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Call for Papers and Participants - Conferences

The 7th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences
Type: Call For Papers
Date: February 19-20, 2018
Location: Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Registration Deadline: January 22, 2018 (early bird)
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018 (abstract); February 10, 2018 (extended abstract/full paper/poster)
Posted: 14 Dec 2017 top

The 9th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities
Type: Call For Papers
Date: April 4-5, 2018
Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
Registration Deadline: February 10, 2018 (early bird); March 30, 2018 (final)
Submission Deadline: March 11, 2018 (abstract); March 25, 2018 (extended abstract/full paper)
Posted: 14 Dec 2017 top

Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop - Extended Deadline
Type: Announcement and Call for Papers
Date: February 23-24, 2018
Location: Princeton University
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: January 8, 2018
Posted: 6 Dec 2017 top

Religious Violence and Extremism - The Journal of Law, Religion and State - International Conference
Type: Call For Papers
Date: May 28-30, 2018
Location: Bar-Ilan University Israel
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: December 22, 2017
Posted: 6 Dec 2017 top

The Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law's 4th Annual INTLaw Conference
Type: Call For Papers
Date: April 23-24, 2018
Location: Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: January 30, 2018
Posted: 16 Nov 2017 top

Centre for Business & Liability - Opening Conference: International Conference - Business Resilience
Type: Conference and Call for Research Proposals
Date: January 25-26, 2018
Location: Leiden Law School, The Netherlands
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017
Posted: 9 Nov 2017 top

Munich Summer Institute 2018
Type: Announcement
Date: June 4-6, 2018
Location: Munich
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2018
Posted: 9 Nov 2017 top

Fifth Annual International & Comparative Urban Law Conference
Type: Call for Conference Participants
Date: June 21-22, 2018
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: February 19, 2018
Posted: 26 Oct 2017 top

Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics
Type: Call For Papers
Date: June 15-16, 2018
Location: Chicago
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2017
Posted: 26 Oct 2017 top

Brooklyn Law School's Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship and Center for Criminal Justice
Type: Panel Discussion on Cannabis Law: From Criminalization to Opportunity
Date: November 6, 2017
Location: Brooklyn Law School, Feil Hall, Forchelli Conference Center, 22nd Floor, 205 State Street, Brooklyn, NY
Registration Deadline: November 3, 2017
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 26 Oct 2017 top

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation Economics
Type: Call For Papers
Date: June 21-22, 2018
Location: Chicago, IL
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: February 5, 2018
Posted: 18 Oct 2017 top

George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Program on Economics & Privacy Call for Applications for 2017-18 Privacy Scholars Fellowship
Type: Fellowship Announcement
Date: December 14-15, 2017 (roundtable); April 27, 2018 (presentation of second draft)
Location: Antonin Scalia Law School
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: October 13, 2017 (proposal); February 16, 2018 (first draft); Summer 2018 (final draft)
Posted: 13 Oct 2017 top

The 15th ASLI Conference 2018
Type: Conference and Call For Papers
Date: May 10-11, 2018
Location: Seoul, Korea
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 12 Oct 2017 top

Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit and Capital Markets
Type: Brooklyn Law School Book Talk and Reception
Date: October 25, 2017
Location: Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick Center, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 12 Oct 2017 top

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Sixth Annual Roundtable on Standard Setting Organizations and Patents
Type: Call For Papers
Date: May 17-18, 2018
Location: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2018
Posted: 5 Oct 2017 top

WG Hart Legal Workshop 2018: 'Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights'
Type: Call For Papers
Date: June 11-12, 2018
Location: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2017 (abstract); April 30, 2018 (full paper)
Posted: 5 Oct 2017 top

The Evolving Definition of Workspace: Exploring the Real Estate and Legal Challenges Faced by NYC's Incubators, Accelerators, and Co-working Spaces
Type: Brooklyn Law School's Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship Networking Reception and Panel Discussion
Date: October 12, 2017
Location: Brooklyn Law School's Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 5 Oct 2017 top

Law and the Digital Age
Type: Call For Papers
Date: February 19-20, 2017
Location: Qatar
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: November 10, 2017 (abstract/proposal); January 15, 2018 (final paper)
Posted: 29 Sep 2017 top

Complexity, Legal and Institutional Change, and Rule of Law
Type: Call For Papers - Deadline 13 October
Date: December 1-2, 2017
Location: Rome, Italy
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: October 13, 2017 (abstract); November 24, 2017 (final paper)
Posted: 29 Sep 2017 top

Complexity, Legal and Institutional Change, and Rule of Law - Deadline Extended to 13 October
Type: Call For Papers
Date: December 1-2, 2017
Location: Rome, Italy
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: October 13, 2017 (abstract); November 24, 2017 (final paper)
Posted: 22 Sep 2017 top

Pomerantz Lecture on Corporate Triplespeak: Responses by Investor-Owned Utilities to the EPA's Proposed Clean Power Plan
Type: Brooklyn Law School Lecture Announcement
Date: September 28, 2017
Location: Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick Center, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 15 Sep 2017 top

2018 Corporate Governance Symposium "Critical Issues for Boards and Investors in 2018"
Type: Call For Papers
Date: March 6, 2018
Location: John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Clayton Hall, University of Delaware
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2017
Posted: 8 Sep 2017 top

Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics
Type: Call For Papers
Date: June 1, 2018
Location: Harvard Law School
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2017
Posted: 8 Sep 2017 top

LLC CLE Ethics Roundtable: Free Will as a Matter of Criminal Law
Type: Announcement
Date: September 12, 2017
Location: Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick Center, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 1 Sep 2017 top

