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Call For Papers: Workshop For Corporate And Securities Litigation

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FIRST ANNUAL WORKSHOP FOR CORPORATE & SECURITIES LITIGATION CALL FOR PAPERS

The University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Richmond School of Law invite submissions for the First Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation. This workshop will be held on Friday, November 8, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois.

OVERVIEW: This annual workshop will bring together scholars focused on corporate and securities litigation to present their works-in-progress. Papers addressing any aspect of corporate and securities litigation or enforcement are eligible. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, securities litigation, fiduciary duty litigation, or comparative approaches to business litigation. We welcome scholars working in a variety of methodologies, including empirical analysis, law and economics, law and sociology, and traditional doctrinal analysis.

Authors whose papers are selected will be invited to present their work at a workshop hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday November 8, 2013. Local costs (lodging and workshop meals) will be covered. Participants are asked to pay for their own travel expenses.

The workshop is designed to maximize discussion and feedback. All participants will have read the selected papers. The author will provide a brief introduction to the paper, but the majority of the individual sessions will be devoted to collective discussion of the paper involved.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of the paper you would like to present to Jessica Erickson at jerickso@richmond.edu not later than Friday, May 31, 2013. Please include your name, current position, and contact information in the e-mail accompanying the submission. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by Friday, June 28.

QUESTIONS: Any questions concerning the workshop should be directed to the organizers—Professor Verity Winship (vwinship@illinois.edu) and Professor Jessica Erickson (jerickso@richmond.edu).

 

AALS Call For Papers: Intersection of Torts and Insurance

From the AALS sections on Insurance Law and Torts Law:

The AALS Section on Insurance Law and the AALS section on Tort Law will hold a program "On the Unavoidable Intersection of Torts and Insurance" during the AALS 2014 Annual Meeting in New York. The program will feature a panel of leading researchers on the intersection of torts and insurance.

Panelists scheduled to participate include: Kent Syverud (Washington University School of Law), Tom Baker (University of Pennsylvania Law School), and Nora Engstrom (Stanford Law School).

We are looking to add one additional panelist through this Call for Papers.

Submissions: To be considered, a draft paper or proposal must be submitted by email to Ronen Avraham, Program Chair, at ravraham@law.utexas.edu, and Jennifer Wriggins, Program Chair, at wriggins@maine.edu. A proposal must be comprehensive enough to allow for a meaningful evaluation of the proposed paper. Submissions must be in PDF format.

Deadline: The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 6, 2013. Decisions will be announced by Friday, September 27, 2013. Eligibility: Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit. Faculty at fee-paid law schools; foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members; graduate students; fellows; and non-law school faculty are not eligible to submit. Papers may already be accepted for publication, provided that the paper will not be published before the AALS meeting.

Expenses: The panelist selected through this Call for Papers will be responsible for paying his or her own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses. Inquiries: Inquiries about this Call for Papers may be submitted to the Program Chairs.

Call For Papers: Green Bag Micro-Symposium On Judicial Activism

Authors are asked to comment on Suzanne Sherry's Why We Need More Judicial Activism.  Details here.  You have til June 1 to get 500 words together.  Hurry up.  

K-CON 8

A quick link here to the registration page for the 8th International Conference on Contracts in Ft. Worth February 22-23. I'll be presenting an early (emphasis on "early") draft of a paper on contract theory and quite a few others have signed up on various aspects of contract law. There also appear to be a few open slots for anyone who wants to slip in a presentation.

Law And Society Extends Call For Participation Deadline

The Law and Society Association has extended its deadline for proposal submissions for the May 30 - June 2, 2013  LSA Annual Meeting in Boston to December 11, 2012.  Get 'em in!

Green Bag Call For Micro-Papers

Everybody is talking about Orin Kerr's seminal, germinal, and generative article, A Theory of Law.  It's become so important so quickly that Ross Davies and the folks at the Green Bag have announced a micro-symposium on the topic.  Click for the  Green Bag call for papers.  Hurry.  The deadline for submissions is Sir Isaac Newton's birthday!

