CFP: AALS Section on Family & Juvenile Law

The Section on Family & Juvenile Law of the Association of American Law Schools is seeking papers for presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting:

The Family and Juvenile Law Section is pleased to announce a call for papers from which one additional presenter will be selected for the section’s program at the AALS 2017 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

The program will focus on “The Constitution and the Family.” Panelists will present papers that explore any aspects of the intersection between family law and constitutional law. The papers will be published in June 2017 in Constitutional Commentary, a faculty-edited journal at the University of Minnesota Law School.

The following faculty members have already agreed to participate in the published symposium and some of them will be presenting their papers during the section’s AALS program as well:

Kerry Abrams (University of Virginia School of Law)

Joanna Grossman (SMU Dedman School of Law)

Serena Mayeri (University of Pennsylvania Law School)

Melissa Murray (UC Berkeley School of Law)

Douglas NeJaime (UCLA School of Law)

Camille Gear Rich (USC Gould School of Law)

If you are interested in submitting your paper for consideration, please send it to [email protected] by August 22, 2016. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words. They can focus on any aspects of the intersection between family law and constitutional law. Papers that have been accepted for publication are not eligible for consideration because panelists will be publishing their papers in Constitutional Commentary.

A committee appointed by the section chair will review the submitted papers and notify the author of the selected paper by September 28, 2016. All panelists, including the panelist selected from this call for papers, are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

We are particularly interested in submissions from junior faculty.

If you have any questions about the call for papers or the Constitutional Commentary symposium, please contact Jill Hasday at [email protected].

The Call for Papers is not yet posted on the AALS Section Call for Papers list, but will likely be added soon.  You can find the list here.