University of Floriday Journal of Lawa and Public Policy Call for Papers (Spring 2013 Issue on Media Law)

The University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy (JLPP), celebrating its 25th anniversary, is organizing a special issue on media law for spring 2013.

Papers submitted for consideration in this issue may include articles, essays and book reviews and should focus on topics related to media law, including First Amendment, defamation, privacy or intellectual property.

Submission guidelines: Please submit any papers you would like to be considered for publication in our special issue in Word document format to kcarnley@ufl.edu by January 15, 2013.

For more information about our Journal and our submission requirements, visit our page on the submissions guidelines.

Symposium: Authors invited to publish in the special issue on media law may also be invited to participate in the spring 2013 media law symposium, hosted by the Journal at the UF Levin College of Law.

List of relevant URL addresses:

• UF Levin College of Law website: http://www.law.ufl.edu
• UF Journal of Law and Public Policy website: http://www.law.ufl.edu/student-affairs/additional-information/student-organizations/jlpp
• Submission guidelines website: http://www.law.ufl.edu/student-affairs/additional-information/student-organizations/jlpp/submissions

Call for Papers: Literature and Law

Call for Papers:

GRAAT Online welcomes contributions relating to literature and law in the English-speaking world, contributions which may address, but are not necessarily limited to, the following areas:

• the historical development of law/literature interdisciplinary studies
• developments of this field across geographical/cultural borders
• the vulgarisation/popularisation of law through literature
• law and literature: from a new trend to a new culture?
• academics and/as lawyers – lawyers and/as academics
• specific authors and their depiction/use of literature in judicial decisions
• academic and judicial limits of literature and law

Please send proposals of around 250 words and a short biography by November 12, 2012 to Geraldine Gadbin-George (geraldine.george@gmail.com) and Trevor Harris (trevor.harris@univ-tours.fr). Completed articles will be due May  15, 2013.

Contact Information:

Geraldine Gadbin-George
geraldine.george@gmail.com

Trevor Harris
trevor.harris@univ-tours.fr

Call for Papers: Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

Call for Papers:

The Connecticut Insurance Law Journal invites you to submit original, scholarly work to be considered for its spring issue.  They are accepting papers on the law of insurance, risk and responsibility submitted by academics and practitioners. Footnotes should follow Bluebook form. Papers may be submitted directly to Jay McCormick at cilj.eic@gmail.com.  The deadline is December 15, 2012.

Contact Information:

Jay McCormick
cilj.eic@gmail.com

http://insurancejournal.org/

Call for Papers: Indigenous Mothering, Family and Community: International Perspectives

Call for Papers:

The voices of Indigenous women worldwide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might be reclaimed. As part of this process of reinvigorating our spirits we are compiling a volume exploring the issues surrounding and impacting Indigenous mothering, family and community in a variety of contexts internationally. We welcome submissions from Indigenous mothers, scholars, students, activists, workers, artists, and any others interested in the experiences and knowledges of Indigenous mothering, families and communities in either historical or contemporary societies.

The deadline for abstracts is January 7, 2013.

Contact Information:

Dr. Dawn Harvard
mharvard@sympatico.ca

Dr. Kim Anderson

kanderson@wlu.ca

http://www.vivalafeminista.com/2012/09/cfp-indigenous-mothering.html

Call for Papers: Forced Migration Review

Call for Papers:

This issue of FMR will address questions such as the following:

• What are the different state practices in asylum for recognising sexual orientation or gender identity as grounds for claiming a well-founded fear of persecution?
• Do existing legal instruments protect LGBTI people’s rights in respect of displacement and how are those instruments enforced?
• What are the practices in reception, detention, status determination and resettlement for LGBTI people, whether their gender identity or sexual orientation is the cause of their claim for asylum or not?
• What examples of good practice are there in reception, detention, status determination and resettlement?
• What can we learn from local initiatives to protect LGBTI rights and prevent persecution and displacement?
• Is data about the legal and cultural position of LGBTI people included in Country of Origin Information?
• Is discrimination by states and by others on the grounds of gender identity and/or sexual orientation given due weight by those states considering asylum claims? Are non-stereotypical relationships given fair or equal consideration in matters of asylum and resettlement?
• How can government agencies, service providers and displaced communities enhance the protection of displaced LGBTI people?
• Are there particular aspects relating to age – either young or old – that need to be considered?

The deadline for submission of articles is December 3, 2012.

Contact Information:

fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk

http://www.fmreview.org/sogi

Call for Papers: Socio-Legal Review

Call for Papers:

The Socio-Legal Review is issuing a call for papers. The Socio-Legal Review is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. SLR aims to be a forum that involves, promotes and engages students and scholars to express and share their ideas and opinions on themes and methodologies relating to the interface of law and society.

The last date for submission for the first issue is November 1, 2012, and the last date for submission for the second issue is March 1, 2013.

Contact Information:

slr@nls.ac.in

http://nls.ac.in/resources/newacademicprogramme/SLR2012Fin.pdf

Call for Papers: Poverty & Access to Justice

Call for Papers:

The University of Mississippi and the Mississippi Law Journal is pleased to announce that in Spring 2013 Supra will be devoted to current scholarship in the area of Poverty & Access to Justice. Supra publishes content exclusively for our online format. Thus, our articles are generally concise.  Supra serves as a practitioner’s aid with articles detailing current challenges and practical solutions.  Supra is seeking submissions that address practical solutions under this general theme.

