Call for Papers: Democracy and the Workplace

Call for Papers:

This past year has seen a debate emerge in the United States about the propriety and limits of collective bargaining in the public sector. At the same time, around the world there has been an eruption of political protest that has taken various forms. There have been protests, and sometimes riots, by people who work or who are out of work in differing political systems, including the Arab Spring, riots in London, and other online and physical collective action. There is a connection between having voice at work and a voice in democracy.

Collective bargaining is one system for voice in the workplace. However, there are others, including employment dispute resolution systems using mediation and arbitration, human resource management practices at high performance workplaces, flatter management structures, work teams, and more. What is the appropriate role of employee voice at the workplace? How does voice at the workplace relate to democracy? What is its future? To what extent can appropriate harnessing of employee voice be used to prevent or resolve workplace conflict? More broadly, to what extent can we encourage greater productivity, creativity and morale by building a better workplace?

Our goal is to stimulate a broad ranging discussion on the issue of employee voice in both public and private sector union and nonunion workplaces both in the United States and in other national contexts. We welcome abstracts from participants in all academic disciplines who work on related issues, including but not limited to labor and employment law, human resource management, dispute resolution, dialogue and deliberation, and democracy.

We invite the submission of abstracts (maximum 250 words) for papers to be presented at the symposium. Possible outlets include the Nevada Law Journal, other academic journals, and/or an edited book or proceedings volume. Please include full contact information on your abstract and submit it as a Word document attachment in an email sent to Sandra.Rodriguez@unlv.edu. The deadline for abstracts is Friday, September 30, 2011.

Contact Information:

Ruben.Garcia@unlv.edu 

Lisa.Bingham@unlv.edu

http://law.unlv.edu/saltman-center-conflict-resolution.html

7th Biennial Central States Regional Writing Conference

Date(s) of Conference:

September 16-17, 2011

Location:

The John Marshall Law School

Description:

The conference will focus on teaching law degree candidates real-world skills, helping degree candidates move from academics into practice, and developing measures to assess degree candidate learning of lawyering skills. 

Contact Information:

http://events.jmls.edu/bcslwc/

Call for Papers: Conable Conference in International Studies: Refugees, Asylum Law, and Expert Testimony

Date(s) of Conference:

April 12-15, 2012

Location:

 

Rochester Institute of Technology

 

Description:

 

This conference has five goals: (1) to bring together into conversation scholars, practitioners, and activists producing expertise in the context of refugee and asylum law as it pertains to Africa and the Global South; (2) to explore new scholarship and research pertaining to the emergence of categories and identities deployed in refugee determinations and asylum petitions; (3) to publish an interdisciplinary collection of critical and rigorous scholarship on the emergence of categories and identities in asylum and refugee law; (4) to facilitate networking and interaction of conference participants and harness the potentials of collaboration for legal strategy, knowledge transfer and learning; (5) to inspire pedagogical and curricular development towards problem-solving competencies pertaining to asylum applicants and refugees from Africa and beyond.

 

Call for Papers:

 

Abstracts of proposed papers of 1-2 pages and a CV for review by the multidisciplinary steering committee are due by September 1, 2011 by email to BNL@RIT.EDU. Papers may not be published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Prospective participants should indicate any and all sources of funding for travel and accommodation. Limited financial assistance is available and will be prioritized for those from the Global South. Decisions will be made in October 2011. Short drafts of 10 pages for consideration and comment by the consulting committee are due by December 1, 2011. Papers of 25-35 pages for pre-circulation among all participants are due by February 1, 2012. Registration is required of all participants.

 

Contact Information:

 

Benjamin N. Lawrance
bnl@rit.edu

 

Cassandra Shellman
cls3740@rit.edu

 

Saabirah Lallmohamed

skl7794@rit.edu

 

http://www.rit.edu/cla/conable/

Call for Papers: Journal of International Law and International Relations

Call for Papers:

The Journal of International Law and International Relations (JILIR) invites submissions from scholars of both International Law and International Relations for its Fall 2011 issue. The Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that seeks to develop interdisciplinary discourse at the nexus of these two dynamic disciplines.

JILIR is welcoming submissions on the wide variety of topics located in the intellectual space jointly occupied by International Law and International Relations.

Please send submissions to submissions@jilir.org, as attachments in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format, with the author’s name removed from the document for the purposes of anonymous review. Please include the author’s full contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address) in the body of the e-mail. JILIR strongly prefers articles under 25,000 words in length (the equivalent of 50 journal pages) including text and footnotes.

