The Faculty Lounge

Drexel Law Review Symposium Eyes Innovations In International Legal Education

I'm pleased to report that the Drexel Law Review will be hosting a conference, Building Global Professionalism: Emerging Trends in International and Transnational Legal Education, this weekend.  The journal has worked with my colleagues Anil Kalhan and Pam Saunders to put together a particularly interesting set of panels and a keynote talk by Martin Flaherty.  From the program:

As the practice of many areas of law — including those conventionally regarded as wholly domestic — has come to have international and transnational dimensions, it has become increasingly important for graduating law students to have greater knowledge and understanding of international, comparative, and transnational legal perspectives as part of their basic legal education. While most U.S. law schools have not traditionally placed these aspects of legal education, legal practice, and the legal profession at the core of their pedagogical missions, a growing number of law schools have sought to more proactively develop the place of these global perspectives in their educational programs. This symposium examines and assesses a series of conceptual and practical themes at the leading edge of these developments, including innovative approaches to integrating international, transnational, and comparative perspectives into the law school curriculum; pioneering methods of bringing these perspectives into experiential and legal methods programs; and critical perspectives on all of these emerging ideas and trends.

The Joy of the Roundtable Conference

I have the great joy of having been invited to the University of New Hampshire/Franklin Pierce’s Intellectual Property Scholars’ Roundtable on the Constitutional issues associated with I.P. law. I wanted to mention briefly the great value of this kind of conference. In the room are about twenty-five scholars who study various aspects of I.P. law. About a dozen of us are presenting an issue on which we are currently working and soliciting questions and comments from everyone else. I am not presenting a paper this year, so I can sit back a bit and think about the roundtable-style conference and its value to our scholarship in addition to absorbing the content of the presentations.

Topics at the conference have been limited to those I.P. issues associated with constitutional questions. To give an idea of the breadth of the topics covered, we have discussed the First, Second, Fifth, Seventh, Eleventh and Fourteenth Amendments as well as the Commerce, I.P., and Supremacy Clauses of the main document — and the conference isn’t over. Some of the most fascinating discussions have occurred when the interconnection of the different Constitutional provisions are discovered. In at least one time, it was exactly that. I don’t think any of us had thought about the connection raised before.

Indeed, this discovery of new interconnections is why the roundtable is such a valuable type of conference. The standard conference where papers are presented, mostly as finished works, has its value in dissemination of the information developed in the paper, but it doesn’t serve as the same incubator for new ideas. Indeed, where the research has been reduced to an article, it is often more informative to read the paper instead of hearing an oral presentation of it. For the roundtable conference, on the other hand, we get the opportunity to have our colleagues serve as idea editors. Whose scholarship wouldn’t be made better by that?

Symposium Announcement: Emerging Issues in Social Enterprise

From an email that I received earlier today (slightly edited):

Our friends at the Regent University Law Review are hosting a symposium entitled “Emerging Issues in Social Enterprise” on October 6 in Virginia Beach.   The symposium website is available here:  http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/student_life/studentorgs/lawreview/symposium.cfm.

Presenters and panelists include: Cassady V. Brewer (Georgia State University College of Law); Joan MacLeod Heminway (University of Tennessee College of Law); Lyman P. Q. Johnson  (Washington and Lee School of Law and University of St. Thomas School of Law); Marcia L. Narine (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law); Michael I. Pirron (CEO of Impact Makers, a founding certified B Corporation in Virginia); Dana Brakman Reiser (Brooklyn Law School); and Kyle Westaway (Founder of Westaway Law, co-founder of social enterprise Biographe, and lecturer at Harvard Law).  Moderators include Regent law professors Douglas H. Cook and J. Haskell Murray.

Conference Announcement: New Voices in Comparative Law

From an email that I received earlier today:

The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law is pleased to invite submissions for its second annual conference, to be held on April 18-19, 2013, at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana. The purpose of the conference is to highlight, develop, and promote the scholarship of new and younger comparativists.

Submissions will be accepted on any subject in public or private comparative law from scholars who have been engaged as law teachers, lecturers, fellows, or another academic capacity for no more than ten years as of June 30, 2013. We will also accept submissions from graduate students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs.

