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West Coast Sexuality, Gender & the Law Conference seeks abstracts

First Annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender and the Law Conference

 

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California

March 22-23, 2024

 

Call for Papers

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023

 

We are pleased to announce the first annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender and the Law Conference on March 22-23 in Los Angeles. Loyola Law School will serve as the conference host.

 

As political and legal attacks against LGBTQ people are once again on the rise, as are other legal and political efforts to  shape and reassert normative views of gender and the family, this Conference seeks to bring together scholars exploring issues of sexuality, gender, and the law. The goal of the Conference is to provide attendees with detailed, constructive feedback on their work in a supportive, collegial environment, and to build community among scholars working on these issues (especially those on the West Coast). Scholars at all levels of seniority are encouraged. We also encourage submissions at different stages of progress, from early drafts (incubators) to more developed forms (a work-in-progress session).

 

The Conference will consist of approximately 4-5 panels over the course of one and a half days. Participants will be expected to attend all panels and to read and be prepared to discuss all assigned papers.

 

There is no conference or registration fee. Participants will be responsible for the costs of their own flight, other transportation, and hotel arrangements (we are working on reserving a block of hotel rooms for the conference). Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided at the conference.

 

To preserve an intimate and supportive character, we can accommodate only 45 participants, Although we will try to fulfill all requests, if space is limited, some preference will be given to West Coast-based scholars.

 

To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, as well as a CV, here by December 15, 2023. Submissions will be vetted by the organizing committee (listed below). Selection will be based on the originality of the abstract as well as its capacity to engage with the other papers in a collaborative dialogue. In addition, priority will be given to scholars based on the West Coast.

 

Participants will be notified of their selection by the beginning of January 2024. Drafts of papers will be due approximately two weeks prior to the Conference.

 

We look forward to your submissions and participation. Questions can be directed to the organizing committee members at [email protected].

 

Thank you!

 

Courtney Cahill, UC Irvine School of Law

Courtney Joslin, UC Davis School of Law

Yvonne (Yvette) Lindgren, UC College of Law San Francisco (visiting)

Kaipo Matsumura, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Brian Soucek, UC Davis School of Law

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

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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

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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

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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

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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].

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.

CFP: Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy

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Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy”
Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium May 5 & 6, 2025
University of Villanova School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Description: The Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium invites submission of paper abstracts for a workshop hosted at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, May 5 & 6, 2025.

The symposium will explore the integration of pre-modern religious law and norms into the modern financial economy. We anticipate that papers will explore the tools used by religious traditions to construct their own commercial law in ways that both align with and diverge from modern state law. Comparative inquiries between Islamic and Jewish law are encouraged, although comparisons to other legal traditions and/or works related to one religious legal tradition are welcome.

Papers are welcome from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies, including law, sociology, anthropology, politics, and history, from scholars based in law schools and other academic departments.

This symposium is organized by the Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium, whose leadership includes Samy Ayoub (UT Austin), Michael Broyde (Emory University), Chaim Saiman (Villanova University), and Rabea Benhalim (University of Colorado).

Applying: Paper abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to Chaim Saiman ([email protected]) no later than Friday, January 31, 2025. Submissions are welcome from academics at all levels: tenured, pre-tenure, non-tenure track, fellows, visiting assistant professors, adjunct professors, graduate students, etc.

Funding: Meals and lodging will be provided for all attendees. Limited, additional travel funds may also be available.

CFP: AALS Clinical Conference 2025 Seeks Proposals

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The Planning Committee for the 2025 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education welcomes proposals for programs in the following categories:

• Concurrent Sessions (60 minutes)
• Lightning Sessions (30 minutes)
• Poster Presentations
• Workshops

The dates of the 2025 Conference on Clinical Legal Education coincide with the 10 year anniversary of the police killing of Freddie Gray and the uprising in the streets of Baltimore that followed. In the intervening 10 years, the Baltimore uprising, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other movements and organizations fiercely, beautifully, and lovingly led the way toward necessary structural changes, including in the legal academy with the implementation of ABA Standard 303. Those same 10 years, however, saw threats to democracy and the rule of law worldwide, a climate increasingly unstable, uncertainty spurred by the emergence of generative AI across industries and education, lasting changes and barriers to the justice system and the profession as the result of COVID-19, the ascendence of a politicized and ethically compromised Supreme Court, and so many more. The clinical legal education community has historically been the first to advocate for changes to legal education, and this conference has served as the incubator for some of those changes. Now, with legal education, our profession, and our society facing pressures from so many external factors, it is more important than ever to come together and share our insights and ideas.

 

CFP: 2025 LSA Annual Meeting

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The 2025 LSA Annual Meeting will take place in Chicago, Illinois, USA from May 22-25, 2025! The meeting will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency. This year’s sessions will take place in-person.

