Tuesday, October 15, 2024
CFP West Coast Sexuality, Gender and Law Conference
Call for Papers here.
Second Annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender & Law Conference
Call for Papers and Commentators
Abstract Submission Deadline:
December 15, 2024, 11:59 PM Pacific
*Please note that this link is also for those volunteering to serve as commentators/discussants.
We are pleased to announce the second annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender & Law Conference, to be held on February 21-22, 2025 in Irvine, California. The University of California, Irvine School of Law will serve as the conference host.
Alongside increasing political and legal attacks against LGBTQ people, legal and political efforts are seeking to shape and reassert normative views of gender and the family. In that environment, scholarship exploring issues of sexuality, gender, and the law is more necessary than ever. The goal of the Conference is to provide attendees with detailed, constructive feedback on their work in a supportive, collegial environment, and to build community among scholars working on these issues (especially those on the West Coast). Scholars at all levels of seniority are encouraged. We also encourage submissions at different stages of progress, from early drafts (incubators) to more developed forms (a work-in-progress session).
The Conference will consist of several concurrent paper sessions over the course of one and a half days. Participants will be expected to attend one paper session during each of the scheduled time blocks and to read and be prepared to discuss those papers in a constructive manner.
There is no conference or registration fee. Participants will be responsible for the costs of their own flight, other transportation, and hotel arrangements (we are working on reserving a block of hotel rooms for the conference). We will provide a conference dinner on Friday evening, as well as breakfast, lunch, and snacks on Saturday morning.
To preserve an intimate and supportive character, we can accommodate only 45 participants. Although we will try to fulfill all requests, if space is limited, some preference will be given to West Coast-based scholars.
To apply, please submit a CV and an abstract of no more than 500 words here by December 15, 2024. Submissions will be vetted by the organizing committee (listed below). Selection will be based on the originality of the abstract as well as its capacity to engage with the other papers in a collaborative dialogue. Participants will be notified of their selection as soon as feasible after the due date. Drafts of papers will be due approximately two weeks prior to the Conference. As noted above, commentator volunteers should also indicate their interest via the submission portal.
We look forward to your submissions and participation. Questions can be directed to the organizing committee members at [email protected].
Thank you!
Courtney Cahill, UC Irvine
Andrew Gilden, Willamette
Courtney Joslin, UC Davis
Yvette Lindgren, UMKC
Kaipo Matsumura, Loyola LA
Brian Soucek, UC Davis
Ari Ezra Waldman, UC Irvine
October 15, 2024 in Call for Papers, Gender, Law schools, LGBT, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
CFP Symposium, Women's Leadership in Law and Politics
Call for Proposals
Women’s Leadership in Law and Politics
Scholars Virtual Symposium
Sponsored by The Center for Constitutional Law & The Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
Friday, February 21, 2025
The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron Law and The Bliss Institute of Applied Politics seek proposals for a Scholars Virtual Symposium to be held on Friday, February 21, 2025. Akron’s Center for Constitutional Law is one of four national centers established by Congress in 1986 for the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution to support legal research and public education on issues of constitutional import. Past presenters at the Center have included Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Professor Reva Siegel, Professor Lawrence Solum, Professor Maggie Blackhawk, Professor Katie Eyer, Professor Harold Koh, Professor Kate Masur, Professor Julie Suk, and Professor Paula Monopoli, among many others. The Bliss Institute of Applied Politics is a bipartisan research, teaching and experiential learning institute dedicated to increasing understanding of the political process with special emphasis on political parties, grassroots activity, and civility and ethics.
The 2025 Scholars Symposium highlights questions of women’s leadership in law and politics. Recent events have brought heightened visibility to women’s political and leadership. Vice-President Kamala Harris became the presidential candidate. Women Justices reached a critical mass on the U.S. Supreme Court, constituting now four of nine Justices. Women’s grassroots initiatives and activism brought reproductive rights to the national agenda through state voting referenda in the wake of Dobbs. This symposium brings together scholars from disciplines including law, politics, history, and gender studies to explore the contours of what women’s political and legal leadership looks like. It will discuss trends, barriers, limitations, and impacts of women’s leadership.
