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CFP: Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

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Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2024 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Stanford Law School on June 3-4, 2024. Twelve to twenty junior scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum. A senior scholar will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, senior faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. The goal of the Forum is to promote in-depth discussion on the selected papers and more general reflections on broader methodological issues, as well as to foster a stronger sense of community among American legal scholars, particularly by strengthening ties between new and veteran professors.

TOPICS: Each year the Forum invites submissions on selected topics in public and private law, legal theory, and law and humanities topics, alternating loosely between public law and humanities subjects in one year, and private law and dispute resolution in the next. For the upcoming 2024 meeting, the topics will cover the following areas of the law:

- Antitrust

- Bankruptcy

- Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution

- Contracts and Commercial Law

- Corporate and Securities Law

- Intellectual Property

- International Business Law

- Private Law Theory and Comparative Private Law

- Property, Estates, and Unjust Enrichment

- Taxation

- Torts

A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. There is no publication commitment. Stanford Law School will pay presenters’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed.

QUALIFICATIONS: Authors who teach law in the U.S. in a tenured or tenure-track position and have not been teaching at either of those ranks for a total of more than seven years are eligible to submit their work. American citizens or permanent residents teaching abroad are also eligible provided that they have held a faculty position or the equivalent, including positions comparable to junior faculty positions in research institutions, for less than seven years and that they earned their last degree after 2014. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must be individually eligible to participate in the Forum. Papers that will be published prior to the Forum are not eligible. There is no limit on the number of submissions by any individual author. Faculty from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are not eligible.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Electronic submissions should be sent to Corissa Paris [email protected] with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 23, 2024. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email and also as a separate attachment a cover letter listing your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2024, and the topic under which your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Prof. Norman W. Spaulding, [email protected].

FURTHER INFORMATION: General inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Norman Spaulding ([email protected]) at Stanford Law School, Christine Jolls, ([email protected]) or Yair Listokin ([email protected]) at Yale Law School, Matthew Stephenson ([email protected]) or Rebecca Tushnet ([email protected]) at Harvard Law School.

Ronald Weich Named Dean of Seton Hall Law

Seton Hall School of Law has announced that Ronald Weich will be its next dean.  He is currently dean and professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.  Weich, who holds a JD from Yale, will take over on July 1.

Paul Brest Named Interim Dean of Stanford Law

Paul Brest, professor emeritus and previous dean of the law school has been named interim dean of Stanford Law effective immediately.  Brest joined Stanford in 1969 and holds an LL.B from Harvard.  What an inspiration - returning to the dean's suite at 83!

Julie Hill Named Dean of Wyoming Law

University of Wyoming College of Law has announced that Julie Hill will be its next dean.  She is currently vice dean and professor of law at the University of Alabama.  Hill, who holds a JD from Brigham Young, takes over on June 28.

CFP: Ninth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop

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Ninth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop

May 31, 2024 - June 1, 2024

We are excited to announce that CPW9 will be hosted by UC Law SF in downtown San Francisco May 31-June 1, 2024.

Conference Information

CPW9 will give both emerging and established civil-procedure scholars an opportunity to gather with colleagues and present their work in plenary and breakout sessions. Senior scholars will moderate the plenary sessions and lead the commentary. All civil-procedure scholars are warmly invited to attend. There is no registration fee. CPW9 will provide meals for registrants, but registrants generally cover their own travel and lodging costs. Registration information and additional details will be announced in 2024.

Call for Papers

Those wishing to present a paper for discussion should submit an abstract of no more than 4,000 characters (around 500 words) by Friday, January 19, 2024. Papers from both emerging and senior scholars are welcome, but preference may be given to those who have been teaching for ten or fewer years. Abstract review is blind to author name and institutional affiliation. Papers at all stages of completion, including those likely to still be substantially incomplete at the time of the conference, are eligible. Accepted submissions will be notified in February 2024. Please submit your abstract online here.

Questions

Email Professor Scott Dodson at [email protected] with questions regarding the conference or the call for papers.

Sponsors

CPW9 is generously supported by UC Law SF, the Center for Litigation and Courts, and the American Association for Justice's Robert L. Habush Endowment.