Interpellations - Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia

5 – 8 December 2013

The Australian National University

Canberra, Australia

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Professor WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago
• Dr Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University Technology, Sydney
• Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Director of Westminster International Law & Theory Centre

The annual conference of the Association invites scholarly and creative research from academics and graduate students working at the crossroads of law, justice, and culture, whether based in legal theory or in disciplines such as literature, art, film, music, history, continental philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, visual culture, or cultural studies. Contributions may take a variety of forms from traditional academic papers to poster presentations, video, or other genres or media.

Contributors should provide a title and an abstract of 200 words or less, no later than 31 May 2013, by email sent to coast@law.anu.edu.au. Please include your name and the word Interpellations in the subject line.

For more information on this year’s program, including on-line registration:

• download the attached flyer
• check our web site
• or contact the Convenor, Professor Desmond Manderson

From the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities

Dear all,

Attached is the DRAFT program, which is the product of tons of work on the part of George Pavlich, Jennifer Hardes, Paul Passavant, Julia Chryssostalis, Keally McBride, Mark Anataki, and our host Patrick Hanafin. Thank you so much to all of them!!!

Please know that, while we've tried to get this as close as possible to final, panels and papers MIGHT still be moved around if we discover conflicts, so please be sure to check the FINAL program, which will be sent around very soon. If you notice a conflict, please email me right away.

In the meantime, if there are those of you who would like to VOLUNTEER to chair or serve as discussant on panels marked N/A, volunteers would be welcome!

The next steps for registration:

1) If you've already registered and paid your $35 membership fee, please return to the site to pay your balance (not necessary for graduate students):

http://www.regonline.com/16thannualmeetingLCH

2) If you have not yet registered, please register as an "attendee only" (even if you are on a panel) to pay your balance. (It won't make a difference to the program, but it will make the math come out right).

If you have problems with regonline, please email me: linda.meyer@quinnipiac.edu

Many thanks for paying online! It makes it much, much easier for our all-volunteer organizing committee and long-suffering treasurer, Susan Ayres, and eliminates the need for currency conversion (since your credit card company will handle this for us!) You can also ask for a receipt to be sent to your email.

If any of you need some other form of acceptance letter for your institution's funding requirements, please email me.

I look forward to seeing you all very soon!

Best,

Linda

Applications are now available for both the “Tikvah Fellows Program” and the “Tikvah Scholar-in-Residence Program” at The Tikvah Center at NYU School of Law.

The Tikvah Fellows Program is a program designed for senior or advanced scholars and educators who conduct research and/or teach in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Law and/or Jewish Civilization. Non-academics such as school principals and rashei yeshivot are also welcome to apply.

The Tikvah Scholars Program is a program designed for graduates and young scholars who conduct research in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Law and/or Jewish Civilization.

Please feel free to visit our site for more details about either Program and The Center itself at http://www.nyutikvah.org, as well as our blog at http://www.thereistikvahnyu.org/about-nyu-tikvah-center/call-for-applications-now-open/.

Very best wishes,

The Tikvah Center

The Northeast Law & Society Conference will take place Jan. 11 & 12, 2013 at Amherst college, Amherst, MA.

The Registration has been extended to Jan. 1, 2013.

Note – the hotel blocks have been released however, the group rate will be offered until Dec. 21. Be sure to mention you are attending Amherst College Northeast Law & Society.

The program and registration form are both available for download.

Professor John Inazu has published a special volume in Duke's Journal of Law & Contmporary Problems on the subject of Theological Argument in Law, inspired by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

The volume bridges connections between legal scholarship and the work of theologian Stanley Hauerwas.  Contributors include Bradley Wendel, Elizabeth Schiltz, Michael Moreland, James Logan, David Skeel, Cathleen Kaveny, Charlton Copeland, John Inazu, Stephen Carter, and Stephen Macedo.  The volume also includes a dialogue between H. Jefferson Powell and Stanley Hauerwas, and a response to the articles from Hauerwas.

Registration for the Northeast Law & Society Conference has been extended to Jan 1, 2013. The conference will take place will take place January 11 & 12, 2013 at Amherst College in Amherst, MA.