Suggested topics for this symposium may include, but are in no way limited to:
- Why women’s representation in political and lawmaking institutions matters
- Barriers to women’s political and legal leadership
- Women judges – trends, history, and impact
- Women as political candidates
- Bias in women’s leadership – gender, racial, ethnicity bias, and DEI
- Personal attacks on women in leadership from AI, social media, and harassment
- The Hillary Factor – the antagonism to women candidates and the assumption women can’t win
- The Kamala Factor – undervaluing women’s power
- Grassroots women’s groups, g. Moms for Liberty, Red Wine & USA, MeToo
- Proportional Representation Reform, g. Alaska, Congress’s Fair Representation Act, international
- Comparative international women’s leadership in law, courts, and politics
- Women’s leadership in legal practice – firms, partners, MDL, arbitration, experts, judges
- Women’s political equality as seen in constitutional jurisprudence, including Dobbs
- Pipelines to women’s legal and political leadership
- Women as constitution makers (19th Amendment, ERA, global constitutions)
The symposium aims to ignite dialogue and discussion among scholars ruminating on these important issues. The price of admission, so to speak, is a short discussion paper to be published in the written symposium in the Spring 2025 edition of the Center for Constitutional Law’s open-access journal, ConLawNOW (also indexed in Westlaw, Lexis, and Hein). Papers should be about 3,000 to 5,000 words (5-10 published pages). These may be derivative works of longer works or books published elsewhere.
Those interested in participating in the 2025 Constitutional Law Scholars Symposium should send an abstract, title, and CV to Professor Tracy Thomas, Director of the Center for Constitutional Law at Akron, at [email protected]. Abstracts are welcomed beginning now, and should be submitted by December 1, 2024.
October 1, 2024 in Call for Papers, Conferences, Gender, Law schools, Media, Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 30, 2024
Feminist Legal Theory CRN Law & Society CFP
Monday, October 7th is the deadline to submit a proposal for the Law & Society Annual Meeting content affiliated with the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network. Please send any questions, comments, or ideas for events to the CRN email address: [email protected]. Submit a form here. If you are submitting an individual proposal, after Section 4 in the form go to the bottom of the section and hit next and on Section 9 hit submit to finalize your submission. If you are submitting a multi-authored paper or if you are submitting one of the other format types, after Section 4 in the form only complete the appropriate section for you and on Section 9 hit submit to finalize your submission. The Planning Committee especially welcomes the following:
The following non-exhaustive list is intended to provide examples of topic areas, and not to limit scholarly and creative engagement of feminist legal theory within the conference themes:
• Present-day Inequalities Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
• Consequences of Neoliberal Economic and Social Policies
• Health & Environmental Crises such as HIV/AIDS, Covid 19, Monkeypox, Climate Change, Natural Disasters
• Military, Police, and Other Pervasive Violence against Marginalized People
• Access to Justice & Legal Empowerment Issues & Approaches
• Inequalities related to Reproduction and Reproductive Technologies
• Immigration & Displacement
• LGTBQ+ Discrimination
• Unequal and Separate Treatment of Children
• Legal Education & Inequality
• Discrimination based on Marriage & Family Formation
• State Criminalizing Practices predicated on Gender
• Feminization of Poverty
• Perspectives on Exploitation & Resistance Movements
• Transnational/International/Comparative Feminist Critiques
• Feminism and Legal History
We especially welcome proposals that would permit us to collaborate with other CRNs and that are multidisciplinary in approach. We strongly encourage colleagues from the Global South, indigenous colleagues, and colleagues from various minority groups to submit proposals.
September 30, 2024 in Call for Papers, Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 2, 2024
CFP for Volume 33 of the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
Below is a call for papers from the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit articles for inclusion in Volume 33 of the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. The edition will focus on timely and important legal issues in the areas of gender, race, sexuality, and other personal and political identities and the Law. As one of the top-cited legal periodicals in the U.S. and selected non-U.S. regions in the subject areas of women, gender, sexuality, and the Law, the Journal is deeply committed to publishing high-quality pieces that explore legal issues relating to gender, race, sexuality, and social policy.
Requirements:
The Journal will consider articles that propose a novel argument or perspective on a timely legal issue relating to gender, race, sexuality, and other identities. To fulfill its interdisciplinary mission, the Journal will accept articles authored by legal, policy, and gender scholars, but at least one author on all submissions must hold a J.D. Articles selected for publication in the Journal must include an analysis of U.S. law.
Contact:
Please direct questions and final submissions to the Journal’s Senior Articles Editors: [email protected].
Thank you! We look forward to reviewing your pieces.
Best,Hannah Seligman & Siena Roberts
Senior Articles Editors
American University, Washington College of Law
Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 33
September 2, 2024 in Call for Papers, Gender | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
CFP Research Handbook on Gender, History and Law
Call for Contributions for Research Handbook on Gender, History, and Law (Edward Elgar)
As part of Edward Elgar's Research Handbooks in Gender and Law Series edited by Robin West and Alexander Maine, this volume on Gender, History, and Law aims to bring together critical and thought-provoking contributions on the most pressing topics, issues and approaches within legal and gender history. The collection aims to set the agenda in the field and serve as the most important and up-to-date point of reference for researchers as well as students, policy-makers, and lawmakers.
