Conference: Raising the Bar: Lawyers & Leadership

The Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession will host Raising the Bar: Lawyers & Leadership from February 10-11, 2017.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Professional Responsibility; Legal Profession. 

Call for Papers: Legal Information Review

The Legal Information Review is now accepting submissions on a rolling basis for its second volume.  The journal encourages submissions of applied or theoretical work on the intersection of law librarianship and legal information.

Submissions can be sent electronically to susan.nevelow.mart@colorado.edu.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Intellectual Property Law; Law & Public Policy; Legal Education; Legal Profession.

Conference: The Future of Legal Scholarship

Northeastern School of Law, in conjunction with the Journal of Legal Education, will host the Future of Legal Scholarship conference on April 29, 2016 starting at 9:30am.

The scholarly mission of the legal academy is under unprecedented attack from all corners. Critics include the universities in which law schools are housed, the legal profession, the bench, law scholars themselves and law schools’ cost-conscious critics. So what’s the cause for complaint? Traditionally, legal scholarship has been valued, required, pursued and rewarded in the legal academy. Has the academy changed so fundamentally that we now need to reassess law as an academic discipline, as a subject of study and as an intellectual institution? Moving forward, how can legal scholars contribute to the academic pursuit of knowledge and to the pursuit of justice?

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Legal Education; Legal Profession. 

Call for Papers: Junior Faculty Forum

Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Law Schools announce the 17th session of the Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Yale Law School on June 28-29, 2016. The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of scholars recently appointed to a tenure-track position by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange.  Twelve to twenty scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen on a blind basis from among those submitting papers to present.  The goal is discourse both on the merits of particular papers and on appropriate methodologies for doing work in that genre.

To be eligible, an author must be teaching at a U.S. law school in a tenured or tenure-track position and must not have been teaching at either of those ranks for a total of more than seven years.

Electronic submissions should be sent to Katherine Pothin (katherine.pothin@yale.edu) with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; Legal Profession.

Conference: 3rd Annual Junior Faculty Scholarship Exchange

The University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth School of Law hosts its Third Annual Junior Faculty Scholarship Exchange on October 16, 2015, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Registration is limited and opens August 24, 2015. For more information please call 508-985-1121 and ask to speak with Emma, Jessica, or Spencer.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Legal Profession.

Call for Proposals: 2016 Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference

The Legal Writing Institute is seeking proposals for presentations for its 17th Biennial Legal Writing Conference to be held July 10-13, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the conference is “Thriving in a Time of Change” and is a broad topic covering professional commitments to teaching, scholarship, and professional service; to our professional identity as a discipline; and to our current and former students’ identities as practitioners. Proposal presentations are welcome on any subject of interest within that broad framework and are due by June 12, 2015.

For more information and to access the proposal submission form, go here.

Topics: Call for Proposals; Legal Writing; Legal Profession; Legal Education.

Call for Proposals: 2016 AALS Annual Meeting

The AALS Task Force on Professional Development is seeking proposals for the 2016 AALS Annual Meeting to be held January 6-10, 2016 in New York City. The committee is asking: Are there aspects of professional development to which the AALS should be giving more attention? If so, what are these areas and how can or should the AALS better help legal education professionals (including faculty and administrators) with professional development over the course of their careers? Proposals should address these topics and describe the concept and mode of the presentation and include a list of suggested speakers/facilitators.

To submit a proposal for consideration, e-mail profdev@aals.org by May 1, 2015.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia, Calls for Papers; Legal Education; Legal Profession. 

Panel Discussion – Women in the Legal Profession: Leadership from Law School to Practice

New York Law School is hosting a “Women in the Legal Profession” symposium on Monday, March 17, 2014 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m with a wine and cheese reception to follow. Panelists representing a variety of legal practice areas will discuss challenges unique to women both in law school and throughout their careers. To learn more about this event, the panelists, and to register please click here.

Topics: Conferences and Symposia; Legal Profession; Women & the Law

The Legal Profession is Not the Only Field Experiencing Stress Right Now

Job prospects are also dimming for radiology trainees.  For more details see this article that was posted to Boston.com on 3/17/2013.  Thanks to Renee Landers for bringing this article to our attention.

Topics: Legal Profession; Legal Education

Brooklyn Law Review and American Law Institute Symposium: “Restatement Of…”

Continuing this modernization of a venerable brand, the “Restatement Of …” symposium asks: What other areas of the law might be restated? Leading scholars from diverse fields will come together at this symposium to delve deeper into the restatement frontier in their respective areas of expertise. Discussion topics will include new projects that the ALI could undertake, concerns about restating specific areas of the law, restatements currently in progress, doctrines that will resist restatement, and old restatements that have disappeared.   This event will be held Friday, January 25, 2013, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Subotnick Center, Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Legal Education; Legal History; Legal Profession