Work On! Comparative works in progress

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora that do not necessarily include publication)

Papers on comparative law once again are being sought for presentation at the annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, to be held February 11 and 12, 2010, at Yale Law School (logo below left) in New Haven, Connecticut.
Organized by IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Jacqueline Ross and our colleagues Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton) and James Q. Whitman (Yale), the workshop, cosponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law, presents an opportunity for comparative law scholars to engage in sustained and substantive discussion, by up to 20 comparative law scholars, of up to 6 scholarly projects.
Deadline for electronic submissions, to be sent to Professor Whitman at james.whitman@yale.edu, is next Monday, November 1, 2010.

Work On! International organizations

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora that do not necessarily include publication)

The International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of International Law invites works in progress for its workshop, to be held on October 29, 2010, at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.

To present a paper within the subject of international organizations, please please submit an one-page-maximum abstract no later than August 27, 2010, to the following interest group officers: Co-Chair Kristen E. Boon (Seton Hall Law) at Kristen.Boon@shu.edu; Co-Chair Jacob Cogan (Cincinnati Law) at jacob.cogan@uc.edu; and Vice Chair Lorena Perez (Organization of American States) at LPerez@oas.org.

Details on the call for papers and selection and presentation processes are here.

Work On! "Rethinking Equality"

(IntLawGrrls is pleased to welcome back alumna Lisa R. Pruitt, who contributes this Work On! guest post)

The Section on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools, for which I have the honor of serving as Chair this year, is now seeking proposals for presentations, papers, and posters for the Mid-Year Meeting Workshop we're organizing. Entitled "Women Rethinking Equality," it will be held in June 2011 in Washington, D.C.

We aim to appeal to a full range of teachers and scholars in all subject areas, by creating opportunities for a rich dialogue about the meaning, contours, implications, and status of equality for women, with particular attention to women and gender in the setting of legal education. Conference sessions will focus on substantive law and scholarship, teaching concerns, and professional development issues. All faculty members and professional staff of AALS member and fee-paid law schools — and particularly all women — are welcome to take part, regardless of whether their scholarship focuses on gender. (Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible.)

While the workshop will feature several plenary panels about a range of issues implicated by the topic of gender equality, we also plan to include posters and 2 types of concurrent sessions. The calls for each vary, as follows:

Theme-related session
Concurrent sessions will feature presentations on each of the following equality-related themes:
► Gender and International Human Rights
► From Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
► Gender and Economic Inequality
► Gender and Criminal Law
► Gender and Corporate, Securities, Tax, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law
► Gender and the Justice System
► Theorizing Gender
► Gender and Family Law
► Gender and Employment
We expect to select 3 or 4 presentations for each of these topical sessions. Each presentation will be about 15 minutes, followed by questions from the moderator and the audience.
Interested faculty should submit a brief written description (no more than 1,000 words) of the proposed presentation, along with her or his résumé. The proposal should indicate clearly in which of the 9 categories the author believes the presentation belongs. Please e-mail these materials to 11wwcfp@aals.org by July 31, 2010. We will notify selected speakers by October 1, 2010.

Works in progress
Women write in all fields of law, yet women at all stages of their careers who write in male-dominated fields may have fewer opportunities to present and receive feedback on their work. The same is true of junior women scholars across all academic specialties. Additionally, female and male scholars in gender and feminist jurisprudence often find their work marginalized within traditional academic disciplines and institutions. This call for papers invites scholars from these categories to present their works in progress and to receive comments in small group sessions with assigned commentators. Because the goal is to give these scholars more exposure, no subject matter preferences govern this call. Full drafts or nearly completed drafts are encouraged, although these drafts may be rough.
Interested faculty should submit a précis of the paper she or he would like to present, along with her or his résumé. The précis should be no more than 2,500 words. Please e-mail these materials to 11wwcfp@aals.org by July 31, 2010. We will notify selected authors by October 1, 2010.

