Weekend Roundup

• Law and Social Inquiry announces its annual competition for best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student. Deadline: March 1, 2017. Further details here.

• UVA Today has published a nice profile of Virginia Law dean Risa Goluboff.

• The Commission on Legal Pluralism is still accepting paper submissions-- until Jan.31, 2017. The conference will be held at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY on 9-11 Aug. 2017. The theme is "Citizenship, Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Age of Globalization." Right before, there will also be a short course introducing junior scholars to legal pluralism. CFP and other details here.

• For those of you who may be in Belgium in mid-January, don't miss this conference and  exhibit in Bruges (Jan. 16-17, 2017) The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in context from the Middle Ages to the First World War. 

• And here's the CFP for another conference in Europe--this time in Paris, June 8-9, 2017: "Transnational and Global Dimensions of Justice and Memory Processes in Europe and Latin America."Submissions due Jan.10, 2017.

• Finally, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt) has announced two PhD studentships--one on legal transfers in the common law world and the other on the legal history of the European Union. Details here.

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.