The AALS Section on Securities Regulation will hold its fifth meeting, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, January 6, 2005 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm, during the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.

The Executive Committee invites submissions of abstracts for paper presentations at this upcoming meeting. The Committee would prefer the theme(s) or topic(s) of the panel to be determined by the submissions we receive, rather than the other way around. So please feel free to send an abstract on anything you are working on that relates to securities regulation. The Section welcomes papers from a wide range of scholars and perspectives, including law and non-law scholars.

Four papers will be presented, to be chosen from submissions made in response to this Call for Papers. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than five pages (e-mail preferred) by June 30, 2004. Please direct your submission to:

Professor Donna Nagy
University of Cincinnati College of Law
ML #0040 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0040

email: donna.nagy@uc.edu
fax: 513-556-1236

Papers will be selected after review by members of the Executive Committe of the Section on Securites Regulation:

Stephen Choi, University of California, Berkeley
Lisa Fairfax, University of Maryland
Howell Jackson, Harvard University (Chair-Elect)
Donna Nagy, University of Cincinnati (Chair)
Adam Pritchard, University of Michigan
Margaret Sachs, University of Georgia
Hillary Sale, University of Iowa
Robert Thompson, Vanderbilt University

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 14, 2004

Proposals for presentations are now being accepted. We encourage submissions from practitioners and academicians that address the issues confronting major police departments in dealing with the problems associated with emerging ethnic populations. Estimated time for presentations is 15 minutes.

Proposals of approximately 200 words should be sent to:

Prof. Brian S. MacNamara
Department of Law and Police Science
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, New York 10019
bmacnamara@jjay.cuny.edu

Please submit full contact information (name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail information) and a brief biography of the author . The deadline for submission of proposals is June 15, 2004. Proposals should be 200 words or less. Notification of acceptance will be no later than July 15, 2004. Final submissions (hard copy and diskette in Microsoft Word) will be required by August 15, 2004.

Peace Review invites submissions for a special issue devoted to law in the context of war in the following three respects: 1) The development of international laws central concepts and theories; 2) The social dimension of its institutionalization; and 3) The contemporary military and interpretive threats to the rule of law itself. Possible questions for consideration might include: How do colonial, religious, or commercial interests inscribe todays international laws and just war theories? How have competing public and private interests contributed to the evolution of terms such as preemptive strike, imminent threat, or individual and nation-state sovereignty? What role have social movements and NGOs played in the codification of international humanitarian law and the operations of the United Nations? What role could they play in the future? How are we to conceive of the relationship between recent U.S.-led wars and the globalization of capitalist markets? Does the International Criminal Court or the concept of humanitarian intervention have a future after the Bush years?

For writers guidelines or to send essay submissions by email attachment to:
Robert Elias, Editor eliasr@usfca.edu or Anne Hieber, Managing Editor hieber@usfca.edu.
Or send correspondence to:

Peace Review
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA, 94117

Telephone: 415-422-2910
Fax: 415-422-5671, Attn. Elias or Hieber.

The National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law is pleased to announce a "call for papers" for the Journal of Space Law, Volume 30, to be published in May 2004.

This volume will feature a section highlighting articles by emerging space law lawyers and scholars who have recently graduated from law school up through the first 10 years of their career. We welcome submissions from such authors and, also, from the general space law community as well.

We also encourage submissions of manuscripts whose topics involve cross-over legal issues of the relationship between air and space law.

Interested authors are invited to submit manuscripts, and accompanying abstracts, for consideration and possible publication in Volume 30 of the Journal of Space Law. The Journal of Space Law encourages submission of manuscripts and abstracts via email.

Please email manuscripts and accompanying abstracts (in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect) to: :jsl@olemiss.edu

Or, you may mail a hardcopy of the manuscript and abstract, along with a computer diskette containing the article in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect format to:

Journal of Space Law
P.O. Box 308
University, MS 38677-0308
USA

1-662-915-6857 (office)
1-662-915-6921 (fax)

The Journal would prefer to receive article submissions for Volume 30 on or before February 9, 2004, but will continue to accept and review submissions until the issue is full.

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore issues surrounding evil and law, with a focus on state power and violence. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field that touches on the study of law and legal culture: anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, government/politics, history, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion/theology, and sociology, as well as those working in civil rights, human rights, prison services , politics and government (including NGOs), psychiatry, health care, and other areas.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

• when and why is law evil or a source of evil?
• state violence and coercion
• justifications for punishment, including capital punishment
• whether and under what circumstances the adversary or inquisitorial models of legal process generate, tolerate, or allow evil outcomes
• issues of distributive justice in law, including distributing the costs of legal error
• the intersection of law with issues of choice, responsibility, and diminished responsibility
• state responsibility for terrorism, war, intervention, ethnic cleansing, and other problems of international law and international relations

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organizing Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats, and must arrive no later than Friday 19th March 2004. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 28th May 2004.

