Call For Submissions: American University Law Review, Spring 2025 Symposium, Law and Popular Culture @AmULRev

The American University Law Review has issued a Call For Papers for its annual symposium. Here is the call.

The American University Law Review is placing a call for submissions of original legal articles and scholarly commentaries for its forthcoming issue dedicated to pop culture and the law. Specifically, the Law Review seeks submissions analyzing the sports, media and entertainment, fashion, and social media industries and their effect on the law. However, other topics related to pop culture will be considered. The target publication date is slated for mid-2025.

Next year, the Law Review’s Spring Symposium will be held on February 7, 2025. This symposium will explore and engage with burgeoning legal issues in pop culture. Selected authors may have the opportunity to present their work as a panelist in the Symposium, but participation is not a requirement for consideration.

    More information and instructions for submission here. 

 

Call for Papers: 2019 University of Massachusetts Law Review Roundtable Symposium on Law and Media

From the mailbox:



The UMass Law Review has issued the following call for papers. Download the call in PDF here, and please share it with any interested scholarly communities.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LAW REVIEW

CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

November 14, 2018

We are pleased to announce the 2019 UMass Law Review Roundtable Symposium, currently titled “Law and Media.” In the age where the 24/7 news cycle and social media have impacted current politics and where data protection, personal branding, and technology have affected entertainment and media as well as the rule of law, an investigation of the relationship between law and the media of our current times is timely and warranted. Accordingly, the UMass Law Review seeks thoughtful, insightful, and original presentations relating to the impact of the law on media as well as the impact of media on the law.

Interested participants should submit a 500-word abstract to cshannon@umassd.edu, with “Attn: Conference Editor – Symposium Submission” in the subject line by December 31st, 2018 for consideration. Selected participants will be notified by the end of January and invited to present their work at the 2019 UMass Law Review Symposium taking place in late March of 2019. Selected participants may also submit a scholarly work for potential publication in the 2019-2020 UMass Law Review Journal. If you have questions about submissions or the Symposium, please contact our Business/Conference Editor, Casey Shannon or Editor-In-Chief, Kayla Venckauskas (kvenckauskas@umassd.edu). We thank you in advance for your submission.

Sincerely,

Kayla Venckauskas
Editor-in-Chief

Casey Shannon
Business/Conference Editor

Wake Forest Law Review Symposium on Cognitive Emotion and the Law, February 22, 2019 @WFULawReview @LloydEsq @ljewel

The Wake Forest Law Review is sponsoring a symposium on Cognitive Emotion and the Law, Friday, February 22, 2019. It will include many eminent speakers and cover a number of interesting topics. Here's a description of the symposium.

This symposium will bring together experts from academia, legal practice, neuroscience, philosophy, and communication to explore emotion and other affective experience. It will delve into common core themes regarding cognitive emotion and the law, and it will explore the brain science underlying emotion and reason. This symposium will further discuss how law students, law professors, lawyers, and judges can use principles of emotional intelligence to foster better legal reasoning and results as well as to foster health, respect, and inclusivity. This symposium will also examine specific areas where greater emotional intelligence can enlighten all of us. These specific areas include racism, homophobia, sexism, extreme rhetoric, public health, and responses to public disasters.

More about the event here.

CFP: Television Drama, Law, and National Identity, Symposium at Centre for Law, Society, Popular Culture, Westminster Law School, September 6, 2019 @@UW_WLS ‏

Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture

Westminster Law School

Television drama, law and national identity

Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers

Friday 6 September 2019

University of Westminster

Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration.  In this regard national identity’s relationship with law as its crystallisation is particularly worthy of academic attention and lends itself to interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.  Police, crime, justice and dystopian dramas frequently place law and social attitudes to law centre-stage in the delineation of national identity. 

Television drama may be perceived as a communicative event in which history is transformed into myth through a stylised set of codes.  The transmission of coded messages about national identity, and their interpretation (both hegemonic and oppositional) become particularly worthy of analysis as the nation comes under strain through patterns of globalised and regional integration coupled with acts of national resistance.  Multiple genres of television drama provide scope for the expression of national identity, including the use by period dramas of creative nostalgia to represent the contemporary nation or the warnings to the nation posed by science fiction television.  In all contexts the interplay between projections of national identity and television’s treatment of race, class and gender warrants critical scrutiny.  