Scholars may make individual or co-authored submissions. The conference’s Program Committee will assign individual and co-authored submissions to thematic panels according to subject area. Proposals for fully formed panels will also be accepted.

To submit an entry, scholars should email an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF containing an abstract of no more than 750 words no later than November 4, 2012, to the following address:  yccsubmissions@gmail.com. Abstracts should reflect original research that will not yet have been published, though may have been accepted for publication, by the time of the conference. Abstracts should also include the author’s name, title of the paper, institutional affiliation, contact information, as well as the author’s certification that she/he qualifies as a younger scholar. Graduate students should identify themselves as such.

Panels will be announced no later than December 16, 2012. There is no cost to register for the conference but participants are responsible for securing their own funding for travel, lodging and other incidental expenses.

The Younger Comparativists Committee gratefully acknowledges the support of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The Younger Comparativists Committee also extends special thanks to Shawn Boyne and Mohamed Arafa for co-chairing the Program Committee.

Please direct all inquiries to Richard Albert, Chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, by email at richard.albert@bc.edu or telephone at 617.552.3930.

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.

AALS Committee on Research: Advancing Student and Faculty-Student Scholarship

From my friend, and Tennessee law professor, Joan Heminway:

The Association of American Law Schools Committee on Research is considering putting on an AALS panel on (1) how we law professors can advance student scholarship and (related but separately) (2) how we can advance joint faculty-student scholarship. 

Most student law review notes (or other student articles) are written as independent study projects or, occasionally, as individual term papers in seminars.  But are there other approaches that you have seen tried or particular ways of structuring independent study projects or seminar term papers that have been especially successful?  Most faculty members don’t cowrite articles with students.  But have you seen techniques or approaches that helped such collaborative projects succeed—or ones that led them to fail?

The Committee has asked us to identify some ideas that the panel can more closely explore, and we’d much appreciate any tips that you could pass along.  If you can give us just a few sentences that describe different models for fostering student or faculty-student scholarship that you have seen—whether those sentences include recommendations, cautionary tales, or just neutral reports—we’d love to see them.  Please e-mail them to either Joan Heminway (jheminwa@tennessee.edu) or Eugene Volokh (volokh@law.ucla.edu).  Submissions received by October 1 would be most useful to us in our planning, but feel free to respond later if you can’t reply by then.

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.

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: Securities Regulation and Financial Institutions

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 August 10, 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. 

 

 

The Forgotten Detail About The Mid-Atlantic Law And Society Conference...

Last week I reminded readers that the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Law and Society meeting would take place at Drexel, in Philly, on October 19-20, 2012.  I encouraged submissions by people residing in all boroughs and districts.  But I left out one crucial detail:  the due date!

It's August 1, 2012.  And for convenience, here's where they go: malsa@drexel.edu.

Now back to our regular programming.

Call For Papers: Ethics 20/20 Symposium

Due to a sudden and unavoidable change of topic,  the Northern Kentucky Law Review now plans to  host a symposium on the proposed Ethics 20/20 changes, especially as they relate to transactional lawyers.

The symposium will be on October 20th, and the students would like to have submissions of abstracts or works-in-progress by August 15th to settle the speaker lineup.  Since NKU is located in the Cincinnati area, most of you will have easy airline access to the symposium.

Those interested in participating and publishing should send submissions to: Ian D. Mitchell Editor in Chief Northern Kentucky Law Review 2012-13 mitchelli1@mymail.nku.edu.

Call For Papers And Panels: Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association Conference

This is a reminder that Drexel Law will be hosting the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association conference on October 19-20, 2012, in Philadelphia.  The theme is Law, Society and the Social Good.  Although MALSA is a regional association, there is no limitation on who is invited to attend, or present at, the conference.  For those of you who haven't been to Philly recently, it's a fabulous place to visit.  

We welcome submissions of  individual papers or fully-formed sessions.  Submissions should be sent to: malsa@drexel.edu.  

More details here.

