Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop

jointly sponsored by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU)
and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University)

Because of a technical problem, any submissions before June 4, 2026 were lost; please resubmit (or submit for the first time) at the new URL listed below, https://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-scholars

Are you a law student, judicial law clerk, lawyer, or beginning academic hoping to publish a journal article on free speech law? Would you like the opportunity to get advice about your draft from leading free speech scholars?

If so, send us your draft by Sunday, August 16, 2026. (This should still be a draft article, not an article that’s already published or expected to be published within six months.) We plan to select the submissions that we think are particularly promising, and invite their authors to a workshop where they can present their papers and get helpful feedback on them. The workshop will be Saturday, October 24, 2026 (with dinner the night before) at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix. We will inform the selected authors by Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

We have funds to pay for transportation and lodging for the selected authors’ trips. Eligibility is limited to people who have so far published three or fewer law-related journal articles. 

We also plan to officially recognize zero to three of the top articles among those we review. If the authors wish, they can also have their articles reviewed for publication in the Journal of Free Speech Law (http://JournalOfFreeSpeechLaw.org), presumably after they revise the articles in light of the workshop feedback.

If you’re interested, please submit your draft at http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-scholars (Google logon required). Please single-space, and format the article nicely, so we can more easily read it.

Please do not include your name or law school affiliation in the document or document filename, and please do not include an author’s note thanking your advisors and others. Please make your filename be the title of your article (or some recognizable subset of the article title). We want to review the article drafts without knowing the authors’ identities.

If you have questions, please check http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-faq; if your question isn’t answered there, please e-mail volokh@stanford.edu.

Many thanks to the Stanton Foundation for its generous support.

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James Weinstein, Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Eugene Volokh, Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (Stanford University), and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law

Reminder: Penn/NYU/Harvard Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2026: submit by June 1

Penn/NYU/Harvard Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2026

The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at NYU. Now in its fifth year, the Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, unfair competition, and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 16, 2026. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 17. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only and we expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. We will ask participants to rely if possible on research accounts to cover travel and accommodation, but if that is not possible we will have funds to cover costs.

We invite submissions from academics working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event and a dinner the night of Friday, October 16. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word format. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2026. Decisions on participation will be made by June 15, 2026.

Submissions should be made by means of this Google form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLSfpHCiFmcHZ6SCKp4oWYC1TDTVXC8MNxWlaw2XpMc4IF3GtHQ_viewform-3Fusp-3Dpublish-2Deditor&d=DwMGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=JCtF1L1KFZQA400a-MfN1LbbUwey4sno6RJztdDSMVk&m=frYEnTCmkzL5dabxDGK2I-SaTfGMF9qSkTH-tqc6v8_eRDuLE2XZ1o1PydGPHvx0&s=PUCAH7B4foFMqAuRCNa6K1oA1S63rzSVKgCgIrUKF8I&e=>. If you have any questions, please contact Barton Beebe at barton.beebe@nyu.edu<mailto:barton.beebe@nyu.edu>.

CFP: Ninth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM

Call for Papers

Ninth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM

 

Stanford Law School, November 6-7, 2026

 

The Northwestern, Penn, and Stanford law schools are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Ninth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM, which will be held at Stanford on November 6-7, 2026. The Forum is dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship focusing on the intersection of Law and Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM). We are seeking submissions from junior faculty in any discipline interested in presenting papers at the Forum. The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.

 

A group of junior scholars will be chosen on a blind basis from among those submitting papers by a jury of accomplished scholars with expertise in Law and STEM. One or more senior scholars, not necessarily from Northwestern, Penn, and Stanford, will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. Participating junior faculty are expected to stay for the full duration of the Forum.

 

Our goal is to promote interdisciplinary research exploring how developments in STEM are affecting law and vice versa. Preference will be given to papers with strong interdisciplinary approaches integrating these two areas of study.

