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Agricultural and Food Law, Courageous Advocacy in Animal Law
The AALS Section on Animal Law and the Agricultural & Food Law Section are co-hosting a panel at the 2025 AALS conference titled Courageous Advocacy in Animal Law. Please submit your proposal to be part of this panel by filling out the form below!
Interested presenters should submit a (1) short bio (150 words max), (2) abstract (500 words max), and (3) CV (.docx or PDF upload) using this Google Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJFoBwiXcGGywMT-E9FV7ggjcZW6feht_Vk5rRa_fYsy3JoQ/viewform
Due: August 16, 2024
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Agricultural and Food Law, Courage in an Uncertain Era: Advocating to Transform the Food System
The Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Section on Agricultural & Food Law and Section on Animal Law are excited to announce this Call for Presenters for the panel they are co-hosting at the AALS 2025 Annual Meeting, which will be held in San Francisco, January 7-11, 2025.
The title of the co-hosted panel is Courage in an Uncertain Era: Advocating to Transform the Food System. This panel will be held on Wednesday, January 8 from 9:50 – 11:20 am Pacific time.
This session will highlight those fighting for the food system of the future and challenging policies, regulations, and practices that impact the entire food chain, production to consumer. Areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, food justice, water law, environmental law, labor law, antitrust and competition, access to land, and other notable global challenges to ensuring we have a sustainable and just system of food production and food access
Our focus is on sharing and exploring the ways in which courageous individuals and entities are working to transform our food system to be more equitable, resilient, accessible, sustainable, and just, and the breadth of ways in which all of us can play a role in supporting these efforts.
Please direct questions to the Agricultural & Food Law section chair, Jennifer Zwagerman at [email protected]
Due: September 13, 2024
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Civil Rights, How to Teach Justice in the Face of Nihilism
This is a call for proposals for session on “How to Teach Justice in the Face of Nihilism” hosted by the Section on Civil Rights. The program is scheduled to be held Saturday, January 11, 2025, from 8:00 – 9:30 am at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Pursuant to AALS policy, participants must commit to presenting their papers in person at the meeting.
Due: September 9, 2024
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Civil Rights, New Voices in Civil Rights
This is a call for proposals for the New Voices session hosted by the Section on Civil Rights. The program is scheduled to be held Saturday, January 11, 2025, from 2:40-4:10 pm at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Pursuant to AALS policy, participants must commit to presenting their papers in person at the meeting.
Due: September 9, 2024
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Community Economic Development and Environmental Law Joint Program
The clean energy transition is transforming the economy at global, national, regional, and local scales. Excitement about the prospects of economic growth from clean energy abounds. But questions remain as to who will benefit from this growth, how, and perhaps most importantly for this discussion, where.
Due: September 9, 2024
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Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers: Congress and the Executive in Our Current Context
The Section on Constitutional Law invites submissions for the Section’s Separation of Powers panel, which is scheduled for Friday, January 10th from 4:30pm – 6:00pm at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Law Schools (AALS) in San Francisco, CA.
Entitled “Separation of Powers: Congress and the Executive in Our Current Context,” this panel is the Section’s secondary program. Panelists will discuss the implications of the OT 2023 term for the Court’s separation of powers jurisprudence, with particular attention to Chevron deference, the major questions doctrine, and presidential immunity.
Due: August 28, 2024
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Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, New Perspectives on Empirical Studies of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
This is a call for proposals for the New Perspectives session hosted by the Section on the Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession. The session will take place on Saturday, January 11, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Pursuant to AALS policy, participants must commit to presenting their papers in person at the meeting.
Due: September 9, 2024
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Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
This is a call for discussants who have ideas for empirical research related to the end of affirmative action in legal education and the profession. The call is open-ended: we can include many discussants with ideas. Our session will attempt to create connections and brainstorming among these discussants to further their research.
Due: September 9, 2024
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European Law, New Scholarship in EU Law
The AALS Section on European Law is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its New Scholarship in European Union Law panel. The session will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, from 2:40-4:10 p.m. (PST) in San Francisco, CA. The workshop will bring together up to four authors and senior European law scholars for the purpose of providing participating authors constructive feedback on their scholarship and helping them prepare their work for submission for publication. Due: September 1, 2024 Read the full description here. |
Immigration Law, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Clash on Immigration Policy in a Second Presidential Term
The AALS Section on Immigration Law is pleased to announce a program titled “Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Clash on Immigration Policy in a Second Presidential Term” during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The next presidential term will be a second term for the incumbent or his immediate predecessor. Either way, once again we are likely to see elected officials torn between nationalism and cosmopolitanism amid legislative stalemate about immigration policy. Courts are likely to be rapidly drawn into new and old battles about the treatment of noncitizens, ranging from questions of federalism to arrest and detention policy to access to the asylum system. Courts will have to wrestle with specific constitutional, statutory and administrative law questions, which may connect to broader unresolved questions. Do restrictionist approaches necessitate discrimination and cruelty? Do more open and welcoming approaches inherently lead to chaos and erosion of order? Which rights does the Constitution protect for all people, and which rights are guaranteed only for citizens? To what extent is preserving a particular racial or ethnic profile a legitimate government purpose?
Scholars whose papers are selected will provide a presentation of their papers and participate in the panel discussion, followed by commentary and audience Q&A.
