When: April 16, 2010 (Friday)
Where: John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (59th Street and 10th Avenue—near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)
Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Andrew Majeske, ajmajeske@gmail.com
This conference aims to bring scholars of literature and law into an interdisciplinary setting to share the fruits of their research and scholarship.
The conference’s keynote speaker is John Matteson, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. John Matteson is a professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and obtained his JD from Harvard University.
The journal Law and Literature is in the process of publishing a special symposium issue containing full versions of select papers presented at the inaugural Literature and Law Conference, and we are in negotiations with the journal to do the same for this second biennial conference.
We invite papers dealing with all aspect of literature and law, including papers which might address literature dealing with some of the following:
-Comparative Justice
-The rule of law
-Rhetoric and law
-Judicial discretion and its abuse
-Blind justice
-Common versus Civil law
-(Post)Colonial Justice
-Law and Deception
-(Mis)Interpretation and Competing Interpretations of Law
-Non Western Justice and Injustice
-Comic Justice and Injustice
Please submit abstracts (250 words or less) to Andrew Majeske, ajmajeske@gmail.com, by Friday, January 15, 2010.
CALL FOR PAPERS ASSOCIATION FOR LAW, PROPERTY AND SOCIETY
March 5-6, 2010
Washington, D.C.
The Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) annual
meeting will be held MARCH 5-6, 2010, at Georgetown Law
School in Washington, D.C.
TOPICS:
Topics will include all areas of property (real, personal,
intangible, cultural, and intellectual property), and
themes will center on Property and issues related to
Entrepreneurship, Development, Identity, Takings,
Sovereignty, Finance, Mortgage Markets, Securitization,
Environment, Sustainability, Land Use, Patents, Copyright,
Trade Secrets, Internet, and the concept of Home.
While all types of paper topics are welcome and encouraged
two particular themes are being developed for book
publications. These two themes are: 1) Property, Identity,
and Sovereignty; and 2) Property and Entrepreneurship. If
there are sufficient papers on other themes we will
consider possible books for them as well. Books are theme
oriented and not merely conference proceedings. All
appropriate papers will be considered for a book if the
author wishes. There are no obligations to commit a paper
to a publication.
PARTICIPATION:
Individual paper proposals or session proposals for a panel
composed of three to four paper participants are welcome
(panels may include a chair and discussant as well). The
registration form is available from the ALPS webpage:
http://www.alps.syr.edu
SUBMISSIONS/REGISTRATION:
Abstracts are due by Sept. 25, 2009. All participants will
be notified of acceptance of submitted paper proposals by
October 5, 2009. Registration/Membership fee of $100 is due
by October 30, 2009. In cases of documented hardship the
$100 fee may be waived. Hardship rules may apply, for
instance, to students completing an advanced law degree
(LL.M., JSD, or PhD, for example), or for people coming
from institutions located in developing countries.
CONTACT: Robin Paul Malloy
Email: MAILTO:rpmalloy@law.syr.edu
to request a hardship waiver.
For more information and to download a registration form
for a paper submission go TO ALPS Webpage.
ALPS annual meeting is co-sponsored with the support of
Georgetown Law School and the Syracuse University College
of Law.
IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections:
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces its 7th Annual Symposium on Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held April 16, 2010. Over the past seven years, the IP/Gender symposium has provided a forum to examine and discuss research on gendered dimensions of intellectual property law. Because issues of gender in intellectual property have been under-appreciated and remain under-theorized, much of this work has been exploratory and pioneering. Topics discussed in past years have ranged from the impact of intellectual property law and policy on gender-related imbalances in wealth, cultural access, political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and of actual and rhetorical feminization and masculinization of participant roles upon intellectual property stakeholders; the gendered development of IP doctrines and doctrinal categories; related issues in the teaching and practicing of intellectual property; feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law; and female fan cultures and intellectual property.
The Spring 2010 symposium will again offer an opportunity to present and critique innovative research, related to the special theme, that is either currently underway or now under contemplation. As in previous years, anticipate the program and the audience will be highly interdisciplinary, including historians, social scientists, legal academics, cultural scholars, and practicing lawyers bringing their disciplinary perspectives to bear on the theme. A limited number of spaces is available on the program.
The coordinators invite proposals for papers on gender issues relating to the production and use of inventions, broadly defined. Appropriate topics might include: gendered patterns in the history of invention or creation; gendered regulation of inventive activities; gendered models of individual and collective inventive activities; gendered aspects in licensing or assignment of technologies; and related subjects. Abstracts should be received by Monday, October 30, 2009. Papers will be selected for presentation and possible publication by November 15, 2009, and will be due by March 1, 2010.
