The Faculty Lounge

CFP: Seventh Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum

Call for Proposals for the Seventh Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum

November 7-8, 2025

LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Building on the success of the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held over the past seven years, and in the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring in the area of Equality Law, we (Tristin Green, Loyola Law Los Angeles; Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University Law; and Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law) are thrilled to announce the Seventh Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum to be held in Fall 2025. 

This Scholars’ Forum seeks to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique and to provide scholars at all career stages the opportunity to engage with new scholarly currents and ideas.  We hope to bring together scholars with varied perspectives (e.g., critical race theory, class critical theory, queer theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, law and society) across fields (e.g., criminal system, education, employment, family, health, immigration, property, tax) and with work relevant to many diverse identities (e.g., age, class, disability, national origin, race, sex, sexuality) to build bridges and to generate new ideas in the area of Equality Law.  

We will select five or six relatively junior scholars (untenured, newly tenured, or prospective professors) in the U.S. to present papers from proposals submitted in response to this Call for Proposals. In so doing, we will select papers that cover a broad range of topics within the area of Equality Law.  Leading senior scholars will provide commentary on each of the featured papers in an intimate and collegial setting.  The Forum will take place all day Friday through lunch on Saturday.  Participants are expected to attend the full Forum.  The Equality Law Scholars’ Forum will pay transportation and accommodation expenses for participants and will host a dinner on Friday evening.  

This year’s Forum will be held on November 7-8, 2025, at LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

Junior scholars are invited to submit abstracts of proposed papers, 3-5 pages in length, by May 15, 2025.   

Full drafts of papers must be available for circulation to participants by October 21, 2025. 

Note: We urge submission of proposals for drafts that will still be substantially in progress in November 2025 over drafts that will be in late-stage law review edits at that time.

Proposals should be submitted to:

Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law, [email protected]. Electronic submissions via email are preferred.

CFP: The Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law’s Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today

This just in:

The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), the leading scholarly association for the study of comparative law, is pleased to invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 2025 ASCL Annual Meeting, to be held at the McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, 2025.

The theme of this year’s annual meeting is “The Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law’s Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today.” The Society welcomes proposals to present research related to the theme or to any other topic of comparative law scholarship.

For more information, please visit the ASCL website, at https://ascl.org/news/call-for-proposals-2025/

 

CFP: Weaving it All Together: Hair, Health, Law, and Policy

Weaving it All Together: Hair, Health, Law, and Policy

Inaugural symposium examining the intersections between hair, health, law, and policy

Expressions of interest due: May 5, 2025

Program dates: Friday, September 25 - Saturday, September 26, 2025

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, PA

The Drexel Kline Law Review in conjunction with the Drexel Kline Center for Law, Policy, & Social Action and the Drexel Kline Health Law Program is pleased to announce the first symposium examining the intersections between hair, health, law, and policy. This ground-breaking symposium will take place on Friday, September 25, and Saturday, September 26, 2025, at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In innumerable ways, hair matters. Significantly, hair is connected to our identity formation and expression, exercise of freedom, educational access, professional prospects, economic security, as well as our health and well-being. As a consequence, hair influences society, law, policy, advocacy, and movements—contemporarily, historically, domestically and internationally.

CFP: Developing Ideas Conference

This just in:

What: The University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law is bringing back its highly popular Developing Ideas Conference to help jumpstart your summer research. The conference will allow faculty from other schools to engage with faculty from UK Law and other institutions to receive feedback on their summer projects. The conference will proceed as follows:

• Before the conference, each participant will provide a 2-3 page summary of a current research idea that they plan to pursue this summer (and beyond). These summaries will be circulated to all participants.
• Each participant will give a 5-minute synopsis of their research idea, with an additional 20-25 minutes available for comments and discussion in an informal roundtable setting.
• Participants will be asked to provide commentary about the other participants’ ideas.