Papers should be submitted to:

Professor John Parry
Associate Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh
USA
Email: Parry@law.pitt.edu

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
Email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference will likely consist of roughly 30-35 people grouped primarily in consecutive panels so that each person may hear and respond to each paper.

Non-presenters are welcome to attend and participate as well.

Selected papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published, as revised, in a themed volume . In addition, all papers accepted for and presented at the conference will appear in an ISBN eBook.

Evil, Law, and the State is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences, run under the general banner 'At the Interface.' This series aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

For further information about the project please go to: http://www.wickedness.net/els/els.htm
For further information about the conference please go to: http://www.wickedness.net/els/els1/els04cfp.htm

The Urban Lawyer law journal invites submissions of unsolicited manuscripts from faculty, judges, and lawyers. The Urban Lawyer concentrates on legal issues important to state and local government, a mission we interpret broadly: articles in recent years have examined everything from homeland security to municipal finance, from police misconduct to land-use planning.

The Urban Lawyer, published by the ABA’s Section on State and Local Government Law in cooperation with the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, maintains a subscription base of over 6,000.

We consider articles, essays, and book reviews.

Send submissions electronically or in hardcopy to:

Professor Robert R.M. Verchick
Urban Lawyer
University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64113
email: verchickr@umkc.edu.

It was 150 years ago that the mill shaft at the City Flour Mills in Gloucester broke, an event that gave rise to one of the most influential, enduring, and controversial contract law decisions of all time: Hadley v. Baxendale. Hadley is important not only because of its rule, which limits consequential damages for breach of contract, but because it marked the centralization and modernization of traditional English contract law in light of the Industrial Revolution, and because it spread through the common law world-wide. The year 2004 marks not only the case's sesquicentennial, but the redevelopment of Hadley's old mill as a modern mixed-use commercial/residential facility as part of Gloucester's redevelopment of its historic downtown. The anniversary of the case and the redevelopment of Gloucester give us an opportunity to meet at Hadley's Mill to reflect on the case it spawned and on the past, present and future of contract and common law worldwide. The Conference will focus not only on Hadley but on the larger role of the common law, particularly of contracts, in dealing with rapid changes in commerce and society, not merely in England, but worldwide. No case better exemplifies the rapid spread of English common law and its role in developing the background rules of a fast-developing international commercial system than Hadley. There are remarkable parallels between the era of Hadley and our own, as modern courts in a world of fragmentation of power and an exponential increase in e-commerce face 21st century economic, social, and political revolutions as dramatic as those of the Industrial Revolution in 1854. The common law that England exported is, of course, dominant in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but it also plays an important but different role in Africa, Asia, the West Indies and the Middle East, where it has been amalgamated with tribal and other indigenous law as well as Islamic, Hindu, Jewish and other developed legal systems. Today, former British colonies are celebrating silver and golden anniversaries as independent nations, and many are striving for democracy in competition with severe economic and social pressures. Their legal systems have to deal with transnational and electronic law at the same time as they integrate secular nationalism and religious fundamentalism. How have common law courts, whether largely traditional or complexly hybrid, dealt with these changes? How are they to deal with them today? Can they craft rules suitable to the new realities of the 21st century? If so, what should those rules be, and what kind of legal structure should be used to produce them? Papers dealing with these and related issues from doctrinal, theoretical, or historical perspectives are all welcome. While the Conference is primarily focused on the legal aspects, submissions from scholars in related disciplines are also encouraged. Among the topics that might be considered are the similarities and differences among the more traditional, "first world" common law courts, the impact of the common law on third world legal systems and the role of the common law world-wide in times of rapid and fundamental economic and social change. Deadline for submission of abstracts for the Conference is February 15, 2004. E-mail submissions are welcome. Please send proposals to:

Prof. Frank Snyder
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Center
1515 Commerce Street Fort Worth, Texas 76102
email: fsnyder@law.txwes.edu.

Prof. Peter Linzer
University of Houston Law Center
100 Law Center
Houston, Texas 77204
email: plinzer@uh.edu

The International Law Review is currently accepting submissions from academics and legal practitioners on topics related to the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Accepted papers will be published together with the proceedings of the 2004 International Law Review symposium on this same topic. Papers are due January 15, 2004.

