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Hiring Announcement: Queen's University, Faculty of Law

From a recent email message:

The Faculty of Law at Queen’s University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, or tenured faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor, with a specialization in Tax Law. The successful applicant will be the inaugural Faculty of Law Scholar in Tax Law.

Qualifications
The Faculty of Law seeks scholars who are or have the potential to become nationally and internationally recognized for their work. Except in exceptional circumstances, the successful candidate will have a JD or equivalent and a graduate degree in law or within a cognate discipline.  The main criteria for selection are academic and teaching excellence. The successful candidate will provide evidence of high-quality scholarly output that demonstrates a history of, and potential for independent research with a track record of peer assessed publications in top journals and the securing of external research funding, as well as strong potential for outstanding teaching contributions at both the JD/LLB and graduate levels, and an ongoing commitment to academic and pedagogical excellence in support of the Faculty of Law’s programs. Candidates must provide evidence of an ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary and student-centred environment. The successful candidate will also be expected to make contributions through service to the Faculty, the University, and/or the broader community. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

As the holder of the Queen’s Faculty of Law Scholar in Tax Law, the incumbent will benefit from a reduced teaching load to support their research and knowledge translation work as well as a research stipend.

About Queen’s Law
Nationally and internationally recognized as a leading law school, Queen’s Law has a distinguished record of outstanding teaching and research. Located in historic Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s Law has a proud history of faculty and student engagement. Queen’s Law has a curriculum and research profile that includes Canada’s largest international law program. 

Queen’s Law prides itself on a robust business law program, which includes experiential learning opportunities through our Business Law Clinic. Queen’s Law leads Canadian law schools in interdisciplinary study opportunities, including programs that combine JD studies with Business, Economics, Public Administration, and Industrial Relations. Queen’s Law is also home to vibrant LLM and PhD programs that draw students from around the world, leading research groups such as the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace and Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, an interdisciplinary Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, and five clinical programs, which in addition to Business Law, include Prison Law, Elder Law, Family Law, and Queen’s Legal Aid. In addition, there are unique learning opportunities offered through a Conflict Analytics Lab for study and research by our JD students on legal AI applications.

For the full announcement, click here.

Inheritance and Inequality: Wills, Trusts, and Estates Meets Gender, Race, and Class

On September 27-28, 2024, the Drexel Law Review hosted a symposium, Wills, Trusts & Estates Meets Gender, Race, and Class. Here is the program description:

Wealth inequality and all the other forms of inequality that flow from it – social, political, health, educational – have troubled academics, policy makers, economists, and others for some years now. Wealth, and its lack, is tied directly to inheritance, that is, the practices, laws, and culture that facilitate, or inhibit, the transmission of wealth in all its forms from one generation to the next. Speakers at this conference will address the many ways that inequality is embedded in inheritance law and practice around the world; they will also discuss ways to make these laws and practices work for all, including for demographics who have traditionally been cut off from successful wealth transmission. Speakers will address, among other topics, the role of such different technologies and strategies as AI and trusts play in exacerbating or reducing inheritance inequality; the fits and misfits of today’s families and inheritance law; cultural, philosophical, and tax connections; and other intersections between inheritance and inequality.

Interestingly, despite the subtitle of the program, most of the speakers focused on socioeconomic class and less on gender, race, and other identity axes. The full list of speakers and presentations appears after the fold.

Tax and Fiscal Policy in a New Presidential Administration

Kim Clausing (UCLA) has an analysis of the US Presidential Election 2024:
Consequences for Fiscal Policy, via the CESifo information network's EconPolForum journal here. Some portions of the abstract/summary:

• The Trump Administration consistently enacted tax policies that make the tax system less progressive, giving disproportionate tax cuts to those at the top of the income distribution; candidate Trump has proposed multiple new policies that would move in the same regressive direction. The Biden-Harris Administration has consistently proposed (and in some cases, enacted) tax policies that would make the tax system more progressive
• A potential Harris Administration is more likely to prioritize strengthening corporate taxation, addressing climate change, and fully funding the IRS. In contrast, a possible second Trump Administration is more likely to lower corporate taxes, reduce IRS funding, and back away from climate change commitments.

Read the full report here.

H/T Francine Lipman

Taboo Trades Podcast: The College Employee-Athlete with Marc Edelman

I’m super excited to welcome today’s guest, Marc Edelman – a passionate and influential voice in debates over the rights of college athletes. Marc is a Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York, where he writes and teaches on sports law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, and gaming / fantasy sports law. He also serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative for Baruch College. 

In addition to his full-time role as a law professor, Professor Edelman is the founder of Edelman Law, where he provides legal consulting and expert witness services to businesses in the commercial sports, entertainment and online gaming industries. Some of Professor Edelman’s recent clients include a Major League Baseball team, the Arena Football League Players Union, and several online fantasy sports providers. 

He joins us today to discuss his recent paper, The Collegiate Employee-Athlete, recently published in the University of Illinois Law Review, and co-authored with Michael McCann and John Holden.

 

 

Recommended Reading:

Marc Edelman website http://www.marcedelman.com 

Edelman, Marc, Michael A. McCann, and John T. Holden. "The collegiate employee-athlete." U. Ill. L. Rev. (2024): 1.

Stay a Little Longer

A Bob Wills hit from 1945, covered many times, most famously by Willie Nelson.

 

Black Gaius

I am impressed with this one: P. G. Monateri, Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition," 51 Hastings Law Journal (2000). His abstract reads:

In this paper I intend to signal an independent appraisal of the roots of the Western Legal Tradition as both a critique of this tradition's originalism, and of its being a tradition at all, thereby challenging the premises behind new projects of international cultural governance in the context of globalisation. From the standpoint of legal history and comparative law this paper shows that Roman Law has no claim to supremacy in the ancient world. The myth of this supremacy was manufactured by the biases of xix century European historicism so that the Western indebtedness toward non-Western civilizations was denied. The rejection of conventional unsound picture has important consequences for the consciousness of the Western legal tradition as such, which is to be seen more as a multicultural enterprise than as the peculiar evolution of one culture. This implies that the projects of governance based on the conventional picture are untenable, and must be abandoned.

Shades of Martin Bernal.

Iowa Law Seeks Dean

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The University of Iowa invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of Dean of the College of Law.  

The College of Law is one of the nation’s premier public law schools, with an influence that reaches across the nation and around the world through the work of ambitious students, productive faculty and staff, and talented alumni. Iowa Law’s next dean will be positioned to move the school forward by creating new and innovative opportunities to learn, teach, and serve.

The Dean will develop a clear and compelling vision for Iowa Law’s next chapter, providing leadership in matters related to planning, curriculum, scholarship, and finances. The Dean will engage with faculty, staff, students, alumni, the legal community, and state and federal governmental officials to advance the goals of the College of Law and the University. The successful candidate must possess a JD or its equivalent and must have a record of excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service that meets the standards for appointment to the Iowa Law faculty as a full professor with tenure. The candidate must possess a substantial record of leadership over time in a professional setting, with a strong preference given to candidates who possess substantial leadership experience in the legal academy. The successful candidate will demonstrate a capacity and readiness to advance the College of Law through fundraising and building external partnerships. The successful candidate will also demonstrate an ability to advance the University’s philosophy and practice in the areas of access, opportunity, and diversity.  For more information, please visit wittkieffer.com.

WittKieffer is assisting the University of Iowa in this search. For fullest consideration, candidate materials should be received by November 1, 2024.

Nominations, inquiries, and applications can be directed to:

Werner Boel, LL.M. and Ashlee Winters Musser

[email protected]

The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preferences.

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].

Taboo Trades Podcast: Welcome to Season 5!

Welcome to season 5 everyone! I’m Kim Krawiec at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the host of the Taboo Trades podcast. In this episode, I welcome this year's student co-hosts: Anthony Freyre, Kimberly Garcia, Laura Habib, Olivia King, Alyssa Lawrence, Alyssa Marshall, Alexa Rothborth, Nia Saunders, Tanner Stewart, Cyrus Tafti, John Henry Vansant, and Lauren White

 

William Tell

The "William Tell Overture"is most famous as the theme song to The Lone Ranger, on radio, television, and film. But of course it is a serious classical composition, the four-part introduction to Gioachino Rossini's opera of the same name, which premiered in 1829. William Tell was a legendary (or perhaps mythic) crossbow marksman, who led Swiss resistance to Austrian tyranny in the early Fourteenth Century, paving the way for the independence of the Swiss Federation. If Tell was actually a real person -- which seems unlikely -- he might or might not have shot an apple off of his son's head, a feat said to have saved both of them from execution.

In addition to The Lone Ranger, the fourth part of the "Overture," called "The March of the Swiss Soldiers," was also the theme to a British series The Adventures of William Tell. 

Part Four of the "Overture" has been transcribed for individual musicians from Franz Liszt to Glen Campbell (with occasional parodies).