The deadline for our Call for Submissions is October 15, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET (USA and Canada). The Program Committee welcomes any scholar studying sociolegal activities to submit an individual paper or session proposal. We recommend scholars interested in proposing a session with a creative format to consult with the Program Committee and the LSA Executive Office ([email protected]) in advance of submitting their proposal.

More information can be found here.

Call for Papers: Federalism Scholarship Roundtable

From a recent email message:

The University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) is pleased to announce a Federalism Scholarship Roundtable, to be held on April 25, 2025. The Roundtable will be co-hosted by Professors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon of Wisconsin Law and Professors Will Baude, Bridget Fahey, and Alison LaCroix of the University of Chicago Law School, and will be held at the University of Chicago Law School 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 federalism, and to continue to build community in the field of state public law. We construe federalism broadly for the purpose of the event; we welcome submissions from a wide range of subfields and methodologies, as well as submissions that consider the topic from the perspective of states or subnational institutions.    

We anticipate workshopping approximately eight papers over the course of one day, with each paper introduced by a designated commentator. Scholars who have already committed to attend the event as commentators are listed below. 

Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the Roundtable should submit a one-to-two-page abstract by November 15, 2024 to SDRI’s Executive Director Bree Grossi Wilde at [email protected]. (You may also contact her with any questions.) Applicants should include their title, institutional affiliation, and number of years teaching in the academy. Applicants will be notified by mid-December whether or not they have been selected to participate. Complete submissions will be due by early April 2025.  

All travel costs, accommodations, and meals will be provided, including a group dinner the night of April 24, 2025.  In addition, participants will receive a $1,000 honorarium. 

For the complete announcement, click here.

CFP: Supporting the Mid-Career and Senior Scholar Panel

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Navigating the mid-career and senior stages of academic presents unique challenges and opportunities. This panel explores ways to support the mid-career and senior scholar. From addressing the complexities of post-tenure and promotion to fostering ongoing research excellence and maintaining well-being in the profession, our panelists will share insights, best practices, and resources to empower mid-career and senior scholars to continue to thrive in and be recognized for their scholarly pursuits.

If you are interested in being a panelist, please submit a description of the nuts and bolts advice, best practices, resources, etc. that you will present (maximum 400 words).  Specificity and details are appreciated. Please include your name and title, institution, and email address in your document and email your submission to [email protected] by August 30, 2024.  Please include "Submission for AALS Scholarship Section Mid-Career and Senior Scholar Panel" in your subject line when emailing your submission.

CFP: Rights, Regulation and Resistance: Parents, Children and the State

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The Section on Family and Juvenile Law is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for both the main program panel and the pedagogy panel at the upcoming AALS 2025 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. Both panels will be focused on the theme of Parents, Children, and the State.

Main Panel CFP: "Rights, Regulation, and Resistance: Parents, Children, and the State"

We invite submissions that explore a broad range of topics related to the regulation of parents, children, and families, including but not limited to the family regulation system, the evolving nature of parental rights, and children's rights both within and outside of the family. Some themes we hope to explore include: the state as a potential source of both harm and support; the tension between state intervention and family autonomy; the law's role in protecting children from both state-inflicted and family-inflicted harm; and parental rights as a weapon versus a tool of resistance. We welcome proposals from a diverse set of subject areas, including education law, family law, criminal law, constitutional law, and others. Please submit an abstract of 500 words or less to June Carbone ([email protected]), Stephanie Tang ([email protected]), and Sarah Lorr ([email protected]). We welcome submissions from junior faculty and scholars at all stages of their careers. The due date for submission is August 15, 2024.

 

CFP: New Voices in Property Law: Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress Panel

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The AALS Section on Property Law is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for  the Section's "New Voices in Property Law: Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress Panel" during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting  in San Francisco, California, on January 8-11, 2025. 

This works-in-progress program  brings together junior (pre-tenure or teaching for seven or fewer years) with senior property law scholars to give the junior scholars an opportunity to present and receive useful feedback on papers not yet  submitted for publication as of January 2025.  (Posting the draft paper on SSRN or the like is fine.) 

CFP ASAP: AALS Scholarship Section Incubator Roundtable

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This is not your ordinary AALS Works-in-Progress program: Join us for a dynamic roundtable session where creativity and collaboration converge to incubate innovative scholarship ideas. This interactive session invites participants to share their research concepts, projects, or early-stage inquiries for feedback and inspiration from peers. Harness the collective wisdom of fellow scholars, offer constructive feedback, meet new colleagues, and discover new avenues for scholarly exploration.