Proposals for 20-minute papers are therefore invited for a symposium on 6 September 2019, to be held in the University of Westminster’s historic Regent Street building just metres away from BBC headquarters.  Possible subjects for papers might include, but are by no means limited to:

• is national identity empirical or normative in television drama?
• internet/social media amplification of debates on TV drama, law and identity
• national identity on television as ideology
• depictions of trials and national identity
• national security dramas: ‘war against terrorism’, identity and law(lessness)
• political dramas: uniform global elite or national diversity?
• fan responses to the portrayal of the nation
• globalisation/globalised law – depicted as threat to national identity?
• feminist crime drama and national identity
• science fiction or dystopian fiction, law and national identity
• ‘heritage’ drama: commodification of (rose-tinted) ideas of national identity for global consumption?

Abstracts should be 250 words in length, accompanied by a 100-word biography of the author, and sent to nicold@wmin.ac.uk by the deadline of 1 February 2019.

Via @Doubledegree

CFP: 2019 Symposium, Women and the Law, Detroit Mercy Law Review @UDMLawReview

From the e-mailbox:

The Detroit Mercy Law Review will host its 2019 Symposium, Women and the Law, on Mar. 8, 2019. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 9, 2018 at 5:00pm EST.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: the history of women in the law, how women have impacted the law, how the law impacts women today, how future legal decisions could affect women’s rights (e.g. if Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) were to be overturned), what challenges women still face in the legal profession, the role of gender in the law, and any other topic regarding women and the law.

Proposals should be approximately 250-500 words, double-spaced, and detail the proposed topic and presentation. Submit to Samantha Buck, Symposium Director, at bucksl@udmercy.edu.

Please indicate whether your proposal is for a presentation only or if you would also like to publish an article with the Detroit Mercy Law Review on your presentation topic. If you are interested in submitting an article, it will be due to the Law Review on Friday, Mar.15, 2019.

Please submit a current CV or resume along with your proposal. We will notify chosen speakers by Nov. 30, 2018. Preference will be given to those willing to submit an article for publication.

Click on this link for more information.

 

Call For Proposals: Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy

From the mailbox:

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy

DJCLPP Annual Spring Symposium: Call for Proposals

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy (DJCLPP) seeks submissions for a Symposium on amending the Constitution to be held at Duke University School of Law on February 2, 2018.

This year, our Symposium will be organized with the assistance of Professor Stephen Sachs.

Topic

The Founders recognized that the Constitution was an imperfect document. Over the past 230 years, however, Article V’s amendment procedure has been used only rarely. The topic for the 2018 Spring Symposium will be An Even More Perfect Union: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution. Each article will propose a different amendment to the Constitution. Articles will offer enactment-ready language for these amendments, defend the need for their adoption, explain the choices made in their drafting, and describe possible routes to enactment.

Invited participants will receive assistance with travel and lodging expenses. Practitioners and others working in the field are welcome to attend.

How to Submit Your Proposal

Proposals should be sent with the subject line “Symposium Proposal” to Proposals should be sent with the subject line “Symposium Proposal” to clj-submissions@law.duke.edu by July 14, 2017. Please attach a copy of your CV to your proposal. Inquiries via this email address should be directed to DJCLPP ’s Special Projects Editor, Wendy Becker.

Proposals should include the following:

·       A proposed title for your article

·       Draft text for your proposed amendment

·       An abstract or brief description (no more than 500 words) explaining and defending your proposal

Important Dates

·        July 14, 2017: Deadline to submit proposals

·        July 28, 2017: Proposals selected on or before this date

·        August 4, 2017: Deadline for commitments received from authors

·        January 5, 2018: Draft articles due

·        February 2, 2018: Symposium held at Duke University School of Law

·        Spring 2018: DJCLPP’s Volume 13 published 

For questions, comments, or information about the Journal, please feel free to email the above address.

Thank you, and we look forward to your proposal.