University of Denver College of Law Seeks Faculty

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The University of Denver Sturm College of Law seeks applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or full Professor of Law. Although we welcome candidates across all subject matter areas and methodological perspectives, we are particularly interested in candidates capable of teaching Torts, Civil Procedure, or Tax, as well as candidates interested in clinical teaching through our Student Law Office. We seek candidates with J.D. degrees (or their equivalents), outstanding academic records, relevant professional experience, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and the capacity to make future outstanding contributions in the realms of scholarship, teaching, and public engagement. The University of Denver and the Sturm College of Law are committed to building a diverse and inclusive educational environment and seek candidates whose research, teaching, service, and professional experiences can contribute to advancing these important institutional commitments. 

A full advertisement and application is available at https://jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/497560/assistant-associate-professor-open-rank-torts-civil-procedure-and-tax . Please send a copy of your application and/or any questions you may have to Bernard Chao, chair of our Faculty Appointments Committee, at [email protected]. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, before October 1. 

Florida A&M Law Seeks LRW Faculty

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Florida A&M University College of Law welcomes applications for appointment to the position of Instructor of Law to teach the College of Law’s Legal Research and Writing I, II, and Appellate Advocacy courses on a full-time basis at its Orlando, Florida, location starting in the 2025-2026 academic year. The Legal Research and Writing courses are a two-semester, six-credit, required first-year offering, and the Appellate Advocacy course is taught in the second year. The faculty member will be responsible for developing the course collaboratively with other instructors on our team. In addition to shared responsibility for course development, this role will be responsible for the direct instruction each semester of two sections, each having approximately 15-20 students. This position is a full-time non-tenure track faculty position. Ideally, applicants should have teaching experience at the law school level, academic records denoting excellence, and a demonstrated commitment to teaching and service. The Instructor’s primary responsibilities include teaching classes, preparing assignments, critiquing student assignments, meeting with students, and judging oral arguments. Instructors teach in both the day and evening programs, depending on curricular needs. Instructors attend faculty meetings and serve on faculty committees.

Located in beautiful and sunny downtown Orlando - one of the most highly sought venues in the southeastern United States - the College is housed in a 160,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility. Strategically situated in the heart of Orlando's thriving downtown business community, the College of Law lies within walking distance of federal and state courts, major law firms, art galleries and important civic arenas. The College of Law has a current enrollment of more than 500 full and part-time students. The student body is one of the most diverse in the nation. The College of Law boasts a diverse faculty composed of thoughtful and productive scholars from nearly every walk of legal life, including diplomatic, military, and government service, large and small private law practice, international organizations, and the judiciary. Increasing the number of minority lawyers in Florida able to practice law upon passing the bar is central to the College's statutory mission.

 

Hiring Announcement: Belmont University College of Law (Director of Field Placements)

From a recent email message:

The Belmont University College of Law invites applications for a full-time faculty position to serve as the Director of Field Placements to begin in Fall of 2025. In consultation with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the candidate can choose to join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law on tenure track or as an Assistant Professor of Legal Practice. The Director of Field Placements will be responsible for supervising and managing students participating in field placements and summer externships at local, regional, and national sites as part of Belmont Law’s Experiential Learning Program. The Director will be responsible for applicable instruction and curriculum development, site partner relationships, as well as management of all other aspects of administering the program in compliance with ABA Standards. This position will be a twelve-month appointment.

The Belmont University College of Law encourages applications from people whose background, life experiences, and scholarly approaches would contribute to the diversity of our faculty, curriculum, and programs. Applicants must possess a J.D. or equivalent degree from an accredited U.S. law school and must demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching, a passion for experiential learning, and a drive to grow the program to new levels.  Belmont is an EOE/AA employer.  Belmont College of Law reserves the right to exercise a preference for those candidates who support the goals and missions of the University.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee, Associate Dean Deborah Farringer, using the recruitment committee’s email address - [email protected].  If you have questions about the position or Belmont University, please contact Associate Dean Farringer at [email protected].

Belmont University is a private, Christian university focusing on academic excellence and is located in the heart of Nashville, one of the fastest growing and most culturally rich cities in the country.  Belmont is the second largest private university in Tennessee with approximately 9,000 students. Belmont students come from every state, more than 35 countries, and all faiths. The Belmont faculty is dedicated to teaching, service, and active engagement in scholarship.  Ranked 91^st among ABA-Accredited law schools by U.S. News and World Report, Belmont Law’s median LSAT/GPA for the 124 students who entered the law school in August 2023 were 160 and 3.77 (75th percentile: 162 and 3.91; 25th percentile: 157 and 3.56).  Belmont’s ultimate bar passage rate for 2018 and 2019 was 100%, one of only a few law schools in the country to have achieved a perfect pass rate in those years, and Belmont Law had the highest pass rate in the State of Tennessee in July of 2023.

