Wednesday, February 4, 2015
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
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/business_law/2015/02/conferences.html
Comments
Thanks Anne and Urska - very helpful - though these lists make me feel tired and unproductive all at the same time. I am only attending one this year (SEALS). There is an annual national conference and a number of annual regional conferences for legal studies professors in business schools, but we occasionally have professors from law schools join us (especially those who are looking to make the switch to a business school). All of those conferences can be found on the Academy of Legal Studies website - http://www.alsb.org/
Posted by: Haskell Murray | Feb 4, 2015 8:14:11 AM
Just a clarification, Anne, to this super list. The SEALS conference proposals (many of which are preceded by solicitations for papers since the discussion sessions require them as a condition of participation) are usually due in the fall (on or about October 1). But the submission of those papers (and junior scholar and other papers) typically is not until spring or early summer. It is true, however, that there often is room for new, current events-type submissions in the winter/early spring.
Again, thanks for this great list.
Posted by: joanheminway | Feb 6, 2015 5:08:23 AM
I am organizing a Symposium on Corporate Governance and Capital Markets in Ottawa in June 2015 and would like to post the announcement on your blog. Your help is appreciated. Thanks.
Posted by: P.M. Vasudev | Feb 10, 2015 10:49:20 AM
my email is provided on the homepage of the blog-- scroll down to the pictures/bios and send me the call you want published.
Posted by: Anne Tucker | Feb 10, 2015 10:50:51 AM
I've been thinking for a while that someone *should* keep track of the conferences that a budding business law person should try to attend. Thank you so much for the blog post with excellent suggestions. I'm adding a few of my own below (organized by date):
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 a month ago or so)
Institute of Law & Economic Policy (ILEP) symposium (in April, by invitation)
Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, late September, a call for papers in the spring)
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)
Posted by: Urska | Feb 4, 2015 6:29:56 AM