Papers To Be Presented at the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholar Workshop

Here's news from the conveners of the 2008 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition, Katherine Franke, Ariela Gross, Naomi Mezey, Hilary Schor, Clyde Spillenger, Nomi Stolzenberg, and Ariela Dubler.

Each year we solicit papers from senior graduate students and untenured faculty on topics in law and the humanities. The submissions are then juried by two outside senior readers, and based on those reviews the conveners select seven papers and two alternates for inclusion in a conference held in June where the papers are workshopped by senior commentators in fields relevant to the papers.

2008 Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholar Workshop

Critical Acts of Recognition: Reading Law Rhetorically
Sarah Burgess
Assistant Professor
University of San Francisco
Department of Communication Studies

Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio de Janeiro City Jail
Amy Chazkel
Assistant Professor
Department of History
City University of New York, Queens College

A Woman’s Right to be Spanked:
Testing the Limits of Tolerance of S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary
Ummni Khan
Doctoral Candidate
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory
Alice Ristroph
Associate Professor
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law

The Sit-ins and the Failed State Action Revolution
Christopher W. Schmidt
Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation; Visiting Associate Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law (spring 2008)

Recording Artists, Work For Hire, Employment, and Appropriation
Matt Stahl
Assistant Professor
Department of Media and Communication
Muhlenberg College

Divorcing family law from the nation
Philomila Tsoukala
Visiting Assistant Professor
Georgetown Law Center

Alternates:

Blood Quantum and Equal Protection
Rose Cuison Villazor
Assistant. Professor of Law
SMU Dedman School of Law

Legal Development in Sudan:
Myth-making and the Collision of Rights
Mark F. Massoud
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Berkeley



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Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
Ariela Gross, USC Law School and Department of History
Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University Law Center
Hilary Schor, USC Department of English and USC Law School
Clyde Spillenger, UCLA School of Law
Nomi Stolzenberg, USC Law School
Ariela Dubler, Columbia Law School

Conveners of the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholar Workshop