 

We invite submissions on any topic related to the intersection of law and any STEM field. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Artificial intelligence
• Autonomous vehicles
• Biomedical research and drug development
• Biometrics
• Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies
• ChatGPT and large language models
• Climate change technologies
• Computational law and algorithmic decisionmaking
• Cryptocurrency and NFTs
• Digital health and health data
• Genetics, epigenetics, and gene editing
• Machine learning and predictive analytics
• Nanotechnology
• Neuroscience and law
• Online security and privacy
• Personalized medicine
• Regulation of online platforms
• Robotics
• Spectrum policy
• Synthetic biology
• Virtual and augmented reality

 

There is no publication commitment. Northwestern, Penn, and Stanford will cover presenters’ and commentators’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present their work in person.

 

QUALIFICATIONS: To be eligible, authors must be teaching at a U.S. school of higher education in a tenured or tenure-track position or as a Visiting Assistant Professor or Fellow and must have received their first tenure-track appointment no more than seven years before the conference. Authors in tenured and tenure-track positions will be given priority. American citizens or permanent residents teaching abroad are also eligible to submit provided that they have held a faculty position or the equivalent, including positions comparable to junior faculty positions in research institutions, for less than seven years, and that they earned their last degree within the past ten years. We accept jointly authored submissions so long as the presenting coauthor is individually eligible to participate in the Forum and none of the other coauthors has taught in a tenured or tenure-track position for more than seven years. Papers that will be published prior to the meeting are not eligible. Authors may submit only one paper.

 

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Electronic submissions should be made through this website. Please remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.  We will notify applicants as soon as practicable thereafter whether their papers have been selected.
https://forms.gle/PPPn823V1DmYwQvP6

 

Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Professor Lisa Ouellette (ouellette@law.stanford.edu).

 

FURTHER INFORMATION: Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Lisa Ouellette at Stanford Law School, David Schwartz at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, or Christopher Yoo at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

CFP: emerging First Amendment scholars

Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop
jointly sponsored by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU)
and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University)

Are you a law student, judicial law clerk, lawyer, or beginning academic hoping to publish a journal article on free speech law? Would you like the opportunity to get advice about your draft from leading free speech scholars?

If so, send us your draft by Sunday, August 16, 2026. (This should still be a draft article, not an article that’s already published or expected to be published within six months.) We plan to select the submissions that we think are particularly promising, and invite their authors to a workshop where they can present their papers and get helpful feedback on them. The workshop will be Saturday, October 24, 2026 (with dinner the night before) at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix, and we will inform the selected authors by Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

We have funds to pay for transportation and lodging for the selected authors’ trips. Eligibility is limited to people who have so far published three or fewer law-related journal articles. 

We also plan to officially recognize zero to three of the top articles among those we review. If the authors wish, they can also have their articles reviewed for publication in the Journal of Free Speech Law (http://JournalOfFreeSpeechLaw.org), presumably after they revise the articles in light of the workshop feedback.

If you’re interested, please submit your draft at http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech (Google logon required). Please single-space, and format the article nicely, so we can more easily read it.

Please do not include your name or law school affiliation in the document or document filename, and please do not include an author’s note thanking your advisors and others. Please make your filename be the title of your article (or some recognizable subset of the article title). We want to review the article drafts without knowing the authors’ identities.

If you have questions, please check http://tinyurl.com/aspiring-free-speech-faq; if your question isn’t answered there, please e-mail volokh@stanford.edu.

Many thanks to the Stanton Foundation for its generous support.

* * *

James Weinstein, Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Eugene Volokh, Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (Stanford University), and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law

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

 Please share widely! 

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

 

Deadline extended to Friday: TM scholarship roundtable

 

TM scholarship roundtable

The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, false advertising, right of publicity, and related unfair competition and IP scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.   

 

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 10, 2025. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 11th. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only. We expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors.  We invite submissions from scholars working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, unfair competition, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event (including Saturday) and a dinner the night of Friday, October 10th. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word or PDF format. The deadline for submission is May 30th.