Possible civil topics include, but are not limited to:

• The Use of Forms for Self-Represented Litigants
• Developing Statutory Law that can be Utilized by Self-Represented Litigants
• Civil Gideon
• Should Bar Associations Require Mandatory Pro Bono Hours

Scholars in the area of pro bono assistance and legal profession are invited to submit paper proposals, 1-2 pages in length, by September, 15, 2012.  Proposals should be sent to Kristen Kyle-Castelli, Executive Supra Editor.  Papers will be selected to ensure a wide range of topics.  As an online Journal, Supra accepts papers that are 4,000 words or greater.  Final drafts of papers are due by October 31, 2012.

Contact Information:

Kristen Kyle-Castelli
Executive Supra Editor, Mississippi Law Journal
mkkyle@go.olemiss.edu

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2012/08/call-for-papers-poverty-access-to-justice.html

Call for Papers: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Posthumous Reproduction

The Journal of Law and Health (Cleveland-Marshall) invites submissions for its Annual Symposium: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Posthumous Reproduction. The submission deadline is October 1, 2012.

Recently, in Astrue v. Capato, the Supreme Court held that children conceived through in vitro fertilization after the death of a parent were not automatically entitled to survivor benefits under the Social Security law. The Court stated that the children’s eligibility to receive the benefits depended upon their ability to inheritance under the state’s intestacy system.

Areas of interest for this special journal issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• What steps are necessary to protect the financial interests of posthumously conceived children?
• What regulations are needed to protect the reproductive rights of the dead gamete provider?
• What steps are necessary to address the legal, moral and ethical consequences of posthumous reproduction?
• What impact, if any, will the United States Supreme Court decision in Astrue v. Capato have on posthumous reproduction?
• Do the dead have a fundamental right to procreate?
• Should posthumously conceived children be treated like heirs under the intestacy system?
• Whether health insurance should cover the expense of posthumous reproduction?

Please submit a 600-word abstract describing your topic and a copy of your curriculum vitae by October 1, 2012 to Journal of Law and Health at health.journal@law.csuohio.edu. Please include “Submission: Annual Symposium” in the subject line. The symposium is tentatively scheduled for March 2013.

Contact Information:

health.journal@law.csuohio.edu

http://legalscholarshipblog.com/2012/07/31/call-for-papers-posthumous-reproduction/

Call for Papers: Cultural Sociology of Divorce

Call for Papers:

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia, a 3-volume library reference to be published in 2013 by SAGE Publications. We hope you’ll consider contributing to this exciting project.

This comprehensive project will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the library’s electronic services. Each article, ranging from 900 to 4000 words, is signed by the contributor. The General Editor of the encyclopedia is Robert E. Emery, Ph.D., University of Virginia, who will review all the articles for editorial content and academic consistency. Payment for the articles are honoraria that range from a $50 book credit from Sage Publications for article submissions up to 1,000 words up to a free copy of the encyclopedia for contributions totaling greater than 10,000 words. More than this, your involvement can help assure that credible and detailed data, descriptions, and analysis are available to students of divorce issues.

At this time the project is almost completely assigned with the exception of the following topics:

1. Divorce Law-Hispanic Traditions (2000 words) (e.g. Spanish Empire’s influence on communal property laws in the U.S.)
2. Palimony (1500 words)
3. Property Distribution (3000 words)

The final deadline for submissions for these entries is October 1, 2012.

Contact Information:

Lisbeth Rogers
Author Manager
Golson Media for SAGE Publications
divorce@golsonmedia.com

http://legalscholarshipblog.com/2012/07/31/call-for-papers-cultural-sociology-of-divorce/#more-7712

Call for Papers: Title IX and Transgender Rights

Call for Papers:

The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society will present its 2013 symposium, Transcending Gender Lines: Title IX and Transgender Rights, in Feb. 2013. Abstracts for the call for papers are due October 15, 2012.

We are seeking original scholarship, from both scholars and practitioners, addressing the current state of Title IX application in relation to the rights of transgender individuals.

Ideally, proposals would highlight:

• An analysis of the effectiveness of current Title IX implementation in prohibiting sex-discrimination of transgender individuals.
• Recommendations as to how Title IX implementation could be improved to address issues particular to the needs of transgender individuals.

Topics could include: judicial decisions opening the door for Title IX’s application to transgender individuals, the current scope of Title IX’s application to harassment of transgender individuals (including sexual harassment, bullying at schools, on athletic teams, and online, sexual abuse); the effectiveness of measures state and local governments have enacted to protect the transgender rights under Title IX.

Interested parties should send an abstract to WJLGS.Symposium@gmail.com by October 15, 2012. Those selected for the Symposium will be notified by November 2012. The Journal’s Symposium issue will be published in Fall 2013.

Contact Information:

Jill Parikh
Symposium Editor
jparikh@wisc.edu

http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wjlgs/