Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin
March - April 2008
The Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin is published periodically by the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law 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 Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian at (216) 687-6885. Additional information and some registration forms may be obtained by contacting Amy Burchfield.
Symposia & Conferences
The Yale Journal of International Law announces its Sixth Annual Young Scholar's Conference, to take place on March 1, 2008.
The Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal at the Moritz College of Law features its 2008 Symposium Marry Me and Make Me Rich: Franchise Law in the 21st Century, scheduled for March 7, 2008.
The Fordham Urban Law Journal will host a symposium on Lethal Injection in New York City on March 7 & 8, 2008. Some issues that will be discussed include: whether lethal injection serves the purpose of punishment, the role of doctors in lethal injection, and Eighth Amendment issues.
The University of Akron School of Law is planning its Tenth Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy for March 10, 2008. This year's symposium will discuss the impact of the Federal Circuit on patent law and the impact of the Trademark Law Revision Act on trademark law.
The Capital University Law Review and the National Center on Adoption Law & Policy present the 4th Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law, with the topic "Hearing the Child's Voice: Selected Adoption and Child Welfare Topics." The conference will take place on March 13, 2008.
The theme for this year's Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) conference is "Teaching for Social Change." It will take place on March 14 & 15, 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall. Brian Ray will present "Sexual Orientation in Comparative Perspective: The Story of South Africa's Civil Union Act" at this conference.
The American University Washington College of Law presents a conference on "Innovations in the First Year Curriculum" on March 21, 2008.
Valparaiso University School of Law presents a conference on Law, Poverty, and Economic Inequality on April 3 & 4, 2008.
On April 4, 2008, Creighton Law Review is hosting a Symposium on Human Rights law. Topics to be addressed include human trafficking, human rights during international conflict, and the human rights of immigrants and migrant workers.
The Eighth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance will be held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA on April 19 & 20, 2008. The topic of the conference is "Innovation and Authenticity" in Islamic finance.
The AALS 2008 Conference on Clinical Legal Education will be held in Tucson, Arizona on May 4 - 7, 2008.
Call for Papers, Proposals & Grants
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the ninth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Yale Law School on June 20-21, 2008. The theme for this year is law and the humanities and will cover such topics as administrative, constitutional, criminal, environmental and family law, as well as law and literature, critical legal studies and gender studies. The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2008. Please see Amy Burchfield for more details.
On April 4, 2008, Creighton Law Review is hosting a symposium on Human Rights Law. Articles are currently being requested on the following topics as they relate to human rights: international conflict, women, human trafficking, economic development, responsibility of public corporations, Native Americans / immigrants / migrant workers, and the application of international human rights law in the U.S. No submission deadline posted.
The International Conference on Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) at the Touro Law Center has issued a call for papers, with a deadline of May 5, 2008. Contributions are invited on topics such as e-government, e-business, sale of goods, bio technology, space law, outsourcing, and many others.
Pacific Legal Foundation's Program for Judicial Awareness will award $10,000 for the best original contribution to legal scholarship by a junior faculty member on the topic of Fifth Amendment and the Takings Clause. Entries must be submitted by May 30, 2008.
The University of Maryland School of Law will host the 2008 CALI Conference for Law School Computing on June 19 - 21, 2008. Session proposals will be accepted up to June 1, 2008.
Thanks to the IntLawGrrls blog for this announcement on submissions to a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice coving topics such as gender and development, accountability of state and nonstate actors, and poverty and economic development programs. Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2008.
The Widener Law Journal is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the National Conference of State Trial Judges by publishing essays and articles discussing the changes that have affected trial judges over the last fifty years. Pieces will be published in the Spring 2009 issue of the Journal. Proposal should be submitted by September 1, 2008 and completed works by December 1, 2008.
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology at Northwestern University School of Law is ready to accept submissions for its 2008 symposium, Domestic and International Criminal Responses to Human Rights Violations: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, and Denial of Habeas Corpus. No deadline date posted.
The Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal is accepting submissions for the 2008 issue on "Trends and Issues in Intellectual Property" and the 2009 issue on "Trends and Issues in Bankruptcy and the Family." No deadline date posted.
For Your Information
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The University of Wyoming College of Law has a new website of the Annotated Justinian Code. The website is keyword searchable, so the user can search through the entire Annotated Justinian Code for all mentions of any word or phrase in the Code itself or in Justice Blume's annotations.
The Foreign Law Guide is an online database that is often the first stop for foreign legal research. Arranged by country, the Foreign Law Guide lists primary materials, online sources, and citations to key individual laws.