LSA GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP 2010

The Law and Society Association is pleased to announce the twenty-fourth Graduate Student Workshop, to be held May 25-26, 2010 immediately preceding the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Chicago, Illinois, USA. We invite applications from graduate students in any field (including advanced law students) whose scholarly interests involve sociolegal studies.

The theme of the 2010 Graduate Student Workshop is What's Next for the Law and Society Paradigm?. The program will consist of panel presentations, seminar sessions, and informal discussions over shared meals. The goal is to build intellectual community among the next generation of Law and Society scholars, to foster collegial networks between graduate students and leading faculty in the field, and to promote constructive dialogue among graduate students and faculty participants about students’ individual research projects.

This year’s planning committee will be chaired by Mark Suchman (Brown University) and includes Catherine Fisk (University of California, Irvine), George Pavlich (University of Alberta), Cesar Rosado (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Galit Sarfaty (University of Pennsylvania), and Mary Nell Trautner (University at Buffalo, SUNY), and Christopher Zorn (Pennsylvania State University).

About 35 students will be selected to participate in the Workshop. To help offset travel costs, the Law and Society Association offers a reimbursement of up to $250 for students within North America, or $450 for students outside North America (receipts required). Note that an individual student may only participate in two GSWs during his/her graduate career.

Applications must be received by Friday, January 29, 2010.

The application consists of a letter of not more than two pages and a curriculum vitae. In the letter, applicants should describe their dissertation or other research interests, their current status in graduate school, and how they might benefit from attending the Workshop.

Applications must be submitted electronically in MS Word or .rtf file to:

GSW2010@lawandsociety.org Subject line: APPLY GSW

• The applicant’s curriculum vitae and letter should be combined in a single file named for the applicant as follows: “Lastname_Firstname_GSW”
• If you have questions about the submission format please get in touch with Lissa Ganter, ganter@lawandsociety.org tel. 413-545-4617.