Where: University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, Lexington, KY

When: Monday, May 12, 2025, 7:00 p.m.: Dinner at a local restaurant in Lexington, KY

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Developing Ideas Conference at the law school

Support: The University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law will provide dinner on Monday evening and breakfast and lunch on Tuesday during the conference. In addition, the UK College of Law will pay for one night at a local hotel on Monday, May 12. Participants must pay for all other travel expenses.

Submission: Please submit a short summary (1-2 paragraphs) of the proposed work by April 4, 2025, to Josh Douglas, Associate Dean for Research, at [email protected], with the subject line: Submission for 2025 Developing Ideas Conference. The conference is limited to 15 scholars from outside of the University of Kentucky, so please apply early! If we have more than 15 submissions then priority will be given to junior faculty. We will also try to accept submissions with a variety of topics.

CFP Lavender Law

Call for Papers: Queer Legal Scholarship Works-In-Progress Session at Lavender Law®

 

The National LGBTQ+ Bar is hosting a Queer Legal Scholarship Works-In-Progress session at this summer’s Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair, which will be held July 28–30, 2025 in New York, NY at the Midtown Marriott Marquis. The goals of this session are to deepen connections between the legal academy and practitioners, and to create an opportunity to present scholarship for academics who want to attend Lavender Law® but whose funding is contingent on presenting scholarship. As such, we anticipate the audience to be a mix of legal academics and practitioners—a unique opportunity for anyone whose scholarship aims to be more practical.

 

If you are interested in presenting your scholarship at Lavender Law®, please submit the form below by March 7, 2025. We welcome legal scholarship addressing any issues affecting the queer community.  Scholarship can be at any stage of completion at the time of presentation, ranging from early thoughts on a prospective idea to an accepted draft nearing final edits.  We anticipate accepting 3–4 presenters, each of whom will speak for about 15–20 minutes, after which we will solicit feedback from the audience.

 

Priority will be given to prospective and untenured law teachers and anyone whose funding is contingent on presenting scholarship, so please note as much in your submission.  We expect selected presenters to be informed of their selection by the end of March. The Session will take place the afternoon of Monday, July 28; exact time TBA in early April.

 

Submit Your Scholarship for Consideration

 

Register for the Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair

 

ComplianceNet Conference: Extended Deadline (Jan 31)

Dear Faculty Lounge Readers,

We hope that the new semester is going well. Due to significant demand, we have extended the submission deadline for ComplianceNet 2025 to January, 31, 2025. Now is the short, re-opened window to submit those papers you have been working on! We also continue to welcome submissions for the awards for Outstanding Student Paper, Outstanding Junior Scholar Paper and Outstanding Senior Scholar Paper until January 31, 2025.

 

ComplianceNet 2025, with the theme “Evolving Compliance,” will be hosted by Fordham University School of Law in New York City and will take place May 28, 29, and 30, 2025. 

At each conference, we have awarded prizes for the best junior and senior scholar papers, as well as a Lifetime Achievement award. Previous winners are featured on our website here. New this year we will have a panel and poster session dedicated to graduate students. There will also be awards this year for the best graduate student contributions.

We warmly invite junior scholars, senior scholars, and graduate students to apply for the conference generally and for appropriate best paper awards. Scholars must be present to receive their awards.

ComplianceNet and the 2025 Conference

ComplianceNet seeks to bring together scholars from a range of different disciplines to study the interaction between rules (broadly defined) and individual, group, or organizational behavior. The first six meetings have been highly successful, bringing together academics from business, criminology, economics, law, political science, psychology and sociology, among other fields. See ComplianceNet.org for more details about the organization’s structure and goals.

The 2025 registration fee is set at $198.00.  The registration fee will cover a light breakfast, tea and coffee, boxed lunches and two receptions during the conference. The conference organizers will not provide or organize housing and accommodation, but we will provide some general information by email to registered participants.

