New Journal Constitutional Studies Publishes First Issue, Issues CFP For Third Issue

Constitutional Studies, housed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has published its first issue and has issued a CFP for its third issue. Authors of articles in the first issue include articles by Mark A. Graber, Ethan Alexander-Davey, Clement Fatovic, Thomas M. Keck, and Zoltan Szente. I will try to upload a PDF of the issue.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Seeking Proposals For New Series

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press invites the submission of proposals for books, monographs, or essay collections in the interdisciplinary fields of humanistically-oriented legal scholarship for the series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture and the Humanities.

Possible topics range from scholarship on legal history; legal theory and jurisprudence; law and critical/cultural studies, law and anthropology, law and literature, law and film, law and society, law and the performing arts, law and communication, law and philosophy, and legal hermeneutics.

Proposals must include:  a description of the issue/s you intend to explore and the method/s you will use; a comparison and contrast with existing books on similar or related topics; a table of contents and a precis of what each chapter aims to cover; a description of the book’s target market/s; the author’s/authors’ or editor’s/editors’ curriculum vitae; if it is a collection of essays, a compiled and alphabetized list of short biographies of prospective contributors, and a list of three experts in the field capable of assessing the value of the project. 

The series also welcomes submissions of completed monographs and essay collections; kindly make an inquiry prior to sending over the completed book or collection of essays, together with the author’s curriculum vitae and three suggested experts, if you are the author/authors.  If you are an editor/editors of a completed collection of essays, please include a compiled and alphabetized list of short biographies of prospective contributors, together with your curriculum vitae and list of possible experts. Essay collections must be of previously unpublished material. Conference sessions, properly edited and often expanded by calls for papers, into essay collections, are also welcome. 

Referees may or may not be from the submitted list of suggested experts.  The series benefits from the advice of an international board of leading scholars in the field. Proposals may be sent to:
 

Caroline Joan S. Picart, Ph.D., J.D., Esquire
Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A.
601 N. Ashley Drive, Suite 310,

Tampa, FL 33602

Email:  cjpicart@gmail.com

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Caroline (Kay) Picart, M.Phil. (Cantab), Ph.D., J.D., Esquire
Attorney at Law/Of Counsel, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A.
http://www.carolinekaypicart.com

Most Recent Publications:  "Jihad Cool/Jihad Chic": The Roles of the Internet and Imagined Relations in the Self-Radicalization of Colleen LaRose (Jihad Jane), Societies, 2015, 5: 354–383 (April 2015).
Nationalities, Histories, Rhetorics: Real/Reel Representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust Trials and a Poethics of Film and Law, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 2015. Vol. 29, No. 2, 1–20 (May, 2015).

Calling All Poets

The University of Akron Press is soliciting manuscripts for its Series in Poetry. Link here.

Tip of the beret to Carolyn D. Elias and Steve Mueske (both via Twitter).

Call For Fiction!

From Alafair Burke, Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law, comes news of a competition:

Mystery Writing Competition

Have you ever thought about writing crime fiction? Hofstra Law, along with Professor Alafair Burke and Mulholland Books, is offering you the unique opportunity to have your short story read by best-selling crime novelists and published online. See below for the official rules and regulations. View the competition flyer.

RULES

1. Your story must feature a lawyer as a main character.
2. Your story must be original, unpublished, and less than 3,500 words.
3. Submissions must be in Microsoft Word, using a 12-point font and double-spaced. The document must be emailed as an attachment to lawasb@hofstra.edu by May 1, 2014, with the subject line “mystery writing competition.”
4. The first-place story will be published on the website of Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company devoted to publishing the best in suspense fiction. All authors will retain copyright.

PRIZES

FIRST PRIZE: $500 and Online publication and promotion by Mulholland Books
SECOND PRIZE: $200
THIRD PRIZE: $100

JUDGES

LEE CHILD is the No. 1 internationally best-selling author of 18 Jack Reacher thrillers. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and had a long career in television production
before deciding to write his first novel. The 2012 film Jack Reacher was based on his novel One Shot and starred Tom Cruise.
MARCIA CLARK is the best-selling author of three novels featuring Los Angeles Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight. Her books have been optioned for a one hour drama series by TNT. Marcia is attached as an executive producer and the pilot is currently in production. She is a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney, and was the lead prosecutor in the OJ Simpson murder case.
ALAFAIR BURKE is a professor of law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. She is also the bestselling author of ten novels, including the Ellie Hatcher series. Her next book, All Day and a Night, features a wrongful conviction case and will be published by HarperCollins in June.

Assocation for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Open For Proposals For Next Year's Conference

From Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac College of Law

Call for Participation: 15th Annual ASLCH Conference




March 16-17, 2012

Texas Wesleyan School of Law (Fort Worth, TX)



The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about questions of meaning, value, and interpretation, particularly as they bear upon ideas or issues of justice, identity, authority, and obligation, and more broadly, an understanding of law’s place in culture. How do ideas of justice change over time and under what conditions? How does law appear in the cultural imagination? What are the linguistic, literary, and cultural processes at work in the law, and what are its institutional processes? How is the legal subject conceptualized and mobilized, and what are the limits on its freedom and authority?



We invite scholars with interests across the range of areas, fields, and disciplines encompassed by Law, Culture and the Humanities to organize panels or submit proposals for individual paper presentations. Examples of recent panel topics include:



Interpreting Cases, Creating Law

Roundtable: Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment

Imagining Rights in the Era of Globalization

Explorations in Law, Science, and Governance

What Can the Humanities Offer to Law?