If you are interested in sharing your early-stage ideas or inquiries at this roundtable, please complete this form by August 9, 2024. Questions can be directed to Eang Ngov, [email protected]; please include "AALS Scholarship Section Incubator Roundtable" in the subject line.

Call for Papers: AALS Professional Responsibility Section (New Voices Workshop)

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The AALS Professional Responsibility Section invites papers for its program “Professional Responsibility New Voices Workshop” that will take place during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting.  The goal of this highly interactive workshop is to provide a forum for new voices and new ideas related to professional responsibility (PR), broadly defined. Many scholars might address PR without realizing it. We are interested in your potential contributions—whether you are an evidence scholar writing about the attorney-client privilege, a feminist interested in gender dynamics that affect lawyering, a critical race scholar commenting on how power plays out in legal systems, an ethicist exploring the moral foundations of the rules governing lawyering, or something entirely different. We encourage you to submit a proposal even if you are pursuing scholarship on PR for the first time, question whether your ideas really do relate to PR, or are reticent to submit for another reason. 

 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:  The Workshop will be an opportunity to nurture the growth of a broad scholarly community in the field of Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics. As such, it is a place to take risks and develop high quality work—test ideas, identify opportunities for further exploration, and dialogue with academics doing stimulating and cutting-edge scholarship.

 

We welcome consideration of works in different formats and stages of production. Workshop groups will include senior scholars in the field who will aid in the discussion of the pieces and provide feedback, along with extensive audience participation and involvement. Selected papers and topics, depending on their stage of development, should engage with the scholarly literature and make a meaningful original contribution to the fields of professional responsibility and legal ethics, broadly defined.

 

ELIGIBILITY: Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Preference will be given to junior scholars, and submissions from non-tenure-track faculty are welcome. Please note that all faculty members presenting at the program are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

 

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:  There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Abstracts are welcome.  Email your submissions or questions about the workshop to the Chair-Elect of the AALS PR Section, Jon Lee ([email protected]), on or before September 13, 2024.  Please include “AALS PR New Voices” in the subject of the email.

Call for Applications: ​​Clifford Scholar-in-Residence (Autumn 2024)

In Autumn 2024, DePaul College of Law will host a rising star in civil justice as the 5th annual Clifford Scholar-in-Residence. This program complements the Clifford Symposium, which has successfully brought together leading civil justice scholars for almost 30 years to share ideas and publish their work. In some years, the Clifford Symposium has highlighted “rising stars,” who have presented their work with in-depth commentary from senior scholars. 

​The Clifford Scholar-in-Residence program will continue the tradition of developing up-and-coming civil justice scholars. Past scholars include Zachary Clopton (Northwestern), Maria Glover (Georgetown), Pamela Bookman (Fordham) and Seth Katsuya Endo (Seattle). The 2024 Clifford Scholar will be selected by a committee of leading civil justice professors, led by Professor Stephan Landsman (DePaul and Brooklyn).

DePaul College of Law will host the Clifford Scholar for 1-2 days during Autumn 2024. The Scholar will participate in classes and faculty activities commensurate with their area(s) of expertise, culminating in a presentation of interest to the DePaul community. 

Preference will be given to full-time, tenure-track or tenured law professors 5-10 years into their scholarly career with the potential to become a nationally recognized scholar in civil justice.

An honorarium of $10,000 will be paid to the selected scholar-in-residence, in addition to reimbursement of travel expenses.  

To apply, please submit the following:

• CV

• Cover letter describing:

• Your interest in civil justice

• Your most recent scholarly work

• The proposed topic for your public presentation

Please submit these materials no later than Monday, August 19, 2024, to [email protected].

More info here.

 

Call for Papers: Markelloquium!

From a recent email message:

Co-organizers of Markelloquium! are planning to schedule three gatherings this fall, and welcome submissions of papers for consideration. Please submit by July 31.

Link to submission portal:  https://www.markelloquium.org/call-for-papers----fall-2024.html

CFP: International Business Law Roundtable

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On September 27, 2024, the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law (Block Center) will sponsor a Scholars’ Roundtable at Brooklyn Law School. Scholars writing in a diverse range of fields related to international business, economic, and financial law are invited to submit proposals to present works in progress for an intense day of discussion with other scholars in the field. Participants will be expected to read all papers in advance of the Roundtable and offer commentary on each of the presentations. The event will be in person and participating scholars are expected to attend the full Roundtable in person. Participating scholars who come from outside the New York City area will receive a $500 stipend from Brooklyn Law School.

