The Faculty Lounge

CFP: Jaharis Health Law Symposium

The DePaul Journal of Health Care Law, Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute, and Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®) are excited to announce a Call for Papers in connection with the 2022 Jaharis Health Law Symposium.

This year’s topic, “Antitrust and Access to Care: Lessons from Market Consolidation and a Public Health Crisis,” will explore how consolidation across health care markets has impacted access to care. Prominent legal scholars, antitrust enforcers and expert practitioners will address a range of questions through four separate panels focusing on health insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital and digital health markets.

Three papers will be selected from the submissions. Each selected author will receive a $500 honorarium and their article (of approximately 10,000 words) will be published in the Symposium issue of the DePaul Journal of Health Care Law. Full article drafts will be due by June 1, 2022.

We are open to a wide range of topics consistent with the Symposium theme but are particularly interested in papers from scholars with diverse experiences and backgrounds researching health insurance or pharmaceutical markets, as well as papers from junior scholars.

The Symposium will be held both in-person and remotely at DePaul College of Law in Chicago on March 10, 2022. Presenters able to appear in person will receive reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to asetrini@depaul.edu by January 15, 2022, with the subject line “Jaharis Symposium: Call for Papers.” You also may submit an optional statement of no more than 500 words describing how your selection would enhance the diversity of the Symposium.

University of Chicago Legal Forum on the Law of the Next Pandemic

I'm excited to be part of this U. Chicago virtual symposium this Friday starting at 9 am Central.  There will be panels on government authority, federal courts, economic policy, and legal reactions and adaptations.  Attendance is free.  You can register and view a full agenda here.

 

Taxation and Gender Equality Conference Postponed

The Taxation and Gender Equality Conference and Research Roundtable that were to be held on September 14 and 15, 2020, in Washington, DC, have been postponed due to the travel and other risks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Conference and Research Roundtable were to have explored the interaction between tax law and gender equality with the objective of shining a spotlight on gender issues in taxation and bringing consideration of gender impacts into mainstream discussions surrounding the enactment and administration of tax laws.  With the continued support of our sponsors, the Tax Policy Center, the American Tax Policy Institute, the American Bar Foundation, the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and the American College of Tax Counsel, we expect to hold the Conference in Fall, 2021.  We will announce a date and venue once the public health crisis brought on by the pandemic has abated sufficiently to allow for safe travel and large in-person gatherings, and we will issue another Call for Papers at that time.

Thanks to all who submitted papers in response to our original Call for Papers and are endeavoring to provide virtual outlets for at least some of them. Please be on the lookout for further developments and thank you for your continuing support of this important project.

Organizers: Julie Divola (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and American Tax Policy Institute), Elaine Maag (Tax Policy Center), and Alice Abreu (Temple Center for Tax Law and Public Policy and American Tax Policy Institute)

Academic Advisory Committee:  Alice Abreu (Temple), Bridget Crawford (Pace), Anthony Infanti (Pittsburgh), Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego), and Stephen Shay (Harvard)

Call for Papers - Legal and Judicial Ethics in the Post-#MeToo World - AALS Annual Meeting

Call for Papers

AALS Section on Professional Responsibility 2021

Co-Sponsored by AALS Sections on Civil Rights,

Employment Discrimination Law, Leadership, and Minority Groups

Legal and Judicial Ethics in the Post-#MeToo World

The Section on Professional Responsibility seeks papers addressing the role of legal and judicial ethics in the Post-#MeToo world. This program calls for scholars to confront big questions facing the profession about sexual discrimination, harassment and other misconduct. In 2016, the American Bar Association amended Model Rule 8.4(g)  to say that it is professional misconduct to “engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socio-economic status in conduct related to the practice of law.” Few jurisdictions have adopted this change, and some explicitly rejected it on First Amendment grounds. In 2019, the federal judiciary amended the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges to make clear that misconduct includes engaging in unwanted, offensive, or abusive sexual conduct and to protect those who report misconduct, but some argue the reforms do not go far enough and they do not apply to state judges or to the U.S. Supreme Court. Congress held hearings on sexual misconduct in the federal judiciary in early 2020. Lawyers and members of the judiciary have avoided investigations into credible allegations of sexual assault, discrimination, and harassment by resigning their positions, only to move on in other positions in the legal profession and, in some instances, repeating the same misconduct. Headlines regularly feature attorneys and their involvement in sexual misconduct in the workplace and beyond, whether as bystanders, facilitators, or perpetrators. This program seeks contributions to address these complex and controversial issues. Panelists will discuss the role of lawyer and judicial ethics as a means to remedy the enduring sexual misconduct in the legal profession and beyond.  Jaime Santos, founder of Law Clerks for Workplace Accountability and commentator for the acclaimed podcast Strict Scrutiny, is confirmed as a presenter. At least two additional presenters will be competitively selected from this call for papers.

