The George Washington University Law School has awarded the first annual Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant to Michel Morin, a professor of the law faculty at the Université de Montréal. The Cummins Grant provides a $10,000 stipend to support short-term historical research using the Special Collections Department at GW’s Jacob Burns Law Library. Press release is here.
This year’s deadline for applying was Nov. 1, 2011, so watch for information next summer and fall for the next grant.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2012
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Legal History |
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The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites scholars, practitioners, innovators and others committed to understanding and remedying institutional corruption to submit proposals. The application deadline for fellowships and projects to begin Sept. 2012 is Feb. 1, 2012.
The Lab would be particularly enthusiastic to receive proposals on topics of institutional corruption in media and think tanks, or from professionals working in those fields. Priority will be given to project proposals with a focus on innovative remedies for institutional corruption.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 25th, 2012
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Communications Law, Uncategorized |
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The Law & Social Sciences (LSS) Program at the National Science Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new funding solicitation. There are full proposal target dates of Jan. 24, 2012, July 16, 2012, and July 15 annually thereafter.
The LSS program supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. The program funds the best proposals submitted within the field broadly defined, regardless of specific subfield, and strives to support an interdisciplinary community of scholars studying relevant topics.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 14th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Society, Jurisprudence |
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The Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law is pleased to announce scholarship opportunities for junior academics who wish to spend a year in residence at the Law School engaging in research and producing a significant piece of original, publishable scholarship. New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the following fellowships:
- Hauser Research Scholar – for junior scholars –Deadline: January 6, 2012.
- Global Fellows Program – for academics, lawyers, government officers, and doctoral students – Deadline: January 13, 2012
- Emile Noël Fellowship – for people writing “on the themes prioritized by the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice” – Deadline: January 13, 2012
- Global & Senior Global Emile Noël Research Fellows are post-doctoral or tenured academics with a demonstrable background of legal scholarship.
- Global Emile Noël Fellowships are also open to government officials, judges, officials from international organizations and lawyers in private practice who wish to take a semester or academic year away from their posts to engage in serious scholarship.
- Visiting Doctoral Researcher Program – for doctoral candidates from foreign universities – Deadline: January 13, 2012
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 1st, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Comparative Law, International Law |
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The AALL Research & Publications Committee is accepting applications through Monday, December 12, 2011, for research grants from the AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grants Program that may total up to $5000. Details here.
The committee will award one or more grants to library professionals who wish to conduct research that supports the research/scholarly agenda of the profession of librarianship. The grants program funds small or large research projects that create, disseminate, or otherwise use legal and law-related information as its focus. Projects may range from the historical (indexes, legislative histories, bibliographies, biographies, or directories) to the theoretical (trends in cataloging, publishing, or new service models in libraries) to the practical (implementation models for collection, personnel, or infrastructure management).The AALL Research Agenda offers suggestions for possible research projects that cover a wide segment of professional interest, including the profession of law librarianship, law library patrons, law library services, legal research and bibliography, legal information resources, and law library facilities. However, projects are not limited to those described in the agenda, and the committee will consider all applications and research projects.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 30th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Law Librarianship, Legal Research & Writing |
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The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School seeks candidates for the 2012-2014 Academic Fellowship Program. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1, 2011. Completed applications must be received at petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu by 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2011. Details are here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 9th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Law and Technology, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Health Law |
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The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers awards prizes to written contributions to the field of consumer financial services law. Eligible papers include publishable articles, substantial book reviews, or book chapters; books; and student case note or comment. The entry deadline is Dec. 1, 2011. Works must have been written or published within the past twelve months. Details are here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 9th, 2011
| Consumer law, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law |
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Interested in law teaching? One route is through a fellowship. See Paul Caron’s helpful list, Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors (2011-12 Edition), TaxProf Blog, Sept. 14, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 21st, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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George Mason Law offers Robert A. Levy Fellowships to entering law students who have a Ph.D. or have complete all requirements but the dissertation in economics or related fields. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 20th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS |
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Stanford Law School and the Stanford Constitutional Law Center announce an Academic Fellowship program for future scholars. Fellows must be committed to producing publishable research in constitutional law. It is expected that fellows will enter the teaching market during the second year of the fellowship. The deadline for applications is Sept. 30, 2011. Hat tip: PrawfsBlawg. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 20th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Constitutional Law |
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The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Dissertation Award ($1500) recognizes students of extraordinary potential who are writing graduate-level dissertations on topics related to the United Nations system. Eligible candidates may be citizens of any country and must be at the dissertation-writing stage of a Ph.D., J.S.D. or LL.M. level and engaged in the writing stage of their program. The application deadline is Feb. 27, 2012. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 18th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, International Law |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 17th, 2011
| Law and Philosophy, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Law Librarianship, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Religion, Legal History |
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 14th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Legal History, Business Law |
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The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School seeks candidates for the
2012-2014 Academic Fellowship Program. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1, 2011. Completed applications must be received at petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu by 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2011. Details are here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 14th, 2011
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On September 1, 2011, the Climenko Fellowship Program will begin accepting applications for the 2012-14 term. Climenko Fellows teach in Harvard Law School’s First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program. The Fellows are aspiring legal academics who receive extensive support and mentoring for their scholarship while teaching legal research and writing. Former Fellows have gone on to tenure-track positions at Arizona State, Boston University, Florida State, Fordham, Georgetown, the University of Minnesota, and Vanderbilt, among other schools. If you are planning a career in legal academia, please consider applying for the fellowship. To apply, send a resume, law school transcript, two or three letters of recommendation, a research agenda and at least one scholarly writing sample to: Susannah Barton Tobin, Director, First-Year Legal Research & Writing Program, Harvard Law School, Griswold 1 North, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 13th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal Research & Writing, Legal Education |
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The Administrative Conference of the United States is seeking requests for proposals for two new projects. The consultants selected for our projects are typically law professors. The benefits include modest payment for the work, access to the resources and contacts of the agency for research (most projects involve empirical research in the form of interviews with knowledgeable agency personnel), and a publishable work that has gone through our committee process. For administrative law professors, it’s a great opportunity to do some meaningful and unique research. The two projects involve (1) the Paperwork Reduction Act and (2) Review of Regulatory Analysis Recommendations. The application deadline is close of business August 18, 2011. Full announcement after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 13th, 2011
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law |
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The Center for Reproductive Rights (”the Center”) and Columbia Law School offer a two-year fellowship to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. Applicants do not need to be graduates of Columbia Law School to be eligible for this program. The deadline for applying for a 2012-14 fellowship is October 31, 2011. The application is here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 17th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, Human Rights Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Health Law |
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Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will host Law and Its Accidents Dec. 14-15, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 19, 2011.
This fourth annual workshop bringing together higher research students and early career researchers, who in different disciplines and across diverse fields of scholarship, engage with law and its theoretical and methodological questions.
This year we embark on an investigation of law and its accidents, because to critically engage with legal theory is not only to track the modalities of law, but also to probe its interstices. It is to expose law’s fault lines and its exceptions, its interruptions and its crises, but also its coincidences and serendipities. This workshop will try not just to prod those fragile points where law buckles and sways, but attempt to build new jurisprudential approaches to understanding the happenstances of law. The accidents of law are neither novel nor exemplary. They often appear subtly in the narrative of a judgment, the methodologies of legal scholarship and the ceremonies of justice. In law the accident never just happens; it is embedded in the forms and materialities of law. Send abstracts of 500 words and biographies of 100 words to law-mdflt@unimelb.edu.au by Monday, 19 September 2011. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 4th, 2011
| OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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