2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS
University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center
for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the
Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be held at the UCLA School
of Law, on June 9-10, 2024.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The workshop is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students,
post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in law and the
humanities. In addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, including
Black and Indigenous studies, history, literature, political theory, critical
race theory, feminist theory, and philosophy, we welcome critical, qualitative
work in the social sciences, including anthropology and sociology. While the
scope of the Workshop is broad, we cannot consider proposals that are focused
solely on quantitative social science research or that are limited to purely
doctrinal legal research. We are especially interested in submissions from
members of traditionally underrepresented groups and submissions touching on
themes of anti-racism and anti-subordination. We welcome submissions from
those working at regional and teaching-intensive institutions.
Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee,
between six and eight papers will be chosen for presentation at the Workshop.
At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators
and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the
strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to
subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for
a larger conversation among all the participants that may include themes
connecting all of the projects, as well as discussion of the evolving
standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary
scholarship.
The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship
Network; there is no other publication commitment. (We will accommodate the
wishes of chosen authors who prefer not to have their paper posted publicly
with us because of publication commitments to other journals.) However, we
will only accept Workshop participants whose papers are true works in
progress; articles or chapters that are already in page proofs or are
otherwise unable to be revised by the time of the Workshop are ineligible.
The Workshop will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses of authors whose
papers are selected for presentation. For authors requiring airline travel
from outside the United States, the Workshop will cover such travel expenses
up to a maximum of $1250.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Applications should include:
a 1500-2000 word summary of the paper (including footnotes or endnotes),
a 1-2 page bibliography,
in Microsoft Word (not PDF)
and, if your paper is a chapter in a book or dissertation, an optional 1-page
chapter outline of the larger project.
Applications are due on December 15, 2023.
If your application advances to the final stage of consideration, you will be
asked to submit the full paper on February 1, 2024. Please do not apply if you
will not have a full paper on February 1. The application is intended to be a
summary of existing, ongoing work rather than a proposal for new or planned
work.
Final paper submissions must be works-in-progress that do not exceed 10,000
words in length (including footnotes/ endnotes). A dissertation chapter may be
submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so as to stand alone as a
piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for
publication is eligible for selection so long as it will not be in galley
proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop; it is important that authors
still be in a position at the time of the Workshop to consider comments they
receive there and to incorporate them as they think appropriate in their
revisions.
We ask that those submitting applications be careful to omit or redact any
information in the paper summary or the body of the paper that might serve to
identify them, as we adhere to an anonymous or “blind” selection process.
Applications (in Microsoft Word—no pdf files, please) will be accepted until
December 15, 2023, and should be sent by e-mail to:
Lawandhumanitiesworkshop@gmail.com.
Please be sure to include your name,
institutional affiliation (if any), and phone and email contact information in
your covering email, not in the paper itself.
For more information, please send an email inquiry to
Lawandhumanitiesworkshop@gmail.com
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Simon Stern, University of Toronto, Law & English, Chair
Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University, History
Sherally Munshi, Georgetown University, Law
Riaz Tejani, University of Redlands, School of Business & Society
Nomi Stolzenberg, Law, University of Southern California
Martha Umphrey, Amherst College, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Program Committee, 2024 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars
The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars is committed to anti-
racism both inside and outside the academy.
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