The Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin is published periodically by the Cleveland-Marshall Law School Library for the faculty and staff of the Law School. The Bulletin contains selected announcements of symposia, conferences, requests for articles and requests for research proposals. If you have any questions concerning the material which appears in the Bulletin, or any suggestions on the types of materials you would like to see included in the Bulletin, please contact Michael J. Slinger, Law Library Director at (216) 687-3547, or Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian at (216) 687-6885. Additional information and some registration forms may be obtained by contacting Leslie A. Pardo.
SYMPOSIA & CONFERENCES
The Eighteenth Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law: Women and Globalization: A World of Change will take place April 15 at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY.
Democracies Die Behind Closed Doors: Secrecy and Other Threats to Free Expression in the Wake of 9/11/01 will take place on April 15 at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA. For more information contact Deborah Beaudette.
Critical Choices-Educating the Next Generation of Lawyers will take place April 15-17 in Dallas, TX. Sponsored by the The American Bar Association.
Beyond Prosecution: Sexual Assault Victims Rights in Theory and Practice will take place on April 16 at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA.
The ABA's Associate Deans' Conference: Managing the Law School, Managing the Job will take place June 3-6 in Englewood, Colorado.
The Common Law of Contracts As a World Force in Two Ages of Revolution: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Hadley v. Baxendale will be held June 7-8 in Hadley's Mill, Gloucester, England. For more information contactb Prof. Frank Snyder.
The AALS is sponsoring the second Mid-Year Meeting which will include an offering of three professional development programs held June 14-18, 2004 in Portland, Oregon. The AALS Workshop on Racial Justice in a New Millennium will be held June13-15. The AALS Conference on Environmental Law will be held June 14-18 and The Conference on Teaching Property Law for the 21st Century will be held June 14-18.
The 2004 Conference for Law School Computing; Law School Technology – “There…and Back Again” will take place June 17-19 at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA.
The South African Journal on Human Rights is pleased to announce a human rights conference entitled Twenty Years of Human Rights Scholarship and Ten Years of Democracy which will be held July 5-7 in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa.
The Institute for Law School Teaching's 11th Annual Summer Conference: Active Teaching and Learning, will take place July 9-10 at Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA. For more information contact Paula Prather.
Active Teaching and Learning: The 1st Global Conference Evil, Law and the State will be held July 14-17 at Mansfield College in Oxford, United Kingdom. For more information contact Professor John Parry or Dr Rob Fisher.
The 11th Annual Education Law Conference & Education Law CLE will be held July 26-30 at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Portland, Maine.
The Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference will be held August 2-3 at De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois.
The ABA Annual Meeting will take place August 5-11 in Atlanta, Georgia.
CALL FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND GRANTS
The Urban Lawyer law journal invites submissions of unsolicited manuscripts from faculty, judges, and lawyers. The Urban Lawyer concentrates on legal issues important to state and local government. Articles in recent years have examined everything from homeland security to municipal finance, from police misconduct to land-use planning. The Urban Lawyer is published by the ABA’s Section on State and Local Government Law in cooperation with the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law. They will consider articles, essays, and book reviews. Send submissions electronically or in hardcopy to: Professor Robert R.M. Verchick, Urban Lawyer, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64113.
The Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy (WJCFA) is published by Whittier Law School and the Center for Children’s Rights. They are interested in professional and student-written articles that deal with various issues which face children and families in the legal system and are currently accepting submissions for the issues to be published April 2005 and November 2005. For more information, contact Cynthia Siebel, Solicitations Editor, Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy, Whittier Law School, 3333 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Ph: 714-444-4141, ext. 312 e-mail: WJCFA@law.whittier.edu
The Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review solicits articles from legal advocates, practitioners, students, and professors for its upcoming issues. Send all submissions either by postal mail or email to: The Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Attn: Executive Articles/Symposium Editor, Temple University Beasley School of Law, 1719 N. Broad St., Philadelphia PA 19122 e-mail: tpcrlr@temple.edu
Proposals for presentations are now being accepted for The First International Conference on Policing Diversity. Submissions are encouraged from practitioners and academicians that address the issues confronting major police departments in dealing with the problems associated with emerging ethnic populations. Estimated time for presentations is 15 minutes. Proposals of approximately 200 words should be sent to: Prof. Brian S. MacNamara, Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, New York, New York 10019. Please submit full contact information (name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail information) and a brief biography of the author. The deadline for submission of proposals is June 15, 2004. Proposals should be 200 words or less. Notification of acceptance will be no later than July 15, 2004. Final submissions hard copy and diskette in Microsoft Word will be required by August 15, 2004.
