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CFP for Law & Rurality Workshop

Workshop will be held virtually Nov. 17th & abstracts are due Aug. 21. More info. here: Download Call for Papers - Law and Rurality Workshop 2023

CFP: Financial Restructuring Roundtable, NYC April 4, 2024

Financial Restructuring Roundtable

Call for Papers

The Third Annual Financial Restructuring Roundtable will be held in person on April 4, 2024 in New York City. Spearheaded by Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic, this invitation-only event brings together practitioners, jurists, scholars, and finance industry professionals to discuss important financial restructuring and business law issues. 

The Roundtable invites the submission of papers. Selected participants will receive a $2,000 stipend and have the opportunity to workshop their papers in an intimate, collegial setting. 

We seek papers exploring diverse topics and will be interested in interdisciplinary perspectives. Papers will be selected through a blind review process. Junior scholars (with one to ten years in academia) are invited to submit a 3 – 5 page overview of a proposed paper. Submissions may be an introduction, excerpt from a longer paper, or extended abstract. The submission should be anonymized, and – aside from general citations to the author’s previous articles – all references to the author should be removed.

Please submit proposals by October 30, 2023. Invitations will be issued via email by December 1, 2023.  Working drafts of papers should be available for circulation to participants by March 1, 2024.  

Proposals – as well as questions and concerns – should be directed to Samir Parikh at [email protected]. 

The Financial Restructuring Roundtable is hosted by USC Gould School of Law and Lewis & Clark Law School in partnership with Sidley Austin. 

CFP: Workshop on Feminist Approaches to State and Governance.

A Workshop on Feminist Approaches to State and Governance

Emory University School of Law

Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative

Hybrid Workshop (in-person and virtual option)

December 15-16, 2023

 

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLT). During that time, FLT has held workshops, hosted visitors, and sought to encourage and facilitate feminist analyses of law and institutions.

For this session, FLT seeks working papers exploring what a feminist legal theory approach to the State or the process of governance should entail.

 

The full call for papers and submission procedures are available here. The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 27, 2023.

 

CFP: The Promise of Educational Equity

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Educational equity measures the ability of all students to access the resources they need to meet their full academic and social potential. Parents, activists, scholars, policymakers, students, and so many others have labored for years around the common goal of improving educational outcomes, in particular for those in marginalized groups who are most vulnerable to institutional failures. The effort to achieve equity in education has included a focus on shifting resources to the places where they are needed most; valuing and adapting to the unique characteristics that students bring to the classroom and which impact their learning process; the closure of achievement gaps; the disruption of inequitable institutional practices; fair treatment among traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools; and so much more.  

Its value notwithstanding, key aspects of this equity project are on shaky ground or are explicitly under attack. Reformers struggle to secure the resource allocations that would benefit children in under-served schools. Expanded efforts to prioritize school choice have undermined already-weakened public schools and disadvantaged the children who attend them. Noncompliance and limited compliance with laws like the IDEA threaten the right of students with disabilities to a free and appropriate public education. Laws and policies in many jurisdictions let parents weaponize their objections to diversity by silencing teachers and penalizing unwitting transgressors. The Supreme Court has substantially curtailed the use of race in university admissions and activists are moving to a new set of attacks: facially neutral policies meant to address racial disparities. This is an opportune moment to examine educational equity, the challenges it faces, and the role that law and legal actors can play in addressing them.  

CFP: LSA Annual Meeting 2024

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The 2024 LSA Annual Meeting will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA from June 6-9, 2024. The meeting will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center. This year’s sessions will take place in-person.

2024 Theme: Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society

What began with a breakfast meeting in 1964 has become a global tradition. 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the Law and Society Association. This year’s annual meeting returns to Denver, the site of the Association’s first summer institute on social science methods in legal education.

The annual meeting marks more than an anniversary for law and society. 2024 is also the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 – a landmark antidiscrimination law enacted 100 years after Black Americans in the Colorado territory first petitioned for the right to vote – and the termination of the Bracero program that powerfully shaped U.S. immigration policy. 2024 also stands out as the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924, which established the U.S. Border Patrol and banned immigration from Asia. The year 1924 also saw the enactment of the U.S. Indian Citizenship Act, which declared that all non-citizen Native Americans within the United States were citizens.

