The Innocence Scholarship Committee of the Innocence Network is seeking high quality social science and legal scholarship for presentation at the 2016 Innocence Network Conference in San Antonio, Texas, April 8-9, 2016. Paper proposals are due Feb. 1, 2016.
Areas of research are open but should touch upon the multifaceted causes, implications, and/or remedies of wrongful conviction. International papers are welcome but must be submitted in English. Please submit a title and paper proposal to the Innocence Scholarship Committee, innocencescholarship@gmail.com by February 1, 2016. Paper proposals must be no more than 200 words. Drafts must be submitted to the Committee by March 25, 2015.
The Innocence Scholarship Committee is actively seeking publication for those papers accepted for Conference presentations in a law review symposium edition. More information about that is forthcoming.
The Innocence Scholarship Committee is comprised of the following Members: Professor Aliza Kaplan, Oregon Innocence Project, Lewis & Clark School of Law, Portland, Oregon; Associate Professor Valena Beety, West Virginia Innocence Project, West Virginia University College of Law; Assistant Professor Keith Findley, Wisconsin Innocence Project, University of Wisconsin Law School; and Associate Professor Gwen Jordan, Illinois Innocence Project, University of Illinois-Springfield.
