The Journal of Legal Education (a publication of the Association of American Law Schools) and Southwestern Law School have announced the first JLE Legal Fiction Contest. Submissions must be original short works of fiction related to law school or the practice of law, and winning entries will be published in a future issue of the Journal of Legal Education. The submission deadline is March 15, 2012. mw
The International Association for the Study of the Commons presents the 1st Thematic Conference on the Knowledge Commons, Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources: Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and Genetic Resources Commons, Sept. 12-14, 2012 at Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2012.
There will be six tracks for abstract submissions:
The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to bring together leading people from a number of international scientific research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain conditions for collaborative research.
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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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The Chapman University School of Law: Chapman Law Review will be hosting a symposium Jan. 26-27, 2012 entitled “The 40th Anniversary of Watergate: A Commemoration of the Rule of Law.” Abstracts and proposals for panel presentations on issues related to this topic, as well as author’s resume, should be submitted to: Whitney Stefko, Senior Symposium Editor, Chapman Law Review, stefk100[at]mail.chapman.edu. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 15, 2011.
This Symposium affords an excellent opportunity to remember the events of Watergate and the aftermath of those events. Alongside a discussion of the legacy of Watergate institutional and legislative reform, the symposium also provides a platform to discuss the notions of justice, procedural consequences of prosecuting government officials, the freedom of press and legal ethics.
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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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The Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International Sociological Association) invite papers for their joint annual meeting in Honolulu, HI June 5-8, 2012. The theme of the meeting is “Sociolegal Conversations Across a Sea of Islands” although other law & society topics are welcome. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 6, 2011.
In addition, the tax section of the meeting has a call for papers deadline of Nov. 29, 2011.
The Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis will host a Junior Faculty Interdisciplinary Scholarship Workshop March 22-23, 2012. The Workshop will explore “Objectivity in the Law” and is open to non-tenured academics whose research is interdisciplinary in nature. Interested participants must submit a 500 work abstract to Professor Cynthia Adamas at cmadams[at]iupui.edu before Nov. 15, 2011. Submitted papers should focus on a chosen area of law and examine that law’s objective purpose and the relationship between its purpose and its actual implementation. The program is also open to other scholars wanting to attend, read, and comment on the papers but not present. There is no registration fee. nh
Cardozo Law hosts Visualizing 9/11: A Symposium Examining the Images of Sept. 11, 2001, today, Sept. 8, 2011. mw
Cardozo Law School, the New York Law School Law Review, and the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School present Visualizing Law in the Digital Age Oct. 19, 2011 (at Cardozo) and Oct. 20 Oct. 21, 2011 (at NYLS) (date corrected Sept. 8, 2011). Panels are:
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The John Jay College of Criminal Justice invites paper and panel proposals for the Third Biennial Law and Literature Conference, tentatively scheduled for March 30, 2012. The theme is The Idea of Justice; the keynote speaker is Amartya Sen, author of The Idea of Justice (2009). Proposals are due Jan. 13, 2012. mw
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period . . . from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century,” will hold its 43rd annual meeting March 22-25, 2012, in San Antonio. Among the many panels listed in the call for papers (available as a Word document here) are:
The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15, 2011. mw
The Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage & the Arts, the University of Siena, and the European University Institute present Defending Aphrodite: Enforcing International Cultural Property Law - June 3-4, 2011, in Siena, Italy. mw
An international workshop on the theme of International Law and Empire will be held at the University of Helsinki Oct. 4-6, 2011. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Erik Castrén Institute for International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki; the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne; the European Research Council research project on “Europe between Revolution and Reaction 1815-1914,” and the Australian Research Council research project on “Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law.”
This workshop will bring together leading scholars from international law, history, anthropology, international relations and literature, to assess the role of law in the organisation and occasional critique of formal and informal empire, and the role of empire (and the righteous critique of empire) in the organisation of modern international law.
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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 Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy (University of Buffalo Law) and the Center for European Studies (University of Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences) presented Realizing Europe: The Lisbon Treaty in Perspective, April 28-29th, 2011. mw
Fordham Law hosts Bob Dylan and the Law April 4-5, 2011. The evening of April 4 will include a free one-hour panel discussion followed by a concert by The Kennedys. April 5 will have an academic symposium, by invitation only. Co-Sponsored by the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics (Fordham), Touro Law School and the Fordham Urban Law Journal. mw
University College of London Faculty of Laws hosts Current Legal Issues Colloquium 2011 - Law and Language July 4-5, 2011 in London, England.
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AALS Section on Law and Humanities seeks panelists for a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (Jan. 4-8, 2012), “Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum” (Jan. 5, 10:30-12:15).
The AALS Section on Law and Humanities will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. with panelists who will share methods of teaching law and humanities perspectives in “core courses” such as property, torts, contracts, corporations, federal income tax, civil procedure, contracts, or criminal law, and others not traditionally understood to include these perspectives.
Statements of interest are due by March 31, 2011. Jump to full post
Goethe-Universität hosts XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Aug. 15-20, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main. The theme is Law, Science and Technology.
Included will be workshops on Legal Fictions and on Exemplary Narratives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Both have issued calls for papers. The deadline for short abstracts is April 1, 2011. Jump to full post
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