Texas Wesleyan School of Law

The 2011 AP-LS Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the 4th International Congress of Psychology and Law from March 2-6, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel in Miami, Florida. Both the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) and the Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Law (ANZAPPL) will be partnering with the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) for the International Congress.

We invite proposals for symposia, papers, and posters addressing topics in all areas of psychology and law. We especially welcome proposals that are empirically based and those that involve new and emerging topics within psychology and law. Proposals will be evaluated through a blind review process focused on the following three criteria: (1) the intellectual merit of the proposal, (2) the innovative nature of the proposal, and (3) the proposal's integration of multiple aspects of the field of psychology and law.

There will be a limit of TWO first-author presentation submissions (either individual papers or papers within a symposium) for each submitter. There is no limit on the number of poster submissions or appearances as a discussant or session chair.

Please be aware of the Society's ongoing effort to increase the rigor of the review process and the quality of the presentations at the conference. As a result, we are likely to accept fewer paper and symposium presentations and to accept more poster presentations. Please be sure to indicate during submission if you would like your paper or symposium papers to be considered for inclusion as posters if they are not accepted as proposed. The deadline for submissions will be September 15th, 2010.

All proposals should be submitted electronically via the conference website created for APLS by All Academic (link to be posted soon). Please check the APLS conference webpage (http://www.ap-ls.org/conferences/apls2011/index2011.php) for regular updates regarding the submission process, including information about when the website will be open for submissions.

For those who have not been to MLEA before, you need not be a midwesterner, nor an economist; the event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of law and economics content, ranging from empirical analyses and formal economic modeling to legal philosophy and doctrinal papers infused with economic thinking. There is no membership or registration fee.

This year’s meeting is sponsored by the University of Colorado Law School as well as its Silicon Flatiorns Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Presentations will start Friday morning and end mid-late Saturday afternoon; there will be an on-campus dinner and reception Friday night, as well as an informal off-campus dinner Saturday night following the end of the conference.

Submissions: To submit a presentation, email scott.moss@colorado.edu with an abstract or paper by September 1, 2010. Please title the email “MLEA Submission – {Name}” or there is a chance Scott will lose it. A conference schedule, and RSVP information for conference meals, will be circulated in September. Submission is open to all, so feel free to share this announcement with colleagues.