GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITIES - Sorry no new registration - capacity reached.

The Graduate Student Activities (GSA), Building Dialogue in Sociolegal Studies, will be held on the afternoon of July 27, 2007, during the "free period" of the International Conference, Law and Society in the 21^st Century at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. All graduate students who are participating in the general conference are also invited to join the planned GSA events. Sign up for the GSA is on the meeting registration form and requires payment of a nominal fee ($5 USD). Also, students should sign in to the GSA website for pre-meeting information and planning.

The program will consist of panel presentations, seminar sessions, and informal discussions designed to provide a forum for networking with faculty who write in the field, and to promote dialogue among graduate students and faculty participants about students' individual research projects. A website for graduate students with information on specific activities will be established shortly.

The GSA planning committee is comprised of Jon Goldberg-Hiller, coordinator (University of Hawai‘i), Tom Baker (University of Connecticut), Davina Cooper (University of Kent), Akira Fujimoto (Shizuoka University), Katharina Heyer (University of Hawai‘i), Stefan Machura (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Morag McDermott (University of the West of England), Bronwen Morgan (University of Bristol), Masayuki Murayama (Meiji University), Konstanze Plett (University of Bremen), and Wes Pue (University of British Columbia).

The Law and Society Association is able to offer partial travel funding to a limited number of its student members. The awards are reimbursements up to $500 to help offset travel costs (receipts required). Other organizations sponsoring the international conference may offer travel support to their student members.

Deadline: Applications must be received by February 10, 2007. SORRY NO MORE APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED.

Eligibility: Graduate students are eligible for consideration of support if they have submitted a paper for the Berlin meetings and are LSA members.

Applications: Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter of not more than three pages describing their dissertation or other research interests, their current status in graduate school, and how they might benefit from attending the conference and GSA..

The applicant’s curriculum vitae and letter should be combined in a single file named for the applicant as follows "Lastname_Firstname_GSA". Applications must be submitted electronically in MS Word (.doc or .rtf file) to GSA2007@lawandsociety.org. Please use subject line: GSA FUNDING.

Questions about the submission format should be directed to Lissa Ganter,  tel.1- 413-545-4617, in the LSA Executive Office.

N.B.: Students applying for funding to the 2007 Graduate Student Activities may also apply to the 2007 Summer Institute.