We are aiming for about 30 essays of 8,000-10,000 words by scholars of legal and gender history on any topic that fits within the book's broad themes, including but not limited to gendered history within legal categories such as family, criminal law and international law, on particular historical periods, on specialist topics such as capitalism and labor, sexuality, race, identity, citizenship, the legal profession and courts, and on sources and methodology.
The Research Handbook will be published in English, but we seek to provide a broad global perspective. To fulfill its aim of providing cross-cutting scholarship in law and history, each contribution should explore perspectives on what it means to do legal history in the chosen area in the context of the author's own approach.
Manuscripts must be original and not published elsewhere, and are due to the editors by July 1, 2025. Publication is anticipated to be in the summer of 2026.
Please submit abstracts by September 30, 2024. For questions and to submit abstracts, please feel free to reach out to any of us.
Rosemary Auchmuty ([email protected])
Caroline Derry ([email protected])
Danaya Wright ([email protected])
August 28, 2024 in Books, Call for Papers, Legal History | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
CFP 150th Anniversary of Minor v Happersett and Women's Second Class Citizenship
The 150th Anniversary of Minor v. Happersett: The Past and Future of Women's Rights
Washington University School of Law
September 27, 2024
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 14
The Washington University School of Law and the Washington University Law Review will host a Symposium centered on the 150th anniversary of the historic St. Louis case, Minor v. Happersett, on September 27, 2024. (The 150th anniversary will align with the subsequent publishing of the Law Review's Symposium edition as Volume 6 of Issue 102 the following spring.)
In 1872, Virginia Minor challenged a St. Louis registrar's decision to block her from registering to vote. Minor argued the Fourteenth Amendment conferred upon her the right to vote as a "privilege" of American citizenship. In 1875, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Minor's assertion, ruling that voting was not a right of national citizenship. Despite the rejection of Minor's claim, this case remains an important historical moment in both American women's suffrage and the feminist movement at large.
This Symposium will bring together scholars across many fields of law, including feminist studies, voting rights and election law, and related fields. Submissions having no direct relation to the Minor case are welcome. Papers might address topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- The history and evolution of women's rights
- Past or present voting rights and election law
- Ballot initiatives post-Dobbs
The Symposium will consist of approximately 3-4 panels over the course of one day, with the panels being created by the Law Review based on relatedness of subject matters across selected pieces. Participants will attend and serve on the panels, and will be asked to read up to a dozen papers (with special attention paid to the papers of others on their panel). The papers circulated for the Symposium are drafts, and the discussion on September 27 will include feedback.
The Symposium will include a dinner the night before. There is no conference fee, and Washington University will host all of the meals on the conference date. Funding will be available to assist with travel expenses-each participant is eligible for up to $1,000 to reimburse hotel and economy-class airfare expenses.
To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to [email protected] by June 14, 2024. Submissions will be vetted by a committee of students from the Law Review, supervised by faculty advisors (listed below). Selection will be based on the originality of the abstract as well as its capacity to engage with other papers in a collaborative dialogue.
Participants will also be invited to submit a paper for publication in the Washington University Law Review's Symposium edition (Issue 6 of Volume 102). The publication cycle for this edition will begin in February 2025, with publication estimated to be in the late summer of 2025. If you are interested in publishing a paper (10,000-15,000 words), please indicate your interest when you submit your abstract.
Participants will be notified of their selection by early July. Drafts for distribution at the Symposium will be due on September 6. We look forward to your submissions and participation. Questions can be directed to the organizing Law Review members and their faculty advisors via the [email protected] address.
Thank you!
Hannah Keidan
Chief Diversity Editor (Law Review lead on the Symposium)
Washington University Law Review
Kaitlyn Salyer
Editor-in-Chief
Washington University Law Review
Susan Frelich Appleton
Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
Washington University School of Law
Travis Crum
Associate Professor of Law
Washington University School of Law
May 14, 2024 in Call for Papers, Constitutional, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, November 10, 2023
CFP First Annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender and the Law Conference
First Annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender and the Law Conference
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
March 22-23, 2024
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023
We are pleased to announce the first annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender and the Law Conference on March 22-23 in Los Angeles. Loyola Law School will serve as the conference host.