 

CFP: Northeast Regional Law & Society Meeting, January 11-12, 2013 Amherst College

I'm passing along this conference announcement:

Northeast Regional Law and Society Meeting

January 11-12, 2013

Amherst College

Invitation and Call for Participation

You are cordially invited to participate in the third Northeast Regional Law and Society Conference which will be held at Amherst College on January 11 and 12, 2013. This meeting is intended for law and society scholars from New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

We have designed this conference to bring together faculty and graduate students from the region's diverse community of law and society scholars for two days of intellectual exchange and community building. We hope to provide a collegial, informal, and small setting in which to explore law and society as a field, to introduce scholars to the field, to discuss areas in which our research agendas need to be developed, to engage debates about the various theories which animate our work, and to establish an intellectual forum for sustained and engaged conversation.  The meeting will provide the occasion for a lively mix of small group discussions, presentations, debates, and social gatherings, all designed to encourage spirited dialog and collegial conversation.

We will be organizing sessions of the following types:

• Paper Presentation Sessions. In these sessions we will have one paper and two commentators who read and discuss the paper and in which the paper which they discuss would be circulated in advance to those who would like to attend the session We invite scholars interested in having their work be the focus of such a session to send a one page abstract of your paper as an e-mail attachment in Word or RTF to northeastlaw@amherst.edu by October 1^st, 2012.  

• Critical Intervention Sessions.  For these sessions we will revisit classic texts in the field and/or leading scholars will pose questions about, and moderate discussions of, key research areas. Examples of the kinds of topics considered in past years: legal consciousness, law and war, psychoanalysis and law, and race and racial justice.

We will also have a plenary speaker.

 You are invited to attend without presenting work, to submit a proposal to present work in a paper presentation session, or to volunteer to serve as a chair/commentator.

If you are interested in serving as a chair/commentator, please send an e-mail to northeastlaw@amherst.edu by October 1^st, 2012 indicating your willingness to serve and your areas of expertise/interest.

If you have any questions please contact Austin Sarat at adsarat@amherst.edu or 413-542-2308.

LatCrit/SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop

From an email that I received a few days ago:

Tenth Annual LatCrit-SALT
Junior Faculty Development Workshop
October 4-5, 2012
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Baltimore, Maryland

LatCrit, Inc. and the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) are pleased to invite you to the Tenth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop (FDW), immediately preceding the SALT Teaching Conference. This annual workshop is designed for critical, progressive, and social justice oriented pretenure professors, including clinicians and legal writing professors, as well as those who may be contemplating a teaching career. However, we encourage more senior members of the profession to attend, share their experience, and serve as resources and mentors.

The FDW is designed to familiarize critical, progressive, and social justice oriented junior faculty with LatCrit and SALT principles and values and support them in the scholarship, teaching, and service aspects of professional success. In addition, the FDW seeks to foster scholarship in progressive, social justice, and critical outsider jurisprudence, including LatCrit theory, among new and junior faculty, students, and practitioners. Finally, the FDW aims to cultivate a community of scholars interested in the continuation of this and similar projects over the years.

Sessions at this year’s workshop will be focused on entering the academy, connecting critical theory and social justice lawyering in the classroom, developing a flourishing progressive scholarly agenda, and other topics especially relevant to academics interested in making social justice central to their teaching, scholarship, and activism. This year we will also be offering a limited number of opportunities for FDW attendees who are not yet in the academy or are seeking to move within the academy to present mock job talks.

For more information on the mock job talks, please contact Jonathan Glater (jglater@law.uci.edu) or Christopher Hines
(chines@niu.edu).

Registration for the FDW opens on August 15 and will be conducted in conjunction with registration for the SALT Teaching Conference. See http://www.saltlaw.org/events/view/160 for more details.

IP Scholars Forum

If you have an interest in the intersection of intellectual property and public health, then you may wish to attend the Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum, sponsored by our friends at the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property & Technology in October.  Details here.

CFP: Transactional Law and Skills

AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills

Call for Papers

January 2013 Annual Meeting

            The AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills will meet during the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013.  Please note this program in your calendar.  We hope to see you there.