Call for Papers: Politics and the Law & Immigration and the Law

    The University of Massachusetts Law Review is currently accepting manuscript abstracts to be considered for publication in an our upcoming May 2012 double issue that will feature manuscripts on Politics and the Law & Immigration and the Law.

    To be considered for publication, please submit your abstract and curriculum vitae to lawreviewsubmissions@umassd.edu by January 15, 2013. Space is limited, and selections will be made on a rolling basis. Articles that can be executed in 20,000 words or less are strongly preferred. Student notes may also be submitted.

     Submissions should focus on legal issues involving immigration, or on legal issues involving politics. This may include developments in theory, legislation, or recent case law. The UMass Law Review recommends submitters to take an approach that will clearly explain a problem in recent legal developments and offer a novel solution or analysis.

     All submissions should be submitted electronically and should contain an abstract of no more than 400 words. Manuscripts must conform to the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed. 2010). All submissions should be in Microsoft Word format; hard copies may be sent by mail.

     A symposium titled Trends and Issues in Politics and the Law will be held at the law school on March 1, 2013. Proposals for speakers may be submitted to lawreview@umassd.edu.

     For all inquiries, please contact the Managing Editor, Ed Callahan, at lawreview@umassd.edu, or by phone at 508.985.1107.

CFP: Institute for Global Law & Policy Conference at HLS

The Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School announces its first biannual international conference, "New Directions in Global Thought," to be held in Boston on June 3-4, 2013.  According to its website, IGLP "is a collaborative faculty effort to nurture innovative approaches to global policy in the face of a legal and institutional architecture manifestly ill-equipped to address our most urgent global challenges." Panel and paper proposals on governance, inequality, conflict, and the rule of law are invited. More information is available here.

(The conference is scheduled to occur immediately after the 2013 Law & Society meeting in Boston, which I blogged about here.) 

CFP: Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel: 50 Years After Gideon

The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law announces a call for submissions for its 2013 Law Review symposium on “Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel: 50 Years After Gideon.”  Articles presented during the symposium will be published in the Law Review’s annual symposium issue.  Abstracts are due by November 15^th (details here).

CFP: Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop

The Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop has issued an announcement and call for papers for its 2013 gathering for pretenured law faculty at Albany Law School.

From the Workshop website:

This workshop is intended for law faculty who do not have tenure and who seek an opportunity to develop their scholarship and discuss their teaching with other, similarly situated law faculty. This program will provide a forum for untenured faculty to present works in progress, solicit feedback from peers ahead of the February-March Law Review submission season, and network with other untenured faculty about teaching practices and related issues. 

The Workshop is free, but registration is required before November 16, 2012 (register here). Given its timing (in advance of the Spring submission cycle) and the chance to have senior faculty review and comment on works-in-progress, this looks like a great opportunity for juniors and VAPs.

 

CFP: Law & Society 2013 Conference

The Law and Society Association has issued a call for participation for its 2013 meeting in Boston (also known as "not Hawaii"). Proposals are due December 4. Here are the details:

Power, Privilege, and the Pursuit of Justice: Legal Challenges in Precarious Times

The meeting’s theme aims to incite debate on the challenges that will define law and society over the next decade. The financial crisis that struck in 2008 still rends the economy, politics, law, and society. How will polarized politics, rapid technological change, and global shifts in economic power affect law and society over the next years, domestically and transnationally?

To envision the future, we invite participants to extend and rethink law and society’s past insights to engage a new and changing context. The Program Committee has listed a series of sub-themes in featured sessions and other panels with the aim of spurring cross-cutting discussions.

Pretenured faculty and those planning to go on the teaching market in the next year might be especially interested in the LSA Early Career Workshop, to be held over two days immediately preceding the opening of the full conference. Details for the Workshop are here. 

Call for Articles: Southern Illinois University Law Journal

From an email that I received earlier today:

CALL FOR PAPERS: GUANTANAMO BAY: WHAT NEXT?