 

Willamette College of Law Seeks Tenure Track Faculty

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Assistant Professor of Law (Tenure Track)

Willamette University College of Law anticipates hiring at least one full-time entry-level Tenure Track faculty member to begin in Fall 2025. We are open to all areas of expertise and are especially interested in individuals who can teach Torts, Professional Responsibility, Employment Law, Labor Law, ADR and Client Counseling, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, and Evidence. A commitment to experiential and simulation-based learning is a plus. Applicants must possess strong academic credentials, a commitment to scholarship, and the skills necessary to communicate their expertise to colleagues and their students. Willamette believes that a diverse and inclusive community is essential to achieving academic excellence; accordingly, we seek candidates with demonstrated potential for growth and success as teachers and scholars, and whose professional and student-centered work will further inclusivity and diversity at Willamette. 

Willamette University is a small, highly selective private university of 2500 students with campuses in Salem and Portland, Oregon. Its undergraduate and graduate programs include the College of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, the School of Computing and Information Sciences, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.  The College of Law is located on the University’s main Salem campus, across the street from the State Capitol, Supreme Court, and State administrative offices. We are especially interested in applicants who are excited to live in the Willamette Valley, Portland, Salem, or the Pacific Northwest region. 

Candidates should apply at the Willamette University Jobs page, https://willamette.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/willametteuniversityjobs

and by email to Professor Andrew Gilden, Chair of the Faculty Appointments Committee, at [email protected] with a cover letter, CV, research agenda, writing sample, statement regarding how you anticipate your work furthering inclusivity and diversity, and at least three references.

American Tax Policy Institute Symposium: Revealing and Addressing Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy, Oct. 17-18, 2024

The American Tax Policy Institute is pleased to announce a Symposium on “Revealing and Addressing Hidden Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy” to be held on October 17 and 18, 2024, in Washington, DC, at the offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

This program will explore the intersections between and among gender, taxation, and public policy. The goal of the Symposium 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 law and policy. The scope of the Symposium 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, including income, consumption, transfer, wealth-related, or other national-level taxes, as well as subnational taxes.

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.

Hiring Announcement: University of Miami School of Law

From a recent email message:

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW

Location: Miami, FL

Subjects: Labor Law, Employment Law, Health Law, Civil Procedure, International Law

Start Date: August 1, 2025

The University of Miami School of Law seeks entry-level or lateral candidates to join our vibrant community beginning in Fall 2025. We welcome applications from outstanding scholars in any area of focus who will add to the diversity of our faculty, contribute to the intellectual life of the school, enhance our teaching mission, and engage in meaningful service. Our subject-matter interests include, but are not limited to, Labor & Employment Law, Health Law, Civil Procedure, and International Law (especially trade and international business).

Interested candidates should apply online for the position via the University of Miami employment portal at https://umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/ and submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and teaching evaluations (if available) in PDF format. Questions can be directed to Professor John Newman, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, at [email protected]

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Females, Minorities, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants and employees are protected from screening based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time

Employee Type: Faculty

Villanova Law seeks Anti-Poverty Fellow

The Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law seeks a visionary thinker, scholar, and educator with the diverse skills, background, and interests necessary to advance creative and innovative ways to solve the problem of poverty in the United States. The successful candidate will lead the Initiative to End Poverty and Inequality at Villanova University, an interdisciplinary enterprise housed in the Charles Widger School of Law. The Initiative to End Poverty and Inequality will support programmatic initiatives to generate concrete ideas and policy solutions to address the problem of poverty, including development of an annual symposium. The Initiative will approach the causes and effects of poverty with an interdisciplinary, evidence-based approach that prioritizes efforts that will yield concrete results and maximum advancement toward eliminating poverty.

More details on this position are available here: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/29601. Applications should be submitted in the same place, though questions may be directed to Vice Dean Michael Risch (risch at law.villanova.edu).

Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University's mission. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University's mission and values.

I Hear You Knockin' on Wood

In 1966, Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper wrote "Knock on Wood" on a stormy night in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel, about two years before Martin Luther King would be assassinated in the same location.  At the time, the Lorraine was one of the few places in Memphis where Black and white people could meet together, or where Black people could stay in modern commercial accommodations. Over the years, virtually all of the great Stax acts stayed there, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, Otis Redding, and others. According to Steve Cropper, the thunderstorm gave them the idea for the refrain, "like thunder, lightning, the way you love me is frightening." The song was a hit for Eddie Floyd and has been covered many times over fifty years. Other "knockin'" songs on this post include Fats Domino's "I Hear You Knocking" and Little Richard's "Keep a' Knocking" (covering an earlier recording by Lil Hardin, as explained below).

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.