The program and registration form are both available for download.

Prof. Hank Chambers, University of Richmond
[TBA]

Prof. Lisa Crooms-Robinson, Howard University
[invited]

10:45am to 11am Break/Transition – Coffee/Tea/Juice/Pastries

11am to 12pm: Concurrent Works in Progress 1
Room 1 [TBA]
Room 2 [TBA]
Room 3 [TBA]
Room 4 [TBA]

12pm to 12:30pm Break/Transition

12:30pm to 1:45pm Lunch/Keynote: Dean Phoebe Haddon, University of Maryland

1:45pm to 2pm: Break/Transition

2pm to 3:15pm Panel 3: Historical Discrimination and Citizenship
Moderator: Prof. Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania

Panelists: Prof. Natsu Saito, Georgia State University
Full Citizenship in a Settler Colonial Context: The Inadequacies of Equal Protection

Prof. Andre Smith, Widener University
A Tax History of Race in the United States

Prof. Jeannine DeLombard, University of Toronto
In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

3:15pm to 3:30 Break/Transition

3:30pm to 4:30pm Concurrent Works in Progress 2
Room 1 [TBA]
Room 2 [TBA]
Room 3 [TBA]
Room 4 [TBA]

4:30pm to 4:45pm Break/Transition

4:45pm to 6pm Panel 4: Anti-Immigration Policies and Civil Rights
Moderator: Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University

Panelists: Prof. Jennifer Chacon, University of California–Irvine
Earning Citizenship

Prof. Jayesh Rathod, American University
Legacy of Prohibition on U.S. Immigration Law

Prof. Elizabeth Keyes, University of Baltimore
Defining American: Assessing the Long-Term Consequences of the DREAM Movement

6pm to 6:45pm MAPOC Business Meeting for 2014

7pm to 8:30pm Formal Organized Dinner [TBA]

Panel 5: Derrick Bell’s Space Traders: A Meditation on the Meaning of Citizenship
Moderator: Prof. Anthony Farley, Albany Law School

Panelists: Prof. Anthony Farley, Albany Law School
The Spaceship & the Cross: Derrick Bell's Existentialism

Prof. andré p. d. cummings, Indiana Tech University
Derrick Bell: Godfather Provocateur

Prof. Reginald Leamon Robinson, Howard University
Bell’s Space Traders: Child Maltreatment as the Proper Locus for Interrogating Full Citizenship

Prof. Debra Waire Post, Touro University
The Power of Parable: Spirituality and Science Fiction in the
 Scholarship of Derrick Bell

Prof. Steven Ramirez, Loyola-Chicago University
Corporate Boards and Interest Convergence

Prof. Josephine Ross, Howard University
‘Spread ‘em!’: Queer, Feminist, and Critical Race Theories of Stop & Frisk

Prof. Bridgette Baldwin, Ph.D., Western New England University
Trading Spaces: A Bellsian Analysis of NYC’s Current Stop, Question, & Frisk Practice

Saturday, January 26, 2013

9am to 11am Registration/Continental Breakfast

9am to 10:15am Panel 6: Gender and Citizenship
Moderator: [TBA]

Panelists: Prof. Crisarla Houston, University of the District of Columbia
Women, Weapons, and the Wars on Crime and Terror: Relating Interest Convergence Theory and National Security Interest to America’s Fight Against Sex Trafficking

Prof. Howe-Barksdale, Widener University
American Social Conservatives’ War on Contraception

Ms. Rabia Belt, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan; Research Academic Fellow, Georgetown University
What Does Citizenship Mean for People with Mental Disabilities?