As political and legal attacks against LGBTQ people are once again on the rise, as are other legal and political efforts to shape and reassert normative views of gender and the family, this Conference seeks to bring together scholars exploring issues of sexuality, gender, and the law. The goal of the Conference is to provide attendees with detailed, constructive feedback on their work in a supportive, collegial environment, and to build community among scholars working on these issues (especially those on the West Coast). Scholars at all levels of seniority are encouraged. We also encourage submissions at different stages of progress, from early drafts (incubators) to more developed forms (a work-in-progress session).
The Conference will consist of approximately 4-5 panels over the course of one and a half days. Participants will be expected to attend all panels and to read and be prepared to discuss all assigned papers.
There is no conference or registration fee. Participants will be responsible for the costs of their own flight, other transportation, and hotel arrangements (we are working on reserving a block of hotel rooms for the conference). Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided at the conference.
To preserve an intimate and supportive character, we can accommodate only 45 participants, Although we will try to fulfill all requests, if space is limited, some preference will be given to West Coast-based scholars.
To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, as well as a CV, here by December 15, 2023. Submissions will be vetted by the organizing committee (listed below). Selection will be based on the originality of the abstract as well as its capacity to engage with the other papers in a collaborative dialogue. In addition, priority will be given to scholars based on the West Coast.
Participants will be notified of their selection by the beginning of January 2024. Drafts of papers will be due approximately two weeks prior to the Conference.
We look forward to your submissions and participation. Questions can be directed to the organizing committee members at [email protected].
Thank you!
Courtney Cahill, UC Irvine School of Law
Courtney Joslin, UC Davis School of Law
Yvonne (Yvette) Lindgren, UC College of Law San Francisco (visiting)
Kaipo Matsumura, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Brian Soucek, UC Davis School of Law
November 10, 2023 in Call for Papers, Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Call for Guest Bloggers at Gender and the Law Blog
The Gender and the Law Blog, a member of the national Law Professor Blog Network, invites faculty and practitioners to guest blog on the site. We are seeking original content blog posts that address an area of research or analysis of an emerging issue. Posts generally range from 600-1000 words. To submit a proposed post, please send your manuscript to Prof. Tracy Thomas @[email protected].
October 25, 2023 in Call for Papers, Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, June 23, 2023
CFP AALS Feminism, The Development of Professional Identity, and Implementing ABA Standard 303(b)
The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. (January 3-6, 2024).
The ABA Council on Legal Education has recently promulgated the revised accreditation Standard 303(b), focusing on the development of professional identity. The Section on Women in Legal Education invites proposals that explore the revised Standard by examining the relationship between professional identity formation and feminism, especially those which take an intersectional perspective and engage with the manner in which Standards 303(b) and 303(c) are in conversation with each other.
We encourage proposals that cover a range of issues related to this topic, including but not limited to the following: (1) the manner in which such concerns are infused through doctrinal and experiential curricula; (2) efforts to map key pedagogical goals across the entire curriculum; (3) the training that faculties are receiving (or should be receiving) to improve student learning as it relates to gender equity and professional identity formation; (4) how institutional choices regarding curricular delivery and the potential for cross-institutional collaboration can have an impact on the effectiveness of student learning; (5) the challenges presented by the effort to shape students' professional identities in the midst of controversial political settings; and crucially, (6) how "values, guiding principles, and well-being practices" – as referenced in Interpretation 303-5 – shape this conversation, especially as they relate to the commitment of the profession to gender equity and equality. What is the toolkit that institutions need during this moment of change? The ultimate goal of the Standard is to prepare students as well as possible to meet the challenges of the current and future moments, and this panel will use the lens provided by feminist concerns to engage the possibilities for achieving that objective.
Full-time faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit proposals. Visiting faculty (not full-time on a different faculty) and fellows are also eligible to apply to present at this session.
Proposals should be no more than 500 words in length.
To be considered, proposals should be emailed to Professor Tiffany C. Graham at [email protected] no later than Friday, August 4, 2023. Selected presenters will be announced by Friday, September 8, 2023. The panelists who are chosen will be responsible for paying their own AALS registration fee, hotel, and travel expenses. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact Tiffany Graham at your convenience
June 23, 2023 in Call for Papers, Conferences, Gender, Law schools, Women lawyers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, June 15, 2023
CFP 2024 AALS Annual Meeting The Challenges of Teaching in a Time of Rising LGBTQ Hostility
Call for Proposals for 2024 AALS Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Pedagogy Program: "The Challenges of Teaching in a Time of Rising LGBTQ Hostility"
Over the past couple of years, states throughout the country have passed a series of increasingly extreme restrictions on LGBTQ people, from prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender people to attempting to prohibit discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Institutions of higher education are also the subject of legislation claiming to eliminate critical race theory, queer theory, and other points of view demonized as "woke" or harmful.
