MEMORANDUM 04-08

The AALS is sponsoring its twentieth annual Call for Scholarly Papers to encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship and to broaden participation by new law teachers in the Annual Meeting program. Those who will have been full-time law teachers for less than seven years on July 1, 2004, are invited to submit papers by August 20, 2004. The papers are reviewed (on an anonymous basis) by a committee of established scholars, including Mark V. Tushnet, (Georgetown University), the AALS immediate Past President, will serve as chair of the review committee, which includes Steven Bender, (University of Oregon), Mary L. Dudziak, (University of Southern California), Grant S. Nelson, (University of California at Los Angeles), Suzanna Sherry, (Vanderbilt University), Peter J. Spiro, (Hofstra University), Norman Warren Spaulding, III, (University of California, Berkeley), 2004 Winner. Papers that make a substantial contribution to legal literature may be selected for distribution and oral presentation at a special program at the 2005 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.

The AALS would like, as in past years, a sizable number of scholarly papers of high quality and on a broad array of topics for the committee's review. As dean, you have considerable interest in, and influence over, the summer research plans of your junior faculty. We therefore ask that you encourage your eligible faculty to submit their papers to the AALS. Previous winners have told us that this honor has made a difference to the law review editors considering publication of their articles.

I attach to this memorandum the complete information on the competition. The information is also published in the February and April issues of the AALS Newsletter.

Enclosure: Call for Scholarly Papers

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