Call for AALS Presenter— Busting Out in Scholarship—Becoming Relevant Outside the Legal Academy: Non-Traditional Scholarship and Social Change

The Planning Committee for the 2012 AALS Annual Meeting, Women in Legal Education Panel is seeking 250 word proposals for a presentation on a panel on Sunday, January 8, 2012 at the AALS annual meeting.

You only need to submit a 250 word summary of your proposed 12-15 minute presentation.  This panel is particularly appropriate if you are doing interesting work in the areas of blogging, grant-funded or interdisciplinary research, writing for a popular audience, or advocacy (broadly defined as amicus briefs, working on proposed  federal or state or local legislation, writing white papers for policy groups, etc.), or have ideas to contribute about the wisdom of, value to the academy of, and tenure issues regarding non-traditional scholarship.

Interested faculty should submit a summary of the presentation idea, along with her or his resume. The summary should be no more than 250 words. E-mail these materials to Donna Coker at dcoker@law.miami.edu, with the subject line WLE Busting Out, by July 1, 2011.  They will be notifying the selected presenter by September 1, 2011.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Women & The Law; Scholarship