of minority communities. The conference seeks to explore the changing dimensions of the politics of identity and inclusion and their implications for governance and the protection of minority communities in plural societies. The conference intends to forge new synergies between disciplines and will draw on the concepts of equality, non-discrimination, identity, inclusion, minority rights and human rights to address the comprehensive challenges posed by life at the margins of society.
For further information and conference registration, please visit: http://www.law.hku.hk/diversity/ or contact Ms. Claire Hussin (diversity.hku@gmail.com). mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2011
| Immigration Law, Human Rights Law, Comparative Law, Law and Race, Law and Religion, CONFERENCES |
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FLACSO-Ecuador presents IV Symposium of the International Network of Migration and Development, Global Crisis and Migratory Strategies: Redefining Migration Policies May 18-20, 2011, in Quito.
Issues to be addressed include: Global Crisis and Development; The Transnational Dimensions of the Crisis; Policies, States, and Global System; Actors, Subjects, and Citizenship in International Migration; Culture, Identity, Religion, and International Migration.
The call for papers deadline was Jan. 24, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 14th, 2011
| Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Latin Americanist’s Dec. 2011 issue will be a special issue on Latin American immigration. The editors invite contributors from all disciplines (and in English, Spanish or Portuguese) to submit an article manuscript for consideration. Potential topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
- U.S. immigration policy as it relates to people of Latin American descent
- Immigration policies of Latin American governments
- Internal migration in Latin America
- Latin American migration to Europe
- The impact of remittances on Latin American economies
- Latin American refugees
- The immigrant experience in the United States
The deadline for submission is May 1, 2011. If you have any questions, please e-mail Greg Weeks, at gbweeks@uncc.edu. Submissions can be emailed to latinamericanist@uncc.edu. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 31st, 2011
| Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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The Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong, presents Recognition and the Politics of Identity and Inclusion in the 21st Century: Managing Diversity in Plural Societies, April 28-29, 2011.
People from all disciplines, including, but not limited to anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, healthcare, law, philosophy, politics, psychology, social work, and sociology working on these or related themes are invited to submit proposals for consideration.
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The Conference solicits proposals for papers that address any of the following themes:
- National, Multiple and Fluid Identities: The New Politics of Identity and Recognition
- Religion and the State: Fissured Discourses on Secularism, Accommodation and Tolerance
- Legal Pluralism and Cultural Diversity
- Citizenship, Participation, Inclusion and Belonging in Diverse Societies
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Inequality
Abstracts are due Jan. 31, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 21st, 2011
| Immigration Law, Human Rights Law, Comparative Law, Law and Race, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Law and Religion, CONFERENCES |
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Northeastern University School of Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE), presents Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a two-day intensive institute for leading immigration and human rights advocates, scholars, jurists and activists, Oct. 14-15, 2010. The institute is co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Human Rights Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.
The institute includes panels open to the public 11:45-1:30 on Oct. 14 and 12:00-1:30 on Oct. 15.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2010
| Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Raoul Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec at Montreal and the Association for Borderlands Studies will hold Fences, Walls and Borders: State of Insecurity? May 19-20, 2011. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Oct. 15, 2010. Papers may be in French or English.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains “Do good fences still make good neighbours”? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of which began under the Qin dynasty, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman “Limes” or the Danevirk fence, the “wall” has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years the wall has been given renewed vigour in North America, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Israel, where the old Green line has been transformed into a wall separating Arab from Israeli. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those ‘behind the line’? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls?
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 17th, 2010
| National Security Law, Immigration Law, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 6th, 2010
| Law and Race, Law and Gender, Comparative Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Immigration Law, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Criminal Law, Education Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Education, CONFERENCES |
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The American Sociological Association holds its annual meeting Aug. 14-17, 2010, in Atlanta, GA. The theme is Toward a Sociology of Citizenship: Inclusion, Participation, and Rights.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2010
| Immigration Law, Law and Society, CONFERENCES |
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Call for Papers Announcement
AALS Section on Children and the Law
Our Children - The World’s Children: The Effects of Globalization on Children
4:30 - 5:45 p.m. Friday, January 7, 2011
The AALS Section on Children and the Law will hold a program during the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California on transnational legal issues affecting children. The program is co-sponsored by the Sections of Family and Juvenile Law, International Law, Immigration Law and International Human Rights. The Section seeks three presenters for this program. It is hoped that the chosen presenters will shed light on the legal circumstances of children in the United States and abroad whose lives are increasingly impacted by the movement of people, goods and wealth around the globe. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept. 1, 2010. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 19th, 2010
| Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Family Law |
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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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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 9th, 2010
| Immigration Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Politics, Local Government Law, Poverty Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, Criminal Law, Health Law, Education Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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