2018

• Call for Applications: Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History (June 9-22, 2019): The American Society for Legal History and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School are pleased to invite applications for the tenth biennial Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History. The purpose of the Hurst Institute is to advance the approach to legal scholarship fostered by J. Willard Hurst in his teaching, mentoring, and scholarship. The Hurst Institute assists scholars from law, history, and other disciplines in pursuing research on the legal history of any part of the world.The 2019 Hurst Institute will be led by Mitra Sharafi, Professor of Law and Legal Studies (with History affiliation) at University of Wisconsin–Madison. The two‑week program features presentations by guest scholars, discussions of core readings in legal history, and analysis of the work of the participants in the Institute. The ASLH Hurst Selection Committee will select twelve Fellows to participate in this event.Application Deadline: December 3, 2018.  Application process and additional information on the website.

• Call for Applications: 2019-2020 LAPA Fellowships: The Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University invites outstanding faculty members of any discipline, independent scholars, lawyers, and judges to apply for a residential research fellowship for the academic year 2019–2020. LAPA Fellows devote the major portion of their time to their own research and writing on law-related subjects of empirical, interpretive, doctrinal and/or normative significance. All applicants must have received a doctorate, juris doctor, or an equivalent professional degree at the time of submission of the fellowship application. Successful LAPA applicants should demonstrate substantial expertise in law-related matters. The program does not support, as a primary activity, off-site fieldwork or work in remote archives, development of course materials, work in legal practice, or residence elsewhere. For additional information see: http://lapa.princeton.edu/fellowships                                                                                                                                                          Candidates must submit an online application at https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/7981
  THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 11:59 PM (EST) NOVEMBER 14, 2018.

• Law and Society Association 2018 Annual Meeting (June 7-10, 2018): LSA Collaborative Research Network #28: Realist and Empirical Methods is hosting several 3 panels at the Annual Meeting this year. The schedule for CRN 28 events is now available!

• APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize:  The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send stand-alone papers centering on the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes. These papers should be original and not submitted previously for publication. Submissions that expand the purview of political and legal anthropology and challenge us to think in new ways about power, politics and law are encouraged. Submissions are due by July 1, 2018. For more information please see the announcement on the APLA website.

• AES Graduate Student Grant: The American Ethnological Society (AES) has announced the AES Graduate Student Research Grant ($2,500). Graduate students who have completed a minimum of one year of study are eligible. Applications due by April 27, 2018.

• IILJ Call for Papers: The Institute for International Law and Justice is hosting Infrastructures as Regulation (InfraReg) on September 28-29, 2018. Junior and senior scholars as well as experienced practitioners are invited to submit extended abstracts (at least 300-500 words) or full papers (in PDF or Word format) to infraregiilj@gmail.com by April 15, 2018. You’ll find the complete call for papers here and more on the InfraReg project here.

• American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Call for Papers:  The theme of this year’s meeting is “Change in the Anthropological Imagination: Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation.”  Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3pm EST on April 16, 2018.  The list of CFPs are available here.

• ILS Law and Society Graduate Fellows Program: The Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School is accepting applications for the ILS Law and Society Graduate Fellows Program, a program to support graduate students doing work in socio-legal studies at UW-Madison. The program is co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Center and the Global Legal Studies Center. Applications are due April 30, 2018.

• Law and Social Inquiry’s 2018 Annual Graduate Student Paper Competition Now Open
  Law & Social Inquiry invites submissions for its annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student. LSI publishes empirical and theoretical studies of sociolegal processes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The author must be a graduate student or law student at the time the paper was written and when submitted. Faculty nominations should include a short description along with the paper and contact details for the student.  The winning paper will be published in Law & Social Inquiry and the author(s) will receive a total cash prize of $500 (US). For more information and submission requirements, see the LSI page for more details. Entries will be accepted starting January 1, 2018 and must be received by March 1, 2018.