Many AALS schools are located in states passing such laws, and professors at those schools are called upon to teach about issues relating to discrimination facing the LGBTQ community when that community is directly under attack. Professors may feel personally threatened or professionally threatened by limits on their academic freedom. The Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues of the Association of American Law Schools will hold a program on pedagogy, "The Challenges of Teaching in a Time of Rising LGBTQ Hostility," to provide space to discuss the challenges arising from these current political changes.
We welcome submissions from law faculty, staff, and administrators at all stages of their careers. Submissions of abstracts of not more than 500 words are due on or before Monday August 7, 2023, and should be sent to Michael Higdon at [email protected]. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact Michael Higdon
June 15, 2023 in Call for Papers, Conferences, Law schools, LGBT, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
CFP 2024 AALS Annual Meeting Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ Equality
Call for Proposals for 2024 AALS Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Main Program: "Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ Equality"
Throughout the United States, members of the LGBTQ community are increasingly threatened by legislation aimed at erasing their identity at best and denying them essential civil rights and protections at worst. Accordingly, the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues of the Association of American Law Schools is pleased to announce its main program, "Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ Equality" panel, which will be held in person in Washington D.C. in January 2024. We welcome presentations in any stage that examine and consider issues broadly related to these issues. Topics may include bans of gender-affirming care for transgender children and adults, curriculum laws restricting coverage of LGBTQ issues in public schools, access to PrEP and other HIV prevention medications, criminalization of drag performances, etc.
We welcome submissions from law faculty, staff, and administrators at all stages of their careers. Submissions of abstracts of not more than 500 words are due on or before Monday August 7, 2023, and should be sent to Michael Higdon at [email protected]. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact Michael Higdon.
June 15, 2023 in Call for Papers, Law schools, Legislation, LGBT | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, June 2, 2023
CFP 2024 AALS Obstacles to Gender Equality in the Legal Academy
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June 2, 2023 in Call for Papers, Conferences, Equal Employment, Law schools, Women lawyers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Call for Submissions: Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award: Call for Submissions
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is pleased to announce the competition for its annual Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award. This paper competition is open to all having with five (5) or fewer years of full-time law teaching experience as of July 1, 2023. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2023.
The purpose of the award is to encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship related to gender and the law. The work chosen for the Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award should make a substantial contribution to legal literature and reflect original research and/or major developments in previously reported research.
Papers will be reviewed on a blind basis by a committee comprised of members of the Haub Law faculty with expertise in this area. The winner of the competition will be invited to present the paper to selected students and faculty at Haub Law (located in White Plains, NY) during the 2023-2024 academic year, with reasonable travel expenses from within the continental U.S. paid, or via Zoom, as circumstances permit and by mutual agreement.
ELIGIBILITY:
· All persons who have held full-time teaching positions for five (5) or fewer full academic years as of July 1, 2023 are eligible for consideration. One does not have to be on the tenure-track or tenured to be eligible. Time as a VAP or Fellow does not "count against" the five (5) year clock.
· There is no subject-matter limitation for submissions, as long as the paper relates in some way to gender and the law.
· Jointly authored papers are accepted as long as each author independently meets the eligibility requirements.
PUBLICATION COMMITMENTS/LIMITATIONS:
· There is no publication commitment associated with the competition.
· Papers are eligible regardless of whether they were published prior to submission date, are scheduled to be published after the submission date, or are not yet under submission.
· Each applicant is limited to one (1) entry.
· Papers considered in prior years' competitions are eligible for resubmission.
· There are no page-length or word-count limitations.
· All publications (including scholarly articles, book chapters, legal briefs and other writings) are eligible for consideration.
SUBMISSION:
· We will accept submissions for the Emerging Scholar Award from May 10, 2023, through July 1, 2023. The winner will be announced by August 30, 2023.
· To participate, please email your work, redacted as necessary to preserve anonymity (for the blind judging process), as a portable data file (PDF) to Judy Jaeger, Senior Staff Associate, at [email protected] with the subject line "Emerging Scholar Award."
· Please include in the body of the email your name, institutional affiliation and confirmation that you meet the eligibility requirements.
· Unredacted or late papers will not be considered.
Information on Emerging Scholar Award and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is pleased to host an annual paper competition for its Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award. The law school at Pace University is one of a small number of schools in the United States named after a woman, and we are proud of our school's long-standing commitment to gender justice.