How to Register

There are two steps to this year’s registration:

(1)  Please pre-register at the link here.
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/compliancenet-2025-evolving-compliance-tickets-1034894135217)

(2)  Payment for the event can be made through the link here.
(https://secure.touchnet.com/C20175_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2685)

Registration is not complete, and submissions will not be considered for awards, without completing the payment link.

Registration Categories

Attendees can submit either individual papers or complete panel proposals, as well as individual roundtable discussion topics. There is also the option of attending the event without giving a presentation. The program committee will review abstracts and select papers, panels, and roundtables that specifically discuss theoretical and/or empirical aspects about compliance, as defined as the interaction between rules (broadly defined) and individual, group, or organizational behavior

Full papers (beyond abstracts) can be submitted for awards at a later date after registration by following the instructions for awards in the attached document.

We have the following options for conference registration:

-            Individual papers. Please select “Single Paper Registration” option and submit the paper title and abstract (up to about 200 words).

-            Panels (3 papers minimum with a maximum of 5 per panel). Please select the “Panel Registration” option and you will be asked to submit an integrative statement explaining the panel (approximately 200 words), the titles of each paper and their authors, and an abstract for each paper (approximately 200 words). Each panel organizer must arrange that panelists (other than the panel submitter) register their papers individually once the panel has been approved (using the “Papers within panel proposal” option). If panel members fail to register their papers and confirm attendance, the conference organizers may place other, thematically- related, papers into the panel to ensure that each panel has more than one presentation.

-            Papers within a Panel. Please select the “Papers within a panel” option and submit the paper title and abstract (up to about 200 words).

-            Roundtable Discussion. Please select, “Roundtable Discussion Registration” and provide the title, integrative statement and abstract.

-            Roundtable Panel Member. Please select, “Roundtable Panel Member” and indicate the title of the panel that you would like to join.

-            If you would like to attend, but do not want to present a paper or a panel, please choose the “Attendance Without Presenting” option.

Again, the links to register are here and here. We hope to see you in New York City soon.

Best regards,

ComplianceNet 2025

 

Barbara-Ann Boehler (Conference Organizer)

J.S. Nelson, Yuval Feldman, Colin Provost, Wim Huisman, Phil Nichols, Antara Haldar, Eric Chaffee, Elysa Dishman, and Vera Cherepanova (ComplianceNet Steering Committee)

Conference Announcement: Why Now? Women, Equality, and the Legal Academy

Why Now?  Women, Equality, and the Legal Academy

In 2012, the prior chairs of WLE – 22 in number, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Herma Hill Kay – wrote individually to generate collaboratively a history of the Section of Women in Legal Education. Reflections of Women in Legal Education: Stories from Four Decades of Section Chairs, 80 UMKC L. Rev. 659 (2012), https://irlaw.umkc.edu/lawreview/vol80/iss3/. Now, more than a decade later, we see a world made by their innovations as well as efforts to limit the deployment of categories of identity in higher education.   The UMKC Law Review has agreed to host another symposium on these issues. 

The volume will focus on a subset of the many substantive issues in 2025 women face, as does higher education that has for decades deepened its understanding of its own roles in affecting equal treatment inside education and in the body politic.  The aim is to reflect on and engage with contemporary challenges to the integrity and legitimacy of institutions of higher education and to their efforts to welcome a rich scholarly and educational involvement with the complex concept and practices of equality, intersectionality, and of mitigation of inequalities.  We hope that commentary can center around themes of bodily integrity and reproductive freedom, economic inequalities, institutional mechanisms to open new avenues of research and opportunities that respond to individual and community needs, gender as a theory and a practice, and the role of higher education in generating and altering understandings of gender.  

The coordinators of the symposium are Laura Rothstein, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar Emerita and former Dean, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville; Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School; and Nancy Levit, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.   We are seeking essays of approximately 4,000-5,000 words each.  Please submit a short (about 200 words) prospectus of what you would like to write to Laura, Judith, and Nancy ([email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] )  by February 17, 2025.  Selected essays will ultimately be due at the end of July, 2025.

