The Federalist Society is pleased to announce three calls for papers.  The first two calls pertain to our upcoming 2012 Annual Faculty Conference, while the third involves our brand new Junior Scholars Colloquium.
 
2012 Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference
 
The 2012 Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference will take place on January 5-6, 2012 at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, D.C. (just across the street from the Marriott Wardman Park hotel where the AALS will be holding its annual meeting).  The conference will begin with a panel followed by an evening reception on Thursday January 5 and continue with additional panels and a lunch debate on Friday January 6.  As in previous years, we will be holding two separate sessions for individual paper presentations:

First, we invite all faculty to submit works in progress for presentation during seven-minute time slots.

Second, we will again host our Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition, limited to unpublished papers by junior faculty members who have been teaching for no more than 7 years.  Young scholars who have not yet obtained their first academic appointments are also welcome to submit papers for consideration.  These papers will be competitively selected and presented on a special panel during 12-minute time slots.  Last year's winners included Prof. Rebecca Kysar of Brooklyn Law School, for Lasting Legislation, 159 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1007 (2011); Prof. Andrew Schwartz of the University of Colorado Law School, for Consumer Contract Exchanges and the Problem of Adhesion, 28 Yale J. on Reg. 313 (2011); Prof. Paul Stancil of the University of Illinois College of Law for Standardmaking (not yet submitted for publication); Prof. Robert Wagner of Rutgers School of Law-Newark, for Gordon Gekko to the Rescue? Insider Trading as a Tool to Combat Accounting Fraud, 79 U. Cin. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2011); and Prof. Jason Yackee of the University of Wisconsin Law School, for Testing the Ossification Thesis: An Empirical Examination of Federal Regulation Volume and Speed, 1950-1990, __ Geo. Wash. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012).
 
2012 Junior Scholars Colloquium
 
The inaugural 2012 Junior Scholars Colloquium builds upon the success we have experienced with the Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition.  This colloquium, which will take place over one to two days in early June 2012, will provide eight junior scholars (as defined in the paragraph above) with the opportunity to present competitively selected, unpublished papers and receive comments from more senior faculty members.  Over the course of four two-hour sessions, each junior scholar will have twenty minutes to present his or her paper, followed by ten minutes for comments from an assigned faculty commentator and a half hour of general group discussion.  All participants and commentators will be expected to be present for the entire conference and to familiarize themselves with all papers being presented.
 
Junior scholars are welcome to submit the same unpublished paper for both the 2012 Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition and the 2012 Junior Scholars Colloquium.  Some scholars may be invited to present their papers in both forums.
 
Lodging and meals will be provided and travel expenses will be reimbursed.  Junior scholar eligibility is limited to faculty members who have been teaching for no more than 7 years and young scholars who have not yet obtained their first academic appointments.
 
Submission Procedures

If you are interested in making a presentation for any of the above-described events, please email your paper to [email protected] by Friday, September 30, 2011, using the subject line "Faculty Conference Paper" and nothing the category(ies) of presentation for which you are submitting.  (If you are submitting for a work in progress slot, an abstract is sufficient).