Southern Connecticut State University hosts the 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Women and Labor: At Home, at Work, Around the Globe, April 20-21, 2012. The submission deadline for proposals (papers, panels, posters) was Dec. 1, 2011.
Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
St. John’s School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law presented Labor Relations and the Future of Professional Baseball Nov. 18, 2011. (We apologize for not posting before the event: despite our best efforts we sometimes get behind in our email.) mw
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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NYU School of Law’s Center for Labor & Employment Law and U.S.-Asia Law Institute will be hosting a Research Conference on the Chinese Labor Market May 11-12, 2012 in New York. This will be an interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading academics in the field, whether lawyers, economists, sociologists, organizational behavior experts, and others, to share their work on the present and future state of chinese workers, employers, labor relations and labor market institutions. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 15, 2011. Materials should be sent to Torrey Whitman at torrey.whitman[at]nyu.edu.
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The New York Law School Law Review and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy will present Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal and Employment Discrimination April 23, 2012 at New York Law School. The “symposium that will examine the high failure rates of plaintiffs on pre- and post-trial motions in employment discrimination cases and explore potential strategies to reverse this growing trend.” mw
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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The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution (UNLV Law) presents Democracy and the Workplace Feb. 24-25, 2012. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Sept. 30, 2012. The call for papers is here. mw
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern Law) presents Government Unions in the United States Oct. 13-14, 2011. To request an invitation, contact Derek Gundersen, d-gundersen [at] law.northwestern.edu. mw
Albany Law Review presents Protecting Workers’ Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World Sept. 28, 2011. The symposium will examine the state of workers’ rights one hundred years after the Triangle Factory fire and in the wake of efforts to end public sector bargaining in Wisconsin. Article proposals should be submitted as soon as possible. Drafts will be due Oct. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
The Saint Louis University Law Journal seeks submissions for its vol. 56 (2011-12) symposium issue on labor and employment law. Articles in this issue will accompany articles presented last fall at the Fifth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law.
We anticipate publishing the issue in late fall 2011, and therefore would need a final draft of all accepted papers or proposals by August 1, 2011. Articles for this issue are generally between 25 and 40 pages long. Please send drafts or proposals to Stacy Osmond, Symposium Managing Editor, at sgoodma4 [at] slu.edu.
Update (July 27): The editor wrote to us on July 19 that the issue has been filled.
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The Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal invites submissions for its Fall 2011 issue on all topics relating to labor and employment law. The issue is tentatively scheduled for publication in early December 2011.
Additionally, we specifically seek articles on the topic of the intersection between labor and employment law and the financial sector for our symposium to be held in November 2011. While we prefer completed papers, authors interested in the symposium but whose articles are not yet ready for publication are encouraged to contact us as we are still seeking participants/contributors.
We ask that all articles be submitted by August 15, 2011. Please submit your manuscripts (along with any appropriate supporting documents) or any questions to Ashley Behre, Managing Editor of Articles, at laboremploymentlaw [at] hofstra.edu.
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The editors of the Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to an issue slated for publication during the Fall of 2011. This issue focuses on the changing landscape of Labor and Employment in the modern market. The deadline for submissions was June 1, 2011, but the executive articles editor reports that the editors are still collecting articles on the theme. mw
St. John’s School of Law presents Worlds of Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across the Globe, July 20-22, 2011, at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. A detailed schedule is here.
The conference is hosted by the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution (both at St. John’s). mw
Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal has issued a call for papers on The Workplace Law Agenda of the Obama Administration. Abstracts are due by May 15, 2011. Jump to full post
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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The Academy of Business Research will hold its Fall 2011 conference Sept. 13-15 in Atlantic City, NJ. Abstract submissions are due by May 16th, 2011.
Each paper must be designated for one of the following tracks: Accounting; Economics; Education; Finance; Health Care; Human Resources; Management; Marketing; MIS; Public Administration; Real Estate; Strategy. mw
Northwestern University School of Law hosts Government Unions in the United States Oct. 13-14, 2011, in Chicago, IL.
Call for Papers Deadline: May 1, 2011 sr
The Case Western Reserve Law Review announces a Call for Papers addressing present problems and proposing new solutions concerning the future of private and public sector collective bargaining rights. Abstracts should be sent to lawreview@case.edu by June 1, 2011.
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MitraTech presents Interact 2011 - The Legal & Compliance Technology Forum in Miami, FL May 15-18, 2011. sr
New York University School of Law hosts the ABA National Symposium on Technology in Labor and Employment Law April 27-29, 2011 in New York, NY. sr
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