Since the establishment of the Women's Justice Center in 1991, Haub Law has made gender justice a priority. Students have the ability to pursue a path to practice in Women, Gender & the Law, through which they develop skills and strategies for effective representation and advocacy for women and gender justice, regardless of what career they pursue. The Haub Law faculty includes nationally recognized academic experts and advocates for women and gender justice. Our faculty teach, research and write about gender equality and justice as it relates to constitutional law, corporate law, criminal law, education, environmental law, estate planning, juvenile justice, legal theory, poverty, public health, social media, and taxation, to name just a few areas. An important hallmark of Haub Law is that in addition to our specialty classes that focus on gender, issues involving gender are also integrated into a wide range of other courses.
Prior Winners
2020 – Greer Donley, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Contraceptive Equity: Curing the Sex Discrimination in the ACA's Mandate, 71 Ala. L. Rev. 499 (2019).
2021 – Marie Amélie George, Exploring Identity, 54 Fam. L.Q. 1 (2021)
May 11, 2023 in Call for Papers, Law schools, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, May 4, 2023
CFP AALS Teaching Reproductive Justice in a Post-Dobb World
The panel will be held during the AALS Annual Meeting in early January 2024 in Washington, DC. The goal of the session is to discuss and share our ideas about teaching reproductive justice, both in regards to the Dobbs decision and related developments as well as how to create a separate course on reproductive justice. The panel will show how family and juvenile law professors are integrating these teaching methods into their courses and the overall family and juvenile law curriculum. Presenters will be asked to share relevant materials in advance of the Annual Meeting.
If you are interested in participating, please send a 400-600 word description of what you'd like to discuss. Submissions should be sent to Naomi Cahn, [email protected] and Jeffrey Dodge, [email protected]. The due date for submissions is June 23, 2023. We will notify the selected presenters by July 1, 2023.
May 4, 2023 in Abortion, Call for Papers, Conferences, Law schools, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, April 7, 2023
CFP Gender, Health and the Constitution
Gender, Health & the Constitution
Constitutional Law Conference
The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron
Friday, October 13, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron seeks proposals for its annual Constitutional Law Conference. The Center is one of four national centers established by Congress in 1986 on the bicentennial of the Constitution for legal research and public education on constitutional law. Past presenters at the Center have included Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Judge Jeffrey Sutton, Professor Reva Siegel, Professor Lawrence Solum, Professor Maggie Blackhawk, Professor Katie Eyer, Professor Ernest Young, Professor Julie Suk, and Professor Paula Monopoli, among many others.
The 2023 Conference brings together scholars to explore the constitutional questions at the intersection of gender and health. The daily news features issues of gender and health, whether related to Covid, abortion, transgender treatment, or maternal health. Bodily autonomy and health rights raise questions about balancing against the interests of the state and third parties. And individuals struggle to seek justice for their own lived reality. This conference invites papers and presentations on any and all aspects related broadly to the theme. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Covid: mandates, illness, and gendered differences
- Abortion and reproductive justice
- Transgender school and medical treatment bans
- Maternal health, pregnancy, and surrogacy
- Medical malpractice, including gaslighting of women patients
- Exclusion of women and gendered treatment in medical research
- Barriers in access to healthcare
- Gendered aspects of aging
- Biology as a basis for sex discrimination
- Rights related to gender-affirming care
- Gendered implications of medical conscientious objections
The Conference will be held live, in person on Friday, October 13, 2023, at the University of Akron School of Law. Presenters may also participate virtually to facilitate participation by all who are interested in joining. Unfortunately, we are not able to pay for travel expenses, and hope that speakers can be reimbursed from their home institutions.
Papers will then be published in a Winter 2024 Symposium Edition of the Center for Constitutional Law’s open-access journal, ConLawNOW (also indexed in Westlaw, Lexis, and Hein). Papers are typically shorter essays of 10,000 words. Publication is expedited within four to six weeks of final paper submission. The journal is designed to put issues of constitutional import into debate in a timely manner for an opportunity to impact discussion and decision.
Those interested in participating in the 2023 Constitutional Law Conference should send an abstract and CV to Professor Tracy Thomas, Director of the Center for Constitutional Law, at [email protected] by August 15, 2023.
April 7, 2023 in Call for Papers, Conferences, Healthcare, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Conference and CFP, Equal Justice Under Law?
