Event Details

End: January 5, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS - Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law,
History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, and Georgetown University Law
School invite submissions for the eleventh meeting of the Law & Humanities
Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia Law School Law in New York
City on June 8 & 9, 2015.
PAPER COMPETITION:
The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate
students, and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to
drawing from numerous humanistic fields, we welcome critical, qualitative work in
the social sciences. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary
selection committee, between five and ten papers will be chosen for presentation
at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on
each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to
focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly
projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then
serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the
evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in
interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity
itself.
Papers should be works-in-progress between 10,000 and 15,000 words in length
(including footnotes/endnotes), and must include an abstract of no more than 200
words. A dissertation chapter may be submitted, but we strongly suggest that it
be edited so that it stands alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper
that has been submitted for publication is eligible so long as it will not be in galley
proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop. The selected papers will appear in
a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication
commitment. The Workshop will pay the travel and hotel expenses of authors
whose papers are selected for presentation.
Submissions (in Word, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 5, 2015, and
should be sent by e-mail to: Center for the Study of Law and
Culture, culture@law.columbia.edu . Please be sure to include your name,
institutional affiliation (if any), telephone and e-mail contact information.
For more information contact Cindy Gao, 212.854.0167
or culture@law.columbia.edu, and to see past winners go
to: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop.
Katherine Franke
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Ariela Gross
Naomi Mezey
Hilary Schor
Norman Spaulding
Clyde Spillenger
Nomi Stolzenberg
Conveners