Posted 10/29/08
STANFORD/YALE JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM
REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of
the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at
Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek
submissions for this 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.
Approximately twelve scholars (with one to seven years in
teaching and who are not yet tenured) will be chosen on a
blind basis from among those submitting papers to present.
Two 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
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 law and
humanities -- alternating loosely between public law and
humanities subjects in one year, and private and dispute
resolution law in the next. The focus of the tenth session
will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to
be addressed are:
- Bankruptcy
- Torts
- Tax
- Contracts
- Antitrust
- Intellectual Property
- Corporate & Securities Law
- International Law
- Civil Litigation
- Property
- Legal Profession
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
There is no publication commitment associated with the
Forum, nor is published work eligible. Yale or Stanford
will pay presenters' travel expenses, who will be required
to attend the entire Forum schedule. Paper submissions for
the Forum should be sent to:
CONTACT: Ms. Judy Dearing
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
by February 16, 2009. Electronic submissions should be sent
to:
Email: MAILTO:judyd@stanford.edu
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to:
CONTACT: Joseph Bankman
Stanford Law School
Email: MAILTO:jbankman@stanford.edu
or
CONTACT: Ian Ayres
Yale Law School
Email: MAILTO:ian.ayres@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.
Joseph Bankman Ian Ayres