 

Laura Rothstein,

Professor and Distinguished University Scholar Emerita and former Dean

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

[email protected]

 

Judith Resnik

Arthur Liman Professor of Law

Yale Law School

[email protected];

 

Nancy Levit

Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law
UMKC School of Law

[email protected]

CFP: Wharton Financial Regulation Conference

This just in:

We are pleased to announce that the annual Wharton Financial Regulation Conference will take place on Friday, April 25, 2025.

Convening as the Trump administration wraps up its first 100 days, the conference offers a timely opportunity for scholars and policymakers to assess recent developments in financial regulation and peer over the horizon.

We invite submissions from scholars across all disciplines—law, economics, political science, history, business, and beyond—on any topic related to financial regulation, broadly construed.

Submission Guidelines: Please submit a draft paper and CV to Brian Feinstein ([email protected]) by February 10. Selected presenters will be notified by February 24. Presenters will receive an honorarium to defray travel costs.

North American Regional Conference - Family Law in an Age of Political Contestation - Philadelphia, June 16, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ISFL North American Regional Conference will take place at the Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia on June 16, 2025. The theme of the conference is “Family Law in an Age of Political Contestation.”

We encourage papers that approach family law from the lens of critical theory, intersectional analysis, abolitionism, and/or law and economic inequality. We especially welcome proposals that focus on the impact of the current political moment on families who are vulnerable or otherwise marginalized due to their members’ identities (LGBTQIA+, immigration status, race, disability, income status, for example).

Please submit abstracts of maximum 1000 words here. When doing so, please also include your current position and institutional affiliation. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2025. We will notify those whose papers have been selected shortly thereafter.

You are also invited to attend without giving a paper. If you wish to do so, please check the box next to the “Attend, but not present scholarship” option at the submission website. If you are interested in serving as a moderator or commentator on a panel, please register for the conference and check the appropriate box on the submission form by February 1, 2025.  

There may be a modest registration fee (no more than $30). Unfortunately, we cannot offer any financial support for our speakers, but we nevertheless hope that we will be able to welcome you in Philadelphia in June 2025. Please email [email protected] with any questions.

Conveners:
Prof. Sarah Katz (Temple University School of Law)
Prof. Dara Purvis (Temple University School of Law)
Dean Rachel Rebouche (Temple University School of Law)

Prof. Emily Stolzenberg (Villanova University School of Law)

Call for Papers: Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, June 2-3, 2025

Request for Submissions

Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

June 2-3, 2025, Harvard Law School

Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2025 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Harvard Law School on June 2-3, 2025. 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 about particular 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 2025 meeting, the topics will cover these areas of the law:

Administrative Law

Antidiscrimination Law and Theory

Constitutional Law—theoretical foundations

Constitutional Law—historical foundations

Criminal Law

Critical Legal Studies

Environmental Law

Family Law

Jurisprudence and Philosophy

Law and Humanities

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Public International Law

Workplace Law and Social Welfare Policy

A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. There is no publication commitment. Harvard 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 as of the submission deadline (February 28, 2025) 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 2015. 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 Rebecca Tushnet at [email protected] with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2025, and under which topic your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Rebecca Tushnet.

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

Christine Jolls

Yair Listokin

Rebecca Tushnet

Norman Spaulding

CFP: “The Age of Trump: Projecting policy and Legal Impacts of a Second Term”

This just in:

The University of St. Thomas School of Law Journal of Law and Public Policy invites submissions for its Spring 2025 Symposium on The Age of Trump: Projecting policy and Legal Impacts of a Second Term to be held on April 11, 2025, via a hybrid model over Zoom and at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This interdisciplinary event aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore and analyze what a second presidential term for Donald Trump might mean for various areas of law and policy.

