The AALS is over. Conference season is over. Right? WRONG. The 2009 law professor conference season has just begun! Many of you have already marked your calendar with these events – placed yourself on the program, even. But for the rest of you looking to spice up your spring and summer, here's a little reminder list. Readers are encouraged to add other important events.
1. The Association for the Study of Law Culture and Humanities. April 3-4, in Boston. I love this meeting, but be warned: it is veryinterdisciplinary, tilting towards the “culture and humanities” part – with a lot of cultural theory scholars.
2. The Law and Society Association. May 28-31, in Denver. A great law-and conference. Sadly, too many of those culture theory folk have disappeared to LCH.
3. CRT 20: Honoring Our Past, Charting Our Future. April 2-4, at the University of Iowa. A conference honoring the 20th anniversary of the first meeting of Critical Race Theory scholars. A really impressive lineup of scholars.
4. Western Political Science Association. Vancouver, March 19-21. This is the less quantitative gang of politics scholars (though many are qualitative empiricists) and they have a bunch of panels explicitly addressing law and courts (as well as other panels that might be of interest to law professors.)
5. Summer AALS Workshops. There's the usual AALS Clinical Conference, in sunny Cleveland, Ohio. That's May 6-9. And then there are the mid-year meetings on Work Law, Transactional Law, and Business Associations. They're in Long Beach, California.
6. This isn't a conference, but anyone interested in quantitative work (and new to the field)should consider attending the joint Northwestern/Washington University Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop from May 20 – 22 It’s a bit pricey, and you won’t learn everything you need to do the work, but it is a good starting point for people interested in quantitative method.
What's Law Got To Do With It?
March 27-28, 2009
Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington
This conference will explore the interplay between law and other influences on judicial decision-making, and the implications of that interplay for judicial selection and public confidence in the courts. The goal is to highlight the recent spate of empirical scholarship that has moved away from dichotomous arguments pitting law against attitude, and toward a more nuanced and eclectic way of looking at what judges do. Examining this debate and the related research will help us to assess questions like: How should judges be selected and regulated? Is the public likely to care about judicial selection and decision-making? What is still missing from our knowledge about the work that judges do?
Papers presented at the conference will be published as an edited volume. We are pleased to announce that the conference is partially funded by a grant from the Joyce Foundation.
For a more information, a list of presenters and a detailed agenda, visit http://www.law.indiana.edu/front/special/20090327_judicial/
Faculty Organizers
Professor Charlie Geyh
cgeyh@indiana.edu
Archana Sridhar
asridhar@indiana.edu