Requirements for Submission

• Applicants must hold a full-time position (including visitor/fellowship) at a law school or university. Scholars from outside the U.S. are encouraged to apply.
• Scholars who anticipate holding a fulltime faculty appointment in 2025-2026 are welcome to
• Applicants should submit a 1-3 - page proposal, abstract, or summary of the paper. All papers presented must be unpublished at the time of the Roundtable. Papers that have been accepted for publication but are not yet in print are welcome.
• Papers relating to any area of international business law are welcome. This is construed broadly to include all aspects of international economic law (trade, investment, tax, and finance), transnational business regulation, cross-border transactions, law relating to multinational business enterprises and securities, and international business disputes.

Applicants should submit a proposal at this link by June 28, 2024. Scholars selected to present at the Roundtable will be notified by July 12, 2024.

Please contact Robin Effron ([email protected]), Stratos Pahis ([email protected]), or Irene Ten Cate ([email protected]) with any questions.

CFP: Heirs' Property and its Ties to Generational Wealth, Gentrification and Fraudulent Deeds

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The Florida A&M (FAMU) University Law Review is accepting submissions for its Spring 2025 Symposium Edition!

The FAMU Law Review is a student-run organization at the FAMU College of Law. FAMU Law Review will host its symposium on Heirs’ Property and its ties to generational wealth, gentrification, and fraudulent deeds in February 2025. The symposium will tentatively take place on February 22, 2025. All authors who accept a publication offer should be available to travel to the FAMU College of Law campus in Orlando, FL, that weekend to present their papers.

This symposium aims to bring people from various disciplines together to discuss issues and possible solutions related to "Heirs’ Property." Heirs’ Property is a state of ownership that occurs when property is transferred between generations without a proper testamentary

instrument, leaving the property in limbo. This state of ownership affects the values of property and the ability of future generations to produce and pass on wealth between generations. While this Symposium will primarily focus on the issue of Heirs’ Property, we will also consider articles related to other real property issues, including, but not limited to, the creation of black generational wealth, financial literacy, the importance of property ownership for low-income minorities, gentrification, and fraudulent deeds. While we prefer articles focusing on the State of Florida, we are also happy to review articles discussing these issues nationally.

Please submit your paper by August 1, 2024 to [email protected] Articles should be between twenty and thirty pages, including footnotes, double-spaced, Times New Roman, and 12-point font. Citations should adhere to the Bluebook. The symposium is set to take place on February 22, 2025. The FAMU Symposium Edition Law Review is scheduled to be published within several weeks after the Symposium.

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

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, 2024. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2024.

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 2024-2025 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, 2024 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.

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 June 1, 2024, through July 1, 2024. The winner will be announced by August 30, 2024.
• To participate, please email your work, redacted as necessary to preserve anonymity (for the blind judging process), as a portable data file (PDF) to Judy Jaeger, Senior Staff Associate, at [email protected] 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 or late papers will not be considered.

Information on Emerging Scholar Award and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is pleased to host an annual paper competition for its Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award.  The law school at Pace University is one of a small number of schools in the United States named after a woman, and we are proud of our school’s long-standing commitment to gender justice.

Since the establishment of the Women’s Justice Center in 1991, Haub Law has made gender justice a priority.  Students have the ability to pursue a path to practice in Women, Gender & the Law, through which they develop skills and strategies for effective representation and advocacy for women and gender justice, regardless of what career they pursue.  The Haub Law faculty includes nationally recognized academic experts and advocates for women and gender justice. Our faculty teach, research and write about gender equality and justice as it relates to constitutional law, corporate law, criminal law, education, environmental law, estate planning, juvenile justice, legal theory, poverty, public health, social media, and taxation, to name just a few areas.  An important hallmark of Haub Law is that in addition to our specialty classes that focus on gender, issues involving gender are also integrated into a wide range of other courses.

Prior Winners

2020 – Greer Donley, Contraceptive Equity: Curing the Sex Discrimination in the ACA’s Mandate, 71 Ala. L. Rev. 499 (2019)

2021 – Marie Amélie George, Exploring Identity, 54 Fam. L.Q. 1 (2021)

2022 – Elizabeth D. Katz, Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women's Legal Right to Hold Public Office, 33 Yale J. Law & Feminism 110 (2022)

2024 – Emily J. Stolzenberg, Nonconsensual Family Obligations, 48 BYU L. Rev. 625 (2022)

CFP: Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference

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The Northern Illinois University College of Law is now accepting proposals for the Seventh Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference on Friday, September 27, 2024. The conference will be held in person at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. This conference offers junior scholars the opportunity to present works-in-progress, to receive feedback from a senior faculty reader and other attendees, and to network with other legal scholars from the greater Chicagoland area. Preference will be given to law faculty who have been teaching for fewer than ten years in a tenure-track position, including those who expect to start such a position in Fall 2024. Papers 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 8, 2024. Selected authors will be notified by July 26, 2024. Papers will be due by September 6, 2024. There is no registration fee. Please email [email protected] with any questions.