The editors of the Journal of Legal Education welcome articles and reflections on threats to academic freedom, coercion of legal and other scholars, and the relationship between legal scholarship, education and democracy both in the United States and around the world. From first-person accounts by legal scholars to empirical research on academic freedom and other analytical pieces on legal scholarship in the face of coercion, the Journal of Legal Education invites authors to submit their manuscript by June 30, 2022, to be considered for this themed issue. For general submission information, pl ..read more

The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in the Warren E. Burger Prize competition. The winning author will receive a cash prize of $5,000 and their submission will be published in the South Carolina Law Review. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2021. For additional information, please see the competition’s website ..read more

The American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) is hosting its Annual Meeting on February 26-March 5, 2021: 61st Annual Health Law & Legal Medicine, Diversity, Equity, and Stewardship in New Millennium Legal Medicine in conjunction with the 14th Annual Ethical & Legal Aspects of Dentistry Conference: Over a Decade of Dental Law and Ethics ..read more

The Editorial Board of Law Text Culture at the University of Wollongong Australia is seeking proposals for the 2021 edition of the Journal (Volume 25), due for publication in December 2021. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2020. Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about law and jurisprudence across three interconnected axes: For more information, please see the Call for Papers ..read more

The AALS Section on Professional Responsibility invites papers for its program “Professional Responsibility 2021 Works In Progress Workshop” at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Two papers will be selected from those submitted. The AALS Annual Meeting will be held January5-9, 2021. Preference will be given to junior scholars focusing their work in the area of professional responsibility and legal ethics. Submission Deadline: Please email submissions to Ben Edwards, Associate Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas at Benjamin.Edwards@unlv.edu &n ..read more

Boston University School of Law will host the 2020 American Journal of Law and Medicine Symposium, Emerging Issues in Bioethics, in Boston, MA on January 24, 2020 ..read more

The Critical Legal Conference 2020 will be held at the University of Dundee on September 3-5, 2020. The conference theme is Frankenlaw. Dundee had an embryonic role in the creation of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Approaching the northern fringes of the United Kingdom, Dundee’s ‘eyry of freedom’ helped shape the imaginary that would result in Shelley’s famous text, and the infamous and unnatural conglomeration that it unleashed upon the world. Shelley’s reconstituted monster, created by Dr Frankenstein in his experimentations with the fringes of life, has become a cultural icon from page ..read more

The “Workshop on Artificial Justice” will take place on Mar. 18-19, 2020 at the National University of Singapore. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 1, 2019.  Details below: Writing in 2003, economists David Autor, Frank Levy, and Richard Murnane distinguished between tasks that may be completed by following a given set of instructions, or “routine” tasks, and tasks that may not be so completed, or “nonroutine” tasks. Routine tasks, they prophesized, will be surrendered to computers. But nonroutine tasks will always be performed by humans. Unforeseen by them – and many of us – is that mac ..read more

The Centre for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA) at the University of Copenhagen will host a conference on Law, Technology and Trust on September 12-13, 2019. The conference will address many of the core challenges we face as lawyers, businesspeople, lawmakers, and citizens. This two-day international conference brings together renowned academics, legal tech entrepreneurs, lawyers, engineers, and policymakers to discuss these and other issues: Predictive Analytics versus Integrity & Trust in Decision-Making Processes Legal Education in Times of Technology: Experimentation & Innovation Techn ..read more

The AALS Section on Professional Responsibility invites submissions for its “Professional Responsibility 2020 Works In Progress Workshop” to be held at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. This workshop will be an opportunity for junior scholars to receive substantive critique and feedback on a work in progress. Each junior scholar will be paired with a more senior scholar in the field who will lead a discussion of the piece and provide feedback. Successful papers should engage with scholarly literature and make a meaningful, original contribution to the field or professional responsib ..read more