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CFP: Georgia State Law Review - Brief Exclusive Review Window

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

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

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

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

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

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

Submission Deadline: August 3, 2023

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

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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

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

Submission Guidelines:

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

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

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

Rollin' and Tumblin'

"Rollin' and Tumblin'" is mostly remembered as a Robert Johnson song -- brought to Chicago by Muddy Waters in the 1950s, and reinterpreted by Cream in the 1960s -- but it was actually written and first recorded by Willie Nebern, who released only a handful of cuts in 1929 (not to be missed at the bottom of this post).

According to Wikipedia, it is derivative of Gus Cannon's 1928 "Minglewood Blues" (which is on the Jug Band Music post), but I don't really hear much more than a general blues similarity.

Most covers have been rock versions like Cream's, but there have also been blues cuts now and then.

Emory Law Center for Civil Rights and Social Justice Seeks Postdoctoral Fellow

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The CCRSJ, in association with the Emory University School of Law, is pleased to fund one Postdoctoral Fellow, for up to a two-year term, beginning in either Fall 2023 or Spring 2024.  The associate will work under the guidance and supervision of center directors (Darren Hutchinson, Faculty Director and Alicia Hughes, Interim Director) and a center affiliate faculty member with a focus in health inequality.  The position is designed to allow an aspiring academic with an interdisciplinary focus the opportunity to gain research, writing, and teaching experience, potentially, in order to prepare for an academic career.  We prioritize hiring a scholar who will contribute to diversity in the legal academy, and whose research focuses on issues related to health disparities, including the social determinants of health, systemic racism and poverty as barriers to health equity, and disparate treatment of patients by health services providers along traditional and newer axes of disadvantage.

The position includes office space, library research support, an annual travel budget, and student fellow research assistance.  CCRSJ Postdoctoral Fellow will have an opportunity to present their research to Emory University faculty, design a research-related program, visit classes of CCRSJ affiliate faculty members, and participate in center activities.

The primary responsibilities will include managing relationships and communications with CCRSJ partners in health-related fields; providing research support across the lifecycle of defined projects (e.g., drafting interview guides, testing interview guides, coding and analyzing transcripts); conducting literature reviews; creating tables and figures based on quantitative output; supporting manuscript writing and preparation of presentations; and other related activities, as needed and desired. There will also be dedicated time to support professional development.

The Center for Civil Rights and Social Justice (“CCRSJ”) at Emory University School of Law supports research, policy design, educational opportunities, and community outreach at the local, state, national, and global level. CCRSJ broadly defines civil rights and social justice matters to include all sources of systemic, social, and economic inequality, including race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, poverty, and disability. CCRSJ serves as a hub for civil rights and social justice activities by convening scholars and practitioners, publishing policy recommendations, supporting research, and partnering with community stakeholders on matters of common interest.

CCRSJ Faculty Director Professor Darren Hutchinson, Interim Director Alicia Hughes, affiliated faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and student research assistants conduct CCRSJ research activities and policy design. CCRSJ also works with nonprofit organizations to broaden employment opportunities for students who wish to pursue careers in the social justice space.  While social justice and civil rights matters are broadly defined and programming reflects this magnitude, CCRSJ areas of specialized research and programming include voting rights and democracy, criminal justice, health disparities, higher education equity and access, and environmental justice.

 

Andrew Klein Named Dean of Wake Forest School of Law

Wake Forest School of Law has announced that Andrew Klein will be its next dean.  He is currently interim chancellor of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis and executive vice president of Indiana University.  He served as dean of IU Indianapolis Law from 2013-2020.  Klein, who holds a JD from Emory, will take over on July 1.

University of Arkansas School of Law Seeks Visiting Professors

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The University of Arkansas School of Law is looking for three visiting professors for the areas of upper-level constitutional law courses, family law, professional responsibility, and a clinician for the criminal defense clinic.  The job postings are listed below.   