Ms. Bekah Mandell, New Media Director, National Directors Workers’ Alliance & Adj. Prof., Community College of Vermont
Is There a Convergence Here?: Race, Gender & The Fair Labor Standards Act

10:15am to 10:30am Break/Transition

10:30am to 11:30am Concurrent Works in Progress 3
Room 1 [TBA]
Room 2 [TBA]
Room 3 [TBA]
Room 4 [TBA]

11:30am to 11:45pm Break/Transition

11:45pm to 1pm Video Presentation Lunch – Domestic Violence and Immigrant Women
Prof. Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania

1pm to 1:15pm Break/Transition

1pm to 2:15pm Panel 7: Redefined Through Neutrality: Modern Movement of Exclusion and the Meaning of Citizenship
Moderator: Prof. Donald Tibbs, Ph.D., Drexel University

Panelists: Prof. Atiba Ellis, West Virginia University
A Price Too High: Voter Suppression and the Redefinition of Citizenship

Prof. William Rhee, West Virginia University
The Curious Legal Etymology of American “Civil Rights”: U.S. Federal Civil Rights Law and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination

Prof. Melinda Molina, Capital University
Boricua Certificado: Law 191 and Decertifying Citizenship

Prof. Jasmine Gonzales Rose, University of Pittsburgh
Juror Language Accommodation in Theory and Practice

Prof. Andrea Freedman, University of San Francisco
Payback: A Structural Analysis of the Credit Card Problem

2:15pm to 2:30pm Break/Transition

2:30pm to 3:30pm Concurrent Works in Progress 4
Room 1 [TBA]
Room 2 [TBA]
Room 3 [TBA]
Room 4 [TBA]

3:30pm to 3:45pm Break/Transition

3:45pm to 5pm Panel 8: Modern State, National Security, and the Limits of Citizens’ Claim
Moderator: Prof. Ruth Gordon, Villanova University

Panelists: Prof. Ben Davis, University of Toledo
The Sparkle of Sovereignty: A Citizen and Torture, Military Commissions, and the War in Iraq

Prof. Dawinder “Dave” Sidhu, University of New Mexico
[TBA]

Prof. Amna Akbar, University of Michigan
The End of Community Policing?

Prof. Sudha Setty, West New England University
[TBA]

5pm to 5:30pm Final Word
Prof. Taunya Banks, University of Maryland
From Lincoln to King and Beyond: The Unfinished Journey Toward Full Emancipation


Hotel information and conference registration information will be published soon.

AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST LAW JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue Volume 38 (June 2013)
Special Issue Editors: Maria Drakopoulou and Julia Chryssostalis

Deadline for Submissions: February 1, 2013

History, Law, Space and Time
History has consistently lent its language to critical approaches to law. In contemporary critical legal studies however, this bond of engagement between law and history appears severely eroded. The words of history and the words of law seem to move further and further apart. With this special issue we are seeking to revive the dialogue between law and history. In doing so, we are not aiming to provide a better legal history, nor offer correctives to the historical development of legal theory or doctrine. Rather, our objective is to address legal scholarship’s ‘forgetfulness’ as to the critical possibilities history holds for law. So we are inviting papers that, broadly speaking, engage with history as a resource of critique for law - as a site of an alternative way of thinking about law. If thinking and writing historically about law necessary involves time, this act is also a form of ‘localizing’ law. In acknowledging space and time as significant factors in the historical study of law, we would therefore particularly welcome papers exploring the relationship between time, space and the legal institution - the many ways in which the spatial and the temporal implicate law or are implicated by law. More specifically, questions that papers may wish to raise might include:
How do conceptualizations of space and time shape and organise the relationship between law, the political and/or the cultural? How are understandings of space and time constitutive of the stories of the origin of modernity’s legal order? And how do they form and inform the power and authority of law?
What sort of orders of time and space are embedded in law? What forms of thinking, acting and being in the world do they nurture? What kind of experience do they animate for the subject of law? What kind of expectations or potentials for new futures do they open up or foreclose? More specifically, how are gender and/or sexual difference inscribed in these temporal and spatial orders?
What forms of temporal and spatial narrative do culturally and historically contingent legal knowledge (law) engender, disseminate and hold to be true? In particular, how are western conceptions of space and time bound up with law’s self-narration and self-evaluation? And what sort of meanings and values do they attach to legal encounters with `self', `other', `nature' and `culture'?

