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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 Read the full description here. |
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 Read the full description here. |
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.
Lawyers are using the tools of domestic and international law to advocate for historically marginalized communities, peoples, and states. The past year has also seen lawyers from non-Western states in the highest profile international court cases, most notably in the case of South Africa vs. Israel in the International Court of Justice. Recent cases in domestic courts include those brought to fight labor exploitation, environmental degradation, impunity for gender-based violence, and war crimes, among others.
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.
In contemporary legal discourse, discussions on race often gravitate towards criminal justice, civil rights, and constitutional law. However, the role of race in private law areas, such as contract law, corporate governance, tax, securities regulation, business associations, copyright, intellectual property, and patent law, remains underexplored. This WIPs session seeks to shed light on the intersections of race and private law, unveiling unconscious biases and promoting equity in legal practice and academia.
Recent scholarship has started to unveil the ways in which race influences private law doctrines, practices, and outcomes. From corporate decision-making and tax exemptions to copyright enforcement and municipal finance, racial disparities persist, often perpetuating systemic inequalities. This session aims to facilitate critical engagement with these issues, fostering innovative approaches to address them.
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.
This panel will explore the emerging field of abolitionist pedagogy and its applications to law teaching. Abolitionist thinking draws from the centuries-long abolitionist movement to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade and abolish the institution of slavery around the world. In the United States, this revolutionary movement, which culminated in the U.S. Civil War and the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery “except as punishment for crime,” provides a vital historical grounding for today’s abolitionist scholars and activists. Contemporary abolitionist thought is increasingly central to debates over criminal law, policing, incarceration and other modes of punishment and control. Like the original anti-slavery abolitionists, today’s abolitionists call for eliminating oppressive legal, political, and economic systems, such as prisons, police, and exploitative labor markets, while building alternative institutions to address social issues through a restorative, transformative framework rooted in human rights and racial justice.
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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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