The Southern Illinois University Law Journal is seeking scholarly legal articles from newer legal scholars for possible inclusion in a special Symposium issue on legal issues arising from the continued detention and trial of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The SIU Law Journal is dedicated to producing scholarly publications of the highest quality attainable.

There have been several recent developments pertaining to Guantanamo Bay, ranging from the constitutionality of the process of indefinitely detaining so-called "enemy combatants" to the hurdles faced by the attorneys who have chosen, or been chosen, to represent those detained there.  For years now, Guantanamo Bay has been a focus of the debate about the proper balance between liberty and security.  Despite its unpopularity among many, it appears that Guantanamo Bay, for the time being, is not going away.  This Symposium issue of the SIU Law Journal will seek to address many of the continuing legal issues surrounding Guantanamo Bay from all viewpoints and provide a platform for legal scholars to present new research and ideas on this important topic.

The SIU Law Journal will choose the best Symposium article from a newer law faculty member (defined as a law faculty member who has been part of the legal academy for seven (7) years or less) on a legal issue pertaining to Guantanamo Bay.  The article should be approximately twenty to twenty-five pages in length.  Three law professors from Southern Illinois University School of Law and the Editor-in-Chief of the SIU Law Journal will select the best article submitted, which will be published in the Symposium issue of the SIU Law Journal.  In addition, the author of the chosen article will be invited to attend the Guantanamo Bay Symposium at SIU School of Law on February 22, 2013, all travel expenses paid, to give a presentation on the topic of his or her article.  Although only one scholar will be invited to participate in the symposium through this call for papers, the SIU Law Journal will consider the other articles submitted for publication in the Symposium issue.

The full manuscript, in Word format, should be e-mailed to the Editor-in-Chief by the deadline indicated below.  Please feel free to contact the Editor-in-Chief, Brian Lee, at bdlee@siu.edu if you have any questions or concerns.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Version:       November 19, 2012
Decision Date:   December 21, 2012

CFP: Promoting the Participation of Children and Youth Across the Globe

Call for Book Chapters

Promoting the Participation of Children and Youth across the Globe: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies

Editors:

Tali Gal, School of Criminology, University of Haifa

Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Golden Gate University School of Law

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children’s rights terminology into various public and private arenas. Children’s right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their lives is the acme of the Convention and its central contribution to the children’s rights discourse. At the same time the participation right presents enormous challenges in its implementation. Laws, regulations and mechanisms addressing children’s right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their lives have been established in many jurisdictions across the globe. Yet these world-wide developments have only rarely been accompanied with empirical investigations. The effectiveness of various policies in achieving meaningful participation for children of various ages, cultures and circumstances have remained largely unproven empirically.  With the growing awareness of the importance of evidence-based policies it becomes clear that without empirical investigations on the implementation of children’s right to participation it is difficult to promote their inclusion in decision making. 

How do children experience various fora of decision-making? To what extent do children feel that they are able to express their views freely and that their viewpoints are given due weight, in accordance with their age and maturity? What kind of representation do they regard as empowering and effective? How important do children consider their ability to influence the outcome of the process? Who do they want to be present in decision making mechanisms? These are some examples of child-centered investigations toward effective child participation that the various chapters of this book aim at describing. Other chapters may consider outcome variables focusing on the opinions of parents, professionals and family members regarding the way decision-making processes include children.

The overall goal of the book is to identify practices that promote child-inclusive decision making processes that allow children of various ages and other characteristics to engage in meaningful dialogue with others toward the achievement of optimal decisions. The book aims to provide a wide range of empirical data collected from various arenas and different localities. Child-participation in schools, child-protection processes, restorative justice mechanisms, family disputes and courts may be discussed in the various chapters through data collected from different countries, cultures and samples, creating a mosaic of child-participation mechanisms and their level of success.

Abstracts due October 31, 2012.  More details after the fold.

Conference Announcement: Intercountry Adoption

A slightly edited version of an email that I received yesterday:

In February, the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion and Ethics at the Pepperdine School of Law will host its 10^th annual conference.  This year we will explore the complexities of intercountry adoption from legal, social, and religious perspectives.  The Nootbaar Institute now welcomes proposals addressing this topic.

