The Section on Women in Legal Education (WILE) is pleased to announce a “Works-in-Progress Session for Junior Scholars” program during the 2027 AALS Annual Meeting.
Session Description
This works-in-progress session will bring together junior and senior scholars for the purpose of providing junior scholars with feedback and guidance on their draft papers. Articles, essays, book chapters, and similar that address any area of law and using any methodology are welcome for submission. The session is designed to be a relaxed and productive environment during which junior scholars can receive feedback about their work from law professors with a range of scholarly foci. As such, senior scholars may be assigned papers to comment on that are not directly within their subject matter expertise.
Format
Each junior scholar will be matched with a senior commentator. Each scholar whose paper is selected will provide a brief overview of their paper, after which their paired commentator will provide commentary. Approximately four junior scholars will be selected.
Submission Procedure
Junior scholars who are interested in participating in the program should send a proposed abstract, no more than 750 words in length, to Professor Tiffany C. Graham at tgraham3@touro.edu on or before September 1, 2026. The cover email should state the junior scholar’s institution, tenure status, number of years in their current position, the paper’s working title, whether the paper has been accepted for publication, and, if not, when the scholar anticipates submitting the paper to law reviews or similar. Please title the email: “Submission-Women in Legal Education WIP Session.” Junior scholars whose papers are selected for the program will need to submit a draft to the senior scholar commentators by December 1, 2026.
More details after the fold.
Senior scholars who are interested in serving as commentators should email Professor Tiffany C. Graham at tgraham3@touro.edu on or before September 1, 2026. Please title the email: “Commentator-Women in Legal Education WIP Session.”
Eligibility
Junior scholars at AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. “Junior scholars” includes untenured faculty who have been teaching full-time at a law school for ten or fewer years, as well as anyone who has been teaching full-time at a law school for ten or fewer years (whether or not post-tenure).
Per AALS rules, only full-time faculty members and fellows of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit a paper in response to Sections’ calls for papers. The Committee will give priority to papers that have not yet been accepted for publication. All participants of the session are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fees and travel expenses.