Posters

Posters are intended to provide authors, who must attend the workshop session, an opportunity to present in clear and succinct fashion the thesis and conclusion of their research or to describe teaching innovations. We invite:

► Submissions by women scholars regarding current projects on any topic or recently completed projects (including, for example, book projects published within the past 2 years), and

► Submissions by all scholars, regardless of gender, which focus on current or very recent projects regarding issues of gender or sex.

Interested faculty should submit an abstract for the proposed poster, along with her or his résumé, to 11wwcfp@aals.org by December 15, 2010. We will notify those selected to present posters by January 31, 2011.

Details
For further information, please contact a member of the Planning Committee: Chair Kathryn Abrams (California-Berkeley), krabrams@law.berkeley.edu, or members Serena Mayeri (Pennsylvania), smayeri@law.upenn.edu, Elizabeth Nowicki (Tulane), enowicki@tulane.edu, Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Iowa), angela-onwuachi@uiowa.edu, Stephanie M. Wildman (Santa Clara), swildman@scu.edu, or yours truly at lrpruitt@ucdavis.edu.

Work On! ASIL 2011 meeting

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora that do not necessarily include publication)

The American Society of International Law is seeking proposals for its 105th Annual Meeting, to be held March 23 to 26, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

Here's an excerpt from discussion of the meeting's theme, Harmony and Dissonance in International Law, which will be organized by Program Committee Co-Chairs Catherine M. Amirfar (Debevoise & Plimpton), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Chimène Keitner (California-Hastings Law), and Tai-Heng Cheng (New York Law School):

► On the one hand, international law has become segmented, as specialized international institutions and rule-making have proliferated in a variety of issue areas. ... Some view the growing body of specialized international legal rules as creating problems in the unity of international law, ultimately undermining the international legal system’s ability to promote peaceful relations among states and other actors. Others view fragmentation as a positive development that reflects the expansion and increased diversity, and hence utility, of international legal norms, particularly in accommodating the diverging interests of international actors.
► On the other hand, recent years have witnessed a seemingly opposite trend towards seamlessness, as evidenced by the collapsing of boundaries between public and private international law, between non-state actors and principles of state responsibility, between law and policy, and between the prerogatives of power and the demands of principle. Areas of international law once considered distinct are increasingly — perhaps routinely — borrowing principles, jurisprudence, and practice from one another.

These notions, the statement continues, provoke questions:

► [W]hen should international law be segmented, and when should it be seamless?
► What are the mechanisms for deciding this question, and what are the values that inform those decisions?
► What do these trends say about international law as a coherent system?
► To what extent are certain groups and their viewpoints excluded or ignored?
► What does this say about who the influential players within the international legal system are, and how that influence is exercised?
► What does the existence of competing conceptions of international law itself mean for ... judges deciding international issues, practitioners seeking to persuade courts and craft international policy, and scholars seeking to understand and propose solutions to global problems?

ASIL members are welcome to suggest topics, papers, sessions in light of this statement by filling out the form available here. (And if you're not yet an ASIL member, sign up here.) The deadline for submissions is Monday, June, 28, 2010.

Work On! "Teaching gender"

(IntLawGrrls is pleased to welcome back alumna Lisa R. Pruitt, who contributes this Work On! guest post)

The Section on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools, for which I have the honor of serving as Chair this year, is seeking panelists to share methods of teaching gender in “core courses” -- legal writing, torts, contracts, corporations, federal income tax, civil procedure, contracts, or criminal law, among others not traditionally understood to include gender -- at the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting to be held January 4 to 8 in San Francisco. The panel will also include a paper presentation by the winner of "Teaching Gender as a Core Value" competition.

In keeping with the overall meeting theme of "Core Values," our Section will focus on teaching gender issues as a "core value." This program will include a variety of perspectives and will explore ways gender issues can be successfully incorporated into law school teaching.

