Legal Scholarship Blog

Risk, Perception, and Response — Cambridge, MA

uwlegalscholarship — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:36:33 +0000

The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (School of Public Health) is soliciting papers for its Risk, Perception, and Response Conference, to be held March 20-21, 2014.

How people react to scientific evidence of risk is mediated by many factors, including how risk information is perceived and communicated, how we react to social and cultural influences, and how choices are structured. Examples abound of situations where individuals’ risk perceptions lead them to act in ways that appear contrary to their own interests, overreacting to or neglecting risks. How can situations in which individuals are likely to respond poorly be identified, and what can be done to improve their responses?

Abstracts are due June 10, 2013. Each presenter will receive travel funding and an honorarium. Papers will be published.
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CFP: Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:18:46 +0000

The Journal of Consumer Policy seeks submissions for a special issue, Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer, to be published in March 2014. The editors of the special issue are Lucia A. Reisch (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) and Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). Papers must be submitted by Oct. 1, 2013.
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Banks in World War I — Zurich, Switzerland

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:40:32 +0000

The European Association for Banking & Financial History (EAHB) presents 1914: Banks at War: Banks Confronted by WWI June 14, 2014. Paper proposals are due Sept. 1, 2013.
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Call for Papers: First Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation – Chicago, IL

OSULEGALSCHOLARSHIP — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:24:42 +0000

The University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Richmond School of Law invite submissions for the First Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation, which will be held November 8, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois.

This annual workshop will bring together scholars focused on corporate and securities litigation to present their works-in-progress. Papers addressing any aspect of corporate and securities litigation or enforcement are eligible. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, securities litigation, fiduciary duty litigation, or comparative approaches to business litigation. We welcome scholars working in a variety of methodologies, including empirical analysis, law and economics, law and sociology, and traditional doctrinal analysis. Authors whose papers are selected will be invited to present their work at a workshop hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday November 8, 2013. Local costs (lodging and workshop meals) will be covered. Participants are asked to pay for their own travel expenses. The workshop is designed to maximize discussion and feedback. All participants will have read the selected papers. The author will provide a brief introduction to the paper, but the majority of the individual sessions will be devoted to collective discussion of the paper involved.

Deadline: May 31, 2013. Send an abstract to Jessica Erickson at jerickso[@]richmond.edu by May 31, 2013. Please include your name, current position, and contact information in the e-mail accompanying the submission. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by Friday, June 28.

Direct inquiries to Professor Verity Winship (vwinship[@]illinois.edu) and Professor Jessica Erickson (jerickso[@]richmond.edu). im

Call for Papers: Law and Business Review of the Americas

OSULEGALSCHOLARSHIP — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:26:21 +0000

The Law and Business Review of the Americas, a journal of the International Law Review Association at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law is soliciting papers for publication in the summer and fall issues.

The Law & Business Review of the Americas is a quarterly publication co-sponsored by the ABA Section of International Law and Practice addressing legal, business, economic, political, and social policy issues affecting the Western Hemisphere. Submissions focusing on any country in the Western Hemisphere will be accepted, but preference will be given to articles on topics concerning Latin America.

Deadlines: 11:59 p.m. CST September 1, 2013 . However, submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and earlier submissions will be more likely to receive offers for publication. Submissions may be emailed to Sarah Wilson, Editor-in-Chief, at eic-lbra[@]smu.edu, along with a copy of the author’s CV im

Call for Papers: Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class – Oklahoma City, OK

OSULEGALSCHOLARSHIP — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:55:25 +0000

Oklahoma City University School of Law hosts the conference “Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class” September 27-28, 2013.

This conference seeks to bring the insights of progressive property theory to the area of inheritance and succession law and will address the many points of intersection between inheritance law, gender and race, social structure, wealth inequality, domestic violence, indigenous people’s rights, among others. Recognizing that inheritance law is a society’s DNA, the conference will present both theoretical, historical and practical approaches to ways it has and continues to maintain social structure and ways it can change it.

Call for Papers Deadline: August 1, 2013. Proposals should be 250 words long, sent to cspivack[@]okcu.edu

Call for Papers: Columbia Journal of Tax Law

OSULEGALSCHOLARSHIP — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:45:02 +0000

The Columbia Journal of Tax Law invites submissions from scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students. Authors are encouraged to submit articles in MS Word format through ExpressO, LexOpus, or by email, with their name, email address, and phone number in the message body, to taxjournal-articles[@]law.columbia.edu. Please see the journal’s Submissions page for more detailed information and guidelines. im

USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet – Washington DC

OSULEGALSCHOLARSHIP — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:39:12 +0000

As part of USENIX Security ’13 (August 14-16, 2013), the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI ’13). will be held August 13, 2013. ”This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from technology, law, and policy who are working on means to study, detect, or circumvent practices that inhibit free and open communications on the Internet.” im

Call for Papers: The Future of Criminal Law – Minneapolis, MN

OSULEGALSCHOLARSHIP — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:16:10 +0000

The Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice hosts “The Future of Criminal Law?” April 24-26, 2013. As part of this conference, the institute is soliciting papers for the April 25-26 workshop.

Each paper should argue for a single crucial reform to the criminal law or the criminal process (the 2013 Robina Conference dealt with sentencing and punishment, so we will not include papers on these topics in the 2014 conference).

Deadline: September 30, 2013. Papers must be no longer than 6,000 words, including footnotes (or endnotes) and references. Include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Selection will be through blind review, so please remove all self-identifying references and provide contact details on a separate sheet. Email submissions to robina[@]umn.edu. im

“Many practitioners and theorists believe our systems of criminal law and criminal justice have been beset by crises. The criminal law’s reach extends more and more widely, as legislators reach for criminalization as a first, rather than as a last, resort to deal with perceived social problems. Criminal offenses are defined in ever broader terms, often with little apparent regard for the principle that criminal liability should depend on culpable wrongdoing. The criminal process, dominated by prosecutorial power and plea-bargaining, is hardly a process through which justice is done to those accused of crimes.

“Others regard such talk of “crises” as, at best, exaggerated. Our criminal justice system faces real challenges, but what critics cite as symptoms of systemic failure are actually necessary features of a criminal law that is to protect individual liberty and public safety in these dangerous times. Public protection requires an expansive criminal law that allows police and prosecutors a wide discretion in implementing it. It requires a criminal process that deals efficiently with large numbers of offenders.

“Even those who deny that criminal justice is in crisis recognize, however, that the system faces significant challenges. Disagreement centers on the nature and extent of these challenges, and on what sorts of response are warranted. The conference aims to bring together thoughtful scholars and practitioners to engage in imaginative and constructive discussion of these issues.”

ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum — Taipei, Taiwan

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:51:25 +0000

The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law, in partnership with the ASIL Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Group, will hold the ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum on May 15-16, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.

The title of the Research Forum is “International Law and Dispute Resolution: Challenges in the Asia Pacific.” Questions can be directed to Professor Pasha Hsieh, Research Forum co-organizer, at pashahsieh[@]smu.edu.sg.
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