American University, Annual Symposium, Equal Justice Under Law
CFP Deadline Jan. 3, 2023
2023 Annual Symposium: Equal Justice Under Law?
On February 3, 2023, the American University Law Review's 2023 Annual Symposium—Equal Justice Under Law?—will explore what is left of the Constitution after the 2021-2022 U.S. Supreme Court term. The Law Review is thrilled to announce that Dean Erwin Chemerinsky will be this year's Keynote Speaker. Dean Chemerinsky is a distinguished scholar and has authored fourteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. Additionally, the Law Review will host multiple Supreme Court practitioners as panelists this year to weigh in on the Court's recent term and the questions it raises moving forward.
The American University Law Review is placing a call for submissions of original legal articles and scholarly commentaries for its forthcoming Annual Symposium issue, this year dedicated to a review and response to the 2021 through 2022 Supreme Court term and the upcoming term. Specifically, the Law Review seeks submissions analyzing the rapidly evolving response to the Supreme Court’s decisions in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, Carson v. Makin, Shurtleff v. City of Boston, and pending cases before the Supreme Court in the next term on affirmative action, the Indian Child Welfare Act, and free speech. Approximately four to six submissions will be selected, with a publication date slated for the spring of 2023.
December 8, 2022 in Call for Papers, Conferences, Constitutional, Race, Religion, Reproductive Rights, SCOTUS | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
CFP Big Feminism: The 50th Anniversary of Signs Journal
CFP Big Feminism: The 50th Anniversary of Signs
Signs was founded in 1975 as part of an emergent tradition of feminist scholarship and has been publishing continuously ever since, establishing itself as a preeminent journal in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. At the time of the journal’s conception, Signs’s founding editorial staff sought not only to raise consciousness and develop theories of women’s oppression but also to challenge the taken-for-granted and to strive for theoretical nuance and interdisciplinarity. To honor half a century of publication, our fiftieth anniversary issue aims to generate new questions and critical discussion about “Big Feminism” – about the role and power of feminist theory – today and into the future.
These fifty years have witnessed consequential feminist debates (over sexuality, over the category “woman,” over approaches to difference, over representations of “third-world” women) and the emergence of new analytical and theoretical frames (to analyze experience, identity, agency, desire, the body, violence, inequality, coalition, work, family, and relationships between self and other, and more). The Signs archive stands as a testament to the creativity, vitality, reach, and impact of feminists and feminist thinkers. Virtually no area of social life and no academic discipline has been untouched or unchanged by those who have contributed their work to the journal.
And yet, as the editors of a recent special issue have written: “The work in this field has never been richer, the future of our field never more imperiled.”[1] From the standpoint of 1975, 2025 may appear to be a feminist pipe dream. Rights that were once aspirational have been codified into law; there are women heads of state the world over; women have not only entered but have transformed the professions; LGBTQ rights, while very much a work in progress, have been achieved to a degree that even recently seemed unimaginable. At precisely the same time, the ground beneath our feet is collapsing. As we write this, we are facing the end of abortion rights and a global upsurge of fascism in which misogyny figures centrally. And, #MeToo notwithstanding, violence against women continues unabated. From this moment of profound triumph and profound precarity, how do we, as feminists, imagine the next fifty years? What are our feminist visions (utopias and dystopias) for 2075? What work will it take to bend the arc toward gender justice?
This special anniversary issue of Signs seeks to engage with the big feminist questions that remain outstanding after all these years.
- How has the definition of feminism evolved, and what does it encompass now?
- How do we grapple with the relationships and nuances between feminism, gender, sexuality, race, and capitalism?
- How might we imagine a feminist vision for the future, from where we stand now? How might we get there?
- Whence the durability of patriarchy? Of violence against women? Of the denial of reproductive justice?
- What are the new forefronts of feminist theory? Compulsory heterosexuality, intersectionality, and gender performance (among others) are concepts that have shaped our feminist thinking over the past fifty years. What are the emergent feminist theories of the fifty years to come?
- Given the strength of the patriarchy in the 2020s, including but not limited to the shocking efforts to roll back long-standing reproductive rights, what will it take to dismantle this system?
- Over the past fifty years, feminists of color, queer feminists, and disabled feminists, among others, have transformed the movement with critical attention to race, sexuality, nationality, ability, and age—and yet these inequalities remain. How do we attend to these disjunctures? What inequalities remain unrecognized? How can we transform our own movement while still working for transformation in the wider world?
- Has the knowledge produced in field of women’s/gender studies managed to advance the work of social and political transformation?
- What will it take to build better, stronger bridges between academic feminism and feminist activism on the ground? What new coalitions should we be building, and how?
- How, finally, will feminist historians, writing in 2075, remember 2025? How do we understand our present from the standpoint of the (imagined) future?
