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CFP: Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award by Pace Law School

Bumping to the front in light of July 1 deadline.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University 

Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award: Call for Submissions

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is pleased to announce the competition for its annual Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award.  This paper competition is open to all full-time law professors (whether tenure-track or not -- added for clarification) with five (5) or fewer years of full-time law teaching experience as of July 1, 2021. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2021.

The purpose of the award is to encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship related to gender and the law.  The work chosen for the Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award should make a substantial contribution to legal literature and reflect original research and/or major developments in previously reported research.

Papers will be reviewed on a blind basis by a committee comprised of three members of the Haub Law faculty with expertise in this area: Bridget Crawford, Noa Ben-Asher and Emily Gold Waldman.  The winner of the competition will be invited to present the paper to selected students and faculty at Haub Law (located in White Plains, NY) during the 2021-2022 academic year, with reasonable travel expenses paid.

ELIGIBILITY:

• All persons who have held full-time tenure-track or tenured teaching positions (whether tenure-track, tenured, or not -- added for clarification) for five (5) or fewer full academic years as of July 1, 2021 are eligible for consideration.
• There is no subject-matter limitation for submissions, as long as the paper relates in some way to gender and the law.
• Jointly authored papers are accepted as long as each author independently meets the eligibility requirements.

PUBLICATION COMMITMENTS/LIMITATIONS:

• There is no publication commitment associated with the competition. 
• Papers are eligible regardless of whether they were published prior to submission date, are scheduled to be published after the submission date, or are not yet under submission.
• Each applicant is limited to one (1) entry.
• Papers considered in prior years’ competitions are eligible for resubmission.
• There are no page-length or word-count limitations.
• All publications (including scholarly articles, book chapters, legal briefs and other writings) are eligible for consideration.

SUBMISSION:

• We will accept submissions for the Emerging Scholar Award from April 1, 2021, through July 1, 2021. The winner will be announced by August 30, 2021.
• To participate, please email your article, redacted as necessary to preserve anonymity (for the blind judging process), as a portable data file (PDF) to Judy Jaeger, Senior Staff Associate, at jjaeger@law.pace.edu with the subject line “Emerging Scholar Award.”

• Please include in the body of the email your name, institutional affiliation and confirmation that you meet the eligibility requirements.
• Unredacted papers will not be considered.

 

President Haley? Cruz? Or Romney?

While Donald Trump's influence within his party does not seem to be waning as much as many predicted following his presidential reelection defeat, there slowly seems to be an evolving move within the republican party. Many of the classic Trumpers, like Ted Cruz, who most would agree was initially a reluctant follower but is now "all-in," so to speak, are still playing to the Trumpian base with tactics such as their new boogeyman themes: critical race theory. Another wing of future leadership seems to be taking shape. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, for instance, will headline the Iowa GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Thursday. Her latest efforts are described as a course correction to appeal the party's conservative base without apparently the backing of Trump. The tactic of attempting to appeal to the right without Trump may be tough, but she too appears to be all-in: “We need to acknowledge he let us down,” she recently observed concerning Trump's post-election behavior.  “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” Haley is smart, accomplished, an ethnic minority, and a woman, which should appeal to many in a general election. The question will be if she can establish her legitimacy within the conservative republican base of the party. I am not sure she can, though she would be a fantastic person leading a presidential ticket. 

Of course, the expected-ones, like Ted Cruz, will certainly run. Though I find it tough for anyone to follow that man (I am admittedly a progressive--so perhaps I am ill-equipped to judge Senator Cruz-- but really: Ted Cruz???). There will be others: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to already be running with his critical race theory ban in K-12 Florida public schools, where it is NOT taught. Then this week he demands Florida schools teach the evils of socialism and communism--not a difficult sell given world historical accounts. Yet, the obvious nature of failed political systems doesn't matter; what matters is what future voters hear. I would be stunned if DeSantis establishes any serious traction among national voters--then again, I would have lost my house regarding Trump in 2016.

Here are a couple of dark horses in the 2024 race: Senator Tom Cotton--again, as a progressive, not a fan. But the man is extremely talented and would be a formidable conservative choice. And finally, my puncher's chance candidate: Mitt Romney--yes the that Mitt Romney, who was booed and called a traitor at a conservative event in the state he represents. Don't count him out--movie-star good looks, presence, intellect, and stood up against Trump when few had the courage to do so. If my tea-leaves are accurate (never helped me professionally, sadly), as Trump's legal troubles mount, Trump will be alienated, especially after he becomes further unhinged when state investigations heat-up. Final prediction: if Romney is the nominee, he becomes our next president, especially if the economy takes a downturn. Yes, many indicators suggests the economy is ready to race forward, but others are troubling. Time will tell. 

What do you think?

 

 

New Books...

 

I want to start posting short notices of recently released  books that may be of interest.  The first is Alexander Lian's  Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education. It provides a comprehensive reinterpreation of Holmes's thought (using "The Path of the Law" as a springboard) and in the process articulates an original theoretical foundation for legal education. Take a read and let me know what you think? 

Also, please free feel to send me info. of your own projects as your convenience.

 

"Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education"

 

"Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education" is an excellent new book by Jonathan Marks of Ursinus College. Cribbing from the Princeton University Press catalog:

 

Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let’s Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage people to be reasonable—and revealing why the health of our democracy is at stake.

Drawing on the ideas of John Locke and other thinkers, Marks presents the case for why, now more than ever, conservatives must not give up on higher education. He recognizes that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms. Marks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to offer a coherent defense of themselves against their conservative critics, and demonstrates why such a defense must rest on the cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable.

More than just a campus battlefield guide, Let’s Be Reasonable recovers what is truly liberal about liberal education—the ability to reason for oneself and with others—and shows why the liberally educated person considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political points.