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The Section on Family and Juvenile Law is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for both the main program panel and the pedagogy panel at the upcoming AALS 2025 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. Both panels will be focused on the theme of Parents, Children, and the State.
Main Panel CFP: "Rights, Regulation, and Resistance: Parents, Children, and the State"
We invite submissions that explore a broad range of topics related to the regulation of parents, children, and families, including but not limited to the family regulation system, the evolving nature of parental rights, and children's rights both within and outside of the family. Some themes we hope to explore include: the state as a potential source of both harm and support; the tension between state intervention and family autonomy; the law's role in protecting children from both state-inflicted and family-inflicted harm; and parental rights as a weapon versus a tool of resistance. We welcome proposals from a diverse set of subject areas, including education law, family law, criminal law, constitutional law, and others. Please submit an abstract of 500 words or less to June Carbone (jcarbone@umn.edu), Stephanie Tang (Stephanie_Tang@baylor.edu), and Sarah Lorr (slorr@law.umaryland.edu). We welcome submissions from junior faculty and scholars at all stages of their careers. The due date for submission is August 15, 2024.
We are also excited to announce a new Section award attached to the main program. This award, the Emerging Scholars Paper Award, is open to junior scholars with under five years of teaching experience. To be considered for this award, please submit your entire paper, not just an abstract, by August 15. Papers that were published in 2024 or accepted for publication with a 2024 expected publication date are eligible for this award. The recipient will present their work at the main panel and will be honored during the Section's awards ceremony.
Pedagogy Panel: "Teaching Parents, Children, and the State"
The goal of this session is to complement the main program discussion with strategies and tools for integrating these issues into the classroom. We will model and share various approaches to teaching these topics both as a stand-alone course and as a part of other family law courses. Participants are encouraged to demonstrate, model, and discuss their approaches and to provide examples of how they handle discrete cases or topics. If you are interested in participating, please send a description of 500 words or less of what you'd like to discuss by August 15, 2024. Submissions should be sent to Professors Naomi Cahn, ncahn@law.virginia.edu, and Jeffrey Dodge, jad6742@psu.edu.
Works in Progress Session
The AALS Section on Family and Juvenile Law invites submissions for our section's Works in Progress session at the 2025 Annual Meeting to be held January 7-11 in San Francisco. This year the WIP session is open to all articles about family law. We are especially interested in presentations by early career scholars. If you are working on an early draft of an article and are interested in presenting your work, please let us know! You can share anything from 10 pages to full drafts (those drafts will be due December 2, 2024). We anticipate showcasing 3-4 scholars in this session and envision a collegial opportunity to brainstorm and receive feedback. Commentators will share their reactions and ideas. To apply, please send an email to the review committee c/o Lisa Washington at lisa.washington@wisc.edu with a paragraph or two describing your article. Submissions are due by September 3, 2024. We look forward to reading your drafts.