Due: September 1, 2024
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Immigration Law, New Voices in Immigration Law
The AALS Section on Immigration Law is pleased to announce a Works-in-Progress/New Voices session during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Submissions may address any aspect of immigration and citizenship law. Authors, regardless of length of time in academia or participation in prior immigration law conferences or programs, are encouraged to submit proposals for consideration. Please note that priority will be given to authors who have never presented an immigration law paper at the AALS Annual Meeting, junior scholars, and works that have not been published or submitted for publication. Any remaining slots will be assigned to authors or submissions outside of these priority categories.
Due: September 1, 2024
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Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Teaching in the Crosshairs: Attacks on DEI and the Future of Legal Pedagogy
As attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts intensify, law school classrooms have become an ideological battleground. Initiatives to build more inclusive and representative learning environments are met with legal challenges, political backlash, and even threats to the academic freedom of individual professors. This panel convenes law faculty to share candid firsthand accounts of how the assault on DEI affects their teaching, scholarship, and efforts to prepare students for an increasingly diverse legal landscape. Panelists will discuss the pedagogical importance of DEI, strategies for navigating the current climate, and visions for a legal education that truly embraces equity and representation as core values. Attendees will gain insights into the evolving challenges and opportunities for DEI in the law school classroom and the vital role of faculty leadership in safeguarding inclusive teaching and learning.
Due: August 2, 2024
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Legislation & Law of the Political Process, Emerging Scholars in Legislation & Law of the Political Process
This session looks to highlight and discuss the work of emerging scholars in the fields of legislation and the law of the political process. The session seeks submissions from scholars who have been in academic positions for fewer than six years. Any work that addresses the topics of legislation or the law of the political process is welcome.
Due: September 6, 2024
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Minority Groups, Lawyering for the Global Majority
The AALS Section on Minority Groups (SOMG) invites submissions for the “Lawyering for the Global Majority” program at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. This program will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM.
This year, the AALS celebrates lawyers, legal scholars, and law students taking courageous action for justice in the face of immense pressure and threats to their safety. The AALS Section on Minority Groups invites submissions on lawyering for the global majority. While many States formally decolonized over the course of the twentieth century, other forms of subjugation continues in many countries through political, economic, and other means. Yet, there has always been resistance and transformative efforts on behalf of lawyers, activists, and communities to move towards a domination-free global order.
Due: August 9, 2024
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Minority Groups, Private Law and Race
The AALS Section on Minority Groups (SOMG) invites submissions for the “Private Law and Race” works-in-progress program at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The program will be held on Friday, January 10, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM.
We invite submissions that analyze the role of race in private law from diverse perspectives, including doctrinal analysis, empirical research, critical race theory, and interdisciplinary approaches.
Due: August 9, 2024
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Minority Groups, Teaching Abolition
The AALS Section on Minority Groups (SOMG) invites submissions for the “Teaching Abolition” program at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The program will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, from 2:40 PM to 4:10 PM.
The panelists will share approaches for teaching abolition across the law school curriculum, from first-year criminal law to seminars on civil rights, family law, immigration, business law, and more. Topics may include: positioning abolitionist thought alongside traditional theories of punishment (retribution, utilitarianism) in criminal law; teaching the historical lineages of abolition, from the anti-slavery movement to prison industrial complex; confronting and de-normalizing the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and other systems of oppression in private and commercial law; engaging with works by leading abolitionist scholars like Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Allegra McLeod, Dean Spade and others; and cultivating students’ “radical imagination” to envision liberating alternatives to oppressive legal systems.
Due: August 9. 2024
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National Security Law, National Security Works-in-Progress Panel
The Section on National Security Law invites submissions for the Section’s “National Security Law Works-in-Progress Panel” to be held at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in San Francisco, California. We seek papers and works-in progress on any aspect of national security law, including inter-disciplinary works or papers that explore innovative research methods. We welcome papers and works-in-progress that challenge conventional perspectives on national security. Selected papers will be presented during a panel discussion at the AALS Annual Meeting, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from 2:40 – 4:10 pm PT.
Due: September 6, 2024
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Property Law, Poverty Law, and Real Estate Transactions Joint Program, The Future of Housing
The housing crisis is at the forefront of American law and society. This program will highlight the many perspectives on the housing crisis across legal areas and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are increasingly serious challenges related to unhoused populations, the missing middle, and the stress that real estate economics and climate change place on property transactions.
What questions does this raise for us? Private economics, equity, community development and mobility, and environmental concerns are all in play. The Supreme Court has recently issued several property rights rulings that seem to move the needle in favor of property rights, but the land use reform movement increasingly tends to listen to both property-rights and progressive land-use arguments regarding property solutions. Our colloquy will help advance that discussion, within the framework of the contemporary housing crisis.
Due: August 12, 2024
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Property Law, Property Pedagogy: Stuff You’d Like To Steal
Requesting abstracts for a session on property-related pedagogy.
Due: August 12, 2024
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Property Law, Property Works in Progress
Requesting papers for a works-in-progress session.
Due: August 30, 2024
State and Local Government Law and Communication, Media and Information Law Joint Program, Local Government: Innovation, AI Transformation, & Legislation
State & Local Government and Communication, Media & Information Sections joint program Call for Presentations for panel entitled “Local Government: Innovation, AI Transformation & Legislation.”
Due: August 30, 2024