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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 [email protected] 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.

2023 Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference Call for Proposals

The steering committee for the 2023 Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference is now accepting proposals for works-in-progress or incubator ideas.    

The 2023 Conference will take place June 15 and 16, 2023, at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. If you wish to be considered for a works-in-progress or incubator session, please submit your proposal to [email protected]. Historically, "emerging" has been interpreted to include scholars with 10 years or less of experience in academia; however, we aim to be more inclusive this year, as this is the first gathering since before the pandemic.

We are also seeking discussants who will read and comment on the works-in-progress or incubator ideas. 

If you want to propose a work-in-progress:

• Please put “ImmProf WIP [Lastname]” as the subject line
  • Please submit an abstract of no more than one page, with a title.

If you want to propose an incubator:
• Please put “Incubator [Lastname]” as the subject line
• Please submit a description of no more than one paragraph, with a title.

If you would be willing to be a discussant:
• Please email us by April 10 with a list of your areas of expertise.

Possibility of virtual attendance for limited sessions:
• We aim to hold this year’s conference entirely in person. However, we might offer virtual options for certain sessions if there are many people who can only attend virtually. If you believe you would only be able to attend or present virtually, please add “VIRTUAL” to your email subject line (i.e., “ImmProf WIP [Lastname] – VIRTUAL.”)

The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 10. We anticipate notifying accepted WIP or incubator proposals by April 24. Final papers will be due on June 1, 2023. Further information about the conference schedule and registration is forthcoming.

Please feel free to email [email protected] or contact any member of the conference steering committee directly with questions or concerns.

 
Sincerely,

The 2023 Conference Steering Committee:

Cori Alonso-Yoder, George Washington University Law School
Kate Evans, Duke University School of Law
Pedro Gerson, California Western School of Law
Annie Lai, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Tania Valdez, George Washington University Law School
Paulina Vera, George Washington University Law School

Yale Journal of Law & Feminism Symposium 3/31 - Meeting the Moment: Legal Frameworks for Feminist Futures

The Yale Journal of Law & Feminism invites you to register for its symposium: Meeting the Moment: Legal Frameworks for Feminist Futures. This event will be held on Friday, March 31—the last day of Women’s History Month—at Yale Law School from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public. 

Both globally and domestically, trans and nonbinary people, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and racially subjugated groups are under attack from political regimes hostile to our rights and liberation. Against this backdrop, it is vital that we envision and build feminist futures. The purpose of this symposium is to grapple with the relationship between feminist legal theory and practice, with an eye toward what you can do to meet the moment. We’re bringing preeminent feminist scholars together with legal advocates and practitioners to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our times. We hope you’ll join the conversation.

Meeting the Moment

Legal Frameworks for Feminist Futures

(This schedule is tentative. More speakers will be added!)

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Registration & Breakfast

(Registration will be open all day.)

Morning Panels

 

9:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

 

We, the Feminists

The Symposium’s opening panel will reflect on how the field of feminist legal thought emerged and grapple with the question of which groups of people have been integral, or marginal, to its development.

Sarah Deer

University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas and Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals

Deborah Dinner

Professor of Law at Cornell School of Law

Joanna L. Grossman

Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law

Serena Mayeri

Professor of Law & History at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

 

Symposium Announcement—The Federal Income Tax: Racially Blind but Not Racially Neutral

Alabama Law: Symposium on Constitutional Ethnography

Alabama Law is pleased to invite you to the Symposium on Constitutional Ethnography, a hybrid event to be held in Tuscaloosa and online, Friday, October 14, 9:30 am -5:30 pm Central Daylight Time. The Symposium will bring together prominent anthropologists of law and law & society scholars to discuss the potential benefits, challenges, and approaches to ethnographically studying constitutional law. A keynote address will be given by Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University. Attendance is free, but registration is required to receive the Zoom link. Register today.

Call for Speakers & Papers on Technology, Cybersecurity, & Ag Law--deadline Oct. 15

Call for Speakers and Papers:
South Dakota Law Review Technology, Cybersecurity, and Agricultural Law Symposium

 

The South Dakota Law Review seeks speakers, panel participants, and article proposals for a symposium on issues related to technology, cybersecurity, and agricultural law. The Technology, Cybersecurity, and Agricultural Law Symposium will take place at the USD Knudson School of Law in Vermillion, South Dakota on Monday, March 27, 2023. Article proposals of 300-500 words may be submitted by October 15, 2022, with papers due December 16, 2022.