 

CFP: Conference on Cutting-Edge Law Teaching

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In light of the rapid evolution of legal education and practice, we are considering hosting a conference on Cutting-Edge Law Teaching in the vibrant city of Las Vegas in August 2024. Before we finalize our plans, we wish to gauge the interest of our esteemed community.

Conference Highlights:

Innovative Pedagogies: Discover and discuss the newest methods in teaching law that ensure learner engagement and retention.

Technology in Legal Education: Explore how digital platforms, AI, VR, and other technologies are transforming the classroom.

Networking: Engage with like-minded educators and thought leaders passionate about the future of legal education.

Interactive Workshops: Dive deep into hands-on sessions designed to equip you with actionable strategies and tools for your classroom.

 

CFP: State Courts Scholarship Roundtable

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The University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) is pleased to announce a Roundtable on State Courts, to be held on April 19, 2024. The Roundtable will be co-hosted by Professors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon and Professors Dan Rodriguez and Zach Clopton of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and will be held at Northwestern in Chicago, Illinois.

The purpose of the Roundtable is to bring together scholars from around the country to present new academic research and works in progress on state courts, and to continue to build community in the field of state public law. We are construing the topic of state courts broadly, to include judicial federalism and the relationship between state and federal courts; state civil procedure; access to courts; and state constitutional law, among other possible topics.

 

CFP: 5th Annual International and Comparative Law Insolvency Symposium

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Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce the hosting of the 5^th International and Comparative Law Insolvency Symposium. The Symposium will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London in their Egham campus ( close to London) on 25 - 27 April 2024.

The symposium is organized by Prof. Adrian Walters (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law), Prof. Christoph Henkel (Drake University Law School), Prof. Laura Napoli Coordes (Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law), Prof. Yseult Marique (University of Essex) and Dr. Eugenio Vaccari (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Topics

The symposium focuses on comparative and cross-border issues in bankruptcy and insolvency law in its broadest sense. This includes both consumer and corporate bankruptcy and insolvency topics as well as any related subject, such as secured transactions. We are particularly interested in submissions on the following topics:

• Current issues of insolvency and restructuring law in a global context
• Insolvency and bankruptcy law reforms and trends at a regional level
• Sovereign default and bankruptcy
• Alternative Dispute Resolution in bankruptcy and restructuring
• Treatment of micro, small and medium sized enterprises in bankruptcy
• Insolvency of public authorities
• Personal and consumer bankruptcy and restructuring
• Insolvency of financial institutions
• Treatment of Digital Assets, ICOs and cryptocurrencies in insolvency proceedings
• Impact of technology on insolvency law and restructuring
• Hot topics, case studies and works-in-progress

Please note that the above list of topics is not exclusive. Any paper with a comparative or cross-border component will be considered for presentation and publication.  

 

CFP: Toledo Law Review DEI Deans' Issue

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The University of Toledo Law Review’s Editorial Board are seeking submissions for their Dean’s Issue, slated for publication in early spring 2024.  Each Dean’s Issue presents ideas and insights about legal education from law school deans and interim deans.  Pieces within this edition provide a vivid picture of the issues facing law school deans.  The pieces also serve as a roadmap for those considering a career in legal education.
 
This year, the Editorial Board is focused on highlighting and celebrating DEI Deans and their initiatives within the law school landscape.  The Board hopes to publish pieces that:

• Feature the experiences of DEI Deans,
• Unpack the challenges of implementing DEI initiatives,
• Provide predictions on the future of DEI Deans, and/or
• Debunk myths and misconceptions surrounding DEI. 

