Spring Reception on February 27

Dear CLGC Project Leaders, Faculty Participants, former fellows, and friends,

We graduate fellows and Project Leaders of the CLGC Project 2014-2015 are inviting you to our spring reception onFebruary 27, 1:30-3:00pm, at Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 FLB).

Each year, the INTERSECT-CLGC project awards six fellowships to graduate students who step out of their comfort zone and make impressive efforts to establish intellectual dialogues with faculty and students from a variety of disciplines. Our annual reception provides group members an opportunity to know our plan of events in spring, to say good-bye to Project Leaders who are leaving, to welcome new PLs, and to meet new faces and chat with old friends.

Please join us. Even if you have not RSVP'd, you are welcome to stop by and say hi to everyone.

Looking forward to seeing you!

CLGC Group


Three Former CLGC Fellows Secure Tenure-Track Positions Starting Fall 2014!

Three of the 2012-13 CLGC fellows will be taking up tenure-track appointments at universities this fall. For full announcement, see the Project Updates page.


The Law in Action: Re-Thinking the Boundaries of Law and Society

By re-considering law’s role in society, this conference seeks to spark intellectual exchange across historical sub-fields and time periods. The conference will consider the law in its broadest sense, discussing civil law, ecclesiastical law, and written or unwritten notions of justice in diverse cultural contexts. This collective consideration of law’s role in society has the potential to transcend the divide between law and norms conventionally considered extra-legal, between legal history and other historical sub-fields, and between the study of law as text and law as cultural practice.

For more information, click here.


DPDF Student Fellowship Competition

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Student Fellowship Competition is organized to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate effective research proposals through exploratory research and exchanges with other scholars within interdisciplinary areas of study.

Each year, the program offers dissertation proposal development workshops led by pairs of tenured senior faculty who define emerging or reinvigorated interdisciplinary research fields. These research field directors lead groups of 12 graduate students through two multi-day workshops during the fellowship cycle. The spring workshop helps students focus their research questions and prepare them for summer exploratory research that will inform the design of dissertation proposals. The fall workshop helps students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation research proposals for their departments or funding agencies. Students may apply for up to $5,000 to cover summer research costs. Travel, accommodations, and meals for both workshops are covered by the DPDF Program.

Working together with faculty research directors, graduate students design research that will help to shape evolving fields in the humanities and social sciences. All of the program's activities seek to create professional networks that will have value throughout the participants' research careers.

For more information, click here.


Talk:
'Wedding and Bedding': Making and Unmaking Law in the Act of Union (1801)

Annual Associate Professor Lecture in the History Department, October 16, 3pm, Gregory Hall 317

Professor Dana Rabin will be giving the annual Associate Professor Lecture in the History Department on Wednesday, October 16th at 3pm in Gregory Hall 317. This is an august occasion where we have the privilege of hearing work from a book in progress and discussing it with the author.


Law, Culture and Justice: East and West

International and Interdisciplinary Conference, October 4-5, University of Illinois COllege of Law

The International Conference on Law, Culture and Justice which will be held on October 4-5, 2013 at the University of Illinois College of Law has attracted participants from UK, Canada, India and different parts of United States, including San Francisco, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania.

For a full description, click here.


Biographies and Liberation History in South Africa: Approaches and Contestations

Dr. Uma Mesthrie, Wednesday, September 18, 4 pm, 100 Greg Hall

This talk will examine the burgeoning of biographical productions in post-apartheid South Africa and particularly examines the different approaches and also contestations that have emerged in the writing of biographies of key leaders. As part of the presentation, Mesthrie will share her own experiences in writing the Life of Manilal Gandhi, Gandhi’s second son, but she also focuses on the biographies of I. B. Tabata, Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Mothlante, Steve Biko, Albert Luthuli, Aboobaker Asvat and Mac Maharaj, among others.

Professor Mesthrie is a historian of Indian diasporic labor, the antiapartheid struggle, and the visual archive of indentured workers in the Indian Ocean World as well. She is currently a faculty member at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

For more information, click here.