Humanistic Critiques of Legal Education

Law and the Sacred

Visual Media and The Law

Underwriting Society: Law and Literature as Mutual Modes of Imagining Community



(The complete programs from past conferences are available on the ASLCH website: http://www.law.syr.edu/academics/centers/lch/past.html)



We urge those interested in participating to consider submitting complete panels or session proposals. We welcome a variety of formats and subjects, such as: panels; roundtables; film screenings and performance art; sessions in which the focus is on pedagogy; sessions that create a space for participants to join in a directed reading of a text (e.g., a lyric poem); author-meets-readers sessions, which provide a forum for conversation about a recently published book in the field; sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper or issue, or in which the chair presents the papers and the authors respond.



Ideally, traditional panels should include NO MORE THAN 3 PAPERS. All panel proposals should indicate the name of the chair. In most cases having a discussant is desirable, and the discussant can be, but does not have to be, the chair. All panels should be planned in such a way that 30 minutes of the 1 hour and 45 minutes generally allotted for sessions is reserved for discussion/comments by the audience. Proposals must indicate whether a “smart room” with computer, audio or video presentation technology will be needed. More detailed instructions about participation rules and limits are listed on the first page of the online conference submission system, but please note that we will accept a maximum of NO MORE THAN ONE PAPER AND ONE ROUNDTABLE presentation for any individual participant, although participants may chair more than one panel. Additionally, each paper submission [abstract] is limited to 150 words, and because the site will not save partial submissions, it is important to have all the information for your proposed paper or panel completed before you begin the submission process.



We would also welcome you to volunteer to serve as a chair and/or discussant, whether you are submitting a paper proposal or not. If you would like to serve as a chair and/or discussant, please indicate the areas or subjects of your interest/expertise.



We will accept proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, and other session proposals, and volunteers to serve as panel chairs or discussants, from July 1 until October 15, 2011.



PLEASE NOTE: To submit proposals, please go to the online submission site: http://www.regonline.com/15thannualmeetingLCH



As it becomes available, additional information about accommodations and other conference matters, will be posted to the, "ASLCH Annual Conference Information" page on the ASLCH webpage at: http://www.law.syr.edu/academics/centers/lch/conference.html.



Participants will be notified by December 31, 2011. We cannot promise that we will be able to accommodate all proposals.





Questions, please contact Matthew Anderson (manderson@une.edu)

Call For Papers: Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues

From the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues

Call For Papers


The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues

The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues is now accepting submissions for Volumes 31 and 32.

The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues invites you to submit original, scholarly work to be considered for its forthcoming issues. Currently, we are accepting papers submitted by academics, practitioners, articling students and current law students on any legal topic of your choice. Papers should not exceed 20,000 words including footnotes. Footnotes should conform to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Guide, 7th edition).

As an inter-disciplinary law journal, the WRLSI strives to use the study of law as a vehicle for social change. Our journal endeavours to be a resource for professionals, students and academics. Legal libraries both nationally and globally subscribe to the WRLSI. Our legal journal has also been made available through electronic databases such as Quicklaw/LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Hein Online.

VOLUME 31

Deadline for abstracts (optional) - June 15, 2011

Deadline for manuscripts - July 31, 2011

Expected date of publication - December 2011

VOLUME 32

Deadline for abstracts (optional) - October 15, 2011

Deadline for manuscripts - December 1, 2011

Expected date of publication - April 2012

FURTHER INFORMATION: Submissions received after these deadlines will be reviewed at the discretion of the Editorial Board. Questions can be directed to: wrlsi@uwindsor.ca

Sincerely,

Desiree D'Souza

Editor-in-Chief

Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues

Faculty of Law, University of Windsor

wrlsieditor@uwindsor.ca

http://www.uwindsor.ca/wrlsi

Deadline Approaching For Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The deadline for authors and publishers to enter a novel to win the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction is April 8. The ABA Journal and The University of Alabama School of Law created the prize to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and to honor former Alabama law student Harper Lee for the role model she created.

The prize will be given annually to a book-length work of fiction that best exemplifies the role of lawyers in society, and their power to effect change. Only works first published in 2010 qualify. Completed entry forms must be submitted by the publisher prior to April 8. There is no entry fee.

Members of the Harper Lee Prize Selection Committee, who are responsible for choosing this year’s winner, are:

• Best-selling author David Baldacci

• Morris Dees, co-founder, Southern Poverty Law Center

• Best-selling crime novelist and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein

• Robert J. Grey Jr., partner, Hunton & Williams, past president of the American Bar Association

• CNN Senior Analyst Jeffrey Toobin

Visit www.HarperLeePrize.org for more information or to download an entry form.

The University of Alabama, a student-centered research university, is experiencing significant growth in both enrollment and academic quality. This growth, which is positively impacting the campus and the state's economy, is in keeping with UA's vision to be the university of choice for the best and brightest students. UA, the state's flagship university, is an academic community united in its commitment to enhancing the quality of life for all Alabamians.

CONTACT: Rebecca Walden, UA School of Law, 205/348-5195, rwalden@law.ua.edu or Allen Pusey, ABA Journal, 312/988-6214, Allen.Pusey@americanbar.org

Publication Opportunities

From Professor Andrew Majeske, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Manuscripts Sought
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Literature and Law

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press invites the submission of proposals for books, monographs, or essay collections in the interdisciplinary field of literature and law. The series welcomes submissions of monographs and essay collections. The series is affiliated with the Modern Language Association’s Law as Literature Discussion Group and with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s biennial Literature and Law Conference. It benefits from the advice of an international board of leading scholars in the field.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press publishes scholarly books for the academic community. We do not publish textbooks or workbooks. Essay collection submissions must contain previously unpublished material, be focused on a coherent theme, and have substantial scholarly introductions. Manuscripts must follow Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition, in format. For further details on our editorial policies, consult www.fdu.edu/fdupress.

Proposals should be sent to:

Dr. Andrew Majeske
Department of English
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York NY 10019
ajmajeske@gmail.com