Call For Papers:
A Critical Guide to Civil Procedure
Call for Papers
Boston
University School of Law (host; co-sponsors Seattle University and University
of Washington)
Workshop
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Abstract
Deadline: March 15, 2019
Convenors:
Portia Pedro, Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, & Elizabeth Porter
Civil Procedure is not a
technocratic, neutral area of study, yet there is no collection of civil
procedural scholarship engaging perspectives at the margins. In this workshop,
we will discuss these perspectives. The workshop will support a book project that
the convenors are editing.
The idea for the book project
is to create a critical reference guide for the core civ pro concepts students
learn every year. We envision a collection of essays - loosely keyed to
traditional textbook topics - that reveal the relationship between civil
procedural rules/doctrines and race, gender, sexual orientation, national
origin, class, and disability. In addition to basic civil procedure concepts
like pleading, jurisdiction, discovery, and aggregate litigation, we hope to
include a critical analysis of related topics such as rulemaking institutions,
arbitration, and remedies.
This workshop will include
authors who have already agreed to contribute to this book project, but we also
want to bring in more voices. At the workshop, contributors will discuss a
five-page precis of their essay (precis are to be submitted in advance of the
workshop). The final essays should be roughly 10,000 words, including
footnotes. (Essays should not include “Part I” basic background, but should
center on the author’s critical analysis.) The essays for the book project are
due by August 1, 2019.
If you are interested in
participating in the workshop and contributing to the book, please submit an
abstract and author biography (no longer than 500 words each) by March 15, 2019
to critcivpro@gmail.com. We
will select papers by April 1, 2019.
The workshop will provide
meals for contributors. Contributors must cover travel and lodging costs.
Information about reasonably-priced hotels will be provided as the date
approaches.
Financial Assistance:
Convenors may allocate limited funds to help cover partial travel expenses or
accommodations for a small number of selected participants. If you wish to be
considered for financial assistance, please submit a separate written request,
specifying your city of departure and an estimate of travel costs, along with
your abstract submission. We regret in advance that we are unable to provide
full financial assistance to participants. Feel free to contact us with any
questions.
Suzette
Malveaux
Provost
Professor of Civil Rights Law
Director,
Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law
University
of Colorado
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