 

The symposium will focus on issues at the nexus of technology, cybersecurity, and agricultural law in South Dakota and the United States at large. Over the past several decades, rapid and extensive changes in technology and agribusiness have opened new opportunities and challenges to farmers and stakeholders surrounding cybersecurity and agriculture. The editors seek speakers, panelists, and articles that address one or more of the following topics, or other related topics:

 

1. Changes in technology and agribusiness involving data, cybersecurity, and agricultural law
2. Ag data privacy and confidentiality
3. Ag data integrity
4. Ag data availability and/or disruption to data and ag communication networks
5. Control of ag communication networks
6. Technology, agribusiness, and antitrust law
7. Any other topic related to cybersecurity and agricultural law

 

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.

 

The Call for Speakers and Papers will remain open until Saturday, October 15, 2022. Please contact [email protected] with your interest in speaking, and/or with an article proposal. Selected participants and writers will be notified by Friday, October 21, 2022. Finished articles will be due Friday, December 16, 2022. Our editors will work with you over the winter 2022-23 to prepare your work for the symposium and/or publication. Transportation and lodging is provided for all selected speakers and panelists. Articles will be published and released in the summer of 2023.

Symposium Announcement: Navigating the Intersection of Advocacy and Professionalism

From an email message I received this morning:

The University of Illinois College of Law is excited to share that registration is now open for the Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism’s upcoming symposium: Navigating the Intersection of Advocacy and Professionalism. Lawyers are required to be zealous advocates for their clients, but their advocacy is bound by the rules of the legal profession. Those rules, and attendant norms, limit the claims lawyers may bring, the arguments they may make, and how they advocate. This symposium examines the intersection of advocacy and professionalism in multiple contexts. The symposium will be held on October 7th in-person at Winston & Strawn, LLP in Chicago, but virtual attendance is welcomed via Zoom.

The symposium begins with a panel moderated by the University of Illinois College of Law Dean, Dean Vikram D. Amar, titled, “Election Law – Where Are the Red Lines,” with Congressman Eric Swalwell, Professor Catherine Ross of The George Washington School of Law, Matthew Morgan of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Ryan Germany, General Counsel, Georgia Secretary of State serving as panelists. We then will examine professionalism in family advocacy, with a panel titled “Family Law: Ground Zero for Incivility and Professional Challenges, moderated by Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, with Judge Debra Walker, Professor Stephanie Tang of Baylor Law School, and Brad Trowbridge, Circuit Court of Cook County Domestic Relations Guardian Ad Litem serving as panelists. The final panel considers professionalism in the criminal law context, with Professor Andrew Leipold of the University of Illinois School of Law moderating a panel titled, “Ethical Considerations for Criminal Lawyers.” Panelists include Professor Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe of UC Davis School of Law , Stacy Ludwig, Director of Professional Responsibility Advisory Board (Department of Justice), Dan Webb of Winston & Strawn and BJay Pak of Alston & Bird.

The Honorable Thomas Kirsch, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will provide the keynote address, titled, “Judicial Ethics – Overview of the Existing Codes and Proposals for Change.”

Registration for both in person and Zoom attendance is here.  CLE is available for Illinois attorneys.  Please contact Prof. Tony Ghiotto, Director of the Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism, at [email protected] with any questions.

CFP for Law & Rurality Workshop

Workshop to be held at University of Nebraska Lincoln on October 21. Proposals are due 8/22. See attached for more information: Download CFP - 10.21.2022 Law and Rurality Workshop 

CFP - Virtual Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series: New Books in the Field

2022  Virtual Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series

Spotlight on

New Books in the Field:

Gender, Race and Diversity in the Center of the Conversation

This summer, the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project will host a series of virtual conversations featuring authors and editors of new books in the field, with a focus on how to best use those texts to raise and frame issues of gender, race and other diversity issues in teaching and scholarship. There will be a particular emphasis on how feminist legal theory can enrich both classroom discussions and scholarly perspectives by scholars working across subject matters.

The dates and featured books are:

Date	Book	Authors or Editors
June 8, 2022	Menstruation Matters: Challenging Law’s Silence on Periods (2022)	Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) & Emily Gold Waldman (Pace)
June 22, 2022	Fight the Power: Law and Policy Through Hip-Hop Songs (2022)	Frank Rudy Cooper (UNLV)
July 6, 2022	Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law’s Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity (2022)	Kerri L. Stone (FIU)
July 20, 2022	Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions (2020)	Ann C. McGinley (UNLV) & Nicole Buoncore Porter (Chicago-Kent)
August 3, 2022	***week off***
August 17, 2022	The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (2021)	Kristin Henning (Georgetown)

Sessions will run from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm Pacific/2:00 to 3:15 pm Eastern. Attendees from all parts of the academy with a verified academic email address are welcome to attend any and all sessions. There is no charge to attend. All sessions are held via Zoom.

Preregistration for all participants (speakers and attendees) is required via this link. All attendees including speakers must register. Attendees need to register only once and then can attend any of the sessions in the summer series. Regular attendance is encouraged but not required. Approximately one week before each session, all registrants will receive an excerpt of the book that will be the subject of the discussion.

After a pause in August, the Feminist Legal Theory Series may continue into the academic year with occasional sessions featuring additional works. Authors or editors of recent books are welcome to self-nominate their work for consideration to be featured in a future session.

The Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series is co-sponsored by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, together with The Feminism and Legal Theory Project, The Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode, the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. The series is coordinated by Bridget J. Crawford (Pace), bcrawford at law dot pace dot edu, and Kathy Stanchi (UNLV), kathryn dot stanchi at unlv dot edu.

Miranda Warnings Date Back to 1748

I filed this brief of Historians of Criminal Procedure in Vega v. Tekoh this week that shows Miranda warnings date back to 1748.  (Thanks to Steve Lubet for asking me to post this.  Steve is no stranger to discovering fascinating history of the warnings -- Gov. Wise gave them to John Brown in 1860, Lubet, 52 Ala. L. Rev. 425 (2001).)  A true pleasure to work with Mark Godsey (Cincinnati), Tim Hitchcock (U of Sussex and a co-curator of the Old Bailey Session Papers), Tracey Maclin (BU), Robert Shoemaker (U of Sheffield and co-curator of the Old Bailey Session Papers), Simon Stern (Toronto), and George Thomas (Rutgers).   There were five examples we found that pre-dated the Bill of Rights -- research in the Old Bailey Papers is not easy.   So I want to particularly recognize Tim Hitchcock who located the 1748 case and my research assistant, Nicole Singleton (2L Duquesne), who found two of the pre-Framing cases.  

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-499/220472/20220406170837528_Tekoh%20final%20brief%2042283%20pdf%20Oliver%20--%20filed.pdf

Which Law Reviews are Soliciting Symposium Proposals?

Which law reviews have open calls for symposium proposals?

So far, I'm aware of open processes at these journals:

• California Law Review, here
• Davis Law Review, here (posted on Scholastica, so log-in may be required)
• University of Illinois Law Review,  here (posted on Scholastica, so log-in may be required)

In prior years, I know that journals at Wisconsin, Columbia and Penn have had calls for symposium proposals, but I haven't seen any announcements (yet?) from these journals.

If readers want to pass on any information as they receive it, I'll be glad to update this list.

 

Did LSA Admit that the "Value" of a Virtual Conference is Not the Same as an In-Person Conference?

In 2020, I was a vocal critic of the Law & Society's decision to charge virtual conference attendees the same fee that would have been charged for the in-person conference. That led to a scolding by Penny Andrews, Kim Lane Scheppele, Jonathan Klaaren, and Anna-Maria Marshall who wrote (here) that:

Professor Crawford complained about the cost of a virtual meeting, because LSA Board decided not to offer everyone a partial refund. In fact, a virtual meeting is not free. The largest cost that goes into the meeting is the staff time that it takes to put the program together, which often involves multiple interactions with thousands of people. This year, the program will have been put together twice. One program had almost been completed for an in-person meeting that won’t happen. Now we need to see who will continue into the virtual meeting because that will require that the program be redone a second time to put newly orphaned papers onto new panels, to fill in gaps of chairs and discussants, and to work with the CRNs to ensure that their programs remain coherent. All that involves staff time. Plus there will be adjustments to the app, working out when people can attend the online sessions, updates to conference attendees and to the CRNs about how the program is coming along, and of course close support of conference attendees in the run-up to the meeting.

