Iowa Law Review is now accepting proposals for the Fall 2024 Symposium. Proposal Requirements: Proposals should be submitted via email to ilr@uiowa.edu. Proposals must include (1) a topic, including a description of the likely appeal to the Iowa Law Review’s reading constituencies and an analysis of the relationship between the symposium and what scholarship has already been published by law reviews on the same and similar topics; (2) the nature of the articles to be published—e.g., essays or articles; (3) likely authors; (4) timing of the symposium—e.g., the fall semester of 2024; and (5) l ..read more

Call for Proposals – AALS 2024 Annual Meeting Program Section on Poverty Law The AALS Section on Poverty Law is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for the 2024 Annual Meeting. The 2024 meeting will be from January 3-6, 2024, in Washington, DC. The program descriptions for each of the (I) Main program (500-word proposal), (II) Pedagogy panel (300-word presentation summary), and (III) New Voices program (500-word abstract) are provided below. Proposals for the main program (500 words) and presentation summaries for the pedagogy program (300 words) are due June 30, 2023. Abstracts for the n ..read more

A new grant program is being started by the Center for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), with the goal of supporting empirical work to provide lawmakers data-driven recommendations on intellectual property policy. C4IP will provide research grants up to $25,000 to selected lead researchers who are, at the time of application submission, full-time assistants, associates, or professors at a university, degree-granting research institution, or law school.  More information about the program is available here, including a link to a PDF with information about how to apply:  https://c4ip.o ..read more

About the Institute Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established as Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law Institute in 2005, and since then, has been providing undergraduate and post-graduate legal education. It ranks 15th among India’s law institutes in the 2021 edition of National Institutional Ranking Framework report by the Ministry of Education (India) (erstwhile MHRD). The University is fully funded by the Government of Uttar Pradesh. About the Journal RMLNLU Law Rev ..read more

The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions invites submissions for The 6th Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency focusing on “The Human Dimension of Warfare,” University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, November 12-23, 2023. The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions (RLEC) at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law and the Geography and Environmental Studies Department, invite submissions for participation in the fourth young researchers workshop on “Terrorism and Belligerency”. The workshop will be hel ..read more

Call for Papers Law and Rurality Workshop The Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska College of Law, along with the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, will host a workshop this fall for scholars of all levels and disciplines whose work engages with law and its relation to rural people and places. The workshop will be held via Zoom on Friday, November 17, 2023, 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 work ..read more

Emory University Law – Sam Burry, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, presents today, his research on “The Feminism and Legal Theory Project and the Making of Critical Legal Thought in the United States” at Emory University School of Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law (Gambrell G340) and live on Zoom. Please email vhc-flt@emory.edu to receive a Zoom link.       About the Legal Scholarship Blog The Legal Scholarship Blog features law-related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops as well as general legal scholarship resources. If you would li ..read more

Call for Papers for the South Dakota Law Review’s 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: Indigent defense in rural communities  Conflicts of interest for rural ..read more

University of Chicago Law School – Christine Laudenbach, Professor for Household Finance, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Goethe University Frankfurt, presents today as part of the Law and Economics Workshop Series.        About the Legal Scholarship Blog The Legal Scholarship Blog features law-related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops as well as general legal scholarship resources. If you would like to have an event posted, please contact us at legalscholarshipblog@gmail.com About the Author Mary Seitz – Barco Law Library, University ..read more

UCL Faculty of Laws Workshop date: 11 & 12 September 2023 Deadline for Submissions: 2 May 2023 Workshop Overview: Queer theory and private law are seldom in direct dialogue. Queer theory emphasises indeterminacy and social construction. In contrast, Private Law is typically associated with economic rationality and liberal and neo-liberal beliefs to advance individuals’ autonomy and rights, and relies on binary norms and divisions, such as reasonable/unreasonable, wrongful/non-wrongful, misfeasance/malfeasance. In recent years, scholars have begun to explore queer theory as a tool to critic ..read more