All submissions must be received by September 24 ,2011 to be considered for publication.

Contact Information:

inquiries@jilir.org

http://www.jilir.org/

Call for Papers: Post-Conviction Review

Call for Papers:

The Maine Law Review, in consultation with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, is pleased to announce plans for a spring 2012 live symposium on the law of post-conviction review, and an invitation for article proposals to be considered for publication in the spring edition of the Law Review.

The symposium will offer both national and Maine specific perspectives on post-conviction review issues, and will feature a nationally prominent keynote speaker along with other distinguished presenters.  Each speaker will submit an article to be published in the spring issue.  While the live symposium will feature three or four primary speakers due to time constraints, the book will contain additional articles.

We seek submissions on a broad range of topics relating to post-conviction review, including its appropriate goals and the efficacy of current state and federal procedures in accomplishing those goals.  Moreover, convictions carry a myriad of significant collateral consequences such as deportation and deprivation of public assistance benefits.  We seek articles that assess whether and how these consequences should inform the optimum scope of post-conviction review, and how they affect the process by which guilty pleas are presented in courts.

The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2011.  Submitted abstracts should be no longer than three (3) pages, double-spaced, with standard margins and font size.

Contact Information:

Emma Bond
emma.bond@maine.edu
(207) 619-3662

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2011/08/call-for-papers-for-maine-symposium-on-post-conviction-review.html#more

2011 Rights Conference

Date(s) of Conference:

September 15-16, 2011

Location:

San Francisco, California

Description:

Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. Our goal is to bring together a wide variety of people from a range of academic, activist, legal, and community spaces to examine the place of rights within both the context of American society (as situated within a boarder global political community). To that end, we welcome participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars, graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers.

Contact Information:

http://www.h-net.org/~law/

Call for Papers: Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts: “Land Ownership and Tenure”

Call for Papers:

UN-Habitat, The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, concluded that more than one billion people live without any security of tenure in informal settlements in developing countries. While most developed countries have records that cover most of their territories, very few countries in the Global South have such records. This discrepancy underscores the unjust politics of landownership and land distribution that contributed to an inequitable world politics of social progress and human development.

The politics of access to and exploitation of land and natural resources assume fundamental relations of power control and policy of social inclusion; however, both notions imply and consolidate that the access to land and landownership, particularly in the Global South, reflects broader patterns of intra-institutional dynamics that explain how marginality and socio-political exclusion take place within countries and in the global stage. Understanding these dynamics, in the context of landownership, enable us to recognize who benefiting from current global politics of unequal developmental process that often requires access to, and ownership of public land. 

One might asks where we can draw the lines amongst legal access and normative rights to land, and the epistemological narrative (such as truth, believe and justification) that legitimize grabbing of public land in the name of social and economic progress. In other words, how the logic of landownership could be defined in increasingly diverse world that governs by a single economic ideology of market liberalization.

Topics of inquiry can include but are not limited to:

• How race relations impact the accessibility to land and land distribution in marginalized communities?
• How ethnic minority define their rights and access to land in the age of neo-liberalism?
• In which ways, equal citizenship status has been affected by access to land and land rights in countries across the Global South?
• How we can assess the concept of collective landownership and access to land that reside within indigenous people’s cosmovision vs. individualized notion of ownership that increasingly informs the scrambling attitude of corporations to acquire land in the Global South?
• How do these issues continue to play out in the United States in particular and North America in general? In Europe?
• How we can envision alternative and practical aspect of a democratic and collective community-based ownership and access to land, and what that conceptualization would looks like in the age of economic globalization?
• The effectiveness of land-certification projects and other pro-poor legislation for racial and ethnic minorities.

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

Please send manuscript publications to the managing editor: Leslie Shortlidge Shortlidge.2@osu.edu.  See Style Guidelines at www.raceethnicity.org.

Contact Information:

Leslie Shortlidge
Shortlidge.2@osu.edu

http://raceethnicity.org/call4paper5-3.html

Call for Papers: Critical Feminist Pedagogies: Towards an Education of Activism

Call for Papers:

This conference attempts to detangle the tricky and creative work that is “feminist” education and to bring activists and critical thinkers/educators together to share our visions of feminist pedagogy. We are interested in how you as community activists, students, artists, educators, and future-educators encourage critical thinking and enthusiasm in learners. We want to share our passions, talents, and skills through syllabi, curriculum, and workshops.