If you would like to present a paper or organize a panel of 3-4 presenters, please submit your proposal by October 8, 2012 to dana.zacharia@pepperdine.edu.

If you have questions about the substance of the conference, contact Bob Cochran at robert.cochran@pepperdine.edu or Jay Milbrandt at jay.milbrandt@pepperdine.edu. For questions about the details of the conference, contact Dana Zacharia by email dana.zacharia@pepperdine.edu or by phone (310) 506-6978.

For more information on the Nootbaar Institute and to view details of past conferences, please visit: http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar.

Call for Articles: Arkansas Law Review

From my friend (and Arkansas law professor) Dustin Buehler:

The Arkansas Law Review is pleased to announce a call for papers in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Symposium to be held on Friday, November 9 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  The topic of the symposium will focus on the mortgage foreclosure crisis.  The University of Arkansas School of Law is delighted to host Professor Dale Whitman as a Visiting Professor for the 2012-2013 academic year.  His scholarship has informed the direction of our symposium.

The first issue of Volume 66 will be devoted to the Symposium and will be published in early spring 2013. We encourage articles analyzing both the causes and effects of the crisis from a regulatory perspective and a homeowner perspective.  We would also appreciate forward-looking articles that posit solutions and preventive measures.    

Authors should submit an abstract and a cover letter to rewright@email.uark.edu.  The deadline for submissions of article proposals is Monday, October 8, 2012.  Please feel free to email Robin Wright at rewright@email.uark.edu with any questions.

CFP: Third Annual JUNIOR FACULTY BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LAW WORKSHOP

THE CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS & FINANCE (C-LEAF)

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THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

 

Third Annual JUNIOR FACULTY BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LAW WORKSHOP

AND JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES

 

Sponsored by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

            The Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF) at The George Washington University Law School is pleased to announce its third annual Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop and Junior Faculty Scholarship Prizes.  The Workshop and Prizes are sponsored by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. The Workshop will be held on April 5-6, 2013 at GW Law School in Washington, DC.

 

            The Workshop supports and recognizes the work of young legal scholars in accounting, banking, bankruptcy, corporations, economics, finance and securities, while promoting interaction among them and selected senior faculty. By providing a forum for the exchange of creative ideas in these areas, C-LEAF also aims to encourage new and innovative scholarship.

 

Approximately ten papers will be chosen from those submitted for presentation at the Workshop pursuant to this Call for Papers. At the Workshop, one or more senior scholars will comment on each paper, followed by a general discussion of each paper among all participants. The Workshop audience will include invited young scholars, faculty from GW’s Law School and Business School, faculty from other institutions, and invited guests.

 

At the conclusion of the Workshop, three papers will be selected to receive Junior Faculty Scholarship Prizes of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000, respectively.  All prize winners will be invited to become Fellows of C-LEAF.* C-LEAF makes no publication commitment, but chosen papers will be featured on its website as part of the C-LEAF Working Paper series.

 

            Junior scholars who have not yet received tenure, but have held a full-time academic appointment for less than seven years as of the submission date, are cordially invited to submit summaries or drafts of their papers.  Although published work is not eligible for submission, submissions may include work that has been accepted for publication. C-LEAF will cover hotel and meal expenses of all selected presenters.

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, one of the leading law firms serving the financial services industry and known for its premier practice in the area of private investment funds and private equity M&A, generously sponsors the Junior Faculty Scholarship Workshop and Prizes and provides other financial assistance to C-LEAF.

 

            Those interested in presenting a paper at the Workshop should submit a summary or draft, preferably by e-mail, on or before November 9, 2012.  To facilitate blind review, your name and other identifying information should be redacted from your paper submission.  Direct your submission, along with any inquiries related to the Workshop, to:

 

Professor Lisa M. Fairfax

Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law

George Washington University Law School

2000 H Street, NW

Washington, DC 20052

lfairfax@law.gwu.edu

 

            Papers and Junior Faculty Scholarship Prizes will be selected after a blind review by members of the C-LEAF Executive Board. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by December 14, 2012. Please feel free to pass this Call for Papers along to any colleagues who may be interested.

