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, assign appropriate discussants, and schedule panels to minimize time conflicts with others in the same subject 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.
| Number | Topic |
| 1 | CLASS (includes economic inequality, poverty, wealth, legal services for the poor, labor, class discrimination, class processes) |
| 2 | COMPARATIVE LAW (includes globalization, transnationalism, conflicts of law, the rule of law, sovereignty, comparative constitutionalism) |
| 3 | CONSTITUTIONALISM (includes constitutional drafting and amendment, rights, civil liberties, voting rights, rights consciousness, free speech, separation of powers, federalism, judicial review) |
| 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 AND PUNISHMENT (includes criminal justice, specific crimes, victims, deterrence, drugs/narcotics, homicide, rape, white collar crime, defendants' rights, criminal procedure, juvenile justice, prisons, sentencing, death penalty, plea bargaining, probation, corrections) |
| 6 | CULTURAL STUDIES (includes legal ethnography, representation, identity, postmodernism, hermeneutics, law and literature, law and humanities, linguistics, semiotics, epistemology, narrative, legal consciousness, pluralism, time) |
| 7 | DISPUTES AND NEGOTIATION (includes restorative justice, Alternative Dispute Resolution, mediation, arbitration, dispute resolution outside courts generally) |
| 8 | ECONOMIC LAW (includes insurance, torts, takings, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporations, markets, employment, contracts, securities, tax, property, intellectual property, payment systems) |
| 9 | FAMILY (includes marriage, children/youth, parents/parenting, divorce/separation/annulment, domestic violence, new family forms) |
| 10 | GENDER (includes feminist theory, women's rights, sexuality, femininities, masculinities, abortion, the body, rape/sexual violence) |
| 11 | HEALTH AND MEDICINE (includes public health, ethics, biotechnology, disease, mental health, AIDS, alcohol/drugs/narcotics, injury, malpractice) |
| 12 | HISTORY (includes legal history, comparative history, constitutional history, history of theory) |
| 13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW (includes human rights, terrorism, NGOs, the UN, European Union, NATO, military alliances, immigration, international criminal court, WTO, international trade, IMF/World Bank, development, war crimes) |
| 14 | JUDGES (includes judicial careers, judicial selection, judicial independence, discretion, trial judges, appeals judges, judicial training) |
| 15 | JURIES/LAY PARTICIPATION (includes jury selection, jury deliberation, lay assessors, jury trials, mixed tribunals) |
| 16 | JUSTICE (includes social justice, economic justice, fairness, distributive justice, procedural justice, injustice, access to justice) |
| 17 | LABOR (includes work, professions, employment, unions, labor law, workplace discrimination, occupational safety) |
| 18 | LAWYERS (includes ethics, professionalism, legal profession, cause lawyering, government lawyers, legal services, prosecutors, legal education, legal careers) |
| 19 | POPULAR CULTURE (includes newspapers, film, television, fiction, true crime, representation) |
| 20 | PUBLIC OPINION (includes popular attitudes about law, public legitimacy of legal institutions, voting behavior, surveys of law-related attitudes) |
| 21 | QUEER THEORY (includes gay studies, gay rights, sexual orientation, same-sex marriage, transgender, comparative gay rights) |
| 22 | RACE AND ETHNICITY (includes critical race theory, affirmative action, discrimination, ethnicity, native peoples, multiculturalism, indigenous legal cultures) |
| 23 | REGULATION AND ORGANIZATIONS (includes administrative law, self-regulation, discretion, state agencies, regulatory cultures) |
| 24 | RELIGION (includes comparative studies, cosmology, freedom of, establishment of, blasphemy, religious law, discrimination) |
| 25 | RULE OF LAW (includes democratic institutions, legal security, legal infrastructure, legal transplantation). |
| 26 | TECHNOLOGY (includes cyberlaw, scientific evidence, environment, risk, surveillance) |
| 27 | THE STATE (includes administrative state, sovereignty, downsizing, welfare state) |
| 28 | THEORY (includes theories of justice, critical legal studies, liberal theory, democratic theory, adversarial legalism, responsive law, Marxism) |
| 29 | TRIALS (includes evidence, expert witnesses, political trials, adversarial or inquisitorial systems, procedure) |