June 11, 1999

 

 

 

MEMORANDUM 99-19

 

TO:                  Deans of Member Schools

 

FROM:             Harry G. Prince

 

SUBJECT:        Call for Scholarly Papers

 

 

            The AALS is sponsoring its fifteenth 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, 1999, are invited to submit papers by August 20, 1999.  The papers are reviewed (on an anonymous basis) by a committee of established scholars, including the AALS Immediate Past President, Deborah Rhode, and the 1999 winner, Alan C. Michaels.  Papers that make a substantial contribution to legal literature may be selected for distribution and oral presentation at a special program at the 2000 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

 

            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.

 

 

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Call for Scholarly Papers for 2000 Annual Meeting

 

To encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship and to broaden participation by new law teachers in the Annual Meeting program, the Association is sponsoring its fifteenth annual Call for Scholarly Papers. 

Those who will have been full-time law teachers for less than seven years on July 1, 1999, are invited to submit a paper on a topic related to or concerning law.  A committee of established scholars, including the Immediate Past President (Deborah Rhode, Stanford University) and the 1999 winner (Alan C. Michaels, Ohio State), will review the submitted papers with the authors’ identities concealed.

Papers that make a substantial contribution to legal literature may be selected for distribution and oral presentation at a special program to be held at the AALS Annual Meeting in January 2000.  Those whose papers are presented also will be recognized at the Annual Meeting Luncheon.  The selection committee must determine that a paper is of sufficient quality to deserve this special recognition, and the AALS is not obligated to select any paper.

Deadline: Manuscripts must be received at the Association office no later than August 20, 1999, to be considered in the 2000 competition.  The manuscript, including footnotes, must not contain any reference that identifies the author or the author’s school.  Six copies of the manuscript should be sent to Call for Scholarly Papers, Association of American Law Schools, 1201 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20036-2605.

Form and Length:  The manuscript must be typed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2" by 11" paper in 12-point (or larger) type with ample (at least 1") margins on all sides.  Footnotes should be 10-point or larger, single-spaced, and preferably on the same page as the referenced text.  There is no page limit; manuscripts can be any length.  Manuscripts will not be returned.

Eligibility:  Faculty members of AALS member schools are eligible to submit papers.  The Call is open to those who have been full-time law teachers for less than seven years as of July 1, 1999.  (For these purposes, one is considered a full-time faculty member while officially “on leave” from the law school.)  Co-authored papers are eligible for consideration, but each of the co-authors must meet the eligibility criteria established above.  No one who has won the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition is eligible to compete again.  Professors are also restricted to submitting only one paper in the Scholarly Paper Competition.

Papers are expected to reflect original research or major developments in previously reported research.  Papers are not eligible for consideration if they will have been published before February 2000.  Submitted papers, whether or not selected for recognition, may be subsequently published as arranged by the authors.  Papers may have been revised on the basis of review by colleagues.

Presentation at the Annual Meeting:  The author of any selected paper will present an oral summary of the paper at a special program to be held at the 2000 Annual Meeting.  Copies of the paper will be made available for distribution to those attending the presentation.

Inquiries:  Questions should be directed to AALS Deputy Director Harry G. Prince at the AALS national office in Washington, D.C. (telephone, 202-296-8851, or e-mail, hgprince@aals.org).