Work On! NatSec Law @ UT Law

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora for scholarship-presentation-without-publication) Proposals for papers on national security law are being sought for the 3rd annual National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop, to be held April 1 and 2, 2010, at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, cosponsor along with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Also participating in the workshop are our colleagues, Texas Law Professor Robert M. Chesney and South Texas Law Professor Geoffrey S. Corn, as well as the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School and the U.S. Army.
Featured in addition to presentation and discussion of works-in-progress will be training in international humanitarian law.
Abstracts or manuscripts of unpublished papers should be sent to Chesney at rchesney@law.utexas.edu. Deadline is February 1; details here.

Write On! National security law workshop

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.)

Austin, Texas, will be the site of the 2nd annual National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop, to be held on March 12 and 13, 2009. (Among the presenters at the inaugural workshop, held last year at Wake Forest, was IntLawGrrls' own Beth Hillman.)

This year's workshop will combine discussion of works-in-progress with training in the law of war, the latter provided by instructors from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General School.

For details on this year's workshop, link to the "here" details at this post. For questions, contact Robert M. Chesney at rchesney@law.utexas.edu.

Anyone is welcome to attend, and all are welcome to submit a paper for consideration. The deadline for submitting a paper or abstract for consideration is January 15, 2009.

Work On! National security law

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora for scholarship-presentation-without-publication) A host of scholarly subjects now fall within "the national security law umbrella" -- jus ad bellum and jus in bello, of course, but also intersections between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, interactions among national, regional, and international legal regimes, overlaps among powers of various governmental branches, and, even more broadly, the degree to which individual human security aids or undermines collective national security. Scholars working in these areas (particularly though not exclusively "junior" scholars) are invited to take part in a National Security Law Works-in-Progress Workshop on May 23, 2008, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Cosponsors include Wake Forest University School of Law, national security law centers at Duke University and the University of Virginia, the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, and the Journal of National Security Law & Policy.

Papers, or at the very least, abstracts, should be submitted by the April 4 deadline to our colleague Bobby Chesney at robert.chesney@wfu.edu. They'll then be reviewed by officers of the National Security Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Details here on the call for works-in-progress and the workshop, which is open to presenters and nonpresenters alike.

Write On! Papers sought on military @ home

(Write On! is an occasional item on notable calls for papers.) The National Security Law section of the Association of American Law Schools is seeking "essays and article-length papers" discussing "the general theme of the military's domestic role." Section chair Robert M. Chesney notes within that topic that are "a range of issues"; examples include detention, emergency response, surveillance, posse comitatus, homeland defense, and civilian-military relations. The winner of the call will present at a panel at the AALS' annual meeting next January in New York and will be published in the National Security Law Report and in the Journal of National Security Law & Policy. Deadline is August 15; details are here.