To be considered as a panelist, please submit a note of interest no later than next Wednesday, March 31, 2010, to Professor Danne Johnson, Oklahoma City University School of Law, at djohnson@okcu.edu. In addition to your c.v., please include a 2-paragraph description what you would discuss on the panel; that is, of the course that you teach and the methods that you use to teach gender.

Further details here.

Work On! Teaching International Humanitarian Law West

We've blogged before on workshops offered by the International Committee of the Red Cross to professors (of law and otherwise) interested in integrating international humanitarian law into their curricula. This April 9-10, Berkeley under the leadership of Professor Kate Jastram (below left) will host another such workshop. Here are the details:

On April 9-10, 2010 the University of California, Berkeley Law School and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene the first West Coast Teaching International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley. The Workshop is targeted at law professors interested in teaching an IHL course for the first time, integrating IHL modules into their current courses and/or rethinking their current teaching of this important subject.


Topics covered will include:

• Defining the scope and content of an IHL class;
• Exploring the intersection between international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and public international law (and the jus ad bellum);
• Incorporating IHL modules into the teaching of classes such as public international law, national security law, immigration law; constitutional law; administrative law and more;
• dentifying strategies for developing curricula, responding to current events, and gaining support from school administrations for the teaching of IHL.

The Berkeley Law Teaching IHL Workshop is an outcome of the 2007 ICRC/American University Washington College of law study, Teaching International Humanitarian Law in US Law Schools, which concluded that student demand for IHL courses is high but faculty needs better resources, materials and support to expand the teaching of IHL in law schools in the US. This Workshop is an attempt to address those needs.

Confirmed participants and topics include:

Larry Johnson & Gabor Rona (Columbia) (right and below right) on Intersections with Human Rights and International Criminal Law.

IntLawGrrl Beth Van Schaack (Santa Clara) (left) and Trevor Rush (U.S. Army JAG Legal Center and School) (Jus in Bello and Jus ad Bellum)

Geoff Corn (South Texas College of Law) (left) and Eric Jensen (Fordham) (Integration of IHL into Different Subject Areas)

Gary Solis (Georgetown) on Hot Topics in IHL.



To register or for more information on the Teaching IHL Workshop, please visit here or contact teachingihl@berkeley.edu

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.

Work On! Comparative law workshop

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora for scholarship-presentation-without-publication) Papers on comparative law once again are being sought for presentation at the annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, to be held May 20-22, 2010, at the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign (logo below left).

Organized by IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Jacqueline Ross and our colleagues Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton) and James Q. Whitman (Yale), the workshop, cosponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law, presents an opportunity for comparative law scholars to engage in sustained and substantive discussion, by up to 20 comparative law scholars, of up to 6 scholarly projects.

Deadline for electronic submissions, to be sent to Professor Ross at jeross1@illinois.edu, is March 1, 2010. Details here.

Work On! Teach international humanitarian law

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other scholarly fora) Law faculty interested in learning more about one of intlaw's most vibrant subfields these days -- international humanitarian law -- are invited to take part in the 2d Teaching International Humanitarian Law Workshop, to be held on October 2-3, 2009, at American University Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. That law school's Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law is convening the workshop in conjunction with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The workshop is aimed at law professors who are interested in teaching an international humanitarian law course for the 1st time, who've taught the course but wish to rethink it, or who would like to integrate the subject into other courses they teach, such as international criminal law, public international law, or human rights law.
On the program:
► The Scope of IHL and Ways to Teach IHL, taught by Gary Solis, Georgetown, and Col. Dave Wallace, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
► Intersections of IHL with Human Rights and International Criminal Law, taught by (invited) Doug Cassel, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School, and IntLawGrrl Beth Van Schaack, Santa Clara Law School
► Protected Persons, taught by Phil Sundel, International Committee of the Red Cross
► IHL and Terrorism, taught by me, Diane Marie Amann, California International Law Center at King Hall, University of California, Davis, School of Law
► Practical Applications/Personal Experiences of IHL, taught by Kate Jastram, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
► Integration of IHL in Specific Subjects, panel discussion led by Sean Watts, Creighton University School of Law
► Strategies for Expanding and Supporting the Teaching of IHL/Next Steps and Evaluation, Hadar Harris, Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law.
Application and details here; deadline for applications is September 1, 2009.
What better way to honor this month's 60th anniversary of the signing of the 4 Geneva Conventions on the laws and customs of war?

