(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.)The theme of "Outsiders Inside: Critical Outside Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime" will be the focus of the 14th Annual LatCrit Conference, which will be hosted by American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., from Thursday, October 1 through Sunday, October 4, 2009.
Conference organizers seek papers
propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities, including (but by no means limited to) economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law and the death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law (including gender and LGBT equality, reproductive and disability rights), immigration, political and electoral (dis)enfranchisement, communications policy and intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment. We also, of course, welcome proposals for more theoretical panels and papers, particularly (but not exclusively) in areas linked to the challenges posed by progressive governance and the ascendance of outsiders to positions of ultimate authority.
