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A Bob Wills hit from 1945, covered many times, most famously by Willie Nelson.

 

Black Gaius

I am impressed with this one: P. G. Monateri, Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition," 51 Hastings Law Journal (2000). His abstract reads:

In this paper I intend to signal an independent appraisal of the roots of the Western Legal Tradition as both a critique of this tradition's originalism, and of its being a tradition at all, thereby challenging the premises behind new projects of international cultural governance in the context of globalisation. From the standpoint of legal history and comparative law this paper shows that Roman Law has no claim to supremacy in the ancient world. The myth of this supremacy was manufactured by the biases of xix century European historicism so that the Western indebtedness toward non-Western civilizations was denied. The rejection of conventional unsound picture has important consequences for the consciousness of the Western legal tradition as such, which is to be seen more as a multicultural enterprise than as the peculiar evolution of one culture. This implies that the projects of governance based on the conventional picture are untenable, and must be abandoned.

Shades of Martin Bernal.

Iowa Law Seeks Dean

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The University of Iowa invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of Dean of the College of Law.  

The College of Law is one of the nation’s premier public law schools, with an influence that reaches across the nation and around the world through the work of ambitious students, productive faculty and staff, and talented alumni. Iowa Law’s next dean will be positioned to move the school forward by creating new and innovative opportunities to learn, teach, and serve.

The Dean will develop a clear and compelling vision for Iowa Law’s next chapter, providing leadership in matters related to planning, curriculum, scholarship, and finances. The Dean will engage with faculty, staff, students, alumni, the legal community, and state and federal governmental officials to advance the goals of the College of Law and the University. The successful candidate must possess a JD or its equivalent and must have a record of excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service that meets the standards for appointment to the Iowa Law faculty as a full professor with tenure. The candidate must possess a substantial record of leadership over time in a professional setting, with a strong preference given to candidates who possess substantial leadership experience in the legal academy. The successful candidate will demonstrate a capacity and readiness to advance the College of Law through fundraising and building external partnerships. The successful candidate will also demonstrate an ability to advance the University’s philosophy and practice in the areas of access, opportunity, and diversity.  For more information, please visit wittkieffer.com.

WittKieffer is assisting the University of Iowa in this search. For fullest consideration, candidate materials should be received by November 1, 2024.

Nominations, inquiries, and applications can be directed to:

Werner Boel, LL.M. and Ashlee Winters Musser

[email protected]

The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preferences.

CFP: New Legal Realism

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The New Legal Realism Collaborative Research Network of the Law and Society Association invites proposals for the 2025 Annual Meeting May 22-25 in Chicago, IL (USA). New Legal Realism embraces empirically grounded and theoretically informed scholarship aimed at promoting social, economic, and environmental justice in the tradition of the classic American and European legal realists. We are interested in scholars with interdisciplinary perspectives and methods who engage with Legal Realist work in the U.S. and globally.

We especially invite proposals engaging with:

• The “classics” of Legal Realism including both empirical and jurisprudential
• Outsider perspectives that challenge contemporary power structures with respect to race, class, gender, and sexual orientation consistent with a contemporary take on Legal
• Ongoing changes in the legal profession and legal education related to, among other things, LawTech, public health crises, and political polarization.
• Theory and methods in the study of law and disinformation, information bubbles, and “fake news”.
• Social research into Law & Economics or transdisciplinary relations between sociolegal studies and Law & Economics

The CRN invites proposals for: (i) individual papers to be organized into panels; (ii) fully formed panels; and (iii) Author Meets Reader, Salon, or Roundtable events. Author Meets Reader books must have a publication date in 2022. Please submit your proposal by November 8, 2022 via the LSA Submission Page and indicate that it is for CRN 28: New Legal Realism.

CRN 28 also invites any authors of recent books (May 2024 through May 2025) related to New Legal Realism to contact us for inclusion on a prospective panel on new publications in the field. In addition, we also seek volunteers willing to serve as chairs, moderators, or discussants. Those interested in presenting a recent book or chairing, etc., may contact Riaz Tejani at [email protected] or Jeffrey Omari at [email protected].