 

CFP: Free Speech and the United States Constitution

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Journal of Law and Public Policy Fall 2023 Symposium

Topic: Free Speech and the United States Constitution

Date:   November 17, 2023 (speakers are welcome to participate in-person or by Zoom)

University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)

Perhaps no topic in the American constitutional order presents as many challenges as the question of the place and purpose of Free Speech. The purpose of the Symposium is to explore the entire range of free-speech issues that confront contemporary constitutional law. Thus, papers exploring the following issues are welcome:

 

Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholarly Paper Competiton: Call for Submissions

Bumping to the front in light of 7/1 deadline.

Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award: Call for Submissions

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is pleased to announce the competition for its annual Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award.  This paper competition is open to all having with five (5) or fewer years of full-time law teaching experience as of July 1, 2023. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2023.

The purpose of the award is to encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship related to gender and the law.  The work chosen for the Women, 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 members of the Haub Law faculty with expertise in this area.  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 2023-2024 academic year, with reasonable travel expenses from within the continental U.S. paid, or via Zoom, as circumstances permit and by mutual agreement.

ELIGIBILITY:

• All persons who have held full-time teaching positions for five (5) or fewer full academic years as of July 1, 2023 are eligible for consideration. One does not have to be on the tenure-track or tenured to be eligible. Time as a VAP or Fellow does not “count against” the five (5) year clock.
• 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.

 

 

 

CFP: Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference

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The Northern Illinois University College of Law is now accepting proposals for the Sixth Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference on Friday, October 6, 2023. The conference will be held in person at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. This all-day conference offers junior scholars in the greater Chicagoland area (broadly defined) the opportunity to present works-in-progress, receive feedback from a senior faculty reader and other attendees, and network with other legal scholars in the region. Preference will be given to law faculty who have been teaching fewer than 10 years. Articles (or other scholarly works, such as book chapters) may be presented at any stage of development.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit a working title and abstract of 200-300 words to [email protected] no later than July 5, 2023. For an abstract to be eligible for submission, the author must anticipate that the paper will be a true working draft (neither published nor so close to publication that significant changes are not feasible) by the date of the Conference. Selected authors will be notified by July 21, 2023. Articles will be due no later than September 15, 2023. There is no registration fee for this conference. Please email [email protected] with any questions.

3 Calls for Papers: AALS Section on Constitutional Law

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There are three Calls for Papers for the January 2024 AALS Annual Meeting.  They are listed below. 

AALS Section on Constitutional Law Main Program Call for Papers

The Section on Constitutional Law invites submissions for the Section’s Article V panel on amending the U.S. Constitution, to be held at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Law Schools (AALS), on January 3-6, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Entitled “Reviving Article V: A Structural Approach to Defending Democracy,” this panel is the Section’s primary program. Panelists will discuss the constitutional amendment process in the United States, with a focus on whether Article V remains relevant today in our constitutional structure despite its prolonged disuse.

AALS Section on Constitutional Law Pedagogy Program Call for Papers

The Section on Constitutional Law invites submissions for the Section’s Pedagogy Program on stare decisis, to be held at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Law Schools (AALS), on January 3-6, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Entitled “Teaching Stare Decisis – From the Warren Court (and Before) to the Roberts Court (and Beyond),” this program seeks to present a robust discussion on stare decisis. The panel’s mandate is broad and seeks to discuss history, precedent, and the decisional process relating to stare decisis.

AALS Section on Constitutional Law Works-in-Progress Call for Papers

The Section on Constitutional Law invites submissions for the Section’s Works-in- Progress program to be held at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Law Schools (AALS), on January 3-6, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

This year’s program, entitled “The Many Voices of Constitutional Law,” provides a platform for scholars to discuss works at any stage in the writing process. There is no specific topic or focus area for the works-in-progress panel. Rather, scholars who seek critical feedback for a new or ongoing project are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to newer scholars – those with less than 7 years of experience in the academy.

Eligibility

All full-time faculty at AALS member law schools, including fellows and VAPs, are eligible for consideration. The Section especially encourages submissions from pre-tenure, clinical, and tenured faculty members who diversify the legal academy through demographic, geographic, viewpoint, seniority, and school type.

