Workshop on Understanding and Doing Equality: Building Synergies Between Arts and Human Rights

From Honor Tuohy, University of Galway:

Announcement of a workshop: Understanding and Doing Equality: Building Synergies between Arts and Human Rights

Workshop

Understanding and Doing Equality: Building Synergies between Arts and Human Rights

This is a one-day workshop on May 29th 2025 at the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Call for contributors: 

This workshop aims to explore themes focusing on methodologies and approaches for the creation of synergies between arts (understood broadly) and the equality-oriented dimension of human rights. What uses of arts are particularly conducive to the sharing of lived experiences of disadvantage to evoke compassion and create mutual understanding? How can artistic means be used to communicate ideas about equality, including in their scientific complexity? What specific forms of artistic communication are most conducive to positive change?

A full outline of the workshop is available in the document attached. A 300 words abstract should be sent to the organisers by 30 April 2025.

Please contact Honor Tuohy (H.Tuohy3@universityofgalway.ie) or Ekaterina Yahyaoui (ekaterina.yahyaoui@universityofgalway.ie) for more information and/or see attached document.

 

Theme

Human rights and equality appear as ideals appealing to most if not all people across the globe. 

However, the way people understand and experience these ideals can vary significantly since even the 

most conserva=ve poli=cians or ac=vists use these ideals in some shape or form. This reveals 

complexity and mul=dimensionality of equality and human rights which o?en hampers efficient public 

debate, communica=on and mutual understanding. At the same =me, the concept of equality is the 

subject of philosophical and academic discussions of which many contain difficult and not immediately 

accessible language. The experience of (in)equality is also not immediately comprehensible by those 

who have not personally been vic=ms of any sort of discrimina=on.

Arts and various ar=s=c prac=ces – visual arts, performing arts, or literary arts – have long been 

recognised for their ability to document human rights abuses. Arts also play a role in increasing 

empathy, communica=ng feelings and emo=ons. Discussions about arts’ ability to contribute to 

building stronger communi=es, transla=ng human experiences and knowledge into a more accessible 

form, or ac=ng as a crea=ve force leading to posi=ve change in our socie=es are ongoing.

This workshop aims to explore further these themes focusing on methodologies and approaches for 

crea=on of synergies between arts (understood broadly) and the equality-oriented dimension human 

rights. What uses of arts are par=cularly conduc=ve to sharing of lived experiences of disadvantage 

to evoke compassion and create mutual understanding? How can ar=s=c means be used to communicate 

ideas about equality, including in their scien=fic complexity? What specific forms of ar=s=c 

communica=on are most conduc=ve to posi=ve change?

We invite papers on these and related ques=ons from scholars, ar=sts and ac=vists alike. Inter- and 

transdisciplinary approaches are the most welcome. Equally, we are looking for both theore=cally 

informed contribu=ons as well as empirically grounded work, including examples of successful novel 

synergies and collabora=ons.

About the workshop

The one-day workshop will be held on 29 May 2025 at the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia Bulgaria. 

The par=cipants will be required to submit a 1000 words concept paper by 22 May 2025. While this 

will be an in-person workshop, online aWendance can be facilitated in jus=fied circumstances. The 

workshop will also serve as a form of feedback on future publishable outputs as the organisers aim 

to submit an edited volume proposal to a reputable publisher. Publica=on plans will be discussed 

during the workshop.

While the par=cipa=on in the workshop is free, the organisers are unable to cover any travel or 

accommoda=on expenses.

Submission process

Please  submit  a  300  words  abstract  to  the  organisers  Ekaterina  Yahyaoui 

(Ekaterina.yahyaoui@universityofgalway.ie) and Honor Tuohy (H.Tuohy3@universityofgalway.ie) (please 

use both emails) by 30 April 2025. Decisions will be communicated in the following week.