The AFLJ seeks to focus upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As a critical legal journal we publish research informed by critical theory, cultural and literary theory, jurisprudential, postcolonial and psychoanalytic approaches, amongst other critical research practices. Articles are limited to 8000 words. Prospective contributors are invited to discuss any proposed submissions with an Editor.

Deadline for Submissions
Manuscripts should be sent in electronic form to the Special Issue Editors, Maria Drakopoulou, University of Kent, M.Drakopoulou@kent.ac.uk or Julia Chryssostalis, University of Westminster, chryssj@westminster.ac.uk. Earlier submissions are welcomed.

Refereeing of Articles
The Australian Feminist Law Journal referees all manuscripts submitted for publication and follows the double-blind refereeing procedure. Referees will be selected with expertise in the author’s area of scholarship. Authors are requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page, and eliminate any self-identifying citation of one’s own work. This can be done by leaving such citations or reference material blank or otherwise referring to the work in a way which disguises the name of the author. The journal will not accept manuscripts for consideration which are already under consideration by another journal. The Australian Feminist Law Journal is published by the Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia and is available in all major University libraries and online with Informit, Heinonline, Proquest and EBSCO. An electronic version of the journal style guide can be found on the AFLJ website: http://www.griffith.edu.au/criminology-law/australian-feminist-law-journal/contributor-guide/. Subscription enquiries: aflj@griffith.edu.au.

Call for Papers - Law and Society Association 2013

May 30 - June 2, 2013
Boston Sheraton
Boston, Massachusetts

Power, Privilege and the Pursuit of Justice: Legal Challenges in Precarious Times

The meeting’s theme aims to incite debate on the challenges that will define law and society over the next decade. The financial crisis that struck in 2008 still rends the economy, politics, law, and society. How will a polarized politics, rapid technological change, and global shifts in economic power affect law and society over the next years, domestically and transnationally?

To envision the future, we invite participants to extend and rethink law and society’s past insights to engage a new and changing context. The Program Committee has listed a series of sub-themes in featured sessions and other panels with the aim of spurring cross-cutting discussions.

This year’s Program Committee is Co-Chaired by Christine Harrington, NYU, Politics, and Greg Shaffer, University of Minnesota, Law. We invite the submission of Individual Papers and/or Session proposals. Papers and panels need not be centered on the conference theme. Proposals on any law and society topic are welcome.

More information is available here, including the theme, submission instructions, as well as links to attendance planning information, and more. This information will be updated throughout the fall and winter.

The deadline for proposal submission is December 4, 2012. Registration will begin in early 2013. Contact the LSA Executive Office via email at lsa@lawandsociety.org for further information.

Elizabeth Logan, History (researching legal conceptions of inferiority through an analysis of Mendez v. Westminster School District)
Luong Chao, Law (researching how identity - specifically the identity of "limited English proficient" attached to members of the Asian and Pacific Islander community - impedes access to government assistance)
Demetrios Psihopaidas, Sociology ("Transgender Borderlands and Biopolitics": an analysis of the power of legal categories in shaping patient-staff relationships at the Southland Transgender Services center)
Ana Lee, Comparative Literature (researching the journals of Machado de Assis and their reception in New York as an example of the role played by intellectuals in Cuba and Brazil in shaping newly emerging national imaginaries, in particular images of the china mulata)
Nic Ramos, American Studies and Ethnicity (analyzing how Medicare and Medicaid shape the economic subject)
Jordan Bubin, Law (researching the unique concerns of Native Americans brought to bear on the environmental justice movement)
Nicole Gates, Law (exploring animal rights in the context of the "ag-gag" bills imposing penalties on whistleblowers in slaughterhouses)
Amadi Jordan-Walker, Law (researching the effect of historical biases against women in family law cases)

http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS
Georgetown University Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, Columbia Law School, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the ninth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. on June 3 & 4, 2013.

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 eight 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 either Word or Wordperfect, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 7, 2013, and should be sent by e-mail to:

Center for the Study of Law and Culture

culture@law.columbia.edu
Columbia Law School
435 W. 116th Street
New York, N.Y. 10027

Please be sure to include your contact information. For more information: Lauren Gutterman at culture@law.columbia.edu

The University of Pennsylvania Law School is issuing a call for paper for the conference "New World(s) of Faith: Religion and Law in Historical Perspective, 1500-2000," to be held June 13 - 14, 2013.

"New Worlds of Faith" will explore the ways that religion and law have functioned in the Americas, from colonial periods through 2000. Although we do not intend to limit proposals by such examples, we would be interested in papers on witchcraft prosecutions, citizenship and religious identity, protections (or not) for religious speech and worship, legal repression of indigenous faiths, and so on. The conference will focus on showcasing the work primarily of junior scholars, including both graduate students and untenured faculty, although senior scholars' work will also be welcome. This conference, one of a series begun in 2007, is co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Law School and History Department, the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois, and University of Michigan Law Schools, and the University of Chicago History Department.

Interested participants should submit a proposal of no more than 300 words, in Word format, accompanied by a cv of no more than 3 pages. For more information, visit https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/legalhistory/conferences/new-worlds/.

ROMAN LAW READING GROUP

Following the example of Professor Charles Donahue's Roman Law Reading Group at Harvard Law School, we are organizing a similar monthly series for the L.A. area (at least as deserving as Cambridge). Roman law is vital to understanding a whole range of subjects, including political theory, commercial transactions, natural resource ownership, and North American cooperation, but few law schools or other institutions in the United States currently teach it. In our Roman Law Reading Group, we plan to cover the historical background of Roman law briefly, and then engage in close textual analysis of basic sources. Anyone with historical, legal, literary or other interests is welcome, and Latin is most emphatically not required.

We will begin with Wolff, An Historical Introduction to Roman Law (Oklahoma paperback reprint), and Gordon & Robinson (trans.), The Institutes of Gaius (Duckworth paperback reprint). Other editions of Gaius will work. For the first meeting we will discuss Wolff, pp. 3-90, and subsequently read Wolff and Gaius together. Participants' interests will determine future readings.

The first meeting will be Wednesday, October 3, 2012, from 7:30-9 pm, at Peter Reich's home in Culver City:

4037 Berryman Ave
Los Angeles 90066

If you are coming to this meeting please RSVP. Please feel free to invite anyone you think may be interested as long as you ask said person(s) to RSVP as well.

Neminem oportet esse sapientiorem legibus (nobody ought to be wiser than the laws).

Ronald Mellor, Professor of History, UCLA.
Peter Reich, Professor of Law, Whittier Law School.

The conference theme and Call for Papers of the Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference has been released! This year's conference will be hosted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, January 25-27, 2013.

This year's theme will focus on President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its implications for the meaning of the status of full citizenship.

More information is available here.

In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum provided by the novel form.

The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented reform in laws affecting women’s property, child support and custody, lunacy, divorce, birth control, domestic violence, and women in the legal profession. Women’s contributions to these changes in the law, however, have been largely ignored because their work, stories, and perspectives are not recorded in authoritative legal texts; rather, evidence of their arguments and views are recorded in writings of a different kind. This book examines lesser-known works of nonfiction and fiction by legal reformers such as Annie Besant and Georgina Weldon and novelists such as Frances Trollope, Jane Hume Clapperton, George Paston, and Florence Dixie.

In Contempt brings to light new connections between Victorian law and literature, not only with its analysis of many “lost” novels but also with its new legal readings of old ones such as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Rider Haggard’s She (1887), and Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1895). This study reexamines the cultural and political roles of the novel in light of “new evidence” that many nineteenth-century novels were “lawless”—showing contempt for, rather than policing, the law.

“Kristin Kalsem’s In Contempt makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the history of feminist jurisprudence. She covers thorny legal issues including married women’s property, infanticide, and lunacy law, as well as birth control, imperialism, and women’s admission to the bar. In her afterword she urges scholars to engage the ‘new evidence’ she has brought to light—and I have no doubt that this evidence will be welcomed enthusiastically.” --Christine L. Krueger, professor of English, Marquette University

Kristin Kalsem received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is professor of law and co-director of the Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

The Northeast Law & Society Regional Meeting will take place at Amherst College on Friday & Saturday, January 12-13, 2013.  Hope you can attend!

Editors:
Claudio Corradetti, European Academy of Bolzano
Nir Eisikovits, Suffolk University, Boston
Jack Rotondi, Suffolk University, Boston

The field of Transitional Justice ­ the interdisciplinary study of how countries emerge from civil strife and mass atrocity - has grown exponentially in recent years.

From the painful tradeoffs between peace and justice involved in the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the surprising success of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia; from Rwanda's innovative, controversial experiment in traditional criminal justice to the recent prominent indictments made by the International Criminal Court in the Hague - the field offers one of the most fascinating and politically important opportunities for scholars and practitioners to combine their insights and shape international norms of conduct. Nevertheless, actual transitional justice practices often fail to take a broad, systemic approach to political repair. For instance, while retributive justice measures play a crucial role in addressing past human rights abuses, when these measures are not supplemented by further
initiatives reconstructing the social texture, their efficacy in promoting a transition to civil society remains questionable. Indeed, the study of transitional justice itself suffers from a similar shortcoming and remains significantly under-theorized. Few attempts have been made to explore the theoretical questions and conceptual problems that cut across the different disciplinary inquiries.

The purpose of this volume is to contribute to this important conceptual effort and to generate at least the contours of a theory of transitional justice. We invite philosophers, political theorists, lawyers, historians
and other theoretically-minded scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts pertaining, broadly, to the themes listed below:

* The genealogy of transitional justice (how the field emerged as a field, how central concepts developed)

* The nature of transitional justice (how it is different or the same as other forms of justice)

* The scope of transitional justice (after war, during war, in a functioning democracy, inter-state, intra-state)

* Methodological questions in transitional justice (types of contributions from the humanities, social sciences)

* Instruments of transitional justice: normative and political considerations re war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, historical commissions

* The purpose and impact of transitional justice (do policies of transitional justice have a goal? Set of goals? Are some goals more appropriate than others?) How do we assess the success of policies of transitional justice?

* The dilemmas of transitional justice (peace vs. justice etc.)

* Skeptical considerations: are there cases when transitional justice is best abandoned/not taken up?

* Transitional Justice as an emerging norm of international conduct: a harbinger of cosmopolitan world order?

Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by September 15, 2012 to transitionaljusticebook@gmail.com along with a brief bio paragraph.

The editors will collect selected abstracts into a proposal to publishers, with writing commitments due by September 15, 2013.

Tenure-track position in politics and law at the rank of assistant professor, emphasizing U.S. constitutional law. Effective August, 2013. Ph.D. required.

The successful candidate will offer courses in U.S. constitutional law, American jurisprudence, law and society, and courses that reflect more specific interests and expertise of the candidate. We are particularly interested in candidates who bridge the study of U.S. constitutional law and another area of inquiry (history analysis, American institutions, international law, comparative law, political theory). Our department values methodological diversity and innovation and we welcome candidates whose research and teaching interests cross traditional subfield and disciplinary lines.

The standard annual teaching load is five courses. Whitman College wishes to reinforce its commitment to enhance diversity, broadly defined, recognizing that to provide a diverse learning environment is to prepare students for personal and professional success in an increasingly multicultural and global society.

The online application system will be available after August 24, 2012 at https://whitmanhr.simplehire.com/. Select “Faculty” and “Assistant Professor of Politics”.

The position description includes specific instructions on submission of the following materials: letter of application; curriculum vitae; three letters of reference; statements addressing the candidate’s teaching interests and scholarly agenda; graduate transcripts; teaching evaluations or other evidence of demonstrated or potential excellence in undergraduate instruction.

In their application, candidates should address their interest in working as teachers and scholars with undergraduates in a liberal arts environment that emphasizes close student-faculty interaction; how their cultural, experiential, and/or academic background contributes to diversity; and their interest in participating in the College’s general education offerings, including its required course for all first year students (Encounters), as well as engaging in cross-disciplinary teaching and scholarship.