Um, I never said that the conference should be free. 

I am pleased to see that the cost to attend the 2022 Law & Society Annual Meeting virtually is substantially less than the in-person conference fee:

Virtual attendance is not the same "value" as in-person attendance; the 2022 registration fee reflects that.

Virtual or not, Law & Society remains my favorite conference of the year.

Law & Economics Center: Upcoming Workshops for Law Professors

From an email message that I recently received:

The Law & Economics Center (Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University) has three upcoming workshops for law professors in 2022.  

The three workshops are:

• Workshop for Law Professors on Public Choice Economics, January 5-9, 2022 in Squaw Valley, CA
• Workshop for Law Professors on Energy & Environment, January 5-9, 2022 in Squaw Valley, CA
• Workshop for Law Professors on Information, Advertising, Privacy, and Data Security, May 18-22, 2022 in Amelia Island, FL

Virtual Law & Rurality Workshop at U. South Dakota this Fall

Abstracts are due 8/20. See below:

Call for Papers

Law and Rurality Workshop

 

 

The University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law along with the Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska College of Law will host a workshop this fall for scholars whose work engages with rural issues and the law. The workshop will be held via Zoom on Friday, October 29, 2021, from approximately 9 am until 4 pm CST, with the final schedule to be determined by participant interest.

 

This workshop will provide a forum for a range of scholars to share and receive feedback on works-in-progress about legal issues viewed through the lens of rurality or rural-urban difference. There will also be at least one incubator session for scholars to receive feedback on nascent ideas, and other thematic discussion sessions may be organized. Submissions may encompass any topic that addresses or investigates rurality and the law. To the extent possible, participants will be expected to attend the full day of Zoom sessions and read and comment on other works. If you are interested in workshopping an in-progress paper, please submit a title and abstract to Hannah Haksgaard at [email protected] no later than Friday, August 20.

 

In your submission, please indicate whether you want to be slotted to (1) workshop a work-in-progress draft paper (however early stage), or (2) present more briefly an idea only at an incubator session.

 

Final drafts for workshop sessions will be due October 8 so they may be circulated to other participants. 

 

We invite participants to attend even without workshopping a paper or presenting an idea for future work. If you wish to attend all or part of the conference – either as a general participant or as a paper-specific commentator – please also e-mail [email protected] by August 20.

Full-Line Up Announced for U.S. Feminist Judgments Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series

The 2021 Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series kicked off one week ago with a panel discussion chaired by Martha Fineman (Emory), "Reflections on the History and Beginnings of Feminist Legal Theory."

The final line-up of speakers for the remainder of the summer has now been announced:

Wednesday, June 16: Simultaneous “Half Baked Ideas” Sessions

Room 1 Speakers:

• Naomi Cahn (Virginia)
• Greer Donley (Pitt) & Jill Wieber Lens (Arkansas)

Room 2 Speakers:

• Hannah Haksgaard (South Dakota)
• Elizabeth Katz (Wash U St. Louis)

Room 3 Speakers:

• Charisa Smith (CUNY)
• Natalie Nanasi (SMU)

Room 4 Speakers:

• Lucy Jewel (Tennessee)
• Suzanne Lenon (Lethbridge)

Room 5 Speakers:

• Ana Maria Jerca (York)
• Cathren Page (Mercer)

Room 6 Speakers:

• Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indianapolis)
• Cornelia Weiss (Independent)

Room 7 Speakers:

• Andrea S. Anderson (York)
• Fabrizia Pessoa Serafim (Emory)

Room 8 Speakers:

• Ederlina Co (Pacific McGeorge)
• Rachel Rebouché (Temple)

Wednesday, June 30: Junior Scholar Paper Presentation

Presenter: Tugce Elliati-Kose (Trent), Inherently Traumatic, Invariably Victimizing: The Legal Construction of Subject Positions for Survivors of Sexual Violence

Commentator: Sally Goldfarb (Rutgers)

Wednesday, July 7: Junior Scholar Paper Presentation

Presenter: Laura Lane-Steele (Tulane), Adjudicating Identity

Commentator: Noa Ben-Asher (Pace)

Wednesday, July 21: Junior Scholar Paper Presentation

Presenter: Cristina Tilley (Iowa), The First Amendment and the Second Sex

Commentator: Shaakirrah Sanders (Idaho)

Wednesday, August 4: Reflections on the Present and Future of Feminist Legal Theory (panel discussion)

Chair and Moderator: Bridget Crawford (Pace)

Speakers:

• Patricia Cain (Santa Clara)
• Lolita Buckner Inniss (Colorado)
• Sital Kalantry (Seattle)
• Teri McMurtry-Chubb (Univ. Illinois Chicago)
• Jhuma Sen (O.P. Jindal Global University)
• Kathy Stanchi (UNLV)

More details after the fold.

CFP: Law vs. Antisemitism

This just in:

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: August 1, 2021

Indiana University McKinney School of Law and Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality (IU Maurer School of Law) present “Law vs. Antisemitism”, March 13-14, 2022.

This hybrid conference is to be held on campus and virtually at IU McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana

Antisemitism has been called “the oldest hatred.” In the United States, as elsewhere, the law has been used both to perpetrate and to combat antisemitism, historically and today. Different aspects and instrumentalities of law, and specifically U.S. law, have been used to fight antisemitism, including the Constitutional separation of church and state, enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution; laws against discrimination in employment, housing, and other settings, that explicitly identify religious and ethnic groups as entitled to protection from discrimination; and “hate crimes” laws and sentencing enhancements applied to anti-Jewish violence. Despite these laws, however, there has been a recent resurgence in anti-Jewish violence and antisemitism more generally, ranging from online hate speech to cemetery desecration to the “Tree of Life” synagogue shooting in 2018. Does this mean the law has failed? Do we need new or different laws? Is there reason for doubt or skepticism about the efficacy of law in combating antisemitism?

At the same time, obstacles posed by antisemitism, while serious at times, have not kept Jews from entering American law and legal institutions. Despite a history of antisemitism in the legal profession and legal education, many Jews have found success as lawyers, law professors, and judges. Other Jews, both secular and religious, have looked to Jewish tradition to ground their
involvement in 20th and 21st-century civil rights and economic justice movements, including challenging and defying what they believed to be unjust laws. Yet Jews encounter antisemitism on the left as well.

Register to Participate in Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series Today 6/2, 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific

2021 Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series kicks off one week from today, on June 2, 2021 with a panel discussion chaired by Martha Fineman (Emory), "Reflections on the History and Beginnings of Feminist Legal Theory."

If you'd like to attend any of the sessions this summer, pre-registration via this link is required. Only those who are pre-registered will be admitted to the session via Zoom's waiting room feature. There is no cost to attend.

There will be six total sessions, with additional speakers to be announced within the next two weeks. All sessions will meet online via Zoom on Wednesdays from 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern/11am-12:00pm Pacific, starting June 2, 2021.

The series is co-sponsored by The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, The Feminism and Legal Theory Project, The Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode, the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education.

 

Call for Papers -- Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference

In person conferences are coming back! Check out the call below.

The Northern Illinois University College of Law is now accepting proposals for the Fourth Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference on Friday, October 1, 2021. 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 fewer than 10 years in a tenure-track position, including those who expect to start such a position in Fall 2021. Articles 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 June 25, 2021. Selected authors will be notified by August 13, 2021. Articles will be due no later than September 10, 2021. There is no registration fee for this conference. Please email [email protected] with any questions.

South Dakota Law Review Hosting Symposium on Marijuana-Related Legal Issues

The South Dakota Law Review is seeking proposals from those who would like to write and present on legal issues relating to marijuana. Abstracts are due on July 1, and the symposium will be held via Zoom on Monday, Oct. 25. More information is attached here:  Download South Dakota Law Review - CFP. 

Columbia Menstruation and the Law Conference

The Columbia Journal of Gender & Law is hosting a virtual symposium called, "Are You There, Law? It's Me, Menstruation" on April 9-10, 2021. The event is free and open to the public (pre-registration required here).

Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) will deliver the keynote address. Author Judy Blume will make an appearance as well. The symposium is loosely inspired by the 50th anniversary of the publication of Blume's young adult classic Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) (as well as a tweet from over a year ago that set in motion planning for such a symposium).

The symposium highlights the work of more than forty authors, representing a diverse range of perspectives, both in print and online (check out some of the innovative short essays here).