Poverty and Economic Mobility Conference:
Paper proposals are invited around the conference theme "Poverty and Economic Mobility" for a scholarly gathering at American University Washington College of Law on Monday Oct. 26, 2009. Papers fitting broadly with the theme will be considered. If you are interested, please email paper title and abstract to Ezra Rosser at erosser [at] wcl.american.edu by September 15, 2009.
Papers in all stages of completion are invited, though the hope is that they will be at a stage where they could be improved through conference participation. Food during the day will be provided but participants are responsible for their own travel and lodging. At the University of Chicago Law School last year, Justice Scalia put forward his view on poverty law: "I took nothing but bread-and-butter classes, not ‘Law and Poverty,’ or other made-up stuff. Take serious classes. There’s too much to law to learn. Don’t waste your time." Whatever one’s feelings about Justice Scalia’s remarks, they arguably do say something about the marginalized place of poverty law and poverty scholarship. After enjoying some attention during the war on poverty, it has been a long time since poverty law was "sexy." Maybe it is time to think about economic mobility. This might be way of "bootstrapping" attention while also providing a missing perspective on poverty.
REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS: Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
DEADLINE: February 16, 2009
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of
the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at
Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek
submissions for this meeting.
The Forum's objective is to encourage the work of young
scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of
scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange.
Meetings are held each spring, at Yale one year and
Stanford the next.
Approximately twelve scholars (with one to seven years in
teaching and who are not yet tenured) will be chosen on a
blind basis from among those submitting papers to present.
Two senior scholars, not necessarily from Stanford or Yale,
will comment on each paper. The audience will include the
invited young scholars, faculty from the host institutions,
and invited guests. The goal is discourse on both the
merits of particular papers and on appropriate
methodologies for doing work in that genre. We hope that
comment and discussion will communicate what counts as good
work among successful senior scholars and will also
challenge and improve the standards that now obtain. The
Forum also hopes to increase the sense of community among
legal scholars generally, particularly among new and
veteran professors.
TOPICS:
Each year the Forum invites submissions on selected topics
in public and private law, legal philosophy, and law and
humanities -- alternating loosely between public law and
humanities subjects in one year, and private and dispute
resolution law in the next. The focus of the tenth session
will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to
be addressed are:
- Bankruptcy
- Torts
- Tax
- Contracts
- Antitrust
- Intellectual Property
- Corporate & Securities Law
- International Law
- Civil Litigation
- Property
- Legal Profession
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
There is no publication commitment associated with the
Forum, nor is published work eligible. Yale or Stanford
will pay presenters' travel expenses, who will be required
to attend the entire Forum schedule. Paper submissions for
the Forum should be sent to:
CONTACT: Ms. Judy Dearing
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
by February 16, 2009.
Electronic submissions should be sent to:
Email: MAILTO:judyd@stanford.edu
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to:
CONTACT: Joseph Bankman
Stanford Law School
Email: MAILTO:jbankman@stanford.edu
or
CONTACT: Ian Ayres
Yale Law School
Email: MAILTO:ian.ayres@yale.edu
We very much hope that young scholars will submit work. If
the strong commitment of the host schools can make it so,
participation at the Forum will benefit presenters and the
profession.
Joseph Bankman Ian Ayres
Copied from: http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsnann/ann257.html.
Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop and Competition: Deadline January 9, 2009
UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and Georgetown University Law Center invite submissions for the sixth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. on June 7 & 8, 2009.
PAPER COMPETITION:
The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, the Workshop welcomes critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Between five and ten papers will be chosen, based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, for presentation at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. Moreover, the selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinary itself.
Papers should be works-in-progress between 10,000 and 15,000 words in length (including footnotes/endnotes), and must include an abstract of no more than 200 words. A dissertation chapter may be submitted but we strongly suggest that it be edited so that it stands alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible as long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop. The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication commitment. The Workshop will pay the travel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation.
Submissions (in either Word or Wordperfect, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 9, 2009 , and should be sent by e-mail to:
Center for the Study of Law and Culture
culture@law.columbia.edu
Columbia Law School
435 W. 116th Street
New York, N.Y. 10027
Please be sure to include your contact information. For more information: Tanisha Madrid, 212.854.0692 or culture@law.columbia.edu. More details about the deadlines and the competition may be provided and you can check directly at their website: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop.
Law And Society Call for Participation and Proposals: Deadline December 8, 2008
The 2009 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association Thursday, May 28 through Sunday, May 31, at the Grand Hyatt in the vibrant city of Denver.
Theme: Law, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century