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* For more information on C-LEAF Fellowship, please visit our website at http://www.law.gwu.edu/Academics/research_centers/C-LEAF/Pages/default.aspx, or contact us at cleaf@law.gwu.edu.

AALS Transactional Law Section Call for Posters

The AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills invites faculty at AALS member law schools to submit poster presentation proposals for the 2013 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans (January 4-7, 2013).

The Section will consider all proposals relating to the teaching of, or scholarship focusing on, transactional law and skills. Proposals consistent with this year’s Section panel on international transactions will be given a slight preference. Posters are intended to provide authors an opportunity to present in clear and succinct fashion the thesis and conclusion of their research or to describe teaching innovations outside formal program presentations. Because the focus should be on the content of the research and innovative teaching, posters that were primarily promoting a particular school program, project, book or materials are not eligible for poster display. Other advertising or fliers are not permitted with posters.

Please send your proposal by e-mail to sections@aals.org by September 28, 2012. The proposal should state your name, the name of your law school, the Section for which you are submitting, the title of the poster, an actual electronic copy of the poster itself and a description of what you will be presenting. Your proposal and poster will be sent to the Section Chair and Chair-Elect who will form a Section review committee to determine what posters should be recommended to the AALS Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting, which will make the final selection of all posters.

Direct questions to Joan MacLeod Heminway (jheminwa@tennessee.edu) or Eric Gouvin (eric.gouvin@law.wne.edu).   All of the AALS details for submission can be found at the Section’s website. 

Securities Regulation and Financial Institutions CFP Deadline Extended

Please note that the deadline for the following call for papers has been extended to September 4, 2012.

 

Call for Papers

AALS Joint Program of the Securities Regulation Section and

Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services Section

The Regulation of Financial Market Intermediaries:

The Making and Un-Making of Markets

AALS Annual Meeting, January 4, 2013

New Orleans

 

The AALS Section on Securities Regulation and the Section of Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services are pleased to announce that they are sponsoring a Call for Papers for their joint program on Friday, January 4^th at the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

The topic of the program and call for papers is “The Regulation of Financial Market Intermediaries: The Making and Un-Making of Markets.”  The financial crisis witnessed numerous market failures involving an array of financial market intermediaries, including banks, broker dealers, and various kinds of investment funds (from money market mutual funds to hedge funds).  The crisis came at the end of a decades-long transformation of the U.S. financial services sector that blurred the boundaries between banking and securities businesses.   During this period a range of new intermediaries emerged and connected individuals and firms seeking financing to investors in capital markets.  At the same time, capital markets became increasingly dominated by financial institutions and other institutional investors.  Intermediaries devised and “made markets” for new and often highly illiquid and opaque financial instruments.  Many of these new markets froze or crashed in the financial crisis.  In response, Dodd-Frank and other financial reforms have imposed a grab bag of new rules on financial intermediaries. 

Yet the effects of these financial reforms remain unclear.  Moreover, policymakers and scholars often disagree about the precise problems that these reforms are meant to address.  For example, the SEC’s headline-grabbing suit against Goldman Sachs over the ABACUS transactions focused on conflicts of interest for large financial conglomerates with different stakes in a transaction.  Meanwhile, other financial reforms have focused on the opacity of pricing in financial markets or on the solvency or liquidity risk faced by intermediaries.

The tangle of potential market failures has led to a range of policy responses.  Often banking and securities scholars seem to look at the same set of market practices through radically different lenses.  Banking scholars focus on solvency crises and banking runs and debate the application of prudential rules on the risk-taking, leverage, and liquidity of intermediaries.  At the same time, securities scholars emphasize the problems of conflicts of interest and asymmetric information.  They then look to the traditional policy tools in their field such as disclosure, fiduciary duties, and corporate governance. 