Signs particularly encourages transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions, debates, and controversies without employing disciplinary or academic jargon. We seek essays that are passionate, strongly argued, and willing to take risks.
The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2023.
Please submit full manuscripts electronically through Signs’s Editorial Manager system at http://signs.edmgr.com. Manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for submission available at http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/author-guidelines/.
November 30, 2022 in Call for Papers, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, November 10, 2022
CFP Pandemonium -- Reflections on the Status, Health, Precarity and Promise of the Discipline of Feminist Studies
WSQ WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY SPECIAL ISSUE SPRING 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: PANDEMONIUM
PRIORITY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023
Scholarly articles should be submitted to WSQ.submittable.com.
GUEST EDITORS:
TRACEY JEAN BOISSEAU, Purdue University
ADRIANNA L. ERNSTBERGER, Marian University
This special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly invites reflection on the status, health, precarity, and promise of the discipline of women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies in light of our current state of pandemonium. By “pandemonium,” we point not only to those tragedies, inequalities, and disruptions to the university and higher education stemming directly from the Covid-19 pandemic but also to the crisis-roiled political context fomenting a barrage of assaults on feminist studies as a discipline in the United States and elsewhere that have been accelerating for several years prior to the pandemic and have only intensified since its outbreak.
Submissions should address ways our discipline--its individual practitioners and organizational institutions—have been affected by, or have encountered adversity and experienced struggle in the face of:
- The Global Pandemic and a panoply of consequences flowing from it
- Right-wing (white supremacist, anti-immigrant, anti- queer/trans, misogynist, etc.) movements
- Right-wing corporate media and social media
- Authoritarianism, illiberalism, and threats democratic institutions
- War, invasion, civil strife, and refugeeism
- Neoliberalism, corporatism, and commercialization
- Climate-change disasters, environmental degradation, and climate-change denial
- Impoverishment and the “austerity” measures and policies arising from the above
We are keenly interested in contributions that document and evaluate the ways that our discipline and its practitioners exercise and exhibit resistance, revolutionary praxis, and refusal to the above in the form of:
- Scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative strategizing
- Organizational-, institutional- and alliance-building (both inter- as well as intra-disciplinary)
- Public engagement, political activism, and direct action (both on- and off-campus)
- Escape hatches, off-ramps, and alternative social- cultural protest forms and modalities
We welcome contributions that recognize and share artistic and creative endeavors, performances, and cultural interventions offering insight and inspiration regarding the core themes of this issue.
Especially encouraged to submit are women; people of color; Black; Indigenous; gender-variant, LGBTQIA+; disabled people; and those whose work is located outside the United States or who collaborate cross-nationally.
PRIORITY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023
- Scholarly articles should be submitted to WSQ.submittable.com. Send complete articles, not abstracts. Remove all identifying authorial information from the file uploaded to Submittable. We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1, 2023. Scholarly submissions must not exceed 6,000 words (including un-embedded notes and works cited) and must comply with formatting guidelines at https://www.feministpress. org/submission-guidelines. For questions, email the guest issue editors at [email protected].
- Artistic works (whose content relates clearly to the issue theme) such as creative prose (fiction, essay, memoir, and translation submissions between 2,000 and 2,500 words), poetry, and other forms of visual art or documentation of performative artistry should be submitted to WSQ.submittable.com. Before submitting, please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of creative submissions we prefer. Note that creative submissions may be held for six months or longer. We do not accept work that has been previously published. (Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.) For questions related to creative prose submissions, email [email protected]. For questions related to poetry submissions, email the WSQ’s poetry editor at WSQpoetry@ gmail.com. For questions regarding other forms of artistic or creative work, email the visual arts editor at WSQvisualart@ gmail.com.
November 10, 2022 in Call for Papers, Education, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Feminist Legal Theory CRN Call for Papers for 2023 LSA Annual Conference in San Juan
The planning committee for the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network has issued a Call for Papers for the 2023 Law & Society Annual Meeting.
The Call for Papers and instructions are here.
You can submit your proposal here.
This year's planning committee is co-chaired by Aníbal Rosario Lebrón (Co-Chair) and Liz Kukura (Co-Chair). It includes Cyra Choudhury, Elizabeth MacDowell, Naomi Mezey, Nausica Palazzo, Yanira Reyes Gil, and Yiran Zhang.
September 22, 2022 in Call for Papers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
CFP International Research Conference on Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law in Athens, Greece
International Conference on Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law
The International Research Conference Aims and Objectives
The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.
International Conference on Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law.
Call for Contributions
Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.
September 20, 2022 in Call for Papers, Conferences, International, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)