2011 Global Legal Skills Conference

Date(s) of Conference:

May 5-7, 2011

Location:

Chicago, IL

Description:

The Global Skills Conference is a gathering of law professors and international legal experts who discuss cutting-edge issues in international legal education. Specific topics include legal research, creating appropriate materials and assignments for ESL and international students, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, case method and problem solving, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges, legal English, legal Spanish, and legal French, as well as other global legal skills.

Contact Information:
Anthony Niedwiecki
aniedwie@jmls.edu

http://events.jmls.edu/glsc/

Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate

Date(s) of Conferences:

May 23-25, 2011

Location:

Columbia University

Description:

The meeting will discuss such issues as continuing statehood and maintenance of maritime zones for states facing inundation from sea level rise; resettlement rights and practicalities of population displacement; liability for climatic harm in judicial forums; the utility of responsibility regimes under current law; and the role for a new convention on climate displacement.

Contact Information:

Greg Wannier
Deputy Director
gregory.wannier@law.columbia.edu.

http://www.law.columbia.edu/centers/climatechange/resources/threatened-island-nations

Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration

Date(s) of Conference:

October 21, 2011

Location:

University of Missouri School of Law

Description:

This symposium brings speakers from Canada, Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States together to discuss complex issues relating to international dispute resolution. Gary Born will give the keynote address. Mr. Born was awarded Global Arbitration Review’s inaugural “Advocate of the Year” prize and is the author of a number of leading publications on international arbitration and litigation.

A works-in-progress conference and a student writing competition is also being organized in association with this event

Call for Proposals & Papers:

Submissions for the works-in-progress conference and student writing competition should bear some relationship to international commercial arbitration, transnational litigation or the connection between the two.

Proposals for the works-in-progress conference are due by May 20, 2011, with responses anticipated in mid-June.  The works-in-progress conference will be held at the University of Missouri on October 20, 2011, the day before the symposium itself.

Papers for the student writing competition are due August 15, 2011, with the winning paper announced at the symposium.  The winner will receive a $300 prize sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) North American Branch and may have his or her paper published in the Journal of Dispute Resolution as part of the symposium edition.    

Contact Information:

Professor S.I. Strong
strongsi@missouri.edu

http://www.law.missouri.edu/csdr/symposium/2011/.

20th Annual National Seminar on Federal Sentencing Guidelines

Date(s) of Conferences:

May 4-6, 2011

Location:

Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa
Orlando, FL

Description:

This year’s conference will cover the latest on sentencing in Drug offenses, Firearms offenses, Fraud and Theft, Immigration offenses, Healthcare Fraud, Mortgage Fraud, Securities cases, Child Pornography and the Adam Walsh Act, Departures and Variances, Relevant Conduct, Sentencing Alternatives and Reentry, Chapter 3 Adjustments, Plea Bargaining, Bureau of Prisons Issues and Updates on Federal Sentencing Law including Supreme Court, Appellate and Legislative, and much more.

Contact Information:

http://view.carltonfields2.com/j=fe58167674610d7e701c&m=fef113757c6306&ls=fdf81c74746c047e731d7075&l=fe5915767763017a7c15&s=fe4d1c7971630c787216&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe3a177074660678701671

Sixth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations

Date(s) of Conference:

July 18-20, 2011

Location:

London, Ontario

Description:

The theme of the conference is ‘Challenging Orthodoxy’. The theme is intended to encourage scholars to question some of the common law’s established rules and approaches and to propose novel solutions to old problems.

Call for Papers:

Scholars working in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited to submit proposals for papers addressing the conference theme.

If you would like to offer a paper, please submit a working title and an abstract (of no more than 350 words) by email to Jason Neyers (jneyers@uwo.ca) before May 13, 2011. Papers will be selected on the basis of engagement with the conference theme and fit with other papers being presented at the conference, as well as on the basis of quality and originality.

Junior scholars and those currently engaged in graduate degrees in law are encouraged to apply.

Contact Information:

http://www.law.uwo.ca/TortLaw/ObligationsVI.html

Call for Papers: Seattle Journal of American Indian Law

Call for Papers:

The Seattle Journal of American Indian Law is a proposed academic collaboration at Seattle University among students, faculty, and practitioners. In an effort to fill a critical gap in the amount of current information available to those interested in the rapidly-developing field of Indian law, the Journal will employ an innovative online format. Containing a hybrid of shorter, timelier articles, to be published in parallel with legal developments in the field, as well as traditional, lengthier journal articles analyzing larger topics, the Journal will appeal to a broad range of readers.At this stage in development of the Journal, the Editorial Board is seeking content to be submitted for a trial issue that will be circulated exclusively within the School of Law. Alongside a formal proposal, the trial issue will show the faculty and administration the caliber of substance and the high level of scholarship that the Journal will command, and will make our case that the Journal ought to be an officially accredited publication at the School of Law. We aim to publish the trial issue in early Fall 2011.

As this is only a trial issue and will not be formally published, the Editorial Board will not seek the rights to any submitted content. That said, articles will still be subject to rigorous technical and substantive editing, and we will be in contact with the authors each step of the way. As the journal is looking primarily for shorter, timelier pieces at this time, we would love to hear any ideas you may have for a shorter article. If you are at all interested in providing content to the trial issue, the deadline for submitting confirmation of interest and an abstract of the manuscript is March 15th. The draft of the manuscript is due May 15th.

Contact Information:

Rebeka Osborne
Editorial Board, Seattle Journal of American Indian Law
seattlejournalail@gmail.com

http://www.law.seattleu.edu/

Call for Papers: 500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Call for Papers:

The Transatlantic Slave Trade most immediately touched societies and lives in France, Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, the Netherlands, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Central Africa. We especially welcome analyses, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others living and working in these countries and regions or working on issues that implicate developments and dynamics in these places. Of course, the work of scholars, advocates, activists and practitioners in all disciplines working elsewhere are also welcome.