We invite individuals, activists, groups, artists, scholars, and educators to submit proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, or artistic performances that address the following questions:

• Critiques of empowerment as a mode of feminist education
• What is the relationship between feminist pedagogy and indoctrination? Can consciousness-raising be a form of indoctrination? How would feminist education function beyond consciousness-raising?
• What makes for strategic feminist practice within a group (beyond sitting in circles and hearing everyone’s voice—what is explicitly/implicitly feminist about this)?
• To what extent can experience-sharing be productively used in Women’s Studies settings?
• Access to education as a feminist issue; inclusion/exclusion of certain groups
• How might intersectionality (race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, sexuality, ability, environmental issues) be used as a tool for activism or education?
• How can we continue to challenge the academic industrial complex?
• What are the tensions between students, students and teachers, academics and grassroots activists and how might these tensions be used pedagogically/productively?
• Others (You are highly encouraged to come up with your own topic!

Submission must be postmarked by September 1, 2011.  Please submit proposals and supporting materials to:

Women’s Studies Graduate Conference Committee
Women’s Studies Program, EN B 229
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515

Contact Information:

Graduate Conference Committee
womenstudies@southernct.edu

Women’s Studies Office
(203) 392-6133

http://www.southernct.edu/womensstudies/graduateconference/

Call for Papers: John Marshall Law Journal

Call for Papers:

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law Journal invites submissions for our Spring 2012 symposium focused on immigration law. Although papers on any immigration-related topic are welcome, we are especially interested in papers that may have particular relevance to immigration issues in Georgia or the Southeast. Accepted papers will be featured at a conference/CLE to be held on February 8, 2012 and will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of the Journal. Please e-mail papers or proposals to articleseditor@johnmarshall.edu by September 26, 2011.

Contact Information:

articleseditor@johnmarshall.edu

http://www.johnmarshall.edu/academics/LawJournalAnnualSymposium.php?ex=8

Call for Papers: Smartphones and the Fourth Amendment: The Future of Privacy in Our Hands

Call for Papers:

The University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law seeks submissions for its 2012 Annual Law Review Symposium. This year’s theme is “Smartphones and the Fourth Amendment: The Future of Privacy in Our Hands” The conference date is to be determined, but will be in the Spring of 2012.

This Symposium seeks to explore the constitutional implications of smartphone technology, focused on the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.   The smartphone as currently developed implicates existing Fourth Amendment doctrine involving data privacy, email privacy, phone privacy, photo privacy, workplace, privacy, GPS tracking technology, cloud technology, social media, the Third Party doctrine, and generalized expectations of privacy.  Participants in the Symposium will address how existing Fourth Amendment protections can be applied to this new technology.  Panels will address discrete issues arising from current law enforcement practice of warrantless GPS tracking, subpoenas to third party providers such as cell phone companies, work email privacy after the Supreme Court’s decision in Quon, cloning of cell phone hardrives during traffic stops, and the expectation of privacy on information stored on cloud computing systems and smartphone systems.  In addition, the Symposium seeks to synthesize a working metaphor to analyze Fourth Amendment issues for future information technology developments.

This symposium will attempt to address these and other questions from the prospective of advocates, practitioners, and scholars. The symposium will be an opportunity for participants and audience members to freely exchange ideas about the current state of the Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy and the smartphone.  By expanding the boundaries of our exploration, we hope to develop a deeper understanding how the Supreme Court should rule of various aspects of the operation of the smartphone through the Fourth Amendment lens of the reasonable expectation of privacy.

To submit a paper proposal, please submit an abstract by 5 p.m. on September 30, 2011 to Symposium Editor Tracy Jackson at udclawreviewsymposium@gmail.com.  In the subject line of your submission you must type: Abstract law review submission. Your submission must contain your full contact information, including, an email, phone number, and mailing address where you can be reached. Abstracts should be no longer than one page. All papers need to follow a strictly academic format, but all papers should address the symposium theme.  We will notify presenters of selected papers in mid-October. All working drafts of papers will be due no later than February 13, 2012. All selected abstracts will be posted on the UDC Law Review Symposium website to be shared with other participants and attendees.

To be eligible for publication in the UDC Law Review, submissions must not be published elsewhere. Typically, the UDC Law Review publishes pieces ranging from 25-45 pages in length, using 12-point times new roman font and one-inch margins.

Contact Information:

Tracy Jackson
Law Review Symposium Editor
udclawreviewsymposium@gmail.com