Call for Papers
Call for Papers on Private International Law, Economics, and Development
The Federalist Society’s Faculty Division is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on Private International Law, Economics, and Development. Up to four submissions will be selected for inclusion in an upcoming Faculty Division colloquium on this topic. Authors of the selected pieces will each receive a prize of approximately $2,500 (any co-authors must share a single prize). The topic is intentionally broad in scope, though we have a particular interest in papers that offer fresh perspectives or insights on the relationship between private international law, economics, and development.
The Private International Law, Economics, and Development colloquium is intended to engage private international law from a legal, economics, and public policy perspective—particularly the seeming lack of international agreement on how trade should be encouraged and regulated. Some contend legal regimes that promote free trade will benefit all of society, while others argue that such an approach benefits the relatively wealthy at the expense of the relatively poor. Fitted within this larger debate of politics and economics is the important question of what role, if any, private international law should play in promoting and regulating transnational activity. Winning submissions will be incorporated into a special colloquium session, during which we hope to engage some of the latest thinking on these issues.
The winning authors will be expected to attend the colloquium (Oct. 9-10, 2015), which we plan to hold in the Los Angeles area, but not to present their papers in the formal sense; rather, all participants will have read the papers beforehand and will come prepared to engage in a freewheeling discussion on the issues the papers raise. Submissions will be accepted from current law faculty or those pursuing full-time employment in the legal academy.
There is a limit of one submission per person.
Submissions must be substantially complete and formatted in accord with the Bluebook. Submissions should be of a quality publishable in a mainstream law journal, but must not have been published as of the date of the submission deadline below. This must be the case even if the paper has been accepted for publication in a journal or law review.
Submissions must be sent via Microsoft Word or pdf attachment to anthony.deardurff@fed-soc.org no later than 5:00pm Eastern Time on Friday July 31, 2015.