Legal Imaginaries Across the Asia-Pacific: Vernacular Laws and Literatures: Workshop, September 5, 2024 @ANU_Law @lawlithum

 From the ANU Network of Law Arts and the Humanities:

 

 

Legal Imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific: Vernacular laws and literatures

Thursday 5^th September

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Level 4, ANU College of Law

This event represents the first fruits of a new network that targets a specific geographic constellation and identifies, through the language of ‘the imaginary’ and ‘vernacular’, a specific set of theoretical resources. ‘Laws and literatures’ both frames the endeavour in relation to the rich field of studies in law and literature, and pluralises it in significant ways. Collaborative partners in the broader project include University of Wollongong, Hong Kong University, National University of Singapore, and University of British Columbia.

This one-day workshop would be of interest to academics and HDR students in literature, law and the humanities, legal theory, and postcolonial studies. It features new work from prominent and emerging scholars working in law and literature from right across the region -- from Australia, Aotearoa, the Pacific and Mexico to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia – showcasing new directions with what we might call a common indicazione geografica tipica, and indicazione teorica tipica.

To find out more about the program and to register, follow the link.

For further information, contact Professor Desmond Manderson,
Australian National University College of Law / College of Arts & Social Sciences

 

Legal-Literary Imagining: An Early Modern Workshop, 11 March 2024. 10.30am – 6.00pm. New College, Oxford & St John’s College, Oxford

 Literary-Legal Imagining is a one–day workshop, hosted by New College and St John’s College, and supported by CEMS and the English Faculty. This workshop will explore the kinds of research questions that arise from the pervasive overlapping of the legal and the literary in early modern life and texts.

Registration is free but essential for catering purposes. If you would like to attend, please contact daniel.haywood@sjc.ox.ac.uk to register by 28 February 2024.

 More about the workshop here. 

Forthcoming: Workshop on the Theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, July 18-19, 2023 @SLSA_UK @aperrykessaris @KentLawSchool @BrunelLaw

A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions will be held on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 July, 2023 in central London.

Organisers: Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris

Funded by: Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School

Exhibitions range widely in form, including from spontaneous pop-up to enduring archive, material to digital, and localised to roving. They vary in purpose, including from documentation to deconstruction, resolution to disruption, inclusion to resistance, and query to explanation. They can include artefacts as varied as objects, records, images, sounds, statutes and specimens.

This hands-on workshop is an opportunity to explore exhibition as a legal research practice, and in particular to consider: What might you achieve, for scholarship and the wider world, through the practice of exhibition that cannot be achieved through other research activities? 

By engaging with expert curators, and completing a series of structured tasks in a range of exhibition contexts, participants will be prompted and facilitated to consider exhibition as part of the wider social, political, economic and cultural context of collection and curation; how they might ‘exhibit’ their legal research; and how in so doing they might enhance the quality of their research, as well as its potential impact, within academia and beyond.

Outputs from the event will include a Pop-up Museum of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions. 

For further details, including how to apply, click here.

Details also available here.

Deadline: 28 April 2023

Law and Humanities Workshop: Futurity Now? September 6-8, 2022

 From Professor Steven Howe, University of Lucerne:

Law and Humanities Workshop: Futurity Now?

6-8 September 2022

Online via Zoom

Convened by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne & the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, The Australian National University

 

It is not so long ago that Mark Fisher, in Ghosts of My Life (2013), pronounced the “slow cancellation of the future.” Riffing on a phrase of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Fisher identifies a cultural inertia that resides in a collective inability to “grasp and articulate the present.” The ubiquity of capitalism – and of a capitalist realism that presumes there is no alternative to the neoliberal global order – has, Fisher argues, given rise to a condition in which “life continues, but time has stopped.” The “slow cancellation of the future” thus becomes, in Fisher’s hands, a critical expression of this insidious creep that gradually but relentlessly corrodes the social imagination – and with it, the radical potential of the future. As Wendy Brown describes it, this loss of futurity and of forward momentum “makes the weight of the present very heavy: all mass, no velocity.” Or “in the terms of late modern speediness … all speed, no direction.”

 

Is, then, the future over? Not quite. Indeed, there is no greater critical concern in the contemporary moment than the future, and recent years have seen a marked resurgence of thinking about futurity. Fired by the urgency of our current condition, writers, theorists, artists and activists have turned anew to consider the possibilities of the future, both as a subject of theorization and as an orientation for practice in the world.