 

Call for Papers: UCLA School of Law (Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy)

From a recent email message:

The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law is pleased to announce its first annual Business and Tax Roundtable for Upcoming Professors (“BATRUP”). This in-person Roundtable will take place at UCLA from Friday evening June 13th through Sunday June 15th. The program will feature commentary by invited senior scholars as well as an opportunity to meet fellow aspiring scholars while enjoying Los Angeles. We warmly invite scholars preparing for the academic job market to participate.

Roundtable Purpose and Eligibility

The Roundtable is designed to offer mentorship and feedback to aspiring legal scholars who plan to pursue tenure-track positions at law schools. It is open to scholars who hold a JD, master’s degree, or PhD, who have not yet secured a tenure-track law faculty appointment, and who are not yet listed in this academic year’s Faculty Appointments Register. Selected authors must be able to attend the Roundtable in person at UCLA.

We welcome submissions on any topic within business law or tax law. Co-authored papers are eligible provided all authors meet the submission criteria. To ensure the Roundtable's focus on evolving scholarship, we ask that submitted papers not be published or scheduled for publication by the Roundtable date, though papers accepted for publication that remain open to substantive revisions are eligible.

Selection Process and Roundtable Details

We anticipate selecting 7–9 papers from the submissions received. For each selected paper, the Lowell Milken Institute will cover reasonable travel, accommodation, and meal expenses for one author to attend the Roundtable. Participants will have the chance to engage in dynamic exchanges with UCLA faculty and invited guest scholars, as well as with their peers. Our aim is to foster a supportive community of early-career business and tax law scholars as they prepare for their careers in legal academia.

Submission Guidelines

Interested participants should submit either a complete draft or an extended summary of at least 5,000 words by email to [email protected] by February 14, 2025. We expect to notify authors of their selection by March 31, 2025. For any questions, please reach out to the same email address or to one of our faculty co-directors, Professors Jason Oh or Andrew Verstein.

Please feel free to share this call for papers with anyone who may be interested in participating.

CFP: Touro Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy's First Annual Symposium

This just in:

The first annual symposium of Touro Law Center's Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy will focus on the topic of Reproductive Health Policy. This symposium will be held on Thursday, March 20, 2025 at the Touro University Cross River Campus, located at 3 Times Square in New York City. The symposium will address policy issues involved in the practice of reproductive care in the United States. Broken into three panels, with three speakers on each panel, the topics covered will be as follows:

• In Vitro Fertilization– seeking presentations that focus on the policies that guide the practice of IVF.
• Embryonic and prenatal genetic testing– seeking presentations that analyze the policy issues involved in offering genetic testing.
• Abortion access (including pharmacologic abortion) – seeking speakers who will address specific state laws and policies in the post-Dobbs era that affect who and how women can access the full range of reproductive care (speakers can discuss both enacted laws and proposed legislation).

We seek both panel speakers and poster presentations. This symposium is partnered with the Cambridge Quarterly Journal of Ethics. All speakers will be offered the opportunity to publish a paper on their presentation topic in a special edition of the journal.   Please submit your abstract of 500 words or less by Monday, December 2nd at midnight.

CFP: ComplianceNet2025 "Evolving Compliance"

This just in:

ComplianceNet 2025, with the theme "Evolving Compliance," will be hosted by Fordham University School of Law in New York City and will take place May 28, 29, and 30, 2025. We are currently accepting panel or paper submissions, with a deadline of December 20, 2024.

At each conference, we have awarded prizes for the best junior and senior scholar papers, as well as a Lifetime Achievement award. Previous winners are featured on our website here. New this year we will have a panel and poster session dedicated to graduate students. There will also be awards this year for the best graduate student contributions.

We warmly invite junior scholars, senior scholars, and graduate students to apply for the conference generally and for appropriate best paper awards. Scholars must be present to receive their awards.

