Presenters were selected from a call for papers.
(Program to be published in Stetson Law Review)
This year the Section is having a call for papers from new law professors. Four top quality papers will be selected from the submissions and each author will be invited to speak at the section’s program during the 2010 Annual Meeting. The goal of the call for papers is to give newer law professors opportunities to present and get feedback on their work, network with more established scholars in their field and hone their presentation skills. Submissions will likely be due in mid August of 2009. Only faculty members who have been full-time law teachers for five years or fewer as of July 1, 2009 will be eligible to submit works. The papers will be published by the Stetson Law Review in a special volume devoted to this call for papers.
As with our section’s first call for papers in 2008, the theme of the submissions will coordinate with the theme for the AALS’s annual meeting. The theme for the AALS’s annual meeting for 2010 is Transformative Law. Thus, the papers submitted should be related to the transformative nature of the law. Included in that broad category are any papers that suggest legal reform. Papers might focus on legal initiatives to help remediate the current economic crisis. Papers might more generally suggest legislative reform, policy initiatives, or particular judicial perspectives or interpretations. Papers might also focus on the intersection of law with other social sciences to better address needs and suggestions for social and political transformation.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.