 

To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here: https://cvent.me/RXxbZ0 and upload an anonymized version of your draft.  Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB. Appendices or other supporting material or larger files can be emailed separately to ctic@law.upenn.edu; please do not submit a CV or cover letter. 

 

For further information about the Roundtable, please email: Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu; Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.

 

Reminder: TM scholarship roundtable

The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, false advertising, right of publicity, and related unfair competition and IP scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.   

 

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 10, 2025. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 11th. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only. We expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors.  We invite submissions from scholars working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, unfair competition, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event (including Saturday) and a dinner the night of Friday, October 10th. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word or PDF format. The deadline for submission is May 27th.

 

To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here: https://cvent.me/RXxbZ0 and upload an anonymized version of your draft.  Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB. Appendices or other supporting material or larger files can be emailed separately to ctic@law.upenn.edu; please do not submit a CV or cover letter. 

 

For further information about the Roundtable, please email: Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu; Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.

 

We look forward to reading your submissions!

 

Jennifer (Barton & Rebecca)

Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy student writing competition

 The annual Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy student writing competition is now open.  We hope you will encourage your students to submit their papers for consideration.

Students are invited to submit papers that provide analysis or insights on issues at the intersection of technology law and policy. Example topics could include artificial intelligence, antitrust and consumer protection, biotechnology, computer crime, cybersecurity, digital platform regulation, intellectual privacy, international trade, and social justice applications of technology. 

Papers will be judged by a blind panel of judges. The author(s) of the first place paper will be awarded $1,000. The author(s) of the top paper on an artificial intelligence-related topic will be awarded $1,000.

Please submit papers via email to techinstitute@law.georgetown.edu. Submissions are due by June 6, 2025.

Papers will be accepted from students enrolled at any ABA-accredited law school in the United States during the 2024-2025 academic year. The paper must be the author’s own work, although students may incorporate feedback received as part of an academic course or supervised writing project. 

Please visit the Tech Institute's website for more details and submission guidelines. Questions can be sent to techinstitute@law.georgetown.edu.

reminder: Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, June 2-3, 2025 submissions due soon

 Request for Submissions

Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

June 2-3, 2025, Harvard Law School

Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2025 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Harvard Law School on June 2-3, 2025. Twelve to twenty junior scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum. A senior scholar will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, senior faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. 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 2025 meeting, the topics will cover these areas of the law:

Administrative Law

Antidiscrimination Law and Theory

Constitutional Law—theoretical foundations

Constitutional Law—historical foundations

Criminal Law

Critical Legal Studies

Environmental Law

Family Law

Jurisprudence and Philosophy

Law and Humanities

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Public International Law

Workplace Law and Social Welfare Policy

A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. There is no publication commitment. Harvard Law School will pay presenters’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed.

QUALIFICATIONS: Authors who teach law in the U.S. in a tenured or tenure-track position as of the submission deadline (February 28, 2025) 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 less than seven years and that they earned their last degree after 2015. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must be individually eligible to participate in the Forum. 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: Electronic submissions should be sent to Rebecca Tushnet at rtushnet@law.harvard.edu with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2025, and under which topic your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Rebecca Tushnet.

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

Christine Jolls

Yair Listokin

Rebecca Tushnet

Norman Spaulding

Call for Papers: Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, June 2-3, 2025

Request for Submissions

Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

June 2-3, 2025, Harvard Law School

Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2025 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Harvard Law School on June 2-3, 2025. Twelve to twenty junior scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum. A senior scholar will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, senior faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. 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 2025 meeting, the topics will cover these areas of the law:

Administrative Law

Antidiscrimination Law and Theory

Constitutional Law—theoretical foundations

Constitutional Law—historical foundations

Criminal Law

Critical Legal Studies

Environmental Law

Family Law

Jurisprudence and Philosophy

Law and Humanities

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Public International Law

Workplace Law and Social Welfare Policy

A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. There is no publication commitment. Harvard Law School will pay presenters’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed.

