Call For Papers: AALS 2024–Clinical Section’s program Collaborating to Defend Democracy in Communities Under Attack
The AALS Clinical Section is seeking presenters and Works-in-Progress (“WIPs”) for its program at the 2024 AALS Annual Meeting. The 2024 meeting will be held January 3-6, 2024, in Washington, DC, and will focus on the theme, Defending Democracy. Given your work teaching immigration law and defending immigrants’ rights, we are excited to receive your submissions.
The Clinical Section’s program, Collaborating to Defend Democracy in Communities Under Attack, will highlight the work of law faculty collaborating across clinical and non-clinical spaces to defend communities under attack across the country. This program will take a deep dive into the ever-expanding attacks on historically marginalized communities and feature collaborations among law clinics, externship programs, and non-clinical faculty to defend and support historically marginalized communities. Overall, the program also seeks to highlight the value of collaboration across clinical and non-clinical faculty members to bolster responses to subordination from oppressive laws and policies.
Potential areas of interest for the program include, but are not limited to:
- Reproductive rights
- Transgender rights
- Divisive Concepts Laws (including how law schools in states with such laws can comply with ABA Standard 303)
- Racial justice
- Police accountability
- Immigrant rights
- Voting rights
- Protest, organizing, and activism
- Affirmative action
- Property rights/the affordable housing crisis
- Surveillance and ethical technology
There will be two separate sessions: a panel presentation on the theme and a Works-in-Progress session. We are looking for individuals or groups of faculty members working in any of the identified areas or in any area that fits within the program theme. We welcome submissions for panelists, WIPs, or both. It is not necessary to have a WIP to submit as a presenter for the panel session.
Panelist Submissions: Submissions for the panel should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, including a description of how the panelist(s) collaborate across clinical and non-clinical spaces to respond to one or more communities under attack. Please also include names, contact information, number of years teaching, and any prior AALS presentations and the year given for each panelist. Please submit proposals to Allison Freedman (freedman@law.unm.edu) and Anne Gordon (agordon@law.duke.edu) by July 15, 2023. We look forward to your submissions!
WIP Submissions: Submissions for the WIP should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, including the title of your work, name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s), years of clinical teaching experience, and contact information. Please indicate whether your submission is at an early stage or near completion. Submissions should be sent to Julie Dahlstrom (jadahl@bu.edu) by September 1, 2023.