Topics of inquiry can include but are not limited to:

• In what ways do the effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to ripple through the lives of particular people, institutions, communities, and societies? With what impact? How do we know? 
• What narratives prevail about the linkages between the slave trade and its historical impacts, on one hand, and contemporary racial meanings and conditions, on the other?
• How pronounced are calls for racial “healing” and reconciliation? What are their sources? What efforts have been tried and with what success? Failures?
• Do reparations movements do more good or more harm – under what circumstances and in what respects? What are the potential dangers and pitfalls of demands for reparations for the descendants of slaves? What would a truly beneficial approach to reparations look like?
• How has the slave trade shaped contemporary notions of “whiteness” and “blackness,” whether locally or globally? What effect does it continue to exert on other identities? What reparative work is needed, if any, to fashion more constructive concepts of racial identity and meaning?  Or are we at a point in time where notions of race no longer serve a beneficial effect; and, if so, what, if anything would “replace race”
• What current efforts seek to link the descendants of former slaves, slave traders, and slave holders? What are their aims, mechanisms, and outcomes?
• What current efforts seek to link former countries and regions that participated most actively in the slave trade? What are their aims, mechanisms, and outcomes?

Papers must be received by May 15, 2011 to be considered for publication in this issue.

Contact Information:

Leslie Shortlidge
shortlidge.2@osu.edu

http://www.raceethnicity.org/call4paper5-2.html

International Conference on Globalization and Development: Developing Countries’ Perspectives

Date(s) of Conference:

September 22-23, 2011

Location:

University of Dar-es-Salaam Business School

Description:

The conference will provide a forum for academicians and practitioners from all corners of the globe to critically address these issues with the aim of coming up with suggestions that will lead to solutions that can help to improve the lot of developing countries.The main theme of the conference is: Promoting Trade Competitiveness in Developing Countries.

Call for Papers:

Papers to be submitted can focus on any of the following sub-themes:

• Domestic Market Integration
• Market access Conditions in Emerging Markets 
• Export promotion in Developing Countries 
• Export Supply and Competitiveness 
• Natural Resources and Competitive Advantage 
• Trade in Services and its Implications in Developing Countries 
• Industrial and Trade Policies Complementarities in Developing Countries 
• Foreign Direct Investments in Africa 
• Chinese Investments in Africa 
• Regional Economic Integrations 
• SMEs Development and Foreign Trade Performance 
• Aid for Trade and Development 
• Agricultural Trade and Poverty Alleviation 
• Other contemporary Issues on International Trade and Agreements

Target participants include academicians, practitioners, policy makers and others interested in internationalization and developmental issues.

Important Dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2011 
• Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2011 

Contact Information:

University of Dar-es-Salaam Business School
P.O. Box 35046
Dar-es-Salaam TANZANIA
Phone: +255-22-2410006
Fax: +255 22 241 0510
Email: icgd@udbs.udsm.ac.tz  
cc: wineaster@udbs.udsm.ac.tz

http://www.udbs.udsm.ac.tz/downloads/International%20Conference%20on%20Globalization%20and%20Development-CALL%20FOR%20PAPERS%202011.pdf

No Boundaries: Transnational Law and a New Order of Global Governance

Date(s) of Conference:

May 9-10, 2011

Location:

Osgoode Professional Development
Osgoode Hall Law School of, York University
1 Dundas Street West Suite 2602, P.O. Box 42
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1Z3

Description:

Globalization has converged states and non-state actors (civil society, corporations and hybrid public-private bodies) creating a diverse range of governance paradigms.  In light of globalization, has transnational law influenced nation states in their ways of governance and behaviour? What is the role of “new” governance regimes in solving global problems?

This conference will debate whether we are entering a “new” order of global governance, while remaining attentive to the social, cultural, environmental effects of globalization at a domestic scale. Has globalization created new forms and principles of governance? Transnational law has been described as all law that regulates actions that transcend national frontiers. So, we ask: In this era of globalization, what is role of transnational law and global governance in shaping domestic modes of governance? How and in what ways does globalization affect public policy development? How do transnational law regimes interact with external and natural forces (e.g., the market, climate change) and interconnect boundaries?

Call for Papers:

We welcome papers that engage in questions of “boundaries”, particularly those with a focus on globalization, models of governance and transnational law. We are interested in a broad range of work dealing with the financial markets (commercial, banking and financial law), environmental protection, administrative law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, tax, e-commerce, intellectual property, women’s studies, trade, human rights, crisis and emergency planning, labour and employment, health, disability, historical conceptions of regulation and governance, reflections upon the nature and operative conditions of governance, the relationship between state sovereignty and regulatory authority. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus and from graduate students in other disciplines are strongly encouraged.

Submission Guidelines: Proposals should include the title of the paper, an abstract of approximately 300 words and five keywords that best describe your submission. Please also include your full institutional affiliation and email address.

The deadline for abstract proposals is March 4th 2011. Please send proposals by email to: GLSA@osgoode.yorku.ca

Contact Information:

1-888-923-3394

http://glsa.osgoode.yorku.ca/call-for-papers

4th Asian Constitutional Law Forum

Date(s) of Conference:

December 16-17, 2011

Location:

University of Hong Kong

Description:

The Asian Constitutional Law Forum provides an opportunity for constitutional law scholars in the region to establish academic exchanges and share their research.

Call for Papers:

We invite proposals for papers that are related to this year’s conference theme of “Major Constitutional Developments in Asia in the First Decade of the 21^st Century”.   Abstracts are due by May 15, 2011.

Contact Information:

Sharon Fast
sfast@hku.hk

http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/