            We are soliciting papers for presentation at the Annual Meeting.  The topic for this year’s session is: Researching and Teaching Transactional Law and Skills in an Increasingly Global World.

Two presenters will be chosen on the basis of paper summaries submitted in response to this Call for Papers. The topic encompasses the scholarship and teaching of international and comparative transactional law and cross-border transactions. The Executive Committee encourages submissions on a broad range of transactional law and skills issues related to this year’s topic. Paper proposals focused on the teaching of international and comparative transactional law and skills are welcomed, but the Executive Committee is especially interested in papers that explore international and cross-border transactions from an empirical, doctrinal, or theoretical perspective.  The Executive Committee specifically encourages submissions from junior scholars.

            If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit a summary of no more than three double-spaced pages, by e-mail, on or before Monday, July 30, 2012. You also may submit a complete draft of your paper. Send your submission to Joan Heminway at The University of Tennessee College of Law (jheminwa@tennessee.edu). Papers will be reviewed and selected for presentation at the program by members of the Executive Committee of the Section on Transactional Law and Skills:
 

Afra Afsharipour, Treasurer (U.C. Davis)

Eric Gouvin, Chair-Elect (Western New England)

Joan Heminway, Chair (Tennessee)

Lyman Johnson (Washington and Lee/St. Thomas)

Therese Maynard (Loyola Los Angeles)

Gordon Smith, Secretary (BYU)

Tina Stark, Past Chair (Boston University)           

            Authors of accepted papers will be notified by August 31, 2012.  Please pass this Call for Papers along to any colleagues who may be interested.

Upcoming ABA/AALS Criminal Justice Conference: Call for Papers

On Oct. 25-26, 2012, the ABA and the AALS will present a joint conference on criminal justice at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. The first event of the conference, on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 25, is a workshop for scholarly papers relating to criminal justice.  All papers on criminal law, criminal procedure, or criminal justice topics are welcome.  Participants will present their work in a roundtable format, and abstracts or drafts will be shared among presenters and discussants in advance of the workshop.  Workshop presenters must also attend the criminal justice panels on Friday, Oct. 26. 

This is an excellent opportunity for academics at any stage of their careers, or those who would like to transition to academia, to workshop pieces at an early stage of development or obtain feedback on more developed pieces.  Workshop presenters will be responsible for their own travel and hotel costs, and will be required to pay the conference registration fee.  To apply to workshop a paper, please email an abstract of your paper of no more than 500 words to both Michael Mannheimer at mannheimem1@nku.edu and Laurent Sacharoff at lsacharo@uark.edu by Aug. 15, 2012.  Space is limited and presenters will be chosen by members of the organizing committee.

Call For Papers: Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association Conference At Drexel

I'm very pleased to announce that Drexel Law School will host the inaugural meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Law and Society Association on October 19-20, 2012.  The conference theme is Law, Society and the Social Good.  Proposals are due by August 1, 2012.

The conference,  like regional meetings of other scholarly associations (such as the Western Political Science Association) is open to all law and society scholars, whatever their address.  

Candidly, one reason I'm particularly pleased that we're hosting the conference is that it gives us a chance to showcase our exceptional law and society faculty.  Drexel has taken advantage of being a new school and has amassed a truly special cohort of young law and society scholars, including (but not limited to) this remarkable quintet: Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Donald Tibbs, Kevin Woodson, Scott Barclay, and Rose Corrigan.   

Details about the call for papers are after the jump.

RALS Conference

In this previous post, we mentioned that our friends at Touro are hosting the 2012 conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools.  This year's theme is "The Place of Religion in the Law School, the University, and the Practice of Law."  You can find program details, including a list of confirmed speakers, by clicking here.  The conference dates are May 2-4.

Call For Papers And Presenters: Hamline Health Law Conference

Hamline University School of Law is hosting a conference in November entitled Honoring Patients Treatment Choices at the End of Life: New Tools, New Challenges, New Limits.  Anyone interested in speaking at the Symposium and/or publishing in the Hamline Law Review's Symposium issue should submit both a CV and a 500-word abstract to healthlawsym2012@hamline.edu by March 30th, 2012.  More details are here.