Sincerely,

Wendy Becker

Special Projects Editor
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, Volume 13

Minor Jurisprudence 2016: A Berkeley Law Symposium December 2-3, 2016

The fourth meeting of the "Law As..." biennial symposia on "historical, social scientific, literary, and legal scholarship in the service of conceptual innovation in the analysis and history of law" will take place at the Berkeley School of Law December 2-3 of this year.

Symposium participants include Kirsten Anker (McGill), Natalie Davidson (Hebrew University Jerusalem), Peter Goodrich, (Yeshiva University), Genevieve Painter, (University of California), Jothie Rajah (American Bar Foundation), Marianne Constable, (University of California), Nan Seuffert (University of Wollongong), and James Martel (San Francisco State University).

More about the symposium here at its webpage.

Call For Student Papers, Writing Competition On Dispute Resolution

From Stacie I. Strong, University of Missouri:

A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction with the annual symposium convened by the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law.  This year’s symposium is convened by Prof. Carli Conklin and is entitled “Beyond the FAA: Arbitration Procedure, Practice, and Policy in Historical Perspective.”  The symposium features Professor James Oldham, the St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History at Georgetown University Law Center, as keynote speaker as well as expert panelists from England and the United States.

The competition is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution and offers a $500 prize to the competition winner.  The author of the winning paper may be invited to publish the winning submission in the symposium issue of the Journal of Dispute Resolution, subject to the agreement of both the editors of the Journal of Dispute Resolution and the winning author.

Submissions should bear some relationship to the history of dispute or conflict resolution, broadly defined.  Topics may therefore consider issues relating to the historic development of international or domestic negotiation, mediation, conciliation and/or arbitration, among other things.  There is no requirement that papers discuss U.S. law, and submissions may approach the issues from a legal, historical, and/or political science perspective.  Papers must be received no later than 11:59 p.m., Central time, on Monday, November 9, 2015.

Further information on the writing competition is available on the symposium website.

Questions may be directed to:
Professor S.I. Strong
University of Missouri School of Law
Email:  strongsi@missouri.edu
Tel.:  +1 573 882 2465

Please feel free to circulate this information to other interested persons.

Kind regards,

S.I. Strong, FCIArb

Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law
Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution
University of Missouri
216 Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO  65211 USA
Tel.: +1 573 882 2465
Email:  strongsi@missouri.edu

A Symposium On Narrative & Metaphor In the Law

At Stanford Law School, January 30, 2016, a Symposium on Narrative & Metaphor in the Law.

Scheduled speakers are Linda L. Berger (UNLV, Las Vegas, Law School), Peter Brooks (Princeton), Raymond W. Gibbs (UC Santa Cruz), Michael Hanne (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Lawrence Joseph (St. John's University School of Law), Dahlia Lithwick (Slate Magazine), Bernadette Meyler (Stanford Law School), Greta Olson (University of Giessen), Roberto H. Potter (University of Central Florida), L. David Ritchie (Portland State University), Lawrence Rosen (Princeton University), Michael R. Smith (University of Wyoming College of Law), Kathryn M. Stanchi (Temple University School of Law), Simon Stern (University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Department of English), Meredith Wallis (Stanford University), Robert Weisberg (Stanford University), and Katharine Young (Boston College Law School).


Read more about the event here at its dedicated website.

Upcoming Symposium at Cardozo Law and Rutgers Law: The Abolition of War--February 20-21, 2015

The Symposium on the Abolition of War takes place February 20-21, 2015 and is co-sponsored by Cardozo School of Law, Rutgers School of Law--Newark, and the Law and Humanities Institute. The February 20 event  takes place at Cardozo, begins at 9:30 a.m.,  and features talks by Stanley Fish, Mark Kurlansky, Elaine Scarry, and Richard Weisberg. The luncheon speaker is  Krzysztof Wodiczko. The February 21 event takes place at Rutgers, begins at 10 a.m., and will present talks by Michael Braff, Sarah Cole, Mark Kurlansky, Paul K. Saint Armour, Brian Soucek, Maria Stephan, Krzysztok Wodiczko, and Ekow Yankah,  There will also be a special musical performance by Ensemble Pi: (Eleanor Cory, Idith Meshulam, Katie Schlaikjer, Cheryl Weisberg, and Sam Weisberg). Ensemble Pi will also discuss antiwar sentiment in music. Wonderful bringing together of law and humanities!