Work On! Comparative law workshop

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora for scholarship-presentation-without-publication) Papers on comparative law are being sought for presentation at the annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, to be held February 6 and 7, 2009, at Princeton University (logo below left) in New Jersey.
Organized by our colleagues Mathias Reimann, Jacqueline Ross, and Kim Lane Scheppele, the workshop presents an opportunity for comparative law scholars to engage in sustained and substantive discussion, by up to 20 comparative law scholars, of up to 6 scholarly projects. Cosponsors are the American Society of Comparative Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, and Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.
Deadline for electronic submissions, to be sent to Professor Scheppele at kimlane@princeton.edu: next Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Details respecting requirements for submission and the workshop itself may be found by clicking on "Programs" here.

Socio-Legal Methods in International Law

Last week, I hosted a Workshop on Socio-Legal Methods in International Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. The workshop was intended as a sally into the ongoing debate about the use of empirical methods to assess international law, claiming a place for qualitative methods (interviews, surveys, participant observation, and the like) as empirical research and exploring the contribution of this sort of interdisciplinary work to our understanding of international law in practice.
Building from panels and roundtable discussions sponsored by the International Human Rights Collaborative Research Network at the last two Law and Society Association annual meetings, this workshop brought together legal scholars, legal anthropologists, and others to discuss the role of socio-legal research methodologies and theoretical frameworks in studying international law. Participants included Intlawgrrl Rebecca Bratspies, IntLawGrrls guest bloggers Jenia Turner and Peggy McGuinness (also a cofounder of Opinio Juris blog), and other intlaw and intlaw-studying colleagues. For a full list of the participants and other information about the workshop, see the workshop webpage.
As described by the workshop's theme statement:

... Amongst legal scholars who study international law, attention has recently turned to empirical studies that attempt to demonstrate the real word effects (or lack thereof) of international law. With this increase in empirical work legal scholars are debating the relative efficacy of various quantitative and qualitative methodologies in developing empirical descriptions of international law practice. At the same time, there has been an upsurge in the interest in international law, and particularly in international human rights, amongs legal anthropologists.
Against this backdrop, this workshop will explore the role of socio-legal methodologies in describing and defining the contours of international law. It brings together legal anthropologists, legal scholars, and others studying international law from various disciplinary perspectives to discuss their research international law and their use of various methodologies and theoretical frameworks. The participants include specialists in international human rights law, international criminal law, international environmental law, and other areas. The methodological questions to be addressed are cross-cutting, concerning the role of methodology in shaping our understanding of international law and the challenges international law creates for socio-legal methodologies.

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.

Work On! Comparative Law Works in Progress

(Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora for scholarship-presentation-without-publication) Banding together for this year's 3d annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, to be held May 14-16, 2008, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are the American Society of Comparative Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, and Princeton University's Program for Law and Public Affairs.
This is a great opportunity, among the few events at which comparative law scholars in the United States may study and discuss in depth their ongoing scholarship. Up to 6 papers will be selected for discussion, before small groups of scholars, over the 2 days of this year's workshop.
Time's short to submit; deadline's February 15, 2008. Send draft articles, book chapters, book reviews, etc. -- works that are ready for extended discussion but have not yet appeared in print -- electronically to the organizers, our colleagues Kim Lane Scheppele, kimlane@princeton.edu, Mathias Reimann, purzel@umich.edu, and Jacqueline Ross, jeross1@law.uiuc.edu.