Upper-Level Constitutional Law:

https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fayetteville/Visiting-Assistant-Associate-Professor-of-Law_R0038316

Family Law/Professional Responsibility:

https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fayetteville/Visiting-Assistant-Associate-Professor-of-Law--Open-Rank-_R0037449

Criminal Defense Clinic:

https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fayetteville/Visiting-Assistant-or-Visiting-Associate-Professor-of-Law_R0037446

UVa Law Seeks Education Rights Institute Fellow

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The University of Virginia School of Law seeks up to two Research Assistant Professors of Law to serve as Education Rights Institute Fellows (“ERI Fellows”). These non-tenure-track Academic General Faculty positions will have appointments of two years and offer compensation of $70,000 annually plus benefits. This is a gift funded restricted position contingent on funding and performance.

The Education Rights Institute will aim to expand the opportunity for every student in the United States to enjoy a right to a high-quality education that empowers them to be college and career ready and engaged citizens. It will accomplish this by advancing the following strategic priorities:

• Producing scholarship and commentary that engages public debate and support for legislation or litigation guaranteeing a federal right to a high-quality education;
• Serving as a catalyst that expands the capacity of school districts to better utilize federal laws, regulations, policies, research and assistance that can increase access to high-quality schools and close opportunity gaps so that more students are college and career ready and engaged citizens;
• Amplifying research about educational opportunity gaps and their impact on individuals, families, communities, democracy and our economy through digital and other modern communication strategies to increase public awareness of these gaps; and,
• Hosting invitation-only and public convenings and events about the above

(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey

Has any song been more enjoyable than "Bill Bailey"? Originally titled "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home," it was written in 1902 by Hughie Cannon,  a tavern piano player in Jackson, Michigan. As the story goes, Cannon was inspired by the carousing of his friend and fellow musician Willard "Bill" Bailey, whose wife regularly called on him to end his late night habits. Whether true or not, Michigan's nocturnal Bill Bailey has been immortalized in a song that has been a Dixieland and jazz standard for over a century. The song is almost impossible to overdo, overact, over-arrange, or over produce, though parodies abound (I have included only one).

Patricia Timmons-Goodson Named Dean of NCCU Law

North Carolina Central University School of Law has announced that Patricia Timmons-Goodson will be its next dean.   She  is a retired North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice.  Timmons-Goodson, who holds a JD from UNC-Chapel Hill and an LL.M from Duke, will take over on July 1.

Paul Litton Named Dean of University of Missouri School of Law

The University of Missouri School of Law has announced that Paul Litton will be its permanent dean.  Litton has served as interim dean since July 2022.  He joined the Mizzou faculty in 2006.   Litton earned his JD and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania.

U. South Dakota seeking abstracts for Rural Lawyers Symposium

Abstracts are due 6/16:

Rural Lawyers Symposium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wisconsin Law Seeks Criminal Law Faculty

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Wisconsin School of Law seeks a tenure-track faculty member in Criminal Law, potentially to start this upcoming academic year (2023-24). This is a tenure-track position and will involve research and teaching in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure as expected of a tenured faculty member of the Law School.  For additional information, click here.

CFP: 5th Annual Equality Law Scholars' Forum

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

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

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

This Scholars’ Forum seeks to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique and to provide scholars at all career stages the opportunity to engage with new scholarly currents and ideas.  We hope to bring together scholars with varied perspectives (e.g., critical race theory, class critical theory, queer theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, law and society) across fields (e.g., criminal system, education, employment, family, health, immigration, property, tax) and with work relevant to many diverse identities (e.g., age, class, disability, national origin, race, sex, sexuality) to build bridges and to generate new ideas in the area of Equality Law.  

This year, because this year’s gathering also will include a reunion, we will be selecting fewer Equality Law Scholars than in prior years. Specifically, we will select three to five relatively junior scholars (untenured, newly tenured, or prospective professors) in the United States. to present papers from proposals submitted in response to this Call for Proposals. In so doing, we will select papers that cover a broad range of topics within the area of Equality Law.  Leading senior scholars will provide commentary on each of the featured papers in an intimate and collegial setting.  The Forum and Reunion will take place all day Friday through lunch on Saturday.  Participants are expected to attend the full Forum and Reunion. The Equality Law Scholars’ Forum will pay transportation and accommodation expenses for participants and will host a dinner on Friday evening.  

This year’s Forum will be held on November 10-11, 2023, at Boston University School of Law.

