It's late December. You're working hard to get that piece ready for February submissions. It's a law and humanities piece…or perhaps a "critical, qualitative work in the social sciences." But wait! If you can get a great draft done by January 7, you can submit it for this call for papers:
University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the eighth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 5 & 6, 2011.
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, and welcomes critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Between five and ten papers will be chosen, based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, 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. Moreover, 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 expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation. Submissions (in either Word or Wordperfect, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 7, 2011, and should be sent by e-mail to: Center for the Study of Law and Culture culture@law.columbia.edu.
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This conference sounds fantastic, but I'm disappointed by the number of CFPs and conferences that claim to be open only to junior faculty and grad students. As a full-time practitioner planning to enter the law teaching market next season, am I really barred from entering?
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone involved with conferences like these to hear whether you bend the rules for lawyers who publish academic papers but are not students or faculty.