The dearth of dialogue between these two fields creates the risk of confusion in identifying both problems and solutions for financial intermediaries and the markets in which they operate.  To move the discussion forward, scholars in both fields may have to move outside their comfort zones.  The study of financial institutions cannot be limited to deposit-taking banks.  Similarly, securities regulation involves more than securities offerings and litigation, but the regulation of broker-dealers, investment advisers and funds, and the regulation of trading and markets.      

Form and length of submission

The submissions committee looks forward to reviewing any papers that address the foregoing topics.  Abstracts should be comprehensive enough to allow the review committee to meaningfully evaluate the aims and likely content of papers they propose.  Eligible law faculty  are invited to submit manuscripts or abstracts dealing with any aspect of the foregoing topics. Untenured faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts or abstracts.  

The initial review of the papers will be blind.  Accordingly the author should submit a cover letter with the paper.  However, the paper itself, including the title page and footnotes must not contain any references identifying the author or the author’s school.  The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes. 

Papers may be accepted for publication but must not be published prior to the Annual Meeting.

Deadline and submission method

To be considered, papers must be submitted electronically to Erik Gerding at erik.gerding@colorado.edu.  The deadline for submission is September 4, 2012. 

Papers will be selected after review by members of a Committee appointed by the Chairs of the two sections.  The authors of the selected papers will be notified by September 30, 2012. 

The Call for Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

Eligibility

Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers.  The following are ineligible to submit: foreign, visiting (without a full-time position at an AALS member law school) and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, fellows, non-law school faculty, and faculty at fee-paid non-member schools. 

Please forward this Call for Papers to any eligible faculty who might be interested. 

Call For Papers: Local Government Works-In-Progress

Marquette University Law School is hosting a Local Government Law Works-in-Progress Conference on Friday, September 21, 2012  and possibly Saturday, September 22 as well.    The conference will provide an opportunity for local government law scholars to present works-in-progress and receive feedback from colleagues.

The registration deadline is August 13, 2012.  Register here.  The deadline for abstracts and papers is September 4, 2012.  Submissions and questions should be directed to: matthew.parlow@marquette.edu.

CFP: “Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation”

 

AALS Section on Women in Legal Education

“Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation”

2013 AALS Annual Meeting

January 4-7, 2013

New Orleans, Louisiana                                               

The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, with paper presentations on the topic of Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation.  We have the below committed moderator and speakers, and are seeking paper submissions to fill the fifth speaker slot.  The papers will be published as a Symposium in the Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice.

        Moderator: Professor Cheryl Wade

Protection for Children in Club Sports (Professor Ellen Bublick)

Theories to Holding Insurance Companies Liable for Third Party Exploitation (Dean Jay Mootz)

Employer Liability for Family Responsibilities Discrimination (Professor Joan Williams)

Finding Institutional Tort Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation  (Professor Deleso A. Alford)

Submissions should be of scholarship relating to the topic of Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation, but they can be on any dimension or strand of the general topic.  There is a maximum 25,000 word limit (inclusive of footnotes) for the submission. People submitting papers for consideration must be willing to have the paper published as part of the symposium, if the author is selected as the fifth speaker for the panel. Each professor may submit only one paper for consideration. 

Papers will be reviewed anonymously. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information. The manuscript itself, including title page and footnotes, must not contain any references that identify the author or the author’s school. The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes.

To be considered, papers must be submitted electronically to Professor Kirsten Davis, Stetson University College  of Law, kkdavis@law.stetson.edu.  The deadline for submission is Wednesday, August 1, 2012. The author of the selected paper will be notified by October 1, 2012.  The Call for Paper participant will be responsible for paying his or her own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting (and not full-time on a different faculty), and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit. 

Papers will be selected after review by an ad hoc committee composed of Section Executive Committee members.

Any inquiries about the Call for Papers should be submitted to:  Professor Kirsten Davis, Stetson University College of Law, kkdavis@law.stetson.edu , or 727-562-7877.