Harvard University hosts Religion and Civilization in International History, The Twelfth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History, March 8-9, 2012. The call for papers is here. The organizers write: “There will be faculty commentators, and perspectives from law are especially welcome.” Paper proposals are due Dec. 15, 2011. mw
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 Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania present Historicizing Routines Nov. 1-2, 2012. The organizers “invite empirical and historically focused papers that explore the development, devolution, destruction, and re-creation of routines in 20th century organizations and bounded communities.” Proposals are due March 31, 2012. Details after the jump. 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 Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) holds its 3rd Annual Meeting March 2-3, 2012, at Georgetown Law. The meeting is cosponsored by Syracuse University College of Law.
The call for papers is broad, covering indigenous rights, climate change, intellectual property, and more. It does not appear to have a deadline. “All papers submitted for the conference will be eligible for consideration for publication in a “themed” book to be edited as a part of the series on Law, Property, and Society published by Ashgate Publishing.”
Registration opened Sept. 1, 2011, and closes Jan. 20, 2012.
Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the launch of American Political Thought in association with the Notre Dame Program in Constitutional Studies and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, a non-profit foundation. Submissions are currently being considered for its inaugural year. The call for papers is here. It does not list a deadline.
Interdisciplinary in scope, APT bridges the gap between historical, empirical, and theoretical, and is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of American political thought. APT will feature research by political scientists, historians, literary scholars, economists, and philosophers who study the texts, authors, and ideas at the foundation of the American political tradition. Scholars from all related disciplines are encouraged to submit papers.The editors are seeking papers that will explore key political concepts such as democracy, constitutionalism, equality, liberty, citizenship, political identity, the role of the state, and classic thinkers in the American tradition.
Hat tip: Legal History Blog. mw
The thirty-first Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group will be held in Edinburgh Oct. 1, 2011. Hat tip: Legal History Blog. mw
The thirty-first Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group will be held in Edinburgh Oct. 1, 2011. Hat tip: Legal History Blog. mw
The Northern Kentucky Law Review (Salmon P. Chase College of Law Northern Kentucky University) presents The Legal Heritage of the Civil War Oct. 22, 2011, 9 am - 12:45 pm. Topics:
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Kennesaw State University presents Integrating the Workplace: A Retrospective on the 50th Anniversary of “Plans for Progress” Oct. 14-15, 2011. It is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on workplace integration in the post-World War II era, especially the period of 1960- 1990. The submissions deadline has passed. mw
GW Law is pleased to invite applications for the Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant for 2012.
The Cummins Grant provides a stipend of $10,000 to support short-term historical research using the Special Collections Department at GW’s Jacob Burns Law Library, which is noted for its continental historical legal collections, especially its French collection, with strengths in Roman and canon law, church-state relations, international law, and many incunabula holdings.The grant is awarded to one doctoral, LL.M., or S.J.D. candidate, postdoctoral researcher, faculty member, or independent scholar. The successful candidate may come from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, law, history, religion, philosophy, or bibliography.
The application deadline is Nov. 1, 2011. mw
The Southern Historical Association will hold its annual meeting in Mobile, AL, Nov. 1-4, 2012. The call for papers deadline is today, Sept. 15, 2011.
The Program Committee for 2012 invites proposals on all topics related to the history of the American South from its pre-colonial era to today. In addition, for the 2012 meeting in Mobile, it extends a special welcome to proposals relating to:
- Mobile and the Gulf South
- International, transnational, or comparative approaches
- 2012 as an anniversary of major historical events, publications, etc.
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The Southern Historical Association holds its annual meeting Oct. 27-30, 2011, in Baltimore. Karen Tani lists panels of interest to legal historians on the Legal History Blog. mw
The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference offer an annual prize for the best book in business history, broadly defined. The next Hagley Prize will be presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29-31, 2012.
The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an international focus. They must be written in English and be published during the two years prior to the award (2010 or 2011).
Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to the prize coordinator, Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630 – Buck Rd. East, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630. Email: clockman [at] hagley.org.
The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2011. mw
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History holds its Fourth Annual Conference Nov. 17-18, 2011. The conference is co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The theme is Narratives.
Mary Dudziak lists half a dozen panels of interest to legal historians on the Legal History Blog (and there are more).
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San Francisco State University will host the 2011 Rights Conference exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society on Sept. 15-16, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. Our goal is to bring together a wide variety of people from a range of academic, activist, legal, and community spaces to examine the place of rights within both the context of American society (as situated within a boarder global political community). To that end, we welcome participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars, graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers. sr
Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and the Humanities and the Chicago-Kent Law Review will host Women’s Legal History: A Global Perspective Oct. 13-14, 2011 in Chicago, IL. sr
The Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev hosts the 16th Annual International Workshop, Socio-legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in and beyond the Middle East, June 4-6, 2012. Proposals are due Sept. 30, 2011. Details available on H-Net. mw
The Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference recognizes historical work (in English) on the effect business enterprises have on the economic conditions of a country in which they operate. Two prizes of $5000 are awarded annually, one for a book and second for an article. The Gomory Prize for work published in 2010 or 2011 will be presented at the BHC annual meeting (Philadelphia, March 29-31, 2012). Book nominations are accepted from publishers and article nominations from the author of the article. Nominations are due Dec. 31, 2011. mw
The 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia. The theme for the conference is “Business and the State.” Proposals—for individual papers or entire panels—are due Oct. 1, 2011. mw
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