 

Against this background, the law and humanities workshop proposes a multi- and interdisciplinary discussion around the topic of “Futurity Now?” A joint venture of a global network of partner institutions, the workshop will offer a creative and stimulating space for exploring critical and theoretical perspectives on the future “as time, as event, as condition, as an orientation to the oncoming” (Saint-Amour).

 

The workshop programme will comprise the following three sessions (all online):

 

• Tuesday 6 September, 15.00 (CEST): Can Law Control the Future? (or it is just a Part of the Past?) (hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Roma Tre)
• Wednesday 7 September, 10.00 (CEST) / 18.00 (AEDT): Colonial Legal Imaginaries / Southern Literary Futures (hosted by the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, ANU & the University of Adelaide)
• Thursday 8 September, 10.00 (CEST): Organizing the Future (Or: How to Demand a Million More Years?) (hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies - lucernaiuris, University of Lucerne)

 

Please follow the links for workshop descriptions and registration details.

 

All enquiries to lucernaiuris@unilu.ch.

CFP: Workshop on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law, April 5, 2019 @asilorg

From the American Society of International Law's Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (CHAIG) and Fordham University School of Law's Urban Center, in collaboration with the Quebec Society of International Law (SQDI), a Call for Papers for a Workshop on the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law.


The workshop will be held at Fordham University’s School of Law, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Friday, April 5, 2019. The protection of cultural heritage has long been understood as the province primarily of international law, but this workshop will highlight the place of municipal or local law in the discourse, exploring continuities and discontinuities with international law. Do international law and municipal law draw on each other’s strengths? Do they complement each other in terms of their shortcomings? Do they connect, or are they disconnected, in practice? While international law is addressed to nations, local governance is highly relevant to the protection of cultural heritage, and yet sometimes working in silos from other cities, provinces or states, as well as national governments.

Paper proposals of no more than 500 words should be sent to sabrina.tremblayhuet@usherbrooke.ca before Sunday, December 30th, 2018. The authors of the selected proposals will be notified by Friday, January 18th, 2019. Proposals from emerging scholars and graduate students are highly encouraged. Draft papers must be submitted no later than Monday, March 18th, 2019, for circulation to the selected participants in preparation for the workshop. Please note that no funding is available to cover transportation and accommodation for participants. Attendance at the workshop is, however, free of charge, subject to prior registration. Lunch will be provided to workshop participants.

More about the CFP here.

Annual Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop, 23-24 February 2018, Princeton University: Extended Deadline: Announcement and CFP

From the mailbox:

Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop

23-24 February 2018

Princeton University

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Announcement and Call for Papers

Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University), Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law), and Jacques DeLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School)

Co-sponsored by Princeton University, the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the American Society of Comparative Law

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be held February 23-24, 2018 at Princeton University. 

            Interested authors should submit papers to Kim Lane Scheppele at kimlane@princeton.edu.  We have extended the deadline and ask for papers to submitted by January 8, 2018.  We will inform authors of our decision by January 20.   Participants whose papers have been accepted should plan to arrive in Princeton by Thursday night on February 22 and to leave on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning.   

The annual workshop continues to be an important forum in which comparative law work in progress can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be truly helpful to the respective authors.   "Work in progress" means scholarship that has reached a stage at which it is substantial enough to merit serious discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in print (and can still be revised after the workshop, if it has already been accepted for publication.)   It includes law review articles, book chapters or outlines, substantial book reviews, and other appropriate genres.

We ask for only one contribution per author and also ask authors to limit their papers to 50 pages in length, or, if the paper (or book chapter) is longer, to indicate which 50 pages they would like to have read and discussed. 

            Our objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the discussion of scholarly work but also to create the opportunity for comparative lawyers to get together for two days devoted to nothing but talking shop, both in the sessions and outside. We hope that this will create synergy that fosters more dialogue, cooperation, and an increased sense of coherence for the discipline.

The participants in the workshop will consist of the respective authors, commentators, and faculty members of the host institutions.  The overall group will be kept small enough to sit around a large table and to allow serious discussion.  The papers will not be presented at the workshop. They will be distributed well in advance and every participant must have read them before attending the meeting.  Each paper will be introduced and discussed first by two commentators before opening the discussion to the other workshop participants.  Each of the authors selected for the workshop is expected to have read and to be prepared to discuss each of the papers selected.  The author of each paper will be given an opportunity to respond and ask questions of his or her own.  There are no plans to publish the papers. Instead, it is up to the authors to seek publication if, and wherever, they wish.  The goal of the workshop is to improve the work before publication. 

