Conferences

I am a list maker.  I make daily to do lists, grocery lists, research plans, workout schedules (that quickly get jettisoned) and  complicated child care matrices necessary in two-career families.  How else am I supposed to remember and keep on my radar all of the things that I am supposed to be doing now, or doing when I have time, or things that I can't forget to do in the future?  One area where I feel deficient is in planning my conference travel/attendance. It always feels either a little ad hoc (ohh I got an invitation and I never say no to those!) or a little out habit (once you have presented at a conference it is easier to be asked to participate in future panels). Rarely does it feel like a part of an intentional plan for the year where I set out to prioritize conference A or break into conference B.  

Realizing that this year there are 3 corporate law events within 10 days of each other is seriously making me reconsider my approach.  I need a conference list-- a way to plan for the coming year, prioritize opportunities and frankly, schedule grandparent visits (read: child care) when I need to travel for more than a night or two.  

Below is my running list of annual or nearly annual events, but I know that I am missing big pieces of the conference puzzle.  Please contribute in the comments so we can create a list of some standard corporate law events (great for new teachers, great for those looking to expand their research circles, etc.).  Updated to reflect suggestions in comments & put in approximate order of timing.

• AALS Annual (and Mid-year) Meeting (January; call for papers and/or invited participation spring & summer)
• Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics "SABE" (January; call for papers summer/fall)
• C-LEAF Junior Faculty Workshop (Feb. 27-28, 2015, a call for papers in the summer)
• Law and Entrepreneurship Retreat (UGA, March 21, 2015, a call for papers was released late 2014)
• Tulane Corporate Law Institute (March 2015 workshop; paid attendance & invited participation)
• Institute of Law & Economic Policy (ILEP) symposium (in April, by invitation)
• Annual Transactional Clinical Conference (occurs annually; April 24, 2015; call for paper circulated fall 2014)
• Law and Society Association "LSA" (late May 2015; calls for papers & coordinated panel submissions and round tables Fall 2014)
• National Business Law Scholars ( June 2015; call for papers available Dec. 2014)
• Berle Center Symposium at Seattle University (schedule varies; invited papers & attendance)
• Emory Teaching Transactional Law & Skills Conference (every 2 years usually in summer; call for papers announced)
• American Law & Economics Association (May 15, 2015; call for papers late fall terminated January 2015)
• Southeastern Association of Law Schools "SEALS" (July/August 2015; call for papers in the fall & coordinated panel submissions; papers due in spring)
• Midwestern Law and Economics Association "MLEA" (usually in the fall; call for papers late summer)
• Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, Fall 2015, a call for papers in the spring)
• ABA LLC Institute (usually October conference; workshop attendance & invited participation)
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Wash U, October 30-31, 2015, a call for papers in the late spring)
• Corporate and Securities Litigation Workshop (Boston University, early November, expect a call for papers in the spring)
• Henry G. Manne Programs at George Mason ( programs occur throughout the year; workshop attendance)
• Various Harvard Law Corporate Governance Round Tables (programs occur throughout the year; invited attendance/ participation)

 

-Anne Tucker