 

CFP: Global Conversations in International Business Transactions

From our friends at Washington & Lee. Pdf is linked here Download London Roundtable Call for papers-Revised

CFP: State Constitutional Rights in the Modern Era (Georgia LRev)

This just in:

As the Symposium Editors for Volume 59 of Georgia Law Review, it is our pleasure to announce our annual symposium for the Spring of 2025: “A Nation of States: State Constitutional Rights in the Modern Era.” This year’s symposium will focus on recent developments in the individual rights guaranteed by state constitutions, the history of states’ constitutional rights, the interpretive methodologies for state constitutions, the comparison and relationship between state constitutions and the U.S. Constitution, and other similar topics. The symposium will include panels and a keynote address.

The symposium will be held in person at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia, on Friday March 21, 2025. Georgia Law Review will reimburse all reasonable symposium travel and lodging expenses associated with participation.

If you wish to participate, we invite you to email our editors a short description of your article’s idea or topic, a brief biographic statement, and any questions about your potential participation. We may accept topics that do not fit into one of the above-mentioned categories so long as they analyze state constitutional rights. Articles will be accepted on a rolling basis until the issue is filled. We will begin reviewing articles on Monday September 30, 2024. If accepted, we require an editable draft by Monday December 2, 2024. We prefer articles between 10,000 and 20,000 words, but we will consider all articles well outside of this range that fall under the topics listed above.

Thank you for your consideration. We hope you will join us in Athens for this exciting conversation in March 2025.

Kyle J. Hill, [email protected], (985) 768-8108

Suah Jang, [email protected], (201) 788-899

CFP: Penn State Dickinson Law Review Second Amendment Symposium

This just in:

The landscape of the Second Amendment has radically shifted post-New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Every day, courts are holding that various long-standing firearms restrictions are unconstitutional. Yet, while the judicial system generally attempts to follow Bruen, state legislatures rapidly enact new restrictions that seem to conflict with Bruen. The battle over the Second Amendment has only gotten more intense since Bruen. While some courts have strictly applied Bruen, many would argue that in its most recent Second Amendment case, United States v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court itself failed to strictly apply Bruen by relying on analogical reasoning instead of “distinctively similar” historical regulations to address a “persistent societal problem.” Justice Thomas, who authored Bruen, pointed out this error, and his dismay was apparent in his Rahimi dissent. Still, others argue that Rahimi was not entirely in conflict with Bruen, and interpreted that the Court held that people can only be temporarily disarmed.

The Dickinson Law Review seeks to clarify these murky waters in Volume 129’s Symposium issue. To do so, we seek authors who are well-versed in the subject matter and wish to offer their perspectives on the future of the Second Amendment in a post-Bruen world.

We seek to solicit papers delineating the meets and bounds of the Second Amendment post-Bruen. In that vein, we aim to solicit papers that clarify:

• What are “arms” under the Second Amendment?
• What is the purpose of the Second Amendment?
• Who are “the people” under the Second Amendment?
• What are “infringements” on the Second Amendment?
• What gun control measures can be enacted without running afoul of the Second Amendment?
• How does the Second Amendment interact with rights?
• What impact does the Second Amendment have on different groups based on their race, ethnicity, gender, sex, or sexual identity?
• What remedies are available to victims of gun violence without violating the Second Amendment protections?
• What remedies would discourage state and local governments from continuing to pass laws designed to contravene the Court’s Second Amendment Jurisprudence?

The Symposium is scheduled for April 4, 2025, at Penn State Dickinson Law’s Carlisle location. There is no conference fee, and Penn State Dickinson Law will provide speakers with some funding for travel and accommodations. We are seeking both authors and speakers to present at our symposium.

To apply, please submit a proposal to [email protected] by 11:59 P.M. on October 23rd, 2024. We seek both essays (12,000 to 15,000 words including footnotes) and articles (15,000 to 30,000 words including footnotes). In your proposal, please include your name, title, a short summary of your proposed topic, and a brief statement of your background and/or reason for interest in participating in our symposium. Additionally, please indicate if you intend to write an essay or article, if known, and if you would be willing to travel to our symposium to participate in person.