            The Workshop will be funded by the host school and by the American Society of Comparative Law. Authors of papers and commentators will be reimbursed for their travel expenses and accommodation up to $600, by either by the American Society of Comparative Law or Princeton University, in accordance with the ASCL reimbursement policy (as posted on its webpage.)  We ask that authors inquire into funding opportunities at their home institutions before applying for reimbursement by the ASCL or by the Princeton University.

In this cycle of our annual workshop, we are excited to welcome our newest co-organizer, Professor Jacques DeLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and we bid a fond farewell to Professor Maximo Langer of the UCLA School of Law, with whom we have greatly enjoyed co-hosting many meetings of this annual workshop series.   

Workshop on Imagination and Legal Practice, Newcastle Law School, May 10, 2017 @ThomGiddens @NCLLawSchool

From the mailbox:
via @ThomGiddens

Workshop on Imagination and Legal Practice

Newcastle Law School – Conference Room

10 May 2017

14:00 – 18:30 (Registration at 13:45)

Theme

A workshop to explore the relationship between imagination and legal practice, drawing on the insights of disciplines outside of jurisprudence. The workshop is intended as a scoping event to consider the potential for a new research network. As such, we are keen to welcome attendees from any discipline who might be interested in joining such a network, or who simply want to find out more about the work we hope to do on this subject in the coming years.

Speakers include:

Dr Anna Abraham

Neuropsychology, Leeds Beckett University

Tom Bennett

Law, Newcastle University

Dr Meiko O’Halloran

Literature, Newcastle University

Emilia Mickiewicz

Law, Newcastle University

Prof Richard Mullender

Law & Legal Theory, Newcastle University

Dr Kathleen Stock

Philosophy, University of Sussex

If you would like to attend this workshop, please register at: http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=12505

There is no fee for attendance.

Queries please email thomas.bennett@ncl.ac.uk

An October Workshop on Law and Humanities at the University of Warwick

From Illan rua Wall at the Critical Legal Thinking Blog, news about the upcoming Scenes of Unrest: Law and Humanities Dissent Workshop, scheduled for October 14 at the University of Warwick. Among the scheduled presenters are Nadine El-​Enany (Birkbeck) Julen Etxabe (Helsinki) Adam Gearey (Birkbeck) Silvija Jestrovic (Warwick) Daniel Matthews (Hong Kong) Rashmi Varma (Warwick) Scott Veitch (Hong Kong) Marco Wan (Hong Kong) Gary Watt (Warwick) Andrew Williams (Warwick)

Among the questions the workshop will address: How might Law and Humanities enable us to make sense of a setting of popular dissensus, of widespread economic, political and environmental chaos and inequity? What does it mean to choose the disciplinary apparatus of Law and Humanities in the quintessential political setting – the moment of popular dissensus and disagreement? What are the possibilities of an aesthetic engagement with law, protest and dissent?

A Workshop on Law and the Humanities at the University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is sponsoring a Workshop on Law and Humanities on October 14, 2015. The workshop will consider how the various ‘law and…’ methodologies (law and literature, film, theatre studies, etc.) can help us think through the scenes of unrest, the staging of protest, and the writing of injustice and discontent.

It aims to address the following questions: How might Law and Humanities enable us to make sense of a setting of popular dissensus, of widespread economic, political and environmental chaos and inequity? What does it mean to choose the disciplinary apparatus of Law and Humanities in the quintessential political setting – the moment of popular dissensus and disagreement? What are the possibilities of an aesthetic engagement with law, protest and dissent? Lunch will be provided. The workshop is free but pre-registration is required.

Here is a list of confirmed participants.

