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Biolaw
Call for Papers
AALS Section on Biolaw
Biolaw: Current Issues in Research, Oversight, Regulation, and Public Opinion of the Biological Sciences
The AALS section on Biolaw invites submissions for a panel on Current Issues in Research, Oversight, Regulation, and Public Opinion of the Biological Sciences, at the upcoming January 2027 Annual Meeting in New York.
As described by the founders of the interdisciplinary Biolaw section, Biolaw encompasses both the law of biology and the biology of law. Advances in the biological sciences, such as genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, reproductive biology, evolutionary biology, ecology, neuroscience, and behavioral sciences, continually challenge both society and the laws that attempt to order, regulate, and protect it. Biolaw combines the use of biological science to describe, analyze, and improve the law with legal analysis of biological science, its institutions, and its implications. Biolaw integrates insights from such biologically informed research areas as law and genetics, law and neuroscience, reproductive law, behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, environmental law, law and biotechnology, biotech patent law, bioethics, neuroethics, food and drug law, and biodiversity law.
This Call for Papers invites abstracts on current issues in law and the biosciences for presentation in panel format. Submissions should be 500-750 words and indicate the stage of development of the topic (i.e., early draft, mid-stage, nearly final, final, accepted for publication). Authors should identify whether they have also submitted to another AALS Annual Meeting Call for Papers. Selected authors will have the opportunity to present their topic at the Annual Meeting, and a moderator will facilitate discussion and field questions from the audience. Full-length articles will be considered for publication in Annals of Health Law & Life Sciences.
Please submit your proposals to Biolaw section chair Jordan Paradise at [email protected] by September 15, 2026. Please do not hesitate to reach out about topic scope or questions.
Eligibility: Faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers.
European Law
The AALS Section on European Law is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its New Scholarship in European Law panel. The session will be held during the annual AALS meeting in New York (tentative panel date Thursday, 1/7 9:35 – 10:50 am). 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.
Format: Each author will be paired with a senior scholar who will comment on the paper presented. Presentations will be followed by oral comments and, as time permits, further discussion. Senior commentators will be prepared to offer constructive comments at the session and are strongly encouraged to also share them in writing with the participating authors.
Submission procedure:
- Authors who are interested in participating in the program should send an abstract, longer summary, or draft-in-progress to the Chair-Elect of the Section on European Law, Anna Conley, [email protected] by October 1, 2026. Submitted papers should be “in progress” as of the time of the 2027 Annual Meeting (a paper accepted for publication but still undergoing revision is considered “in progress”).
Please use the following subject line for your email: “Submission-AALS WIP 2027”
- Authors of the accepted papers will be notified by October 21, 2026.
- Scholars whose papers are selected for the program will need to submit their draft paper to the Chair-Elect by December 15, 2026, in order to give the assigned commentator sufficient time to read and reflect on the draft prior to the Annual Meeting.
Eligibility: We welcome submissions from all scholars working in European law, as well as from scholars engaging with comparative or transnational legal questions involving EU law or specific European domestic legal systems. Junior and emerging scholars, including those who are pre-tenure or teaching for eight or fewer years, are especially encouraged to submit their papers.
Senior scholars interested in serving as commentators: Please email Anna Conley, [email protected], by October 1, 2026. Thank you in advance for your generosity and time.
Legislation and Law of the Political Process
Legislation Section Calls for Papers and Commentators
The AALS Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process will host two programs at the 2027 AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, January 5-8, 2027. Selections will be made by the committee of the Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process.
1. Call for Papers: The New Congressional Oversight
Congress has perhaps made more headlines over the last year for its investigations than for its legislation. It has compelled former President Bill Clinton to testify, subpoenaed former Attorney General Pam Bondi, scrutinized the personal diary of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and clashed with the executive branch over releasing files about then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. While these oversight measures most obviously generate political information for everyday voters, they can also support the internal work of Congress, including the work of legislating. What, then, is the place of congressional oversight today?
This panel will take stock of the evolving functions, consequences, mechanisms, and limits of congressional investigations and oversight in our current moment. Examples of paper topics include, but by no means are limited to, assessments of the legality of recent congressional oversight actions, examinations of the relationship between congressional investigations and legislation, analyses of executive privilege, and studies of Congress’s impeachment and subpoena powers.
We welcome submissions of draft papers or shorter expressions of interest. A full draft should be provided by the 2027 conference in January. We anticipate inviting some panelists but reserve at least one spot to be filled from this call for papers.
Submission: Email Jon Choi at [email protected] by September 20, 2026, with the subject line “AALS New Congressional Oversight Submission.”
2. Call for Papers: New Voices in Legislation
This workshop provides an opportunity for junior and early-career scholars (those who have completed no more than 7 years of full-time academic teaching or research, including VAPs, fellowships, or postdocs, as of July 1, 2026) to workshop draft papers in small discussion groups, with commentary from a senior scholar.
Papers may be on any topic related to legislation or the law of the political process.
Submission: Email Jon Choi at [email protected] by September 20, 2026, with the subject line “AALS New Voices Submission.”
3. Call for Commentators: New Voices in Legislation
We welcome expressions of interest from faculty to comment on a selection of papers at the New Voices session. Thank you for supporting this program.
To volunteer: Email Jon Choi at [email protected] by September 20, 2026, with the subject line “AALS New Voices Commentator.”
Natural Resources and Energy Law
The Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law (co-sponsored by the Sections on Environmental Law and Community Economic Development) is pleased to announce a Call for Papers from which up to four presenters will be selected for the section’s program to be held during the AALS January 2027 Annual Meeting in New York City on Global Water Bankruptcy.
This past year, the UN released a report arguing that we have entered an era of global water bankruptcy: a state in which water resources have been overdrawn to the point of being no longer renewable or restorable. The report addresses this crisis primarily from engineering and ecological perspectives, noting only briefly that management paradigms, including law, will need to change in response. This program will offer a forum for legal scholars to exchange ideas on this emerging reality.
This topic wants to draw in perspectives from across the section’s areas of interest, including energy law (e.g., how water bankruptcy constrains the siting and types of electricity generation needed to meet growing energy demand), human rights and Indigenous rights, environmental law, land use, international law, and cross-scale governance. Submissions that engage the environmental justice dimensions of global water scarcity, including impacts on frontline, low-income, and Indigenous communities, are especially welcome.
Form and length of submission:
Submissions should take the form of a 500 word abstract describing the topic the author plans to cover in their presentation.
Submission method and due date:
Abstracts should be submitted electronically to Prof. Vanessa Casado Perez at [email protected]. The due date for submission is October 1, 2026. The author(s) of the selected abstract(s) will be notified by November 1. Call for Paper presenters will be responsible for paying their own registration fee and hotel and travel expenses.
Submission review:
Abstracts will be selected after review by members of the Executive Committee of the Section. The committee will specially consider the submissions of junior scholars.
Inquiries or questions:
Any inquiries about the Call for Papers should be submitted to [email protected]