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Match-Maker, Match-Maker: The CrimProf Shadow Conference at LSA, SF, June 2011

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

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Here's an email I sent earlier today to the CrimProf Listserve. Please circulate among crimprofs you know.

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If you're thinking of attending the Law and Society Association

meeting in San Francisco (June 2-5), here's an idea that may be of

interest. With hopes of ensuring better criminal law and

procedure-related panels, Miriam Baer (Brooklyn Law School)

and I are going to try to help play match-maker for those

interested in presenting at LSA.

We did this the last two years (with Alice Ristroph's wonderful guidance) and created a couple successful shadow conferences. One advantage of our organizing these panels in advance is that they will be scheduled to minimize conflicts between panels.

These panels, however, are for works in progress, and, additionally,

they require some extra work on your part, work which we hope makes

the presentation experience more enjoyable. Thus, the expectation is

that you will submit your paper to your 2-3 co-panelists at least a

week in advance of the conference and that you will read the papers of

your co-panelists and make a good faith effort to offer some

constructive feedback, before or at least during the panel sessions.

The papers you present should be substantially pre-publication so that

the feedback you receive will conceivably be helpful...

We will also try to generate some book-related discussions. Thus, if

you have a draft of a book length monograph that you'd like to serve as

the basis for discussion before it goes to publication, let us know

and we'll try to find some discussants for you; it's especially helpful if you send us an email with some proposed discussants cc'd in the email.

If you're interested in being a discussant, let us know for what areas.

Bear in mind the limitations on multiple presentations established by

LSA. See here:

http://lawandsociety.org/ann_mtg/am11/call.htm

Also, if there is a date or day you *cannot*

present, let us know that as well please.

If we can find a group for you, we'll assign one of you to be the chair and the chair will be responsible for organizing the submission of your panel through the LSA website. Generally, we're proposing to package folks with shared interests but you'll have to do some of the logistics, which hopefully won't take more than a few minutes of your time.

Here are some of the topics for panels we've had in the past. We'll use them here again for now, so please let us know for which panels your paper might be appropriate.

Topics in Substantive Criminal Law

Punishment Theory

Criminal Procedure: Cops

Criminal Procedure: Adjudication/Bargaining and Trial

Sentencing Law and Policy

Race and Criminal Justice

Legal History and Criminal Justice

Gender and Criminal Justice

Juveniles, Family and Criminal Justice

White Collar Crime Topics

These are just a few drawn from previous years. If you have suggestions for others, let us know. Please email both Miriam and me.

In sum, if you want to present something related to criminal law and

would like help finding panel-mates, send me

and Miriam your title (and topic/abstract if it's not clear from the

title). We'll try to match up related papers to create complete

panels. We need to receive the paper topics for regular panels at the

latest by Dec 1, in order to match up panels before December 8, the

LSA conference submission deadline.

Hope to see you in SF or elsewhere soon.

all our best wishes for the holidays,

Miriam and Dan

Full post as published by Prawfs on November 23, 2010 (boomark / email).