Topics discussed at the program might include:

• Does ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) addressing sexual harassment run afoul of the First Amendment? 
• Is ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) merely a values statement or is it a source for discipline?
• What obligations, if any, do disciplinary authorities have to investigate credible, public information about alleged sexual misconduct by the lawyers licensed to practice in their jurisdictions?
• Should regulators adopt new rules or policies to address sexual misconduct, including the ability of lawyers and judges to avoid investigations by resigning their positions?
• If other areas of law (criminal, civil) do not cover aspects of sexual misconduct, is there a role for professional conduct rules to do so because of the lawyer’s special role in society?
• What reporting obligations do law schools have as they certify students’ fitness in bar admission applications? How does this fit within the Title IX framework?
• Should ethical rules on sexual misconduct that apply to the federal judiciary also apply to the U.S Supreme Court?
• How should reporting systems be improved?

To be considered, please email your paper to Renee Knake, Chair of the Section on Professional Responsibility, no later than August 1, 2020 at rknake@uh.edu Preference will be given to completed papers, though works-in-progress are eligible for selection.  The Call for Paper presenters will be responsible for paying their registration fee and hotel and travel expenses.  Please note that AALS anticipates that the Annual Meeting will go forward (https://am.aals.org/), and the theme is The Power of Words.

Virtual Law and Society: A Response to Bridget Crawford

I was asked by the leadership of the Law and Society Association to post this letter responding to Bridget Crawford's posts about the LSA conference here and here.  That seems fair and here it is:

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We’re writing as the president, immediate past president and 2020 program co-chairs of the Law and Society Association to set the record straight about this year’s Law and Society Annual Meeting. Unfortunately, a number of Professor Bridget Crawford’s representations of LSA’s actions in her posts on the Faculty Lounge Blog are inaccurate.

The Law and Society Association’s Board of Trustees recently decided to cancel the annual in-person meeting which had been scheduled for late May, as have all other professional associations we know. But the Board didn’t want to lose the opportunity to bring our LSA community together as much as we could, so the Board decided at the same time to convert the in-person meeting into a virtual conference instead. We notified conference attendees as soon as the decision was made to replace an in-person meeting with a virtual one, so that they would know as much as we did, even though we didn’t have all plans in place for what the virtual conference would look like. We understand that the lack of concrete information has generated many questions among persons considering whether to not to participate in the virtual meeting, but we are working as fast as we can to provide more detail. We are all facing an unprecedented situation in which we all learning new technologies at a moment’s notice, and the Law and Society Association is no different. We ask for your patience as we feel our way in this new environment.

Let us tell you what we know so far.

ON REFUNDS: At the time that LSA made the announcement to go virtual, everyone who wanted to withdraw from the virtual conference was invited to do so and promised a full refund of the initial conference registration fee. That full refund offer still stands. The LSA office will refund all cancellations and, as of the week of 6 April, had already done so with all requests received by then. If a backlog of requests develops, the office will work to process and fulfil them as soon as possible. We hope that our conference attendees will recognize that an office staff of four people is processing numerous and varied requests relating to a meeting of nearly 2500 registrants, at the same time that it is gearing up to create a new program in a completely new format. We ask for your patience, but assure you that full refunds will be issued for those who choose not to join us in virtuality.

LSA is Charging $250-$390 for a "Virtual Conference." Absurd.

I am a huge fan of the Law & Society Association, an interdisciplinary group of scholars from all fields.  The annual meeting has a welcoming and encouraging atmosphere.  I’ve been attending the conference since 1995, and I look forward to it every year.

This year LSA understandably has had to cancel this year’s in-person meeting scheduled for Denver. LSA assures everyone it is planning a “virtual conference” with likely (but not confirmed) dates around May 28-31, 2020, the same dates as the original conference.  Participants have until April 15, 2020 to withdraw from the conference and receive a full refund.  All of that makes sense.

What makes no sense is that LSA is charging the full registration fee to participate in the “virtual conference” without saying what a virtual conference is. It may or may not be a bunch of Zoom meetings.

How much is the registration fee? The same $225 and $390 that LSA charges for an in-person conference.  See for yourself (here):

How can LSA justify such a fee?

Here’s the non-specific message on the website (here):

Canceling the in-person meeting will have serious financial consequences for LSA, leading to a substantial budget shortfall. Your willingness to keep your registration and participate in the virtual meeting will help tremendously. For those who do not wish to participate in the virtual meeting, we hope you will consider converting all or part of your registration fee into a tax-deductible contribution to LSA to help mitigate the financial losses that we will sustain.

Why is LSA asking for a bailout funded by faculty or schools?

I understand that LSA needs to cover the costs of whatever technology it needs to host a virtual conference.  (Surely LSA could negotiate some discount with Zoom; prices here).  Maybe it needs to pay a stipend to staff members who now need to plan a virtual conference instead of an in-person conference. The website will need revamping. That all makes sense.

But charging attendees (and the schools that reimburse them) full freight for a virtual conference so that LSA does not have a budget shortfall? That makes no sense.  That's a bailout by individual faculty members or the schools that cover the costs for conference attendees. Charging the in-person rate for an unspecified virtual conference cannot be justified by reference to the cost of a virtual conference or the alleged benefit to the attendees.

In the meantime, as a coordinator of two LSA Collaborative Research Networks this year, I’m receiving emails every day from anxious colleagues. They want more information. I have none.  I have received none from LSA. As LSA remains silent, registrants are dropping out. Separate and apart from personal reasons (including illness), registrants are withdrawing because their schools will not reimburse for a virtual conference; because those affiliated with public institutions don’t feel they can justify spending taxpayer money on large conference registration fees for any virtual conference; because faculty members do not believe that the cost of attending a "virtual conference" is justified by the diminished professional opportunities associated with attending/presenting at a virtual conference.

So what is a "virtual conference" anyway?

It is a great frustration--and the reason many attendees are dropping out--that LSA has not provided any information about what this virtual conference might look like.  How will it be structured? How could it be structured? Is this going to be anything other than a bunch of password-protected Zoom meetings? If it is a bunch of Zoom meetings, how is a $250 to $390 registration fee justified?

Part of what makes any conference great is the informal conversations that happen in hallways outside of formal sessions, over spontaneous dinners with groups of people one doesn't know well, interactions with new colleagues that one meets at receptions and in the book hall. Can all of these benefits of a conference be replicated virtually? No?  Then it is wrong to charge full freight.

Why the secrecy?

Before the deadline for refund of registration fees, LSA should be transparent about what attendees will "get" for $250 to $390 (other than the benefit of helping bail out LSA). If LSA does not know what the virtual conference will look like, just say so. We're all improvising in unusual times and would understand if LSA does not know yet.  But push back the refund date until LSA does know.

In communicating with its members, LSA should be transparent about the real costs are associated with running a virtual conference.  If I had to guess, I'd venture the real costs are far less than $50 per person. 

LSA should reduce the "virtual conference" registration fee to $50 or less.

Who will attend a virtual conference?

In the days running up to the deadline for requesting a refund of registration, there's no way to see who is dropping off panels. Thus, individual participants who were already assigned to panels has no way of knowing whether the other speakers on their assigned panel will attend the virtual conference.

After the refund deadline, the coordinators of the LSA Collaborative Research Networks presumably will be expected to reorganize remaining paper presenters into new panels. I'm just guessing, though. There's been zero communication from LSA leadership.

Why doesn't LSA just ask its members what they want?

Seems to me that after LSA develops a clear vision for a virtual conference, the organization should poll its members. Ask if the membership prefers postponement (mid-year LSA, anyone?), cancellation (see you in 2021!), or the virtual conference option (Zoom again?).

By proceeding ahead with a $250 to $390 registration fee for a conference LSA leadership cannot describe,  LSA leadership is getting it completely wrong.

What should LSA do?

• Poll the members. Ask what they want before barrelling ahead.
• If the decision is to go forward with a virtual conference, communicate clearly to participants what that means.
• Allow registrants the opportunity to withdraw after informing them of the contours of the virtual conference.
• If the decision is to go forward with a virtual conference, charge $50 or less for a virtual conference.
• Communicate with the registrants more often and better; communicate with other LSA leaders (the Program Committee? The CRN coordinators? Some volunteer group?) more often and better.

Why am I still attending?

This year I am coordinating or co-coordinating two Collaborative Research Networks that are organizing panels or programs that would have involved over 200 conference participants (pre-COVID; not sure how many will remain after the refund deadline passes). If I were not coordinating two CRNs, I would drop out from sheer frustration with LSA leadership.

Nevertheless, I am committed to doing the job I was asked to do: facilitate others coming together in an organized way for productive and inclusive scholarly dialogue. I will do that within the framework of whatever LSA decides, virtual or not. This won't be the conference that my fellow organizers and I planned, but I am committed to making the best of it. 

LSA is one of my favorite professional organizations. The annual meeting is my favorite conference every year. With all that love comes disappointment and distress when LSA makes a big misstep, as I think it is doing now.

U of Colorado Conference/Webinar April 3 - Women’s Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19th Amendment

The 2020 Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law hosted by the University of Colorado has been converted to a webinar to be held April 3, 2020. The topic is "Women’s Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19^th Amendment.” It is still free.  Here's the info:

2020 marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment, formally extending suffrage to some, but not all, women. This conference will use the centennial to take stock of how far we’ve come and how far we have to go in terms of formal political enfranchisement, as well as the social and economic empowerment of women more broadly.

Register here for the 2020 Rothgerber Conference, to receive important email updates, including the link needed to join the webinar. Participants will be able to use this link to join at any point during the conference.  For more information on the panels and speakers please visit the CU Law Rothgerber event page.

More details below the fold.

Organize an AALS Panel!

Did you know that you can organize a session at the 2021 annual AALS meeting without being affiliated with an AALS Section?  You can!  The AALS will take proposals for four different types of non-section sponsored events:

• Open Source programs are traditional scholarly programs other than those sponsored by one of the AALS Sections. Proposals due April 13.

• Discussion Groups provide a setting for discussions among a small group of invited participants. Attendees are welcome. Proposals due April 13.

• Symposia are extended sessions (half a day or longer) that focus on in-depth scholarly exploration of a topic of academic interest. Proposals due May 11.

• Hot Topic programs focus on topics that emerged too late in the year to be included in other types of programs. Proposals due October 19. Proposals directly related to the outcome of the November 2020 elections and that could not be proposed in time for the October deadline are due November 16.

Go here for more details.

Call for Symposium Proposals - Columbia L Rev and California L Rev

Here and here, I recently stumbled across these two calls for symposium proposals:

Columbia Law Review Symposium

Current Call for Symposium & Timeline:

We are currently accepting symposium proposals for an event in November 2020. Please send all proposals to symposium@columbialawreview.org. We will be making a determination in April 2020 regarding which, if any, proposals will be accepted for an event next fall. If your proposal is selected, there will be an accompanying issue of the Columbia Law Review dedicated to publication of the work generated by the symposium.

Proposal Requirements:

Proposals should include a detailed 2-3 page explanation of:

the proposed topic;

the reasons for convening a symposium now;

the proposed structure of panels at a live event;

a list of participants, including both individuals who have already confirmed they can participate or those that an organizer anticipates asking to participate; and

any available sources of funding for the live event.*

*Please note that additional funding is not required for the submission of a proposal, but it is encouraged as it helps defray the costs for the live event for the Law Review.

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California Law Review Symposium

The California Law Review hosts events that address timely issues in legal scholarship and practice. We will begin receiving symposium proposals for the 2020-2021 academic year on January 1, 2020. Submissions will be accepted until February 28, 2020.

Submission Requirements

In addition to a written proposal, please also submit an addendum that clearly addresses the following elements:

A tentative list of symposium speakers.

An anticipated budget and source of funding. Financial and logistical arrangements will not be the responsibility of the California Law Review.

The names and contact information of two point people with whom the California Law Review can communicate regarding logistics, travel, and organization.

A mechanism for ensuring author accountability for quality of publication and deadlines.

An acknowledgment that publication is not guaranteed to any speaker and that the California Law Review has full discretion in selecting the pieces, if any, to publish.

A tentative timeline and date for the symposium (symposium must take place in the 2020-2021 academic year).

A description of how this symposium is timely and fosters diversity of legal scholarship.If you have any questions, please contact Symposium Editor Kacey Read at clrsymposia@gmail.com.