Candidates who wish to be considered for a pre-interview at APSA in New Orleans should send their curriculum vitae by August 15 to Constitutional Law Search, Attn. Kathleen Hutchison, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA 99362 (hutchiks@whitman.edu). All applications must be completed online no later than Friday, October 5. Inquiries should be addressed to Bruce Magnusson, Chair, Constitutional Law Search Committee (magnusba@whitman.edu).

No applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, gender, religion, age, marital status, national origin, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Whitman College is a small, selective liberal arts college dedicated to providing excellent educational opportunities for students. The College provides a generous sabbatical leave program and professional development support for both research and teaching. For additional information about Whitman College and the Walla Walla area, see www.whitman.edu and www.wallawalla.org.

16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
University of London, Birkbeck
March 22 and March 23, 2013

Sculpting the Human: Law, Culture and Biopolitics

In recent times, diverse thinkers and artists including Foucault, Derrida, Esposito, Malabou, Coetzee, Agamben, Latour, Kentridge, Nancy, Butler and Brown have raised, or attempted to re-articulate, the question of ‘the human.’ The ASLCH meeting at Birkbeck, London, invites you to (re-)consider transformations in contemporary legal arrangements in light of emerging theoretical, cultural, economic, aesthetic, philosophical, and socio-political understandings or interrogations of the ‘human’. Tapping diverse conceptualizations of the indeterminacy frequently associated with the human, conference participants are invited to engage contemporary analyses of humans, others and legal forms.

The question of the human is, in many ways, an age-old one. In other ways, however, it is peculiarly ours as we face current debates on what it is to qualify as human, in-human or animal life. These might include, but need not be limited to, discussions on: changing political cultures of disqualified lives; re-negotiating the subjects of postcolonial governance; understanding new forms of life politics and the associated determinations of life sciences; literary and artistic chronicles of intersecting orders and disorders; science fiction’s utopian or dystopian futures; the use of warbot and drone technologies; geographies of beastly spaces; histories and ethnographies that highlight the ordering required to exact popular hierarchies; the reframed spirit of bodies; visions of who may be tortured, or locked away as inhuman; critical images of human and animal rights; deployed governmental homologies between beasts and sovereigns; biopolitical frames that prefigure subjects through statistics, demography, neuroscience but also via ‘immunization’, ‘plasticity’, and so on.

Law is a place where these orders, distinctions and divisions are frequently navigated, constituted, articulated, shared and enforced. The narratives, rights, justifications, punishments and neglect represented or contested through law intimate the legal codes by which humans and others are drawn into orders of the governed. Participants are encouraged to reflect on this broad, but not exclusive, conference theme.

Paper and panel proposals will be accepted until Oct 15, 2012. For more information and registration instructions, click here.

For those interested in applying for our graduate student workshop or Austin Sarat graduate student presentation award, click here.

For those interested in applying for our Julien Mezey dissertation award, click here.

The special issue for the relaunch is entitled "Law's Justice: A Law and Humanities Perspective" and features articles by J.B. White, Jeanne Gaakeer, François Ost, Marianne Constable, Rebecca Johnson, M. Paola Mittica, Gary Watt and Ari Hirvonen.

The Summer 2012 issue of Law and Humanities is now available online! Contents include:

An editorial by Paul Raffield and Gary Watt.

Articles by Desmond Manderson, Marco Wan, Rebecca Probert, Andrew Hadfield and Simon Healy, Ben Herzberger, Thomas Giddens, and Kieran Dolin.

Reviews of Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy, Cathrine Frank and Matthew Anderson (eds), Teaching Law and Literature, and Stories at Trial.

Access the newest issue, read the abstracts, and purchase papers online now!

You can also order or renew a subscription to Law and Humanities.

The ASLCH steering committee just voted to institute a new graduate student prize for the best graduate student paper presented at our conference. The prize will be named the Austin Sarat prize, in honor of Austin's commitment to our graduate students and our association, and especially to honor the iconic place of his own scholarship and intellectual influence in our field. More information will be coming soon!

Visit the ASLCH website or the ASLCH Facebook page for more information.