CFP: Yale/Harvard/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, May 21-22

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Request for Submissions

Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

May 21-22, Yale Law School

 Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2026 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Yale Law School on May 21-22, 2026. Ten to fifteen junior scholars (with one to seven years of teaching experience) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum. A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. A senior scholar will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, senior faculty from the host institutions, and any invited guests. There is no publication commitment. Yale Law School will pay presenters’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed. 

The goal of the Forum is to promote in-depth discussion about particular papers and more general reflections on broader methodological issues, as well as to foster a stronger sense of community among American legal scholars, particularly by strengthening ties between new and veteran professors. 

TOPICS: Each year, the Forum invites submissions on selected topics in public and private law, legal theory, and law and humanities topics, alternating loosely between public law and humanities subjects in one year, and private law and dispute resolution in the next. For the upcoming 2026 meeting, the topics will cover these areas of the law:

Antitrust

Bankruptcy

Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Contracts and Commercial Law

Corporate and Securities Law

Intellectual Property

Private Law Theory and Comparative Private Law

Property, Estates, and Unjust Enrichment

Taxation

Torts 

QUALIFICATIONS: Authors who teach law in the U.S. in a tenured or tenure-track position and have not been teaching at either of those ranks for a total of more than seven years are eligible to submit their work. American citizens or permanent residents teaching abroad are also eligible, provided that they have held a faculty position or the equivalent, including positions comparable to junior faculty positions in research institutions, for not more than seven years, and that they earned their last degree after 2016. Authors must be qualified as of the date of submission. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must meet the qualification requirements. Papers that will be published prior to the Forum are not eligible. There is no limit on the number of submissions by any individual author. Faculty from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are not eligible.

 

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please use the following form to submit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeE-Y1decyDrkmejVoztM2oPI3MrLfxdP3kCT500H1TwUBiMg/viewform?usp=header. The deadline for submissions is February 20, 2026. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. The form will ask for the title of your paper; under which topic your paper falls; an affirmation that your paper satisfies the non-publication qualification above; and the year in which you began teaching in one of the qualifying positions above. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any inquiries about the form should be directed to Christine Jolls. 

FURTHER INFORMATION: General inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Christine Jolls (christine.jolls@yale.edu) at Yale Law School, Norman Spaulding (nspaulding@stanford.law.edu) at Stanford Law School, or Rebecca Tushnet (rtushnet@law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School.

Christine Jolls

Norman Spaulding

Rebecca Tushnet