[We have the following announcement.]
We
are pleased to announce the creation of the new Stanford Center for Law and History (SCLH). SCLH brings
together faculty, postdocs, and students from across Stanford University’s many
schools and departments—and beyond—to participate in a broad range
of conferences, workshops, and lectures devoted to examining the
multifaceted interrelationships between law and history (without geographic, temporal,
or other subject-area limitations).
On
April 20, 2018, SCLH will host its inaugural one-day conference, titled “Legal
Histories of Policing and Surveillance.” The event will include a keynote
address by Professor Michael Willrich and three panels featuring a range of
prominent legal historians entitled: “Broadening the State’s Criminal Oversight
Power,” “Surveillance Technologies and Legal Culture,” and “Policing Intimate
and Family Life.”
The
conference organizers will select one graduate student as the inaugural winner
of the SCLH Graduate Student Paper Prize. This student will be added to one of
the three panels—alongside distinguished faculty working on related
topics—based on the fit between the proposed paper and the three panel themes.
Funding for travel and housing will be provided.
To
apply, submit the following in a single PDF here. The deadline is Friday, December 1, 2017.
- CV
- 500 word
paper abstract
- Briefly
describe (75 words or less) which of the three panels is the best fit for
your paper and why.
The
organizers will inform the selected graduate student by early January 2018. The
prize winner must circulate a fifteen to twenty page paper to the organizers by
Monday, April 9, to share with other conference attendees.
For
any questions, please email: akessler@law.stanford.edu and edkatz@stanford.edu
