Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Papers Selected for 2014 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition

The conveners of the 2014 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition have announced the papers selected for this year's workshop. Here's the announcement:
Each year we solicit papers from senior graduate students and untenured faculty on topics in law and the humanities. The submissions are then juried by two outside senior readers, and based on those reviews the conveners selected seven papers and two alternates for inclusion in a conference held in June where the papers are workshopped by senior commentators in fields relevant to the papers.
Remaking Indians, Remaking Citizens: Peruvian and Mexican Perspectives on Criminal Law and National Integration
(abstract here)
Lior Ben David
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
Tel Aviv University

Judging Genocide in Rwanda: Lay Judges and Mass Prosecutions in Local Courts
(abstract here)
Anuradha Chakravarty
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina

What’s Mine: Involuntary Expressions and the Right to Privacy
(abstract here)
Monica Huerta
Doctoral Candidate
Department of English
University of California, Berkeley

Executing Whiteness: Fictional and Nonfictional Accounts of Capital Punishment in the United States, 1915-1940
(abstract here)
Daniel LaChance
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Emory University

Usable Traditions: Creating Sexual Autonomy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(abstract here)
Xavier Livermon
Assistant Professor
African & African Diaspora Studies Department
University of Texas at Austin

Law and Fiction in Medieval Iceland: The Story in the Gragas Manuscripts
(abstract here)
Thomas J. McSweeney
Assistant Professor
William & Mary Law School

The Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language
(abstract here)
Moria Paz
Law and Internatinoal Security Fellow
Center for International Security an Cooperation
Stanford University

Alternates:

Leroy Pitzer: Citizen, Voter, Lunatic?
(abstract here)
Rabia Belt
Research Fellow
Georgetown University Law Center

A Pre-History of Performing Rights in Anglo-American Copyright Law
(abstract here)
Derek Miller
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Harvard University
Congratulations to all!