• Applications now being accepted for Baldy Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies:
  The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo plans to appoint one new Postdoctoral Fellow and one or two new Senior Fellows for terms beginning during the 2018-19 academic year. Junior and senior scholars from law, the humanities, and the social and natural sciences are encouraged to apply.  Applications are due Wednesday, February 28, 2018 and should be submitted online.
  

• American Bar Foundation Graduate Fellowships 2018-19:
  Graduate fellowship opportunities are available for the 2018-19 academic year at the American Bar Foundation.  The ABF is now accepting applications for the ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellowship Program in Legal and Higher Education  as well as for the ABF/NSF Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Inequality.  Fellowship information can also be found by visiting the Fellowships page on the ABF’s website. The application deadline for each program is January 15, 2018.

• American Association of Law Schools forms new section on Legal Education Research (visit our blog for more details)

 

2017

• Announcing Networking Opportunity for Empirical Researchers on Legal Education: Working with support from the National Science Foundation and the American Bar Foundation, our planning committee seeks to develop an active network of social scientists and legal academics doing empirical work on legal education. We hope to connect social scientists who are studying law schools using multiple disciplinary methods and perspectives. With global connections in law growing, we also hope to foster a comparative perspective in this area of study. By working in communication with each other, researchers can advance knowledge in the area more quickly and deeply, while also preventing costly duplication of efforts. We will also be working to connect members of this network with larger groups interested in research on legal education, such as the Access Group. If you are conducting empirical research on legal education, you can contact us at ftung@abfn.org. Please send us a 1-2 paragraph description of your current and (if applicable) past work in the area, and either a current vita or a list of relevant publications, presentations, and reports to ftung@abfn.orgPlanning Committee: Elizabeth Mertz (chair), Meera Deo, Bryant Garth,Victor Quintanilla, Carole Silver, Ann Southworth
• Law and Society Association 2017 Annual Meeting (June 20-23, 2017): LSA Collaborative Research Network #28: Realist and Empirical Methods hosted several events at the Annual Meeting this year. There were two paper sessions: “Law and Public Policies in Latin America” and “Law and Public Policies in Latin America 2” In addition, were two salon sessions focusing on “Law, Racism, and Discrimination” and “Between Empirical Research and Critical Theory: New Horizons?”
• Applications Open for Baldy Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Baldy Center Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies were available to post-doctoral, mid-career, and senior scholars. This year’s application were due January 17, 2017.

2016

• ILS Law and Society Graduate Fellows Program The Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School was accepting applications for the ILS Law and Society Graduate Fellows Program, a program to support graduate students doing work in socio-legal studies at UW-Madison. The program is co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Center and the Global Legal Studies Center. Applications were due April 15, 2016.
• Law and Society Association 2016 Annual Meeting (June 2-5, 2016): LSA Collaborative Research Network #28: Realist and Empirical Methods hosted several events at the Annual Meeting this year on June 2. There were two paper sessions: “Courts’ Role in Handling and Making Social Knowledge” and “Empirical Perspectives on Education and Law.” In addition, were two roundtable sessions focusing on “Realist and Empirical Methods for Law” and “ Introducing New Books in Realist and Empirical Legal Methods.” For those interested in becoming more involved in CRN activities, a business meeting was held on June 3.
• 2016 Osgoode Hall Graduate Law Student Conference The 2016 Osgoode Hall Graduate Law Student Conference took place this year in Toronto on Feb 18-19, 2016. The theme of this year’s conference was “Exploring Law and Change through Interdisciplinary Research, New Legal Realism and Other Perspectives- Choose Your Own Adventure.” Where law engages with social issues and interactions, many legal scholars have begun to apply knowledge from outside the disciplinary boundaries of law. From this interdisciplinary perspective, the conference considered the myriad ways in which law facilitates, obstructs, and reacts to change. Professor Elizabeth Mertz was the conference’s keynote speaker. For more information, see the conference program.
• Fourth Annual Qualitative and Mixed- Methods Workshop at AALS The Association of American Law Schools hosted a two-day workshop on qualitative and mixed methods at their 110th Annual Meeting in New York City on January 9 and 10, 2016.