The full symposium program is available here.

Speakers include practitioners, activists and scholars from other disciplines, as well as these law profs: Ann Bartow (UNH), Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn), Naomi Cahn (Virginia), Liz Cooper (Fordham) Chris Cotropia (Richmond), Michele Gilman (Baltimore), Beth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney), Valeria Gomez (Connecticut), Victoria J. Haneman (Creighton), Lolita Buckner Inniss (SMU), Kit Johnson (Oklahoma), Margaret E. Johnson (Baltimore), Marcy Karin (UDC), Pamela Laufer-Ukeles (Academic College of Law and Science, Hod Hasharon Israel), Prianka Nair (Brooklyn), Carla Spivack (OKCU), Linda Steele(University of Technology Sydney), Allison Tait (Richmond), Leslie Y. Tenzer (Pace), Emily Gold Waldman (Pace), and Deborah Widiss (Indiana-Maurer).

This Friday and Saturday, you can follow the conference on social media with the hashtag #areyoutherelaw.

CFP: Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network of Law and Society Association

Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting

Chicago, Illinois (& Virtual), May 27-30, 2021

Call for Participation – Deadline December 31, 2020 11:59 PM ET(USA)

Submission Link: here

The Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research invites proposals for (i) individual papers to be organized into panels; (ii) fully-formed panel proposals; and (iii) proposals for other sessions such as Author Meets Reader, Salon, or Roundtable discussions that explore any aspect of the law, practice or effects of trusts, equity, and estates, broadly defined. We also seek volunteers to serve as Chairs and/or Discussants for paper panels. Successful proposals likely will bear in some way on succession (also referred to as inheritance), equity, and/or wealth transfers (whether at death or during lifetime, outright or in trust). Subjects of inquiry may involve any aspect of government or social policy with respect to trusts, estates, inheritance, wealth transfer, equity or courts with jurisdiction over these issues.

If you would like to present an individual paper as part of a Trusts and Estates CRN panel, submit an idea for a fully-formed panel, or propose an Author Meets Reader, Salon or Roundtable session, please  submit your proposal by December 30, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern (USA) via the LSA submission page here: https://lawandsociety.site-ym.com/page/CallforSubmissionsLSA2021

When you submit your proposal, please indicate that it is for CRN #56 Trusts and Estates.

If you would like to volunteer as a chair or discussant, please email Bridget Crawford (bcrawford [at] law.pace.edu).

The CRN will organize submitted papers into panels with cohesive themes. You are welcome to link your paper in some way to the 2021 conference theme, “Crisis, Healing, Re-Imagining,” but there is no requirement to do so.

Our goal is to stimulate focused discussion of papers on which scholars are currently working and to discuss topics of current and common interest to those working in the fields of Trusts & Estates and Equity, broadly defined, both in the United States and internationally.  We welcome participation from scholars of any level of seniority working in any discipline, language, or country.  Although you may submit an individual proposal to present a paper that is closer to publication, we are especially interested in receiving proposals for works-in-progress that will benefit from discussion that the panels will provide.

We welcome participation of junior scholars, those who are untenured or in non-tenured positions, clinical and legal writing specialists, doctrinal teachers, advanced graduate students, as well as more experienced scholars. Scholars from around the world are warmly encouraged to apply; we welcome participation of colleagues from all nations.

Participants are encouraged to apply multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in their scholarship. Possible areas of inquiry might include issues related to transfer of wealth between spouses or family members; preferences created for certain types of transfers or transfers to particular classes of individuals; the transfer of wealth to charities or non-profit organizations; generational equity; issues of social and economic inequality; comparative aspects of the law of succession and the law of trusts more broadly; the relationship between/among gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, immigration, language status, disability and the law of succession and the law of trusts; the socio-linguistics of testation and wealth transfer; access to estate planning justice for low- and middle-income individuals; questions of cultural or group inheritance rights; and similar issues.

Please note that LSA rules limit you to one conference participation as a Paper Presenter, Roundtable Participant, Author or Salon Presenter.  There are no caps on appearances as Chair and/or Discussant on a panel.

We will attempt to accommodate all who are interested in participating in the CRN’s programming.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact CRN chair Bridget Crawford (bcrawford [at] law.pace.edu).