CFP and Conference Announcement: Taxation and Gender Equality Conference, September 14-15, 2020

Announcement of Conference and Call for Contributions

Taxation and Gender Equality Conference:

Research Roundtable and Policy Program

As the Organizers and members of the Academic Advisory Committee we are pleased to issue this Announcement and Call for Contributions to an event that will be held on September 14 and 15, 2020, in Washington, DC, to explore the interaction between tax law and gender equality. The goal of the Conference, which is sponsored by the Tax Policy Center, the American Tax Policy Institute, the American Bar Foundation, and, subject to the final approval of their boards, the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and the American College of Tax Counsel, is to shine a spotlight on gender issues in taxation and to bring consideration of gender impacts into mainstream discussions surrounding the enactment and administration of tax laws. The intended scope of the Conference is broad, focusing not only on gender issues in U.S. tax law but also on gender issues in the tax laws of other countries; it will consider all taxes, whether income, consumption, transfer, wealth, or other national-level taxes, as well as subnational taxes.

The Conference will begin on Monday, September 14, 2020 at the Washington, DC, offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman with a research roundtable featuring principally academic papers. The research roundtable will follow the format typical of academic conferences, providing ample time for conversation among participants. 

The second day of the Conference, Tuesday, September 15, 2020, will be held at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, also in Washington, DC. It will consist of a policy-oriented program of panel discussions bringing together academics, practicing attorneys, economists, policy makers, legislators and others to consider issues related to gender and taxation and to consider strategies for incorporation of gender-related concerns into everyday tax policy discourse. At least one panel will feature the recent work undertaken by the National Women’s Law Center exploring the relationship between taxation and gender (see https://nwlc-ciw49tixgw5lbab.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NWLC-Tax-Executive-Summary-Accessible.pdf).

We are now seeking participants interested in contributing either to the research roundtable or to the policy program (or to both). Participants can be legal academics, economists, legal practitioners, government officials, policy researchers, or others with an interest and expertise in tax law and its administration. Contributors from the United States as well as other countries are welcome.

Law and Society Annual Meeting Submissions are Open

As a friendly reminder, submissions for LSA annual meeting are open now and will remain open until November 13.  The conference, Rule and Resistance, will be held in Denver May 28-31.

19th Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law & Economics Association @Villanova_Law, Oct. 18/19, 2019

From colleagues at Villanova:

 

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and the John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship are pleased to host the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) October 18-19, 2019 in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Presentations will begin Friday morning and end late afternoon on Saturday.

 

We invite participants from across the nation (not just the Midwest) and abroad. Papers can be on any topic that touches on law and economics. This includes, for example, papers with empirical analysis and economic modeling, as well as papers that address legal doctrine or theory that have been informed by economic thought. To apply, submit a paper or abstract to Tammi Etheridge (Tammi.Etheridge@law.villanova.edu) no later than 4:00 pm EST on Friday, August 9, 2019. 

 

There are no registration or membership fees. Participants will finance their own travel and hotel costs. Please register here. A block of rooms at The Radnor Hotel has been reserved for conference participants at a rate of $165/night (excluding tax). You can book by calling the hotel directly at (610) 688-5800. Use Group ID “Midwestern Law and Economics Conference” to receive the special conference rate. You will need to reserve your room by September 16, 2019 to receive this conference rate.

 

Contact Tammi Etheridge (Tammi.Etheridge@law.villanova.edu) with any questions.

Registration Open for Central States Law Schools Association 2019 Scholarship Conference

From the conference organizers:

Registration is now open for the Central States Law Schools Association 2019 Scholarship Conference, which will be held on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21 at the University of Toledo College of Law in Toledo, Ohio. We invite law faculty from across the country to submit proposals to present papers or works in progress.

CSLSA is an organization of law schools dedicated to providing a forum for conversation and collaboration among law school academics. The CSLSA Annual Conference is an opportunity for legal scholars, especially more junior scholars, to present working papers or finished articles on any law-related topic in a relaxed and supportive setting where junior and senior scholars from various disciplines are available to comment. More mature scholars have an opportunity to test new ideas in a less formal setting than is generally available for their work. Scholars from member and nonmember schools are invited to attend. 

Please click here to register. The deadline for registration is September 1, 2019.  

For more information about CSLSA and the 2019 Annual Conference please subscribe to our blog.
 
We look forward to seeing you in Toledo!

2019 Central States Law Schools Association Scholarship Conference

The 2019 Central States Law Schools Association Scholarship Conference will be held September 20-21, 2019 at The University of Toledo College of Law.

CSLSA is an organization of law schools dedicated to providing a forum for conversation and collaboration among law school academics. The annual conference is an opportunity for legal scholars to present working papers or finished articles on any law-related topic in a relaxed and supportive setting. Scholars from member and nonmember schools are invited to attend. 

Registration will formally open in July. More information about the CSLSA conference can be found on the organization's website here.

2nd Annual Women's Leadership in Legal Academia Conference

This just in:

The University of Virginia School of Law is proud to host the second annual Women’s Leadership in Academia Conference with the goal of advancing women professors, librarians and clinicians in leadership positions in the legal academy. Conference programming is focused on building skills and providing tools and information that are directly applicable to women aspiring to be leaders in legal education. The conference will address the unique perspectives and challenges of women and provide programming that will be useful to developing leaders.  The conference will be held July 18-19.  Details here.

8th Annual Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop

The Eighth Annual Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop, co-hosted by Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and Seattle University School of Law, is coming to the Philly area this summer.  Villanova will be home turf this year, and it's scheduled for August 12-13.   The workshop is designed  to encourage and assist members of underrepresented groups to pursue deanships and other university and law school leadership positions. It will help participants to: determine whether to pursue a deanship and the right time; understand the nuts and bolts of the dean's role; prepare to be a successful candidate; learn how to negotiate appointment terms and ensure a successful transition; and, determine what other forms of university and law school leadership roles may be a good fit.  Register and find more details here.

Future Business Law Professors Conference at Villanova

Future Business Law Professors Conference

Presented by the John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship

Friday, September 6, 2019
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
 

The John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship will host the Future Business Law Professors Conference on Friday, September 6. All visiting assistant professors, fellows, researchers, law clerks, practitioners and others who are considering entering the higher education academic teaching market in business law – including business associations, securities regulation, corporate finance and business ethics – are invited to attend.

Registration is here.

Participants will learn more about the business law teaching market, receive advice on how to be a successful candidate and meet future colleagues. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in mock interviews and get a sneak-peak into the hiring process from current business law faculty. Some will be able to present their job talk paper to leaders in the field and receive feedback.

Appointments committee members from any law school potentially hiring in the business law field are also invited to attend.

Senior faculty tentatively scheduled to attend include:

• Albert Choi (University of Michigan Law School)
• Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
• Arthur Laby (Rutgers University Law School)
• Tom Lin (Temple University, Beasley School of Law)
• Andrew Lund (Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law)
• Jennifer O’Hare (Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law)
• Urska Velikonja (Georgetown University Law Center)

SEALS Conference: Prospective Law Teachers Workshop and Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop

From an email message that I received earlier this week:

Each year, SEALS hosts a Prospective Law Teachers Workshop (PLTW), which provides intensive opportunities for VAPs, fellows, and practitioners to network and participate in mock interviews and mock job talks—prior to the actual teaching market. The Workshop also includes a luncheon and 1-on-1 sessions for candidates to receive faculty feedback on their CVs. This year’s Prospective Law Teachers Workshop will be held at Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Florida on Tuesday, July 30, and Wednesday, July 31, 2019. If you are interested in participating specifically in the Prospective Law Teachers Workshop, please send your CV, and a brief statement explaining your interest, to Professor brad.areheart@tennessee.edu. Please also indicate when you are hoping to go on the teaching market. Applications are due by June 1, 2019. Past PLTW participants have secured tenure-track appointments at an impressive array of law schools.

Separate and apart from the Prospective Law Teachers Workshop, SEALS is offering a new workshop that is broader programming for anyone considering academia—even if one is earlier in the process. The Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop (ALTW) includes sessions on designing your teaching package, navigating the market as a nontraditional candidate, mapping academic opportunities, what’s in a job talk, crafting scholarship goals, the art of self-promotion, as well as a luncheon. You can peruse the programming, which will take place between Sunday, July 29-Tuesday, July 31, by searching “aspiring law teachers workshop” at the following link:

http://sealslawschools.org/submissions/program/programwp.asp.

The goal of these two workshops is, in tandem, to provide robust opportunities for those who hope to one day enter legal academia.

Frequently Asked Questions:

They both sound great. What exactly is the difference?

The Prospective Workshop is designed for those who are going on the market this fall, in 2019, and desiring a chance to moot job talks and interviews in advance of that time. The Aspiring Workshop is designed for anyone considering academia, including those who may not yet be ready to moot a job talk in the summer. The Prospective Workshop is acceptance-only while the Aspiring Workshop is open to everyone.

