Saturday, December 24, 2016

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.
  • 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.