Ten years ago, a group of scholar-activists organized a series of conversations about law and economicclass. Building on “outsider” jurisprudence that has moved inequalities of race, gender, and sexuality from the margins to the center of law, the group proposed a jurisprudence of economic inequality. To foreground economic justice, the group sought to critique mainstream law and economics and to focus on the lives of poor and working class people.
The Northwestern, Penn, and Stanford Law Schools are pleased to announce the creation of a new Junior Faculty Forum dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship focusing on the intersection of Law and Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM).
The forum will be held each fall, rotating among Northwestern, Penn, and Stanford. The inaugural forum will be held at Penn Law in Philadelphia on October 6-7, 2017. The forum is currently seeking submissions from junior faculty interested in presenting papers at the forum. The deadline for submissions is Friday, June 9.
Wiet Life Science Law Scholars Conference
Friday, October 13, 2017, 9am–5pm
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street, Suite 720
Chicago, IL 60611
Basic Information
- Conference Website
- Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017
- Expected Notification: July 15, 2017
Call for Abstracts
A decade on from the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in September 2007, the conference asks what progress has been made in securing indigenous peoples’ rights and what are the challenges remaining?
Twelfth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), presented by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) and hosted by Cornell Law School, is scheduled for October 13-14, 2017, in Ithaca, NY.|
The first Natural Resources Law Teachers Workshop to be held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Annual Institute will immediately follow the Saturday morning sessions at the Santa Fe Convention Center, July 22, from 12:30 pm–7:30 pm. The workshop is sponsored, in part, by the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
The Intellectual Property and Information Law Program at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will host the 17th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference on August 10-11, 2017.
Faulkner Law Review invites proposals for its ninth volume. The theme of this volume will be “The Role of the Executive in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition.” Authors accepted for publication will be invited to present their articles at our annual Law Review Symposium, which will be held on October 2-3, 2017 in Montgomery, AL. This year’s keynote speaker will be former Solicitor General of the United States and United States Court of Appeals Judge Kenneth Starr. Our Monday plenary speaker will be Professor Carson Holloway, associate professor of political science at the University of N
Call for papers What does it mean to break the world? What is legitimate resistance to state power? When does authority spill over into repression? What happens when a sovereign loses control? What is an anarchic act? Is anarchic thought possible? What is anarchy’s relationship to chaos and disorder? What is its relationship to order and regulation? How are such concepts represented—if they can be—in legal, social, political, moral, and critical philosophies? Can anarchy be a duty?
LatCrit XXI Biennial Conference
Orlando, Florida
LATCRIT/SALT JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SEP. 28, 2017
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE: SEP. 29 – 30
BOARD MEETING (COMMUNITY & EXECUTIVE SESSIONS) OCT. 1, 2017
2016 ELECTION: WHAT NEXT?
