KEYWORDS

Please classify your paper or session in one or two of the following categories. The purpose of these categories is to ensure that your paper is put on a panel with similar papers and to assign an appropriate discussant. These categories will also be used in scheduling panels in the attempt to avoid conflict with others in the same area. The examples, in parentheses, are not intended to be exhaustive, but only a guide to subjects that might be included in that area. If you cannot find a category that fits exactly, please classify your presentation into the category that reflects the intellectual neighborhood you would most like to be placed for the conference. There is also an "other" category for those who feel their work is not encompassed in the list.

Number Topic
1 ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (includes mediation, negotiation, arbitration, dispute resolution outside of courts generally)
2 CLASS (includes poverty, inequality, legal services for the poor, labor, discrimination, class processes)
3 CONSTITUTION/ALISM (includes rights, civil liberties, voting rights, rights consciousness, constitutional history, free speech, separation of powers, federalism, judicial review, social rights, constitutional drafting and amendment)
4 COURTS (includes constitutional/supreme courts, appeals courts, trial-level courts, administrative courts, court-centered research, small claims courts, military courts, comparative analysis of courts, international tribunals, special courts)
5 CRIME (includes specific crimes, deterrence, drugs/narcotics, homicide, rape, white collar crime,  defendants' rights, criminal procedure, juvenile justice)
6 CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES (includes social movements and law, critical legal theory, critical race theory, critical legal histories)
7 CULTURE, LEGAL (includes legal ethnography, representation, language, legal consciousness, pluralism, multiculturalism, native/indigenous cultures, socialization, time)
8 CULTURAL STUDIES (includes postmodernism, aesthetics, law and literature, semiotics, historicity, epistemology, narrative, discursive practices, deconstruction, cultural history). 
9 DISCRIMINATION (includes gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, linguistic groups, intersections of multiple statuses, sexual harassment)
10 ECONOMIC LAW (includes business regulation, bankruptcy, antitrust/competition, investment, corporations, labor/unions, employment, contracts, tax, property, payment systems)
11 FAMILY AND PERSONAL RELATIONS (includes marriage, children/youth, parents/parenting, divorce/separation/annulment, domestic violence, new family forms).
12 GENDER (includes feminist theory, women's rights, queer theory, gay and lesbian rights, sexuality, femininities, masculinities, abortion, the body, rape/sexual violence)
13 GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISM, & LOCALISM (includes colonialism/post-colonialism, transition, transnational organizations, transnational actors, multinational corporations, movement of people(s), sovereignty, investment/investors)
14 HEALTH (includes disease, mental health/insanity, disability, AIDS, alcohol/drugs/narcotics, occupational safety, injury, malpractice)
15 IDENTITY (includes citizenship, nationalism, community, narrative, race/ethnicity, gender, class, disadvantage, intersectionality)
16 INTERNATIONAL LAW/INSTITUTIONS (includes human rights, NGOs, modernization, the UN and its agencies, NATO, military alliances, sovereignty, immigration, international criminal court, WTO, international trade, IMF/World Bank, EU/European institutions and accession, war crimes)
17 JUDGES (includes judicial careers, judicial selection, judicial independence, discretion, trial judges, appeals judges, judicial training)
18 JURIES/LAY PARTICIPATION (includes jury selection, jury deliberation, lay assessors, jury trials, mixed tribunals)
19 JURISPRUDENCE AND THEORY (includes theories of justice, law and social theory, hermeneutics, liberal theory, democratic theory, postmodernism, law and economic theory, history of legal theory, adversarial legalism, responsive law, critical theory, Marxism)
20 JUSTICE (includes social justice, economic justice, fairness, distributive justice, procedural justice, injustice, access to justice)
21 LAWYERS  (includes legal profession, cause lawyering, government lawyers, legal services, prosecutors, legal education, legal careers, history of lawyers).
22 MARKETS (includes trade, money, securities, property privatization, models, capital flows)
23 MEDIA (includes popular culture/film/TV, fiction, true crime, representation, legal consciousness).
24 PROPERTY (includes real property, intellectual property, takings, theory of, history of).
25 PUBLIC OPINION (includes popular attitudes about law and courts, public legitimacy of legal institutions and legal personnel, comparative surveys of law-related attitudes)
26 PUNISHMENT (includes prisons, sentencing, death penalty, plea bargaining, probation, corrections)
27 RACE/ETHNICITY (includes critical race theory, affirmative action, discrimination, ethnicity, native peoples, multiculturalism, indigenous legal cultures)
28 REGULATION AND ORGANIZATIONS (includes regulation-writing/rule-making, administrative law, administrative tribunals, self-regulation, discretion, state agencies, organizations and institutionalization, indigenous regulation, regulatory cultures)
29 RELIGION (includes freedom of, establishment of,  blasphemy, religious law)
30 RULE OF LAW (includes democratic institutions, legal security, legal infrastructure, legal consciousness, history of, legal transplants). 
31 STATE, THE (includes administrative state, history of, sovereignty, political theory, downsizing, welfare state)
32 TECHNOLOGY (includes cyberlaw, biotechnology, scientific evidence, environment, risk, surveillance)
33 TRIALS (includes evidence, expert witnesses, political trials, adversarial or inquisitorial systems, procedure)
34 VICTIMS (includes victim surveys, victims' rights, survivors, trauma)
35 OTHER (specify)