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

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

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

Proposals should be submitted to:

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

Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute of Government

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Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute of Government

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy think tank for the 64-campus State University of New York, is accepting applications for its sixth annual Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowship Program. The fellowship seeks to connect cutting-edge policy expertise to public problems and the policy community that tries to address these problems. Fellows will work closely with the Rockefeller Institute of Government's expert researchers on a variety of projects, including in the areas of healthcare, local government, fiscal policy, education, law, climate and environment, and social policy. Appointments to the fellowship are for a period of one year, starting in September 2023. Fellows are expected to produce a portfolio that may include reports, blogs, or public forums, including the publication of reports and commentary pieces on the Institute's website. Fellows will have access to the Rockefeller Institute's facility, staff, and space for events. Full-time residence at the Institute's headquarters in Albany, New York, is not required. The Rockefeller Institute of Government invites applications from experts in the higher education community, researchers, practitioners, and retirees in a variety of fields who demonstrate a passion for working on pressing public policy issues of the day. The Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowships are unpaid, although a small amount of funding may be available for research-related travel or other items related to fellowship work for the Institute. Required Elements of Application Applications must include each of the following: ·    A current resume or curriculum vitae of the candidate. ·    A short description (up to 500 words) describing how the candidate plans to use the fellowship to do research or provide policy outreach in their field, and what products the candidate envisions producing for the Institute (reports; blogs; etc.). Candidates may be asked to submit additional detail about any specific project or project component. ·    A description (up to 500 words) explaining the candidate's current professional and topical interests and how the Rockefeller Institute's Public Policy Fellowship could advance the candidate's career and objectives in the areas in which the candidate is most passionate. ·    Contact information for at least two professional references. Candidates are encouraged to include a writing sample (previously written) that they feel demonstrates their ability to write in a policy-relevant style. Applications and/or nominations should be submitted to: Brian Backstrom at [email protected] by June 30, 2023. Applicants will be selected by July 28, 2023. View this call for applications on the program website.

 

David Holt Named Dean of Oklahoma City Law

Oklahoma City School of Law has announced that David Holt will be its next dean.  Holt is currently the mayor of Oklahoma City.   Holt, who holds a JD from Oklahoma City Univerity,  will take over on July 1.

Haider Ala Hamoudi Named Dean of Cincinnati Law

The University of Cincinnati College of Law has announced that Haider Ala Hamoudi will be the new dean of its law school.  Until recently he was interim dean of Pitt Law.  Hamoudi holds a JD from  Columbia.

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Alabama Law Seeks Property Visitor Next Spring

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The University of Alabama School of Law is seeking a visiting faculty member from an ABA-accredited law school for a podium visit in the Spring 2024 semester to teach Property (4 credit hours) in the first-year required curriculum.  There is an option to teach a second course in an elective subject of the visitor’s interest that matches with the Law School’s needs, but it is not required.  Instruction for the Spring 2024 semester will be in-person at the School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  This visit will include housing and visiting scholar stipend in addition to covering  regular compensation at the scholar’s home institution.  The University embraces diversity in its faculty, students, and staff, and we welcome expressions of interest from and nominations of individuals who would add to the diversity of our academic community. 

Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, C.V., list of at least three references, and recent course evaluations.  Materials may be submitted via email to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Grace Lee at [email protected].

Individuals who wish to submit nominations may email them to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Grace Lee at [email protected].

Review of materials and nominations will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

William Brewbaker Named Dean of Alabama Law

The University of Alabama School of Law has announced that William Brewbaker will be the new dean of its law school.  He joined the faculty in 1993 and served as interim dean in 2013-14.  Brewbaker, who holds a JD from Vanderbilt and an LL.M. from Duke, will take over on July 10.  Bill and I served together on the Alabama Law faculty for eight years.  He is one of the most authentic and thoughtful people I've known over my life and I am so pleased about his appointment.

Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne Named to Lead Albany Law School

 Albany Law School has announced that Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne will be the new president and dean of the freestanding law school.   She is currently on the faculty, and an associate dean,  at Ohio State Law.  Carlarne, who holds a JD from UC Berkeley, will take over on July 1.

 

 Albany Law School has announced that Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne will be the new president and dean of the freestanding law school.   She is currently on the faculty, and an associate dean,  at Ohio State Law.  Carlarne, who holds a JD from UC Berkeley, will take over on July 1.