Queer Objects: A Symposium With Robyn Wiegman and Annamarie Jagose

From the Australian National University, announcement of a forthcoming Symposium:

Queer Objects: A Symposium with Robyn Wiegman and Annamarie Jagose

‘The rejection of essentialism,’ David Halperin writes in How to be Gay (2012), ‘did not prevent the original founders of queer theory from asking “What do Queers want?”’. In her Object Lessons (2012), Robyn Wiegman explores the political and institutional effects of scholarly attachments to objects of knowledge. Queer theory is, for Wiegman, one of several ‘identity knowledges’ that share a commitment to social justice and that can teach us lessons about what and how we want.

More than two decades after queer theory’s emergence, presenters at this symposium are invited to engage with queer as an objectand with the object lessons of queer theory.
• Camp objects and aesthetics
• Screens and closets
• Queer knowledge: secrets and revelations
• Queer archives and ephemera
• Queer bodies and voices
• Antinormativity
• Queer as death drive / form of life.

For further information and to register your attendance please contact symposium convenor Monique Rooney:

Email: Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au

A Symposium on Art, Life, and the Rule of Law at Lund University

Upcoming Conference at Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Symposium - Art, Life and the Rule of Law

International Colloquium in Lund, Sweden, March 13-14 2014

This is an interdisciplinary scholarly meeting about creativity, law and human biology. Art and law are in many ways opposites. Law is rule making, restrictive and aims at a common standard for all, while art is norm breaking and seeks the exceptional and unique. And yet art and law mirror each other. Art issues aesthetic regimes and semiotic rule systems. The authority of law, in turn, depends on a creative, performative declaration: “This is the law!” In the last instance, law and art compete for sovereignty, refusing subservience.
Into this superimposition and tension between creativity and rule, the colloquium inserts the question of human biology. Biopolitics has emerged as a cornerstone for understanding modern society, from the invention of health care systems to the construction of concentration camps. Law divides human life into citizens and aliens, through postulating citizenship as a birthright and through granting or refusing migrants and refugees legal protection and access to healthcare. On another level, the biosciences’ dismantling of the body into parts and particles—from kidneys to stem cells and neurons—has legal institutions struggling to regulate organ trade and to find new definitions of human dignity, as seen in the recent EU ban on patents based on embryonic stem cell research. Law faces a human biology that transgresses bodily and national boundaries alike; perhaps it is not surprising that legal and biological meaning merge in theoretical concepts such as “immunity”.
Art, in turn, has always held its gaze on the human body. For Renaissance and Enlightenment culture, the depicted anatomical body served as conceptual model for imagining cosmos and society as harmonious unities. During World War II, painters like Fautrier and Bacon channelled the despair of the era into explorations of the human as a vulnerable and mute body-thing. Today, artists like Abramović, Hatoum, Stelarc, and Catts and Zurr investigate new meanings of bodily existence in late modernity—from commoditized biology to machine-animal hybridity.

The colloquium will bring together around twenty scholars from around the world in a dialogue about art and law, each with its inherent tension between rule and creativity, how they shed light on each other, and how they inform our understanding of the facts, politics and aesthetics of human biology, today and in history.

Conveners: Leif Dahlberg, The School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Max Liljefors, the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University.
Susanne Lundin, Deniz Kirik, Håkan Hydén, Max Liljefors, The human stem cell: Hope, health, bioeconomy project, Lund University.

Max Liljefors, Lund University. max.liljefors @kultur.lu .se

A Conference On Reproductive Rights at Boalt Hall

The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (Boalt Hall) will sponsor a symposium on October 4, 2013: Speech, Symbols, and Substantial Obstacles: The Doing and "Undue"ing of Abortion Law Since Casey. More here.

Upcoming Events

A wonderful list of upcoming conferences, workshops, and other events in the legal history area from Rechtgeschiedenis Blog.