The Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Philadelphia invite paper submissions for their 11th annual Policy Summit, to be held September 19-20, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in economic policy and development in low- and moderate-income communities.

Understanding the potential intended and unintended effects of regulations is critical for their success as policy implementation tools. For this reason, the focus of this year’s conference is on consumer finances and the new regulatory environment. We encourage the submission of papers in the areas of household balance sheets, consumer finances, the regulation of consumer financial products and consumer financial markets, consumer and small business lending, the role of information disclosure and consumer education, low income housing, student loans and related topics. Policy-related research and submissions applicable to the Federal Reserve’s Third and Fourth Districts and the Great Lakes region are encouraged.

American University Washington College of Law is inviting submissions and proposals for presentations for their Fall 2013 conference, “Poverty Law: Cases, Teaching, and Scholarship” to be held on Oct. 25-26, 2013. The deadline for proposals is Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. More information can be found here.

The National Business Law Scholars Conference is seeking papers for the fourth annual meeting to be held June 12-13, 2013, at The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law.

Deadline: April 15, 2013. To propose a presentation, email Professor Eric C. Chaffee at echaffee1[@]udayton.edu with an abstract or paper. Please title the email “NBLSC Submission – {Name}”.

If you would like to attend, but not present, your subject line should read “NBLSC Attendance” and be directed to Professor Chaffee. Please specify in your email whether you are willing to serve as a commentator or moderator. A conference schedule will be circulated in late May.

The Hagley Center presents Business and Politics in 20th Century America on November 8, 2013. Conference organizers seek scholarship on the following:

Over the past ten years there has been a surge of new scholarship on the relationship between business and American politics in the twentieth century. Much of this work examines the efforts by business and business people to influence politics, often in response to the growth of the American federal government that began with the Progressive Era and continued with the mid-century New Deal.

Deadline: April 30, 2013

Please submit a 500-word abstract and a c.v. of no more than three pages. Proposals are due by April 30, 2013 and should be sent via email to Carol Lockman, clockman[@]Hagley.org. Travel support will be available for presenters.

The Changing Norms of Global Governance research group at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies of the University of Bremen has issued a call for papers for a conference on “The Legitimation and Delegitimation of Global Governance Organizations,” to take place September 11-13, 2013. Abstracts are due February 15, 2013. Here is a link to the call.

Hat Tip: International Law Reporter

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on “Intellectual Property and Human Rights,” to be held February 21-22, 2013, at American University’s Washington College of Law. More information is available here.

Hat tip: IP and IT Conferences blog.

The Conference Committee for the IGLRC and the School of Law at King’s College London are pleased to announce that this year’s International Graduate Legal Research Conference will be held on April 8-9, 2013.Abstracts are due by Monday, December 17, 2012. The committee welcomes abstracts considering all areas of law. Here is a link to the call.

Sciences Po Toulouse is organizing, in collaboration with the Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association (ISA/RCSL), with the support of the European Network on Law and Society (RED&S), a Congress which will take place in Toulouse, from September 3 to 6, 2013, on the theme: “Sociology of Law and Political Action” Abstracts are due February 1st, 2013.

Georgetown University Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, Columbia Law School, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the ninth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. on June 3 & 4, 2013.


Deadline: Submissions (in either Word or Wordperfect, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 7, 2013, and should be sent by e-mail to the Center for the Study of Law and Culture: culture@law.columbia.edu. gf

The annual Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law Informatics Symposium will be held on February, 15, 2013. The symposium will focus on “issues in labor and employment related to informatics, including such topics as media in the employment context, candidate screening practices, employee privacy, data security and appropriate policies, National Labor Relations Board actions, and proposed legislation to protect employee account access.”

Presentations delivered at the conference will be published by the Northern Kentucky Law Review. Submission information can be found here.