Submissions

Interested faculty should submit an abstract no longer than 500 words to the Section Chair, Professor Meg Penrose, at [email protected] no later than 5:00 p.m. CST on Friday, August 25, 2023. As appropriate, please indicate “Article V Submission – 2024 AALS Annual Meeting” , "Stare Decisis Submission - 2024 AALS Annual Meeting", or "Works-in-Progress - 2024 AALS Annual Meeting" both in the subject line of your email and at the top of your abstract.

Abstracts should include your name and institutional affiliation, and may be supplemented by a statement expressing how your participation will diversify the panel discussion.

Publication

The Section will not publish selected papers. Panelists are encouraged to seek publication through other avenues.

Questions

All questions should be directed to the Section Chair.

Decisional Process

Panelists will be selected by members of the Executive Committee using a blind selection process. However, the Section reserves the right to balance its panels, if necessary, to comply with the AALS principles of diversity. The Section is committed to adhering to all AALS policies in the selection process.

Selected panelists will be notified by late September. If selected, panelists are responsible for the costs incurred in participating in the panel, including registration fees for the AALS Annual Meeting in addition to accommodation and travel expenses.

CFP: Georgia State Law Review - Brief Exclusive Review Window

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The Georgia State University Law Review is conducting an exclusive article review for Volume 40 of the Review. Any article submitted to the Law Review between June 5th through June 16th will be evaluated for publication by June 23rd. This is an excellent opportunity for authors who wish to ascertain a publication offer before the latter half of the summer.

By submitting an article, the author agrees to accept an offer for publication, should one be extended. The author is not required to withdraw any article previously submitted for consideration elsewhere.  However, the author may not accept an offer from another journal for any article submitted to this exclusive review process unless the Review indicates that the article will not receive a publication offer. Any articles accepted through this exclusive review process will be published in the Review's second or third issues, which are slated for publication in Spring of 2024.  

If you have an article you would like to submit, please e-mail Rebecca Sohnlein and Mackenzie Miller a copy of the article and your CV at [email protected] with the subject line "Volume 40 Exclusive Article Review." If you have submitted an article to the Georgia State Law Review previously, you must resubmit your article for consideration in this exclusive review. We are excited to read your submissions!

Call for Papers: Works-in-Progress on Methods of Inquiry on Defending Democracy

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Call for Papers: Works-in-Progress on Methods of Inquiry on Defending Democracy

AALS 2024 Annual Meeting, January 3-6, 2024, Washington DC

Submission Deadline: August 3, 2023

The AALS Scholarship Section is very pleased to issue this call for papers for a Works in Progress session on "Methods of Inquiry on Defending Democracy" for the upcoming AALS 2024 Annual Meeting. This session aims to provide a platform for sharing ongoing research and scholarly work related to the study of democracy and its various aspects. Aligned with the mission of the Scholarship Section, we enthusiastically invite submissions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in exploring innovative methodologies and approaches to investigating the defense of democracy. The Works in Progress session will provide an opportunity for authors to present and discuss their ongoing research. Each presenter will be allocated a specific time slot to share their work and receive feedback from fellow participants.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of the legal institutions of democracy.
2. Comparative analyses of democratic processes.
3. Experimental designs and surveys in the study of legal institutions and behavior.
4. Case studies and historical analysis of law and democratic institutions.
5. Intersectional approaches to democracy and identity politics.
6. Methodological challenges in studying democracy in different contexts.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions that focus on the intersections between law and political science, history, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and related fields. Empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions are encouraged.

Submission Guidelines:

• Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words.
• Include the title of your work, name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information.
• Please indicate whether your submission is at an early stage or near completion.
• One submission per person is permitted.
• Submissions should be sent to Professor John Linarelli, Chair, AALS Scholarship Section, [email protected].

Review Process: All submissions will undergo a peer review process to ensure the quality and relevance of the contributions. Accepted authors will be required to submit a draft paper by November 15, 2023. Discussants will be assigned to read and comment on each paper.

We look forward to your contributions and active participation in this stimulating event. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

U. South Dakota seeking abstracts for Rural Lawyers Symposium

Abstracts are due 6/16:

Rural Lawyers Symposium

The South Dakota Law Review seeks article proposals, speakers, and panel participants for a symposium on issues related to rural lawyers. The Rural Lawyer symposium will be held in Vermillion, South Dakota, on September 21 and 22, 2023.