Nadine El-​Enany (Birkbeck)

Julen Etxabe (Helsinki)

Adam Gearey (Birkbeck)

Silvija Jestrovic (Warwick)

Daniel Matthews (Hong Kong)

Rashmi Varma (Warwick)

Scott Veitch (Hong Kong)

Marco Wan (Hong Kong)

Gary Watt (Warwick)

Andrew Williams (Warwick)


 More here from the blog Critical Legal Thinking.

Graduate Student Workshop at ASLCH, March 5, 2015

From James R. Martel, San Francisco State University, on behalf of ASLCH:

All graduate students who are considering coming to the ASLCH conference, March 6-7th 2014, at Georgetown School of Law are invited to apply for the graduate student workshop that will occur one day earlier on March 5th (see http://law2.syr.edu/academics/centers/lch/graduate_student_workshop.html for application details)
 The workshop will consist of panels on the logistics of graduate student life, working on your dissertation, finding academic jobs and getting published as well as sessions where grad students will meet in small groups with mentors to talk about their own work and any challenges that they are facing.
 Applicants whose proposals are accepted may be funded for the extra night's accommodation by ASLCH and, if funds permit, it may also be able to contribute to airfare costs to and from Washington.
 For inquiries and to apply please write to George Pavlich at <gpavlich@ualberta.ca>
  

2012 International Osnabrück Summer Institute for the Cultural Study of the Law

From Peter Schneck, Chair of American Studies, University of Osnabrück, Germany

*Culture, Rights, Identity: Interfaces between the Humanities and the Law*




International Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law



http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/lawandculture



*Invitation*



The fourth annual International Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from August 6 to 18, 2012 at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Hosted by the Institute of English and American Studies (IfAA), the Summer Institute seeks to bring together advanced graduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral students of the humanities and/or the law from around the world to promote and examine the interdisciplinary study and research of law and culture.



During the two week program, students will partake in a unique experience of scholarly collaboration and exchange through workshops, public lectures, panel discussions, excursions and a final symposium.

Participating faculty in this year's Summer Institute include:



*Rosemary J. Coombe (York University, Toronto) *Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen) *Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck School of Law, University of London) *Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University, New York)

* Kay Schaffer (University of Adelaide)



with more faculty to be announced in the upcoming weeks.



The Institute will offer a total of four workshops for 30-35 international participants (doctoral, post-doctoral and advanced M.A. - see below for

eligibility) over a two-week period. The first workshop will be concerned with basic theories, concepts and perspectives within the emerging field of cultural legal studies, focusing specifically on the range and potential of interdisciplinary studies and approaches. The remaining three workshops will focus on key areas of critical inquiry that have been central to the dynamic development of the field and are of particular importance within a European context:



* The relation between human rights and cultural rights

* Historical development and current debates about culture as heritage, property and as a resource and its legal definition and regulation (including concepts such as copyright, intellectual property and

authorship)

* The cultural presence and representation of the law and the role of culture in the representation and dissemination of the concept of rights (e.g. law and literature, life writing and human rights, visual culture and rights rhetoric)



*Participant Eligibility*

The Summer Institute aims at advanced graduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral students from various academic fields, whose research interests and projects are situated at the interface between law and the humanities and who are concerned with a better understanding of the interdependence of law and culture.

Even though the Institute strongly invites students from a broad variety of disciplines and academic backgrounds, it focuses almost exclusively on questions and issues related to research done in the humanities and legal studies.

Doctoral candidates in literature, the law, the arts, the humanities, and the related social sciences are invited to apply, as are advanced students pursuing a J.D. or its equivalent (such as the L.L.B). Young scholars or junior faculty members who have received a Ph.D. or corresponding degree in the last five years are also eligible. While applications by doctoral/post-doctoral students are prioritized, the Summer Institute also encourages applications from advanced Master students about to conclude their studies and with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research.

There are openings for 30-35 students to participate in the Summer Institute.

Due to its international audience, the Summer Institute will be completely conducted in English. It does not offer language instruction classes, either in German or in English.



*Application Process*



Applicants should complete:



* An application form:

http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/lawandculture/application-2012/

* A statement of purpose no more than two pages long, describing current scholarly interests, previous research, and plans for how the Summer Institute would specifically further these interests and plans.

* An up-to-date curriculum vitae.



