Call for Papers – Friday, September
20 Deadline
The Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative
Research Network
Seeks
submissions for the
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
May 28-31,
2020 in Denver, Colorado
Dear friends and colleagues:
We invite you to submit a paper for
a panel to be sponsored by the Feminist
Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network at the 2020 Law and Society
Annual Meeting in Denver. The Feminist Legal Theory CRN brings together law and
society scholars across a range of fields who are interested in feminist legal
theory. Information about the Law and Society meeting is available at https://www.lawandsociety.org/index.html.
We will give preference to
individual paper proposals over proposals for panels that are pre-formed. One of the goals of the Feminist Legal Theory
CRN is to encourage scholars to engage with the diverse work of others across
the academy. Any proposals for a fully-formed panel should address specifically
the efforts that the panel organizers have made to ensure diversity among
presenters, including race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity;
diversity in the institutions of presenters’ affiliation and/or primary
training; diversity among positions in the academy such as senior vs. junior
scholars, tenured vs. non-tenured participants, doctrinal vs. non-doctrinal
faculty.
This year’s
meeting invites us to explore “Rule
and Resistance.” We are
especially interested in proposals that explore the application of feminist
legal theory to this theme, broadly construed. We are also interested in papers
that will permit us to collaborate with other CRNs, such as the Critical
Research on Race and the Law CRN. We welcome multidisciplinary paper proposals
and proposals from scholars from all parts of the world.
Our goal is to
stimulate focused discussion of papers on which scholars are currently working
rather than to seek fully-formed panels.
Thus, while you may submit papers that are closer to publication, we are
particularly eager to receive proposals for works-in-progress that are at an
earlier stage and will benefit from the discussion that the panels will
provide. We strongly encourage applications from junior scholars and graduate
students – as well as people who are new to feminist legal theory.
The Planning Committee will assign
individual papers to panels of four presenters, based on subject matter. Each paper
presentation should run roughly 10 to 15 minutes to allow ample time for
discussion. We will also assign a chair, and one or two commentators/discussants
for each panel, to provide feedback on the papers and promote discussion.
In
addition to traditional panels, we are open to proposals in the other formats
that the LSA allows, including Author Meets Reader, Salon, or Roundtable
sessions. If you have an idea that you think would work well in one of these
formats, please also use the submission form above. Organizers of these types of sessions should
address in their proposal the same diversity criteria listed above.
Finally–and
new this year–the FLT CRN welcomes submissions for roundtables on how to
incorporate feminist principles into both teaching methods (pedagogical strategies as well as classroom practices) and
course coverage across subject areas. Sessions could potentially address topics
such as: (1) what feminist teaching can look like and (2) how to deal with the
unique challenges of teaching in a hostile or indifferent environment to feminism.
Preference will be given to proposals that involve materials or demonstrations.
Please also note that LSA rules
limit each participant to a single conference appearance as a paper panelist or
as a roundtable participant.
As a condition of participating as part of a program sponsored by the CRN, we also
ask that you agree to serve as a chair and/or commentator/discussant for another
panel or participant. We will of course take into account expertise and
topic preferences to the degree possible.
Chairs are responsible for
the primary organization of the panel. Chairs will develop a 100 to 250 word
description for the session and submit the session proposal to LSA before the November
6 LSA deadline. This will ensure that other
participants accepted by the CRN can submit their proposal to LSA, using the
panel number assigned by the CRN. The Chair may also serve as the Discussant
for the panel, or there may be a separate Discussant. Where possible, we will attempt to assign two
Discussants to each paper panel. Discussants read the two to three
papers assigned to them and prepare a short commentary to offer feedback and
serve as a basis for discussion among the panelist and audience members as well
as (to the extent relevant) identify ways that the papers relate to one another.
·
A
500 word abstract or summary of your paper;
·
Your
paper’s title
·
Your
name and institutional affiliation;
·
Number of years you have been in
teaching/working as a grad student; and
·
A list of your areas of interest
and expertise within feminist legal theory.
Please
note that for Author Meets Reader, Salon,
or Roundtable sessions, organizers should provide a 500-word summary of the topic and the contributions
they expect the proposed participants to make.
If you need to contact the CRN
Planning Committee, please do so via feministlegaltheory@gmail.com. (Please
do not send submissions to individual committee members.)
Please
submit all proposals by Friday, September
20, 2019. Late proposals may not be considered
for inclusion. This schedule will permit us to organize panels and submit them
prior to the LSA’s deadline of November 6. In the past, we have accommodated as
many panelists as possible, but have been unable to accept all proposals. If we
are unable to accept your proposal for the CRN, we will notify you by early November
so that you can submit an independent proposal to LSA.
We hope you’ll join us in Denver to
share and discuss the scholarship in which we are all engaged and connect with
others doing work on feminist legal theory.
Finally, please make sure to sign
up for the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research page on TWEN, as that is
our primary platform for communication about the CRN’s activities. If your primary academic affiliation is
outside a U.S.-based law school, please contact Bridget Crawford (bcrawford@law.pace.edu),
and she will arrange for you to have access to TWEN, if you provide your
institutional email account. The CRN
welcomes participants from all parts of the academy.
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