Criminal Law and Procedure

Call for Papers: The Controlled Substances Act at 50 Years

Deadline: 

08/15/19

Event Date: 

02/20/20 to 02/22/20

Location name: 

Phoenix, AZ

Organization: 

Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Roughly a century ago, in response to growing concerns about drug use, the federal government enacted its first drug control law in the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. Subsequent decades saw Congress continue to pass drug control legislation and criminalize drug abuse, but by the 1960s there was growing interest in more medical approaches to preventing and responding to drug abuse.

Call for Papers - Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global

Deadline: 

07/15/19

Event Date: 

09/26/19 to 09/28/19

Location name: 

Austin, TX

Organization: 

Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Mass incarceration and overcriminalization in the United States are subject to critique by some on both the right and the left today. Many critics increasingly talk of prison abolition. At the same time, the international human rights movement continues to rely upon criminal punishment as its primary enforcement tool for many violations, even as it criticizes harsh prison conditions, the use of the death penalty, and lack of due process in criminal proceedings.

Call for Papers - Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference

Deadline: 

06/28/19

Event Date: 

09/27/19

Location name: 

Chicago

Organization: 

Northern Illinois University College of Law

The Northern Illinois University College of Law will host the Second Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on Friday, September 27, 2019.

Call For Papers - Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies

Deadline: 

06/21/19

Event Date: 

11/15/19 to 11/16/19

Location name: 

Claremont, California

Organization: 

Claremont McKenna College and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS)

Spearheaded by CELS 2019 co-presidents David Bjerk, Eric Helland, and Dan Krauss, Claremont McKenna College and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) are pleased to announce the 14th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) on November 15-16, 2019, in Claremont, California.

Supreme Court Economic Review Call for Papers Economics of Criminal Procedure, Punishment, and their Consequences

Deadline: 

12/20/19

Event Date: 

03/26/20 to 03/27/20

Location name: 

Arlington, VA

Organization: 

The Supreme Court Economic Review (SCER)

Supreme Court Economic Review Call for Papers
Economics of Criminal Procedure, Punishment, and their Consequences

26 Mar 2020 - 27 Mar 2020, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Arlington, VA

Call for Papers - Michigan Law Junior Scholars Conference

Deadline: 

01/12/19

Event Date: 

04/26/19 to 04/27/19

Location name: 

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Organization: 

The University of Michigan Law School

Overview: The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 5th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will be held on April 26-27, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members of the Michigan Law faculty. The Conference aims to promote fruitful collaboration between participants and to encourage their integration into a community of legal scholars.

Call for Papers - CSLSA 2018 Scholarship Conference @Texas A&M University School of Law

Deadline: 

09/1/18

Event Date: 

10/12/18 to 10/13/18

Location name: 

Fort Worth, Texas

Organization: 

Central States Law Schools Association

Registration is now open for the Central States Law Schools Association 2018 Scholarship Conference, which will be held on Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at the Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. We invite law faculty from across the country to submit proposals to present papers or works in progress.

Call for Papers: Graphic Justice Discussions 2018

Deadline: 

05/21/18

Event Date: 

10/20/18

Location name: 

Brooklyn, NY

Organization: 

Graphic Justice Research Allaiance (GJRA)

The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) is delighted to announce a call for papers for its 2018 annual conference at St Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. The conference will be held on 20 October 2018, and promises to be an exciting event that is accessible and relevant to scholars, artists, practitioners, policy-makers, writers, and the general public alike.

The GJRA is a multidisciplinary research network exploring the crossover between law and justice and
comics of all kinds. 

Call for Papers: New Security Challenges

Deadline: 

05/15/18

Event Date: 

10/24/18 to 10/26/18

Location name: 

Lima, Peru

Organization: 

Universidad de Pacifico Law School

After the dictatorships and armed conflicts of the latter half of the 20th century, Latin American security has entered a new stage. Politically motivated armed groups are subsiding, while new criminal actors (drug cartels, transnational gangs, and criminal organizations) are flourishing from Mexico to Brazil. The protection of human rights in the fight against crime is adapting to this new reality.

Call for Papers - Police Brutality: Its Chilling Effects, and Solutions

Deadline: 

01/10/18

Event Date: 

04/6/18

Location name: 

Seattle, Washington

Organization: 

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

The Seattle Journal for Social Justice is excited to announce its symposium entitled “Police Brutality: Its Chilling Effect and Innovative Solutions” on Friday, April 6th, 2018. We will examine this crucial issue from contrasting perspectives. We hope to explore the challenges and fundamental changes needed to address this issue. The journal welcomes papers for presentation at this symposium and for potential publication in the Seattle Journal for Social Justice.

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