Abstracts of 300-500 words are due June 16, 2023.

The symposium will focus on rural lawyers. The editors seek articles and speakers that address one or more of the following topics, or other related topics:

1. Indigent defense in rural communities
2. Conflicts of interest for rural lawyers
3. The practice of law in rural areas, including on rural reservations
4. Best pedagogical approaches to training future rural lawyers
5. The study of rural lawyers as an academic discipline
6. Incentive programs for rural lawyers or other rural professionals
7. The ten-year anniversary of South Dakota’s Rural Attorney Recruitment Program
8. Licensure policies and impact on rural areas
9. The viability of small towns

The editors actively seek diverse viewpoints and diverse scholarly approaches.  Although the symposium is not a historical or comparative project, the editors welcome articles with historical or comparative features.

In your proposal, please indicate whether you would be interested in (1) publishing your topic, (2) speaking at the symposium, or (3) both. Priority will be given to proposals where the contributor expects to both publish and speak at our in-person event, although we will consider other proposals.

The Call for Papers opens today with abstracts due on June 16, 2023. Please send abstracts to [email protected]. Selected contributors will be notified by July 1, 2023. Finished articles will be due Friday, December 1, 2023. Our editors will work with you over the winter 2023-24 to prepare your work for publication. The symposium volume will be published and released in the summer of 2024.

CFP: 5th Annual Equality Law Scholars' Forum

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

November 10-11, 2023 – Boston University School of Law

Building on the success of the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held at UC Berkeley Law in 2017, at UC Davis Law in 2018, at Boston University Law in 2021, at Loyola Los Angeles Law in 2022, and in the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring in the area of Equality Law, we (Tristin Green, Loyola Los Angeles; Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University; and Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis) announce the Fifth Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum  and Reunion, to be held in Fall 2023. 

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.  

This year, because this year’s gathering also will include a reunion, we will be selecting fewer Equality Law Scholars than in prior years. Specifically, we will select three to five relatively junior scholars (untenured, newly tenured, or prospective professors) in the United States. 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 and Reunion will take place all day Friday through lunch on Saturday.  Participants are expected to attend the full Forum and Reunion. 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 10-11, 2023, at Boston University School of Law.

Junior scholars are invited to submit abstracts of proposed papers, 3-5 pages in length, by June 15, 2023.   

Full drafts of papers must be available for circulation to participants by October 20, 2023. 

Note: We urge submission of proposals for drafts that will still be substantially in progress in October/November 2023 over drafts that will be in late-stage law review edits at that time.

Proposals should be submitted to:

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

Nevada Law Journal CFP: Avoiding Disaster: Understanding, Mitigating, and Adapting to the Global Climate Crisis

Call For Papers: Avoiding Disaster: Understanding, Mitigating, and Adapting to the Global Climate Crisis

Volume 24, Issue 3 of the Nevada Law Journal

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

William S. Boyd School of Law

The Nevada Law Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for its symposium issue, Avoiding Disaster: Understanding, Mitigating, and Adapting to the Global Climate Crisis. This symposium will explore climate change: its causes and effects, current and potential legal solutions, and the implications of these solutions for our society, nation, and world.

Climate change has become one of the biggest threats to human life.  Across the world, the effects of climate change are manifest. Rising temperatures are fueling increasingly intense disasters, devastating large parts of the earth. Droughts are becoming longer and more extreme, causing food shortages. Floods are spreading disease and damaging ecosystems and infrastructure. Wildfires are intensifying, becoming more and more difficult to stop. Increasing ocean temperatures are causing more severe tropical storms. Animal habitats are being destroyed.

Climate change can occur through natural factors, such as volcanic eruptions, changes in the strength of the sun, and variations in Earth’s orbit. However, since the 19th century, Earth has been experiencing more rapid changes in the climate, due to human intervention. Humans’ continued reliance on fossil fuels to power their daily activities is just one cause of climate change. Other “man-made” causes of climate change include deforestation, the manufacturing industry, and massive overconsumption. Unfortunately, not only are humans causing climate change, but political polarization and deregulation are multiplying the problem.

