Greetings from the University of Mississippi, where I’m visiting this year from Drake University. The SEC may be all about football, but last weekend I left for Athens as the UGA football team came here to Oxford. As someone who represented school districts while in practice and who writes and often teaches about issues uniquely affecting public schools, I was excited to participate in the Education Law and Policy Forum
This conference was built around law student and education grad student papers (gasp!) selected from a national competition, and now slated for publication in an online journal. About ten faculty participated in the day-long conference; we served as discussants, provided feedback to the students, and were able to speak in the shorthand of our specialty for about 36 hours. UGA faculty Anne Dupre, Doug Toma, and John Dayton, and the Education Law Consortium staff, deserve congratulations for creating a dynamic event, and a wonderful opportunity for students.
I hope we see more of these types of events happening in, and with, law schools. For our student readers and for faculty who like to be able to tell their students about these sorts of opportunities, what other, similar venues exist for law students to present papers at conferences?
Posted by Kristi Bowman on October 4, 2006 at 02:22 PM
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This is one area where philosophy, and probably other academic disciplines, is much better than law. Philosophy grad students can send their stuff to the APA meetings and, if they are accepted through the blind peer-reviewed process, present papers in the same forum as professors. But law conferences generally just depend on word of mouth and who-you-know, which makes it a lot harder for people with good ideas but fewer contacts to break in. There are plenty of philosophy conferences to which I could submit chunks of my dissertation for presentations, but I had almost no opportunity to present my law-review stuff, other than job talks. Anyone else think that we need more peer-reviewed legal-academic conferences?
Posted by: Chris | Oct 5, 2006 10:45:20 AM
Interestingly enough, the First Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship on Labor and Employment Law, co-organized with PrawfBlawgers Scott Moss and Joe Slater, does have at least one student LLM presenter and we are very much looking forward to her presentation.
Although it is too late for other students to participate this year, it might turn out to be a tradition that we continue for future years.
Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | Oct 4, 2006 6:26:45 PM