Reminder of upcoming deadlines! Poverty Law Section AALS & LatCrit

Though I have already posted info, this is a final reminder that deadlines are fast approaching for submissions for both the AALS Poverty Law Section's panel (due May 1) and LatCrit 2009 (due Today, Apr. 27).  The Poverty Section info can be found below and the LatCrit info can be found here.

*CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The New Anti-Poverty Advocacy: Constructs, Strategies, and Tactics

AALS Section on Poverty Law

AALS Annual Meeting Program, January 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana*

 

*Statements of Interest Due May 1, 2009*

 

The recent pronounced shifts in American politics and economics

intensify the need for sustained reflection, as we consider how to shape

legal activism, scholarship, and policy-making against poverty. The

re-emergence of the Democratic Party in national politics and the

renewed support for government action simultaneously create openings for

activists and advocates and invite caution. Similarly, the failures of

the American banking system, massive government deficits, and the

continued restructuring and globalization of the U.S. economy cause

great misery for those at the bottom and present opportunities to press

for fundamental and progressive reform. It remains unclear whether this

period is one in which power will be redistributed downward and outward

to poor and working people or whether the defining values and

hierarchies of the political economy in the last thirty years -

variously labeled neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, or free market

fundamentalism - will be reinforced.

 

The Section on Poverty Law seeks participants who might approach this

complex and contradictory moment from differing vantage points and using

diverse methods of analysis but with a shared sense of purpose and

opportunity. Proposals may focus on new developments in the areas of

access to justice, legal advocacy, and law reform and policy-making.

Proposals may integrate intersecting legal frames, such as corporate

law, criminal law, critical race theory, environmental law, family law,

feminist theory, immigrants' rights, international human rights, and

labor and employment law. The Section will give special attention to

proposals that include consideration of the post-Katrina experience in

New Orleans. Above all, we seek presenters excited to share useful and

provocative ideas that can be integrated into our teaching, practice,

and scholarship.

 

The statements of interest should be no longer than 1 page. We will

remove all references to the name and affiliation of those who submit

proposals prior to review. Presenters will be selected on or before July

31, 2009. The Section will seek a venue for publication of papers

stemming from the panel on the basis of the interest of selected

participants.

 

Please send statements of interest as an email attachment to Bernice

Cohn at cohn@mail.law.cuny.edu <mailto:cohn@mail.law.cuny.edu>.

Questions should be directed to Sameer Ashar, Chair of the Poverty Law

Section, at 718-340-4180 or ashar@mail.law.cuny.edu

<mailto:ashar@mail.law.cuny.edu>.

-E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu