The conveners of the 2008 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition are pleased to announce the papers selected for this year's Workshop.  Each year we solicit papers from senior graduate students and untenured faculty on topics in law and the humanities.  The submissions are then juried by two outside senior readers, and based on those reviews the conveners select seven papers and two alternates for inclusion in a conference held in June where the papers are workshopped by senior commentators in fields relevant to the papers.

 

Critical Acts of Recognition: Reading Law Rhetorically
(abstract here)
Sarah Burgess
Assistant Professor
University of San Francisco
Department of Communication Studies 

Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio de Janeiro City Jail
(abstract here)
Amy Chazkel

Assistant Professor
Department of History
City University of New York, Queens College
 

A Woman’s Right to be Spanked:
Testing the Limits of Tolerance of S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary
 (abstract here)
Ummni Khan
Doctoral Candidate
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law 

Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory
Alice Ristroph

Associate Professor
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law

 

The Sit-ins and the Failed State Action Revolution
Christopher W. Schmidt
 Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation; Visiting Associate Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law (spring 2008)

Recording Artists, Work For Hire, Employment, and Appropriation.
Matt Stahl

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario

Divorcing family law from the Nation
(abstract here)
Philomila Tsoukala
Visiting Assistant Professor
Georgetown Law Center

Alternates:

Blood Quantum and Equal Protection
Rose Cuison Villazor
Asst. Professor of Law
SMU Dedman School of Law

 

Mark F. Massoud
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Berkeley