Peace Review, A Journal of Social Justice invites submissions for a special issue devoted to law in the context of war in the following three respects: 1) The development of international laws central concepts and theories; 2) The social dimension of its institutionalization; and 3) The contemporary military and interpretive threats to the rule of law itself. Possible questions for consideration might include: How do colonial, religious, or commercial interests inscribe today's international laws and just war theories? How have competing public and private interests contributed to the evolution of terms such as preemptive strike, imminent threat, or individual and nation-state sovereignty? What role have social movements and NGOs played in the codification of international humanitarian law and the operations of the United Nations? What role could they play in the future? How are we to conceive of the relationship between recent U.S.-led wars and the globalization of capitalist markets? Does the International Criminal Court or the concept of humanitarian intervention have a future after the Bush years? For writers guidelines or to send essay submissions by email attachment contact Robert Elias, Editor or Anne Hieber, Managing Editor. Or send correspondence to: Peace Review, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117. Ph: 415-422-2910 Fax: 415-422-5671, Attn. Elias or Hieber.
The Thomas Jefferson Law Review is seeking manuscripts for the current and upcoming issues. Articles and essays on any subject will be considered for publication. For more information please contact Chris Ramey, Managing Editor of the review.
The Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal is a non-partisan, multidisciplinary publication dedicated to discussion and analysis on how lawyers can advocate in the public interest, how legal issues affect the commonwealth and how the ethical choices of legal workers affect the law and the public at large. The Journal invites submissions of unsolicited manuscripts for print or online publication. Submissions on disk are accepted in Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect formats. Manuscripts must be double spaced. Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis; there is no deadline. Submissions may be sent to: Katie Giedt & Emily Compton, Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003-4391. Ph: (212) 790-0453 e-mail cplpej@yu.edu
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
The Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs is pleased to announce its Fellows for 2004-2005. LAPA Fellows join the Princeton University community to research, write about, and teach law and public affairs and to participate in the activities of the Program.
The "most-cited" legal periodical site at http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a limited list of journals, to submit an article, and then to have the site produce a page with a link to the journals that accept e-mail submissions, or otherwise a list of editorial addresses. Currently the data is only about a third complete, but that's still a substantial number of journals (roughly 300). To date there are 128 journals that could simultaneously be emailed.idea!).
The Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University hosts the Law Review Electronic Submissions web site. The site lists law reviews which accept submissions via email.
The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (OACDL), founded in 1986, is a professional association with over 525 members in the state of Ohio. OACDL presents accredited Continuing Legal Education programs. A calendar of upcoming CLE programs can be found at their web site or call 1-800-433-2626
Subscribe to the American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education listserv by sending the following message to listserv@abanet.org: subscribe cle-calendar Your Name. You will be added to the distribution list for announcements of the American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education offerings.
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The U. S. Supreme Court web site features biographies of the justices, information about the court's rules and procedures, and opinions from the current term.
The ABA's Supreme Court Preview draws upon expert writers and the official briefs filed with the Court to provide an accurate, plain English explanation of the issues, facts, background and significance of every case before oral argument.
The National Center For State Courts provides links to state court, federal court and international court web sites. The NCSC Publications Catalog is also listed on its web site.
The University Law Review Project offers full-text searching of law journals on the Internet.
The National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) mission is to provide training in legal advocacy skills and techniques for resolving legal disputes and to foster professionally responsible behavior emphasizing ethics, candor, civility, and judicial economy. To achieve its mission, NITA uses various teaching methods, programs, faculty, and materials. They have a web site listing CLE courses they offer and a listing of the types of reference books, case files, and audio/video materials they have available, as well, as information about NITA.
The American Association of Law Schools is a non-profit association of 164 law schools. The purpose of the association is "the improvement of the legal profession through legal education." It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and learned societies. The AALS holds an Annual Meeting every year in January and five or six workshops and conferences throughout the year. The AALS publishes a Directory of Law Teachers and a quarterly newsletter, as well as other publications. Much of the learned society activities are done by the 78 AALS Sections, which plan programs at the Annual Meetings and publish newsletters throughout the year.
The American Bar Association’s Events and Education web site lists a calendar of National Institutes, Satellite Seminars, TeleConferences, and On-Line Seminars and a full range of continuing legal education programs, including live conference-style programs, telephone seminars, national telecasts, online seminars, videotapes, audiotapes, and course materials.
The American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, ALI-ABA, providers of continuing legal education in the United States since 1947, offers members of the profession a comprehensive curriculum of post-admission legal education -- live courses, course materials, video and audio tapes, satellite broadcasts, books, computer disks, and magazines, etc.
The Ohio CLE Institute, a non-profit organization, was created as a tripartite entity in 1960 by The Ohio State University, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Foundation "in furthering a joint program of legal research and continuing legal education with the College of Law." The mission statement for the Institute includes: to provide quality educational programs and services to Ohio attorneys, judges and related professionals at the lowest practical cost.
JURIST: “The Law Professors’ Network," collects law professors' web based home pages, course pages, resource pages and online articles (both "pre prints" and "post prints") and for the first time makes them conveniently accessible to other law professors, lawyers, and law students, as well as to the public at large. JURIST also offers listings for the Web sites of major professional and legal associations, directories of law review and law school home pages, pointers to law listservs, access to a law dedicated search engine, direct email connections to other legal academics in the US and abroad. JURIST is continually under development, so updated information and suggestions for new links are welcome. Bernard Hibbitts is the web master for JURIST. He is the Dean for Communications & Information Technology and Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Prepared by Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library, Cleveland State University. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or suggestions.