Legal Scholarship Blog

The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society announces its 2012 Symposium, When Gender Norms Become Law: Recognizing and Correcting for Gender Bias, which will take place Feb. 10, 2012….

Juris Diversitas and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law will host The Concept of ‘Law’ in Context: Comparative Law, Legal Philosophy, and the Social Sciences to be held from Oct….

San Francisco State University will host the 2011 Rights Conference exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society on Sept. 15-16, 2011 in San Francisco, CA….

Columbia University will host “Origins and Transformation of Chinese Legal Modernity: New Inquiries and New Insights,” currently scheduled in August 2012. The preliminary deadline for workshop proposals is August 20,…

The Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev hosts the 16th Annual International Workshop, Socio-legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in and beyond the Middle…

The National Association of Sentencing Commissions holds its annual meeting July 31 – Aug. 2, 2011. Sessions include Restorative Justice, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Criminal Justice, Efforts to Control Prison Populations…

The 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia. The theme for the conference is “Business and the State.” Proposals—for individual papers…

The editors of the Socio-Legal Review invite submissions by students and scholars. The deadline for submission for volume 8 (2012) is Nov. 15, 2011. The Journal subscribes to an expansive…

The Journal of Hate Studies has issued a call for papers on the topic of “Hate and Political Discourse” for Volume X, No. 1 (2012/13). The deadline for submissions is…

UCLA hosts the 8th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society Jan. 16-18, 2012. The call for papers deadline is June 14, 2011. mw