Please address any questions to our Executive Symposium Editor, James V. Scaglione at [email protected]. Any questions that would be more appropriately answered by the faculty or administration should be addressed to our Faculty Symposium Advisor, Associate Dean Shaakirrah R. Sanders at [email protected].

CFP: The Governance, Law, and Regulation of the Body

This just in:

The Touro Law Center Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity is pleased to issue this call for papers as part of its 2025 symposium, The Governance, Law, and Regulation of the Body. The symposium will be held entirely over Zoom on March 27, 2025. The Journal is seeking papers on a variety of topics that broadly focus on concerns regarding autonomy and the scope of individual agency as these issues pertain to our bodies, including but not limited to the following: reproductive rights post-Dobbs; state laws concerning gender-affirming care; racial disparities in the criminal justice system; carceral expansion in the context of immigration; the regulation of death; legal controls over human experimentation; medical racism; and more. Ultimately, we are interested in topics that focus on regulatory efforts by the state that impact the treatment of or control over our physical selves, as well as the circumstances under which those interventions should be promoted or constrained. The symposium aims to bring together practitioners, policy researchers, and scholars (legal and non-legal) to explore these issues.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to present at the symposium and will be invited to publish their work in Volume 14 of the JRGE, which is an online publication. To apply for the symposium, please submit an abstract of 250-500 words no later than November 4, 2024 at https://tourolawcenter.wufoo.com/forms/z6vpk8v0v9osxj/. Completed papers should be in the range of 5,000-7,500 words and would be due no later than June 16, 2025. Please send any questions to [email protected].

CFP: New Legal Realism

This just in:

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].

Law & Society Feminist Legal Theory CRN Call for Participation

Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network

Deadline: Tuesday, October 7, 2024

The Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network (FLT CRN) warmly invites you to participate in its sponsored panels sat the upcoming Annual Meeting on Law & Society to be held on May 22-25, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Information about the conference (including registration and planning your visit) is already available on LSA's website.

We are especially interested in papers/presentations/book discussions that bring a critical feminist lens to the conversations about how the law is used to create inequalities and insularities. Proposals should embrace the character of the conference and address from an intersectional perspective how the law separates and treats subjects differently by gendering them in multiple ways.

The following non-exhaustive list is intended to provide examples of topic areas, and not to limit scholarly and creative engagement of feminist legal theory within the conference themes:

• Present-day Inequalities Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
• Consequences of Neoliberal Economic and Social Policies
• Health & Environmental Crises such as HIV/AIDS, Covid 19, Monkeypox, Climate Change, Natural Disasters
• Military, Police, and Other Pervasive Violence against Marginalized People
• Access to Justice & Legal Empowerment Issues & Approaches
• Inequalities related to Reproduction and Reproductive Technologies
• Immigration & Displacement
• LGTBQ+ Discrimination
• Unequal and Separate Treatment of Children
• Legal Education & Inequality
• Discrimination based on Marriage & Family Formation
• State Criminalizing Practices predicated on Gender
• Feminization of Poverty
• Perspectives on Exploitation & Resistance Movements
• Transnational/International/Comparative Feminist Critiques
• Feminism and Legal History

We especially welcome proposals that would permit us to collaborate with other CRNs and that are multidisciplinary in approach. We strongly encourage colleagues from the Global South, indigenous colleagues, and colleagues from various minority groups to submit proposals.

The Feminist Legal Theory CRN reviews all papers for suitability. We will accept papers that conform to the theme of our Call for Papers and our mission to foster an environment of inclusivity and respect within feminist legal theory. Our deadline is well before the LSA deadline for submission, so if your paper is not accepted by this CRN you will have ample time to submit to the general LSA call for submissions.