Scholarly Papers

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Mark D. Rosen wins Scholarly Paper Competition; Sonia K. Katyal Earns Honorable Mention

Mark D. Rosen (Chicago-Kent College of Law) is the winner of the 2006 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition. Professor Rosen will present his paper, “Was Shelley v. Kraemer Correctly Decided? Some New Answers,” at the AALS Scholarly Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting in January in Washington, D.C. The program will be held from 4:00 to 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, January 5 in Harding, on the Mezzanine Level of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

Sonia K. Katyal (Fordham) earned an Honorable Mention for her paper, “Semiotic Disobedience.” Professor Katyal will have the opportunity to speak about her paper at the Scholarly Papers program at the Annual Meeting.

The AALS Scholarly Papers competition began in 1988 as a way to encourage and recognize scholarship among newer law teachers. The selection committee chose from among 62 papers and all of the members noted the impressive quality of the submissions and the difficulty of making the final decision.

The chair of the AALS Committee to Review Scholarly Papers for the 2006 Annual Meeting is Gerald Torres (Texas). The other members of the committee are Devon Carbado (UCLA), Mark A. Drumbl (Washington and Lee, 2005 Co-Winner), Herbert Hovencamp (Iowa), Amanda Tyler (George Washington, 2005 Co-Winner), and Susan Hoffman Williams (Indiana).

Copies of the papers will be available at the session.

The Scholarly Papers competition is limited to law professors with seven or fewer years of experience. The papers cannot have been previously published and all author-identification must have been removed to ensure anonymity in judging. Information regarding submission deadlines for the 2007 competition will be sent to schools early in 2006.