The International Law Review is also accepting submissions on any topic of international law for consideration in the 2004 Fall Issue. The submission deadline for the Fall 2004 Issue is March 31, 2004.

For further information, please contact Marie-Anne Perlia, Symposium Articles Editor at mperlia@luc.edu.

The University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal (UOLTJ) is a new bilingual (French and English) peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to scholarly articles on all aspects of law and technology. The Journal is interested in work on all aspects of this field, regardless of the type of technology, substantive area of law at issue, or theoretical or philosophical focus. The Journal will be published semi-annually in print and electronic formats.

The Journal is currently accepting submissions of original scholarly articles for its Spring 2004 issue. The Journal accepts submissions in English or in French. All submissions should be accompanied by a 250-word abstract and a statement by the author that the article is not under consideration for publication in other journals and has not been previously published.

All citations should conform to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (5th ed. 2002). Articles conforming to the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (17th ed. 2000) will also be considered for publication.

The deadline for submissions for the Spring 2004 issue is January 15, 2004.

Inquiries may be addressed to:

Professor Elizabeth F. Judge and Professor Jennifer A. Chandler
Editors-in-Chief and Faculty Advisors
University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal
uoltj@uottawa.ca

Electronic copies of submissions should be sent to:uoltj@uottawa.ca

University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
57 Louis Pasteur St.
Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA K1N 6N5

The University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

In November 2003, Miami, Florida will host a ministerial meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The purpose of the meeting is for the governments of North, South and Central America and the Caribbean to continue progress toward the negotiation of a Free Trade Areas of the Americas. The project to create a FTAA raises many complex and controversial issues and has sparked significant civil resistance by labor, peasants, environmentalists, students, small farmers and businesses in countries throughout the hemisphere.

We invite practitioners, scholars and students to submit papers that address the issues surrounding the creation of the FTAA.

Papers should utilize a recognized system of citation. Submissions should be mailed or emailed to the following address:

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
University of Miami School of Law
Attn: Articles Editor
P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA
UMICLR@students.law.miami.edu

The deadline for paper submission is January 15, 2004. Authors will be notified in writing if their papers are selected for publication. While the editors of the Review reserve the right to edit the paper prior to publication, any alterations made will be submitted to the author for final approval, at which time any updates may be submitted by the author. Publication of is tentatively scheduled for July 2004.

For more information on the University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, please visit our website at http://currentstudents.law.miami.edu/iclr.

Pierce Law Review is currently soliciting papers for its upcoming Symposium on Tax Simplification. The Symposium will deal with accessibility, restructuring, and proposals for change to the current federal system of taxation. While preference will be given to full-length articles, authors of shorter articles, essays, and letters are welcome to submit their works as well.

All submissions should be typed and double spaced with footnotes (not endnotes), and preferably will be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words describing the contents of the article.

Preference will be given to manuscripts received before January 31, 2004. Submissions may be sent via e-mail in Word or Word Perfect format to lawreview@piercelaw.edu, or by regular mail to Pierce Law Review's Symposium Editor:

Christopher S. Kroon
Pierce Law Review
Franklin Pierce Law Center
2 White Street
Concord, NH 03301
phone (603) 228-1541; fax 224-3342
email: lawreview@piercelaw.edu

For more information about the journal or to access previous issues, please visit our website at http://www.piercelaw.edu/lawreview.

The Cumberland Law Review is publishing a symposium issue in Spring 2004 on issues related to genetically-modified (GM) products. We invite articles reflecting legal, ethical, and scientific knowledge and perspectives. Topics include the pending WTO case, developing nations and GM agriculture, intellectual property, regulatory, and environmental issues related to GM products, and the application of various international treaties. Articles should be submitted to the address below by January 12, 2004. Accepted articles will be published in conjunction with papers from a Spring Symposium on this topic to be held in Birmingham, Alabama.

Submissions should be sent to:

Cumberland Law Review
Cumberland School of Law
Samford University
Att: Kelly Fitzgerald
800 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, Alabama 35229

The BMLQ is a refereed academic journal devoted to the study of maritime law around the world. Following requests from a number of academics and practitioners in the Baltic Sea region, the BLMQ was established as a forum for scholarly debate on the law relating to marine affairs, with a particular commercial bias. As such, the BMLQ will focus on timely issues of admiralty law, carriage of goods by sea, maritime litigation, marine insurance and general aspects of international trade law in the maritime sphere.

The BMLQ has been established by the Baltic Legal Research Centre (Non profit association) to address the lack of quality coverage of this important discipline in the Baltic area in particular, and in Eastern Europe in general. The BMLQ consists of a mixture of English language articles (approximately 8000 words) and shorter notes (up to 4000 words) as well as case commentaries (3000 words), book reviews and a regular section on developments in EC and Regional shipping law.

The BMLQ invites contributions from a wide range and diverse community of researchers. It seeks to generate and promote research from both experienced researchers and to encourage those new to the field of maritime law.

We are currenlty seeking suitable papers for consideration by the editorial board. In the first instance abstracts of papers should be submitted to the managing editors at bmlq@univerity.ee. All style conventions and further details of the journal are available upon request.

The forthcoming deadline: 15th December 2003 (for publication 12th January 2004)

The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, a journal dedicated to the discussion of recent developments in science and technology and their effects on law and social policy, is pleased to announce that a portion of our Spring 2004 edition will be dedicated to pieces exploring the topic of File Sharing and the Content Industry.

We are currently accepting submissions addressing any of the following: (1) the impact of the RIAA's current litigation strategy on the actions of developers and end users of file sharing technologies; (2) the effect of potential changes to the legal and regulatory environment on artistic incentives; (3) viable future business models for the music industry or content industries in general; (4) Constitutional concerns raised by the current file sharing discourse; and (5) other pertinent legal issues.

Electronic, Bluebook-compliant forum submissions of at least 2000 words may be sent to submissions@sltr.org. Questions regarding the submission process or guidelines may be directed to submissions@sltr.org or (212) 854-0259. In addition to topical submissions, we are also currently accepting traditional articles for spring publication.

For more information about the journal or to access previous issues, please visit our website at http://www.stlr.org/.

What legal regimes or market initiatives would best prevent the unauthorized disclosure of private information while also promoting business innovation?

As individuals do more - shopping, talking, working - on-line, they leave private information behind in databases stored on Internet-connected servers. Companies store proprietary data on networked servers connected to the Internet. Computer security experts struggle to develop technology and best practices to protect this information from unauthorized intruders or inadvertent leaks. Are private initiatives sufficient to protect private and confidential information, or should the law allocate the responsibility of keeping the server secure, and if so, on whom? And will the imposition of this legal and economic burden impede further exponential advances like those the computer industry has made in the past decade?
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), part of the Law, Science and Technology Program (LST) at Stanford Law School announces an open call for papers addressing the ways in which application of various legal doctrines could induce software vendors, hardware companies and system administrators to adopt security-enhancing practices, report unauthorized disclosures of private information, properly value and remedy harm flowing from privacy breaches, while promoting vigorous competition and innovation.

In the selection process, papers offering new perspectives, novel analysis, or innovative prescriptions will be given preference. Proposals from legal and other academics, economists, lawyers, scientists and technologists, as well as new voices are encouraged. Some suggested topics are posted on the conference website at: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/privacysymposium/

The event is funded by a generous grant from the cy pres fund established in the Supnick et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. and Alexa Internet, Inc. litigation. We are able to offer free admission to the symposium and anticipate a large audience of academics, executives, students, and U.S. and foreign policy makers. Those selected to present papers will be reimbursed for two- week advance purchased coach airfare to California and for two nights stay at the Westin, Palo Alto hotel.

Interested parties should submit a 200 word abstract describing the proposed paper to; http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/privacysymposium/form.html. The deadline for submissions is October 13 and the selected presenters will be notified by mail by November 3. The website also allows visitors to register to be notified when we finalize the symposium schedule.

Papers will be due May 3, 2004. The Symposium Editors will select the papers which will be published in a scholarly volume under a Creative Commons license that will allow authors to submit their papers to other publications, including law journals.

This Conference is sponsored by the Computer Law Review and Technology Journal and the SMU Dedman School of Law. Featured presentation and proceeds will be published in the Computer Law Review and Technology Journal Symposium Issue in Spring 2004.

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal is currently accepting submissions in Word format, abstracts due December 1st 2003 and papers due February 2, 2004 .

Topical areas of interest include but are not limited to: domain name, property and conversion; digital copyrights; copyright & communication; fair use; patent protection for internet technology; patent scope; web browser patents and Microsoft; DMCA subpoena power; spamming; First Amendment and trade secrets; software & licensing; taxing domain names; the European Union digital VAT directive; intellectual property licensing and the bankruptcy law; in rem jurisdiction & domain names; Truth in Domain Name Act; global linking & liability; FTC & internet regulations; proposed IP legislations; IP valuations, Online ADR, International IP and trade; IP & globalization; IP damages; and antitrust IP issues.

Contact Information:

Jenni Morse Editor-In-Chief clrtj@mail.smu.edu
OR Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Conference Chair xnguyen@smu.edu

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal
SMU Dedman School of Law
P.O. Box 750116, Dallas, Texas 75275-2647
214-768-2647
(email submissions) clrtj@mail.smu.edu

The Suffolk University Law Review, in collaboration with the school's Clinical Programs and the Victim Rights Law Center, will present an April 16, 2004, symposium entitled, "Beyond Prosecution: Sexual Assault Victims: Rights in Theory and Practice."
Much has been made in the public forum of the relationship of sexual assault victims with local, state and federal law enforcement authorities. However, the reality of these relationships is often messier and less monolithic than that portrayed in the popular media. The question of public prosecution with all of its attendant responsibilities to a generalized public good sometimes conflict with an individual victim’s security, interests or desires. Further, society should be seen as having a larger mission than punishment when it comes to responses to victims of violent crimes, particularly those who are victims of violent sexual assaults. Seen in a larger and more complete light, victims of violent crimes, especially the young and the poor, are often faced with serious legal disabilities in employment, housing, physical and economic security, education and other aspects of their lives that the law might touch.
The one-day symposium seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners interested in discussing these and other issues in an attempt to further understand the role of sexual assault victims in the modern legal landscape. The symposium will be divided into three major discussion areas: the victim's role in the criminal justice system, victims' personal privacy and security, and remedies available to victims outside the criminal justice system. These issues will be discussed and analyzed through a mixture of plenary sessions, addresses, and panel discussions. Selected works from participants will be published by the Suffolk Law Review in the Fall of 2004.

Those interested in submitting proposals or completed papers should contact

Jeffrey J. Pokorak
Director of Clinical Programs
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977
(617-573-8100)
jpokorak@suffolk.edu

The Drake Law School announces publication of its 32nd Insurance Law Annual to be published in the Drake Law Review in the Spring of 2004 and is currently soliciting articles for this issue.

The deadline for submissions is Friday January 16, 2004. The Drake Law Review invites submissions from faculty, judges and practitioners on any topic related to insurance law. Student notes or comments will not be considered. All submissions should be typed and triple spaced and should include footnotes, not endnotes. Submissions should preferably be in Microsoft Word format. All citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (17th ed. 2000). The Drake Law Review requests that submissions be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words describing the contents of the article.

The Drake Law Review is an established academic legal journal in its 52nd year of publication. The Drake Law School is located in Des Moines, Iowa, which has attracted a huge insurance industry base and is arguably the second or third largest insurance capital in the world.

Submissions and correspondence concerning publication should be addressed to:

Articles Editors Drake Law Review
Drake Law School
Cartwright Hall
Des Moines, Iowa 50311

Tel: (515) 271-2930
Fax: (515) 271-4926

Electronic submissions or correspondence are accepted and highly encouraged. e-mail: lawreview@drake.edu.

The Northern Illinois University College of Law announces its 13th annual Law Review Symposium, which will focus this year on Emerging Issues in Equal Protection Jurisprudence. The Symposium will bring together legal scholars and practitioners to present the most recent understandings of how the legal systems of the United States address the critical social issue of equal protection. The Law Review's summer 2004 issue will be devoted to papers submitted in the broad area of emerging equal protection issues. The Law Review will also host a live Symposium focused on Education and Equal Protection in of March 2004. The Law Review Symposium Editor announces a call for papers for this Symposium. Scholars and practitioners may submit papers for publication only or for inclusion with the Symposium. Non-traditional journal articles, such as essays, letters, and booknotes will be considered for publication as well. Papers submitted by December 1, 2003, will receive priority consideration for publication in the summer Symposium issue.

For further information, please contact Amy Miller, Symposium Editor, at milamyler@yahoo.com, or at:

Northern Illinois University Law Review
Attention: Symposium Editor
Swen Parson Hall
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-0619

The Pittsburgh Tax Review invites submissions of unsolicited manuscripts from faculty, judges and practitioners. The Tax Review requests that manuscripts be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words describing the contents of the article. All manuscripts, including footnotes and endnotes, should be typed and double spaced. All citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (17th ed. 2000). Manuscripts cannot be returned except on receipt of $2.50 for postage and handling.

Submissions and correspondence concerning publications should be addressed to:
Professor Anthony C. Infanti
Pittsburgh Tax Review
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
3900 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Electronic submissions are not accepted. There is no page limit, and articles are accepted on a rolling basis.