Can I attend both workshops?

Possibly. Some of the times conflict, but the Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop will be generally open to anyone wishing to attend. Attendance in the Prospective Workshop is in contrast only by acceptance through our competitive selection process.

Is this the new faculty recruitment initiative that I heard SEALS has put together?

No, this is not the new hiring initiative that SEALS is conducting. That process is entirely separate. Information about SEALS’ new faculty recruitment initiative can be found at the following link: https://www.sealslawschools.org/recruitment/applicants/.

CFP: Critical Legal Academics and Scholars International Collaborative Virtual Workshops

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) is coordinating a series of virtual research and writing workshops called CLASIC, the Critical Legal Academics and Scholars International Collaborative.

The workshops will be virtual meetings of collaborative members and can be open to all or by invitation only. It provides a virtual space in which papers, ideas, book proposals, etc., can be workshoped for feedback. The format follows Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy writing workshops.

In addition to workshoping papers, scholars will have the opportunity to collaborate, connect, disseminate work and increase readership/audience for critical legal work that otherwise may be overlooked.

The first workshop will take place on Tuesday, April 23.  More info available here. Anyone interested in participating should email Professor Choudhury: cyra.choudhury (at) fiu.edu.

Georgetown Law Journal Call for Symposium Proposals

The Georgetown Law Journal is now accepting proposals for its biennial symposium, which will be hosted on Georgetown Law’s campus in the Fall semester of 2019. As Georgetown’s only generalist law journal, The Georgetown Law Journal is open to symposium proposals on any legal issue. The symposium is intended to stimulate the development of legal scholarship; provide opportunities for interaction between students, academics, and practitioners; and foster novel legal discussions on Georgetown Law’s campus. Previous topics include: The Law of Nations and the United States Constitution; Police/State: Race, Power, and Control; and Law in an Age of Disruptive Technology.

To streamline the proposal process, the Journal requests that all applicants use the attached form here. Responses should be limited to 200 words per question. All proposal forms and inquiries should be submitted to Caitlin Haynes, the Journal’s Executive Symposium Editor, at gljsymposiumeditor@gmail.com. Proposals submitted by the priority deadline of April 5, 2019 will be given first consideration. After this date, exemplary proposals will be considered on an ad hoc basis. Applicants should expect that the Journal may request further information or the opportunity to discuss the proposal in further detail. The Journal will notify applicants whether they remain under consideration by April 19, 2019.

 

Equality Law Scholars' Forum at UC Davis Tomorrow

The second annual Equality  Law Scholars' Forum kicks off at UC Davis tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to being one of the commentators on a fantastic set of papers. Here are some details:

Second Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum

Friday, November 16 – Saturday November 17, 2018

The Forum is designed to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique by their more senior colleagues in the legal academy and, more broadly, to foster development and understanding of new scholarly currents across equality law. 

This year, the Forum will feature six presenters (chosen from over forty submissions):

The New Coverture, Albertina Antognini (Arizona College of Law)

Stealing Education: Protecting Racial Capital in “White” Schools, LaToya Baldwin Clark (UCLA School of Law)

Affirmative Action Misclassification, Jonathan Feingold (UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion)

The Aesthetics of Disability Law, Jasmine Harris (UC Davis School of Law)

Legislating with Tall Tales, Goldburn Maynard (U. of Louisville School of Law)

 Diversity to Deradicalize: A New Theory for How Affirmative Action Became Tied to Intellectual Pluralism, Asad Rahim (American Bar Foundation)

The event is co-organized by Tristin Green, USF Law, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, UC Berkeley Law, and Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law. 

Comment and critique will be provided by the following scholars:

Bridget Crawford, Pace Law School

Jonathan Glater, UC Irvine Law School

Tristin Green, USF Law School

Angela Harris, UC Davis Law School

Jill Hasday, U. of Minnesota School of Law

Anthony Infanti, U. of Pittsburgh School of Law

Osamudia James, U. of Miami School of Law

Tom Joo, UC Davis Law School

Courtney Joslin, UC Davis Law School           

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston U. Law School

Kimani Paul-Emile, Fordham U. School of Law

Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law School

We will also hold a panel discussion on Producing Scholarship in Equality Law with the following UC Davis Law School panelists participating: Jack Chin, Kevin Johnson, Courtney Joslin, Tom Joo, Lisa Pruitt, and Brian Soucek.