Swift action is imperative. Climate change, however, has become a controversial topic among scholars, practitioners, politicians, and the general public. Many are skeptical about climate change and the science behind it. It is important for practitioners and scholars to continue to drive the discussion of climate change with facts and evidence. It is imperative that skeptics are presented with the truth and understand the real danger Earth and its inhabitants are in if climate change is not taken seriously.

This Nevada Law Journal issue seeks to explore the specific issues impacting climate change, proposals of how to best address these issues, and what implications these potential solutions may have moving forward. We invite interested parties to submit abstracts of at least 375 words; we welcome longer summaries and draft papers. The abstracts should be proposals for articles less than 30,000 words. Submissions should be sent to Sydnee Mongeon, Symposium Editor, at [email protected] with the subject line “NLJ Call for Papers.” Abstracts are due May 16, 2023.

Selected authors will be notified by May 30, 2023. Complete drafts will be due August 15, 2023. Accepted submissions will be published in Issue 3, 24 Nev L.J. (forthcoming May 2024).

Submissions should address some aspect of the climate crisis, broadly defined. We are soliciting work on any aspect of what climate change is, current laws and regulations concerning climate change and their effectiveness, what Congress or other law-making authorities, in this country or others, should or should not do to combat climate change, and what issues need to be considered when implementing those proposals. Potential paper topics include, but are in no way limited to, climate change and politics, the impacts of climate change on different groups, environmental law and policy analysis or proposals, contributors to climate change, water rights, the future of fossil fuels, the future of renewable energy, economic policy, climate change issues specific to the Southwest, and lithium mining in Nevada.

The Nevada Law Journal is specifically interested in articles on non-human agriculture and its effects on the climate, however, all climate related topics are also desired.

The Nevada Law Journal will review all proposals and make selections based on quality and relevance. We encourage submissions from both established and emerging scholars, as well as practitioners.

For more information, please contact Professor Bret Birdsong at [email protected], Professor Frank Fritz at [email protected], Sydnee Mongeon at monge[email protected], or John Bolliger at [email protected].

With gratitude,

William S. Boyd Professor of Law, Bret Birdsong

William S. Boyd Professor of Law, Frank Fritz

Nevada Law Journal Symposium Editor, Sydnee Mongeon

Nevada Law Journal Editor-in-Chief, John Bolliger

CFP: HODL and Horizons: How Technology is Changing the Legal Landscape

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Artificial Intelligence, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ChatGPT.  Over the last few years, the world has seen an exponential proliferation of technology across all industries. With new inventions comes new legal territory as our judicial system begins to determine the boundaries within which these new technologies must operate. How will NFTs work under data privacy and copyright law? What laws govern the Metaverse? How will law firms adapt to the changing work environment brought on by COVID, work automation, and hybrid-office demands? The Elon Law Review invites submissions for our Symposium exploring such legal developments involving tech and law.

The Fall 2023 Symposium will be held on Friday, September 22, 2023 with a reception the evening before on Thursday, September 21, 2023. The central topic of papers must revolve around technology and the law. An abstract of the scholarly paper to be presented should be submitted no later than Friday, March 24^th, 2023, to Chief Symposium Editor, KimberMarie Faircloth, at [email protected]. Please attach a resume or CV to your submission. Accepted proposals will be organized into symposium panels around the proposed themes. Final papers will be due by Friday, June 30^th, 2023, for both presentation at the Symposium and publication in the Symposium issue of the 2023 Elon Law Review.

CFP: Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

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Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2023 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Yale Law School on June 29-30, 2023. 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 2023 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

CFP: The Future of the Global IP System

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The Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia  is hosting a workshop in Vancouver from June 28-30, 2023.  The workshop theme is "The Future of the Global IP System" and invites proposals from scholars throughout the world. There will also be a remote option for anyone whose proposal is accepted but who cannot travel to Vancouver for the workshop.  More details can be found here.