QUALIFICATIONS: Authors who teach law in the U.S. in a tenured or tenure-track position as of the submission deadline (February 28, 2025) 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 less than seven years and that they earned their last degree after 2015. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must be individually eligible to participate in the Forum. 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: Electronic submissions should be sent to Rebecca Tushnet at rtushnet@law.harvard.edu with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2025, and under which topic your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Rebecca Tushnet.

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

Christine Jolls

Yair Listokin

Rebecca Tushnet

Norman Spaulding

BIPLA (Boston Intellectual Property Law Association) Writing Competition call for papers

1st Prize:$1,000 2nd Prize:$500 

BIPLA is once again holding its annual Writing Competition. Law school students are encouraged to submit papers relating to topics involving intellectual property law. Judges will consider the merits of each paper based on: (i) contribution to knowledge respecting intellectual property law; and (ii) the extent to which it displays original and creative thought or information not previously published or available. The requirements for eligibility are outlined below. 

 Content Rules

 1. Articles must be written solely by a student or students either in full-time or part-time attendance at a law school (day or evening) within the jurisdiction of the First Federal Judiciary Circuit or prepared in connection with a course at a law school in the First Circuit. 

 2. Articles must be written or published between September 1, 2023 and August 31, 2024.

 3. Articles must be submitted to the Boston Intellectual Property Law Association on or before September 30, 2024. 

 4. Papers should be no more than the equivalent of ten (10) law review pages including footnotes (30-40 pages typed copy). 

 5. Submission of the paper as a .pdf file is required. Submissions must include the submitter’s name, current address, current telephone number, law school, and employment information (if applicable). Please send all article submissions to: Kevin MacDonald, PhD Shareholder Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. Kevin.MacDonald@wolfgreenfield.com Office: 617.646.8497

Reminder on Call for Papers: Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2024

 The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at Harvard. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, false advertising, and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.   

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 18, 2024. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 19. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only and we expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors. 

We invite submissions from academics working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event and a dinner the night of Friday, October 18. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word format. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2024, and decisions on participation will be made shortly thereafter, ideally, by June 1st.   

To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here (https://forms.gle/QAfdmH18KmgdZAxp7) and upload an anonymized version of your draft.  Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB. Appendices or other supporting material can be uploaded separately; please do not submit a CV or cover letter. 

For further information about the Roundtable, please email: Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu, or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.

CFP: Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2024

The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at Harvard. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, false advertising, and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.   

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 18, 2024. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 19. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only and we expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors. 

We invite submissions from academics working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event and a dinner the night of Friday, October 18. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word format. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2024, and decisions on participation will be made shortly thereafter, ideally, by June 1st.   

To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here (https://forms.gle/QAfdmH18KmgdZAxp7) and upload an anonymized version of your draft.  Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB. Appendices or other supporting material can be uploaded separately; please do not submit a CV or cover letter. 

For further information about the Roundtable, please email either: Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu, or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.

CFP: trademark, competition, or antitrust law

 I received a request to disseminate this CFP from the Jerzy Wiszniewski Foundation.

Works in any of the following fields may be entered in the competition:

Օ Trademark law

Օ Competition law

Օ Antitrust law.

The work may be a master’s thesis, doctoral or post-doctoral dissertation, monograph, or other work of a scholarly nature.

Requirements for submissions:

Օ Published (or defended) no earlier than 11 April 2019

Օ Accompanied by at least two written reviews by a person holding a doctorate or more advanced title, or a member of the judiciary or prosecution service

Օ No less than 100 pages

Օ Written in English or Polish.

Detailed information and the rules for the competition are found at the foundation’s website:

wiszniewski-foundation.org

The author(s) of the best work in the competition will be awarded a cash prize of USD 20,000.

