REMINDER!
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW
YOUNGER COMPARATIVISTS COMMITTEE
THIRD WORKSHOP ON
COMPARATIVE BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LAW
Deadline: October 21, 2016
The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for its third workshop on comparative business and financial law to be held February 10-11, 2017 at the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, Kansas. The purpose of the workshop is to highlight, develop, and promote the scholarship of new and younger comparativists in accounting, banking, bankruptcy, corporations, commercial law, economics, finance, and securities regulation.
Up to fifteen papers will be chosen from those submitted for presentation at the workshop pursuant to this Call for Papers. The workshop audience will include invited young scholars, faculty from the University of Kansas School of Law and the University of Kansas School of Business, faculty from other institutions, and invited guests.
Submissions will be accepted from scholars who have held a full-time academic appointment for no more than ten years as of June 30, 2017.
Submission Instructions
To submit an entry, scholars should email an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF containing an abstract of no more than 1000 words by 5:00 P.M. EST, October 21, 2016, to the following address: ylhuggins@ku.edu. Please title the email “YCC Business Law Workshop – [Name].” Abstracts should reflect original research that will not yet have been published, though may have been accepted for publication, by the time of the workshop. Abstracts should include a cover page with the author’s name, title of the paper, institutional affiliation, contact information, as well as the author’s certification that she/he qualifies as a younger scholar as defined above.
In order to facilitate double-blind review, please ensure that identifying information is only on the cover page and is redacted from all other pages of the submission.
Scholars may make only one submission. Both individual and co-authored submissions will be accepted. For co-authored submissions, at least one author must qualify as an eligible younger comparativist.
Notification
Invitees will be selected via a blind review by the workshop program committee. Authors of the submissions selected for the workshop will be notified no later than November 18, 2016. There is no cost to register for the workshop but participants are responsible for securing their own funding for travel, lodging and other incidental expenses. A limited number of $200 travel stipends may be awarded to scholars who demonstrate financial need. If you would like to be considered for a travel stipend, please make that request in your submission.
Final papers for the workshop will be due no later than January 20, 2017.
Acknowledgements and Questions
The YCC gratefully acknowledges the support of the University of Kansas School of Law. Please direct all inquiries to Professor Virginia Harper Ho, Chair of the Program Committee, by email at vharperho@ku.edu or telephone at 785-864-9217.
Please share this Call for Papers with any colleagues who may be interested.
The Program Committee:
Hilary Allen, Associate Professor, Suffolk University School of Law
Afra Afsharipour, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Martin Gelter, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Haider Ala Hamoudi, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Virginia Harper Ho, Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Chair
YCC Board of Directors:
Afra Afsharipour, Professor of Law, University of California – Davis, Treasurer
Virginia Harper Ho, Professor of Law, University of Kansas, Vice Chair/ Secretary
David Landau, Professor of Law, Florida State University
Sally Richardson, Associate Professor of Law, Tulane University
Ozan Varol, Associate Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark, Chair
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