Students interested in taking part in the Summer Institute should submit their applications no later than April 30, 2012. Detailed information about the Institute, the workshops, international faculty, admission and fees can be found at:



http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/lawandculture

*Questions*



Please direct all inquiries and questions to the main coordinator of the Institute at

lawandculture@uos.de

Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for Junior Faculty, Stanford, California

From Maeva Marcus, Director, Institute for Constitutional History, New-York Historical Society and The George Washington University Law School

Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for Junior Faculty


July 8-14, 2012

Stanford, California



ASSESSING THE US CONSTITUTION: TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY RESPONSES TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ASSUMPTIONS



Sponsored by the Institute for Constitutional History

with the Stanford Constitutional Law Center







DESCRIPTION:

It is an obvious truth that the drafters of the 1787 Constitution had a number of basic assumptions about the workings of what they called a “Republican Form of Government” and that the institutions established in Philadelphia reflected these assumptions. To be sure, some of them, such as equal voting power in the Senate or the basis of representation in the House (i.e., the 3/5 rule), were the result of compromises, in which the losers (like James Madison with regard to the Senate) viewed the result as a “lesser evil” (to the greater evil of no Constitution at all) rather than a positive good. Still, almost all of the institutions were defended by proponents of the Constitution, the most prominent, of course, being the collective Publius. To a remarkable degree, America in 2012 continues to be governed through the structures established in 1787.



The purpose of the seminar is quite simple: To look at the justifications offered, particularly at the Philadelphia Convention and ensuing ratification debates (including, of course, The Federalist) and to assess the degree to which we find them persuasive over two centuries later. The seminar is not about “constitutional interpretation” as that topic is usually defined. That is, we will not be looking at the parts of the Constitution that have been significantly litigated and, therefore, “interpreted,” over the years, such as the assignment of powers to Congress in Article One, Section Eight. Rather, we will be looking at examples of what in my forthcoming book I call “the Constitution of Settlement” (in contrast to the endlessly-litigated “Constitution of Conversation”)—bicameralism, the particular organization of power in the Senate, the presidential veto ,and the process of constitutional amendment, among others.



Readings will be taken from Professor Levinson’s book, Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012); The Federalist; The Founders’ Constitution; Akhil Reed Amar,America’s Constitution: A Biography; and John Dinan, The American State Constitutional Tradition.



WORKSHOP LEADER

Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, University of Texas Law School, and Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Among other books, he has written: Constitutional Faith(Princeton U. Press, 1988, 2nd ed. 2011), and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) (Oxford U. Press, 2006, pb. ed. 2008). He is also the co-editor of a widely used casebook, Processes of Constitutional Decision Making (5th ed. 2006). He has written over 350 articles in law reviews as well as more general venues. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.



STIPENDS AND SUPPORT: Participants will receive accommodation at the Munger Graduate Residence on the campus of Stanford Law School and a modest stipend for meals. Participants will also receive a travel reimbursement up to $250. Workshop participants are expected to attend all sessions and engage in all program activities.



ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION PROCEDURE: The summer workshop is designed for university instructors who now teach or plan to teach courses in constitutional studies, including constitutional history, constitutional law, and related subjects. Instructors who would like to devote a unit of a survey course to constitutional history are also welcome to apply. All university-level instructors are encouraged to apply, including adjuncts and part-time faculty members, and post-doctoral fellows from any academic discipline associated with constitutional studies (history, political science, law, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, etc.).



To apply, please submit the following materials: a detailed résumé or curriculum vitae with contact information; syllabi from any undergraduate course(s) in constitutional studies you currently teach; a 500- word statement describing your interest in both constitutional studies and this workshop; and a letter of recommendation from your department chair or other professional reference (sent separately by e-mail or post). The application statement should address your professional background, any special perspectives or experiences you might bring to the workshop, and how the workshop will enhance your teaching in constitutional studies.



THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS MAY 1, 2012. Applications should be sent via electronic mail to MMarcus@nyhistory.org. Successful applicants will be notified soon thereafter.





FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Maeva Marcus

Director, Institute for Constitutional History

New-York Historical Society and

The George Washington University Law School

(202) 994-6562

MMarcus@nyhistory.org

www.nyhistory.org/ich

Upcoming Events

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