Submissions should be addressed to: contact@wiszniewski-foundation.org

call for submissions: Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, June 3-4, 2024

 Request for Submissions

Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

June 3-4, 2024, Stanford Law School

Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2024 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Stanford Law School on June 3-4, 2024. Twelve to twenty junior scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum. A senior scholar will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, senior faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. The goal of the Forum is to promote in-depth discussion on the selected 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 2024 meeting, the topics will cover the following areas of the law:

- Antitrust

- Bankruptcy

- Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution

- Contracts and Commercial Law

- Corporate and Securities Law

- Intellectual Property

- International Business Law

- Private Law Theory and Comparative Private Law

- Property, Estates, and Unjust Enrichment

- Taxation

- Torts

A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. There is no publication commitment. Stanford Law School will pay presenters’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed.

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 less than seven years and that they earned their last degree after 2014. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must be individually eligible to participate in the Forum. 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: Electronic submissions should be sent to Corissa Paris cparis@law.stanford with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 23, 2024. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email and also as a separate attachment a cover letter listing your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2024, and the topic under which your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Prof. Norman W. Spaulding, nspaulding@law.stanford.edu.

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

Christine Jolls

Yair Listokin

Matthew Stephenson

Rebecca Tushnet

Norman Spaulding

Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2023 Reminder: Submissions Due May 15, 2023

The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy will host this year’s Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator. 

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 6, 2023. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only and we expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors. 

We invite submissions from academics working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event and a dinner the night of the event. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word format. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2023, and decisions on participation will be made shortly thereafter, ideally, by June 1st. 

To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here (https://cvent.me/8zdYqE) and upload an anonymized version of your draft.  Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB. 

For further information about the Roundtable, please email either: Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu, or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.

Call for papers: Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2023

 Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2023

 

The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place in person hosted this year at NYU. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator. 

  

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 6, 2023. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only and we expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors.

  

We invite submissions from academics working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event and a dinner the night of the event. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word format. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2023, and decisions on participation will be made shortly thereafter, ideally, by June 1st. 

  

To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here (https://cvent.me/8zdYqE) and upload an anonymized version of your draft.  Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB.

 

For further information about the Roundtable, please email either: Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu, or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu. 

CFP--Yale/Harvard/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum: please disseminate widely!

 

Request for Submissions
Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

June 29-30, 2023, Yale Law School

Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2023 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Yale Law School on June 29-30, 2023. Twelve to twenty junior scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum. A senior scholar will comment on each paper. The audience will include the participating junior faculty, senior faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. 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 2023 meeting, the topics will cover these areas of the law:

Administrative Law

Antidiscrimination Law and Theory

Constitutional Law—theoretical foundations 

Constitutional Law—historical foundations
Criminal Law

Critical Legal Studies 

Environmental Law 

Family Law

Jurisprudence and Philosophy 

Law and Humanities

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation 

Public International Law

Workplace Law and Social Welfare Policy

A jury of accomplished scholars will choose the papers to be presented. There is no publication commitment. Yale Law School will pay presenters’ travel expenses, though international flights may be only partially reimbursed.

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 less than seven years and that they earned their last degree after 2013. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must be individually eligible to participate in the Forum. Papers that will be published prior to 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: Electronic submissions should be sent to Christine Jolls at christine.jolls@yale.edu with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 17, 2023. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email and also as a separate attachment a cover letter listing your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2023, and under which topic your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Christine Jolls.

FURTHER INFORMATION: Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Christine Jolls or Yair Listokin (yair.listokin@yale.edu) at Yale Law School, Matthew Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu) or Rebecca Tushnet (rtushnet@law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, or Norman Spaulding (nspaulding@stanford.law.edu) at Stanford Law School.

Christine Jolls

Yair Listokin

Matthew Stephenson

Rebecca Tushnet

Norman Spaulding