Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
Sixth Annual Conference
Cardozo Law School
New York, New York
March 7th-8th, 2003

We are pleased to announce that the sixth annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at the Cardozo Law School from March 7th to 8th 2003. We invite your participation.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's place in culture.

Examples of the kinds of sessions we expect to organize include:

History, Memory and Law;
Reading Race;
Law and Literature:
Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism;
Speech, Silence, and the Language of Law;
Judgment, Justice, and Law;

Beyond Identity;
The Idea of Practice in Legal Thought;
Metaphor and Meaning;
Representing Legality in Film and Mass Media.;
Anarchy, Liberty and Law;
What is Excellence in Interpretation?;
Ethics, Religion, and Law;
Moral Obligation and Legal Life;
The Post-Colonial in Literary and Legal Study:
Processes and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Law Teaching

This list is by no means exclusive. We invite scholars with interests across the range of areas in Law,Culture and the Humanities to organize panels, to submit proposals for individual paper presentations, and/or to indicate their interest in serving as chair/discussant. We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats:roundtables, sessions at which everyone reads the papers in advance; sessions where people present each other's work, etc. We invite proposals for sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper, in which the focus is on pedagogy or methodology, or for author -meets-readers sessions organized around important books in the field.

All proposals must contain the following information: Name, Address, Phone, Fax, and e-mail, title of paper (where applicable), a short abstract (of up to150 words, to be included in the conference program), and a statement of up to 1000 words explaining what you would like to present and why it is important in interdisciplinary studies of law, culture, and the humanities.

In the case of full panel proposals, all of this information should be supplied for each participant. Please make sure that your proposal is complete before you send it in.

PANEL ORGANIZERS If you wish to post a call for papers for a specific panel you are proposing, please send the description of the panel and your email address to sheinz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu usan Sage Heinzelman) who will post the call on the Association's web site (www.aslch.org).

If you would be willing to serve as a chair/discussant please indicate that on your proposal. We welcome volunteers for those roles from people who are not submitting proposals for papers. If you would like to be a chair/discussant please submit a one paragraph description of your interests/area of expertise along with your Name, Address, Phone, Fax, and e-mail.

Please submit proposals NO LATER THAN October 1, 2002 to Prof Austin Sarat, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Box 2259, Amherst College, Amherst, MA. 01002 (413-542-2308--phone; 413-542-22264--fax).

You must also submit an electronic version of your proposal to LCH@Amherst.edu.

Those submitting proposals can expect to receive a response in December.

We cannot promise that we will be able to accommodate all proposals.

Registration and hotel information as well as a preliminary program will be mailed in early January, 2003. We look forward to hearing from you and to another very exciting meeting.

The Organizing Committee Austin Sarat, Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College (President) Marianne Constable, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley (Secretary) Robin West, Georgetown Law Center (Treasurer) Anita Allen-Castellitto, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Nahum Chandler, The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University Peter Fitzpatrick, Law, Birkbeck College Hendrik Hartog, History, Princeton University Susan Sage Heinzelman, English, University of Texas William MacNeil, Law, Griffith University Sylvia Schafer, History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Hilory Schor, English, University of Southern California Madhavi Sunder, Law, University of California, Davis

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is a membership organization. Those who register for our annual meeting become members. Others, who wish to join but are unable to attend the annual meeting, may do so by contacting Marianne Constable, Dept of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 94720.-2670.

Registration/membership costs $75. It is free for graduate students. The web site for The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities can be found at www.aslch.org.