Request for Submissions: STANFORD/YALE JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM

                 STANFORD/YALE JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM

                      Request for Submissions

                          Yale Law School
                          June 20-21, 2008


     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, and seek submissions for
     its meeting.

     The Forum's objective is to encourage the work of young
     scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of
     scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange.
     Meetings are held each spring, at Yale one year and
     Stanford the next. Twelve to fourteen scholars (with one to
     seven years in teaching) will be chosen on a blind basis
     from among those submitting papers to present. One or more
     senior scholars, not necessarily from Stanford or Yale,
     will comment on each paper. The audience will include the
     invited young scholars, faculty from the host institutions,
     and invited guests. The goal is discourse on both the
     merits of particular papers and on appropriate
     methodologies for doing work in that genre. We hope that
     comment and discussion will communicate what counts as good
     work among successful senior scholars and will also
     challenge and improve the standards that now obtain. The
     Forum also hopes to increase the sense of community among
     American legal scholars generally, particularly among new
     and veteran professors.


     TOPICS:

     Each year the Forum invites submissions on selected topics
     in public and private law, legal philosophy, and gender and
     race theory, alternating loosely between public law and
     humanities subjects in one year, and private and dispute
     resolution law in the next. For the upcoming 2008 meeting,
     the topics will cover public law and the humanities:

     - Administrative Law
     - Constitutional Law - theoretical foundations
     - Constitutional Law - historical foundations
     - Criminal Law
     - Environmental Law
     - Family Law
     - Jurisprudence and Philosophy
     - Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy
     - Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature,
       Critical Legal Studies and Gender Studies)
     - Public International Law

     A jury of accomplished scholars, again not necessarily from
     Stanford or Yale, with expertise in the particular topic,
     will choose the papers to be presented. There is no
     publication commitment, nor is published work eligible.
     Yale or Stanford will pay presenters' and commentators'
     travel expenses.


     PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

     Paper submissions for this Forum should be mailed to:

     CONTACT:       Cathy Orcutt
                    Yale Law School
                    P.O. Box 208215
                    New Haven, CT 06520-8215
     Courier address:
                    127 Wall Street
                    New Haven, CT 06511

     Electronic submissions should be sent to:

     Email:         MAILTO:cathy.orcutt@yale.edu

     The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 21, 2008.
     Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper
     falls under.


     FURTHER INFORMATION:

     Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to:

     CONTACT:       Ronald Gilson
                    Stanford Law School
     Email:         MAILTO:rgilson@leland.stanford.edu
               or
     CONTACT:       Alan Schwartz
                    Yale Law School
     Email:         MAILTO:alan.schwartz@yale.edu

     We very much hope that young scholars will submit work. If
     the strong commitment of the host schools can make it so,
     participation at the Forum will benefit presenters and the
     profession.

     Ronald J. Gilson                  Alan Schwartz
Posted 10/19/07