Call for Participation
Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School,
UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of
Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for
the 24th meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be
held at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 8-9, 2026.
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
doctrinal legal research. We are especially interested in submissions touching
on themes of inequality, 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, where 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 may appear in a special issue of the
Legal Scholarship Network at SSRN; 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 be submitted through the submissions
portal on the Law and Humanities Workshop website at
LawandHumanitiesWorkshop.org.
Your application should consist of a single Microsoft
Word document (not PDF)
containing:
a 1500-2000 word summary of your paper (word count
includes footnotes or endnotes); a 1-2 page bibliography; 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 Monday, December 1, 2025.
If your application advances to the final stage of
consideration, you will be asked to submit the full paper by January 15, 2026.
Please do not apply if you will not have a full paper on January 15. Your
application should be a summary of existing, ongoing work rather than a
proposal for new or planned work.
The full paper must be a work-in-progress that does 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, bibliography, or chapter
outline that might serve to identify them, as we adhere to an anonymous or
“blind” selection process.
For more information, please send an email inquiry to Lawandhumanitiesworkshop@gmail.com
or visit LawandHumanitiesWorkshop.org.
Program Committee, 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for
Junior Scholars Riaz Tejani, Chapman University, Law, Chair LaToya Baldwin
Clark, University of California Los Angeles, Law Danielle Boaz, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, Africana Studies David Eng, University of
Pennsylvania, English & Asian American Studies Melynda Price, University of
Michigan, Women and Gender Studies Clyde Spillenger, University of California
Los Angeles, Law
The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars is
committed to anti- racism both inside and outside the academy.
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