Law and Inequalities: Global and Local

May 29 - June 1, 2014, Minneapolis Hilton Hotel

Recent decades have seen the persistence and growth of powerful inequalities within and between groups and within and among nations. The 2014 program theme returns to a question central to the Association’s founding: the role of law and legal institutions in sustaining, creating, interrogating, and ameliorating inequalities. The 2014 Program invites participants to explore and consider three questions:

This year’s Program Committee is Co-Chaired by Penelope Andrews, Albany Law School, and Rebecca Sandefur, University of Illinois. We invite the submission of Individual Papers and/or Session proposals. Papers and panels need not be centered on the conference theme. Proposals on any law and society topic are welcome. You will find the Call here. We are using a new submission system and it is very important that you follow the submission instructions in the Call. In the Call you will find more information about the theme, submission instructions, and more. We will be adding more meeting information as time progresses.

The deadline for proposal submission is October 15, 2013. Registration will begin in early 2014.

If you have questions, please contact us at lsa@lawandsociety.org. We hope you will join in what promises to be a full and exciting program in Minneapolis!

LSA Executive Office



Center for Advanced Study 2013-2014 Initiative: Cultures of Law in Global Contexts

(Click here to see this on the CAS web site.)

Tom Ginsburg will give a presentation in the CAS Initiative on Cultures of Law in Global Contexts entitled, FROM MODERNISM TO PARTICIPATION IN EAST ASIAN LAW, Tuesday, September 10, 4:00pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana.

Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Legal reform has been on the agenda for East Asian states for the last two decades, and has led to significant transformations of legal institutions in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. The reforms include overhauls of legal education, new quasi-jury systems, and new methods of selecting judges. This lecture analyzes these reforms from a comparative perspective, arguing that they reflect a shift away from the dominant system of bureaucratic rationality toward one of "participatory legitimacy," but also cautions that the current configuration is likely to be unstable.

CAS Resident Associates Shao Dan (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Feisal Mohamed (English) and Siobhan Somerville (English and Gender and Women's Studies) lead this initiative.

This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or cas.illinois.edu



CLGC 2013 Spring Schedule

CLGC Reading Group Members: The spring 2013 schedule has been posted in the Reading Group Forum. Please go to the Reading Group Forum and log in to view it.



Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship & Mentoring Program, 2013-2014

Purpose

The Law and Society Association, in collaboration with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation, seeks applications for the Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring Program (LSS Fellowship).

Awards

Fellowships are held in residence at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL, where Fellows are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the ABF, including participation in a weekly seminar series. LSS Fellows will receive a stipend of $30,000 per year beginning fall 2013. Fellows will attend LSA annual meetings in both years of the fellowship and the Graduate Student Workshop in the first year of the fellowship. Fellows will receive up to $1,500 for research and travel expenses each year. Relocation expenses up to $2,500 may be reimbursed one time.

For more details, please click here.



Two Upcoming Events Co-Sponsored by CLGC

Cultures of Law in Global Contexts will co-sponsor the following two events in early March:

1) Conference: The Micropolitics of Small-Town Life in Eastern Europe, March 5-6.

2) Lecture: "Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations", Timothy Snyder, March 5.

Both events are free and open to the public. For the conference schedule, click here.



Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop at Georgetown University

Georgetown University Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, Columbia Law School, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the ninth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. on June 3 & 4, 2013.

PAPER COMPETITION:

The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, we welcome critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, between five and ten papers will be chosen for presentation at the June Workshop.

At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity itself.

Papers should be works-in-progress between 10,000 and 15,000 words in length (including footnotes/endnotes), and must include an abstract of no more than 200 words. A dissertation chapter may be submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so that it stands alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible so long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop. The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication commitment.

The Workshop will pay the travel and hotel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation.

Submissions (in either Word or Wordperfect, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 7, 2013, and should be sent by e-mail to: Center for the Study of Law and Culture, culture@law.columbia.edu. Please be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation (if any), telephone and e-mail contact information.

For more information contact Lauren Gutterman, 212.854.0167 or culture@law.columbia.edu, and to see past winners go to: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop.