Annual Comparative
Law Work-in-Progress Workshop
April 28-29, 2017
UCLA School of Law
Announcement and Call
for Papers
Organized by Máximo
Langer (University of California at Los Angeles), Jacqueline Ross (University
of Illinois College of Law), and Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)
Co-sponsored by the
University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois College of
Law, Princeton University, and the American Society of Comparative Law
We invite all
interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next
annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be held on Friday
and Saturday, April 28 and 29, 2017, at UCLA School of Law. We will
accept up to seven papers for workshop discussion, and we plan to select a mix
of both junior and senior scholars.
Interested
authors should submit papers to Máximo Langer at UCLA School
of Law langer@law.ucla.edu by February 1, 2017. We will inform
authors of our decision by March 1, 2017. Participants whose papers
have been accepted should plan to arrive in Los Angeles, California by Thursday
night on April 27, 2017, and to leave on Saturday April 29, 2017 in the late
afternoon/evening.
The annual workshop
continues to be an important forum in which comparative law work in progress
can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be
truly helpful to the respective authors. "Work in progress"
means scholarship that has reached a stage at which it is substantial enough to
merit serious discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in print
(and can still be revised after the workshop, if it has already been accepted
for publication.) It includes law review articles, book chapters or
outlines, substantial book reviews, and other appropriate genres.
We ask for only one
contribution per author and also ask authors to limit their papers to 50 pages
in length, or, if the paper (or book chapter) is longer, to indicate which 50
pages they would like to have read and discussed.
Our objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the discussion of scholarly work but also to create the opportunity for comparative lawyers to get together for two days devoted to nothing but talking shop, both in the sessions and outside. We hope that this will create synergy that fosters more dialogue, cooperation, and an increased sense of coherence for the discipline.
The participants in
the workshop will consist of the respective authors, commentators, and faculty
members of the host institutions. The overall group will be kept small
enough to sit around a large table and to allow serious discussion. The
papers will not be presented at the workshop. They will be distributed
well in advance and every participant must have read them before attending the
meeting. Each paper will be introduced and discussed first by two
commentators before opening the discussion to the other workshop
participants. Each of the authors selected for the workshop is expected
to have read and to be prepared to discuss each of the papers selected.
The author of each paper will be given an opportunity to respond and ask
questions of his or her own. There are no plans to publish the papers.
Instead, it is up to the authors to seek publication if, and wherever, they
wish. The goal of the workshop is to improve the work before
publication.
The Workshop will be
funded by the host school and by the American Society of Comparative Law. Authors
of papers and commentators will be reimbursed for their travel expenses and
accommodation up to $600, by either by the American Society of Comparative Law
or UCLA School of Law, in accordance with the
ASCL reimbursement policy (as posted on its webpage.) We ask that authors
inquire into funding opportunities at their home institutions before applying
for reimbursement by the ASCL or by the University of Illinois.