Fake News and Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives
Type: Call For Papers
Date: January 26, 2018
Location: Southwestern Law School Campus, 3050 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: September 25, 2017 (abstract); January 5, 2018 (completed paper)
Posted: 9 Aug 2017 top

Public Law Conference 2018: The Frontiers of Public Law
Type: Call For Papers
Date: July 11-13, 2018
Location: Melbourne Law School
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: August 25, 2017
Posted: 4 Aug 2017 top

The University of North Carolina's Twenty-First Annual Tax Symposium
Type: Call For Papers
Date: April 20-21, 2018
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2017
Posted: 20 Jul 2017 top

EBI Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation
Type: Call For Papers
Date: February 23-24, 2018
Location: Goethe University, Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: July 30, 2017 (18:00 hrs CET)
Posted: 20 Jul 2017 top

Ethics, Diplomacy and Law in the context of Human Development
Type: Conference and Call For Papers
Date: November 6-7, 2017
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2017 (abstract); September 29, 2017 (full paper)
Posted: 12 Jul 2017 top

The Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Type: Call For Papers
Date: June 1-2, 2018
Location: Harvard University
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2017
Posted: 12 Jul 2017 top

Graduate Student Law Conference on Energy and Environment in the 21st Century
Type: Call For Papers
Date: October 20, 2017
Location: Hotel Alma, University of Calgary
Registration Deadline: October 13, 2017
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017
Posted: 12 Jul 2017 top

2nd TILEC Conference on "Competition, Standardization, and Innovation
Type: Call For Papers
Date: December 18-19, 2017
Location: Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Registration Deadline: October 22, 2017 (speakers)
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2017
Posted: 30 Jun 2017 top

2017 Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets
Type: Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Date: October 26-27, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Registration Deadline: By invitation only
Submission Deadline: August 4, 2017
Posted: 30 Jun 2017 top

CELS 2017 Deadline Extension: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 (midnight, Eastern Time)
Type: Call For Papers
Date: October 13-14, 2017
Location: Ithaca, New York
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: June 28, 2017 (midnight, Eastern Time)
Posted: 22 Jun 2017 top

AIDA Europe - VIIth AIDA Europe Conference
Type: Call For Papers
Date: April 12-13, 2018
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: October 30, 2017 (abstract); June 30, 2018 (full paper)
Posted: 22 Jun 2017 top

The Future of Economics and Law - a multidisciplinary approach
Type: Conference and Call For Papers
Date: October 16-17, 2017
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: August 21, 2017 (abstract); September 15, 2017 (full paper)
Posted: 14 Jun 2017 top

Property Implications of the Sharing Economy Workshop
Type: Call For Papers
Date: October 6-7, 2017
Location: Penn State Law (University Park)
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2017
Posted: 14 Jun 2017 top

2017 Symposium Entrepreneurship 2.0: Legal, Regulatory, and Economic Challenges to the Innovation Economy
Type: Call For Papers
Date: October 6, 2017
Location: NSU Shepard Broad College of Law, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Registration Deadline: Not Provided
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017 (abstracts); September 15, 2017 (articles)
Posted: 7 Jun 2017 top

Call for Papers - Journals and Books

Journal of Corporate Finance Special Issue Proposals
Type: Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018
Posted: 21 Dec 2017 top

Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (CJCL)
Type: Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 29 Nov 2017 top

The Blockade of Qatar (ISSN: 2223-859X)
Type: Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: January 2018
Posted: 5 Oct 2017 top

"Italian Corporate Law in the Context of a Globalized World"
Type: Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2017 (non-native English speakers); September 30, 2017 (native English speakers)
Posted: 4 Aug 2017 top

Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Type: Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: September 20, 2017 (abstract); January 20, 2018 (draft chapter)
Posted: 30 Jun 2017 top

Asian Journal of Comparative Law (AsJCL)
Type: Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 7 Jun 2017 top

Call for Applicants - Academic Programs

ECB Legal Research Programme 2018
Type: Call For Papers
Application Deadline: February 15, 2018
Posted: 21 Dec 2017 top

WU (Vienna University of Economics & Business)
Type: PhD Students - Doctorate in International Business Taxation (DIBT)
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2018
Posted: 21 Dec 2017 top

George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
Type: Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law and Economics Center
Application Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 12 Dec 2017 top

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Law
Type: European Doctorate in Law and Economics
Application Deadline: February 1, 2018 (for October 2018)
Posted: 29 Nov 2017 top

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Type: PhD Fellowships and PhD Studentships for the PhD in Laws Programme
Application Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 29 Nov 2017 top

City University of Hong Kong, School of Law
Type: Doctor of Philosophy PhD
Application Deadline: December 1, 2017 (12 noon Hong Kong time)
Posted: 9 Nov 2017 top

Universita Bocconi, Milan, PhD School
Type: PhD in Legal Studies - Curriculum in International Law and Economics
Submission Deadline: January 16, 2018
Posted: 12 Oct 2017 top

Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships Available

Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship - Deadline: January 16, 2018
Type: Call for Nominations
Nomination Deadline: January 16, 2018 (5:00 p.m. Central Time)
Application Deadline: March 12, 2018 (5:00 p.m. Central Time)
Posted: 16 Nov 2017 top

2018 O'Brien Graduate Fellowships
Type: Fellowship Announcement
Application Deadline: December 15, 2017
Posted: 18 Oct 2017 top

La Trobe Law School - Higher Degree Research Scholarships (x 8)
Type: Scholarship Announcement
Submission Deadline: Not Provided
Posted: 20 Jul 2017 top

Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program
Type: Request for Proposals
Submission Deadline: August 16, 2017
Posted: 12 Jun 2017 top

SSRN Announcements

University of Colorado Upgrades Its Legal Studies Research Paper Series
Posted: 26 Sep 2017 top

Announcing New LSN Compliance & Risk Management Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 top