Author: Joshua Grove

Announcing the 2022-2023 American Indian Law Review National Writing Competition

This year’s American Indian Law Review national writing competition is now welcoming papers from students at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada.  Papers will be accepted on any legal issue specifically concerning American Indians or other indigenous peoples.  Three cash prizes will be awarded: $1,500 for first place, $750 for second place, and $400 for third place.  Each of the three winning authors will also be awarded an eBook copy of Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LexisNexis.

The deadline for entries is Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma College of Law, the American Indian Law Review has proudly served Native and legal communities since 1973.  Each year at this time we encourage law students nationwide to participate in this, the longest-running competition of its kind.  Papers will be judged by a panel of Indian law scholars and by the editors of the Review.

For further information on eligibility, entry requirements, and judging criteria, see the attached PDF rules sheet or the AILR writing competition website at https://law.ou.edu/ailr/wc.

AILR 2022-2023 National Writing Competition rules sheet

Center for Constitutional Law Hosts Virtual Con Law Scholars Forum

Con Law Scholars Forum
The Future of Reproductive Rights
THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Friday, Oct. 28, 2022 (9-4pm EST) (virtual)

Virtual Con Law Scholars Forum
Click here to join the meeting

This symposium explores questions that cut to the heart of constitutional law doctrine and women’s rights, as well as the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court.  It provides an opportunity for legal scholars to address some of the many issues raised by the Court’s recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning the fifty-year federal right to abortion.

The Forum is sponsored by The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron, one of four national centers established by Congress on the bicentennial of the Constitution for the purpose of promoting scholarship and education on matters of constitutional law.  The Center includes a director, five affiliated faculty, student fellows, an online journal, ConLawNOW, and J.D. certificate and masters’ programs. Follow the Center on Twitter @ConLawCenter and LinkedIn.

SCHEDULE

9am     Welcome and Introduction, Tracy Thomas (Director, Center for Constitutional Law at Akron)

9:15am  Legal Misogyny
            Moderator: Tracy Thomas (Akron)
Paula Monopoli (Maryland), Situating Dobbs
Jill Hasday (Minnesota), We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality
            Jessie Hill (Case), Big, Bad Roe
Jennifer Hendricks (Denver), A Rational Basis: Men’s Feelings > Women’s Rights

10:30am  A Whole New World
            Moderator: Bernadette Genetin (Akron)
Jamie Abrams (American), How Masculinities, Geography, and Religiosity Shape the Post-Dobbs Legal Landscape
            Jennifer Brobst (Memphis), Short-Sighted Private Enforcement Strategies in the Reproductive Rights Realm
            Michael Gentithes (Akron), How Dobbs Effects Stare Decisis
David Cohen (Drexel), New Threats to Abortion Provision: Writ of Erasure Fallacy & Comstock

LUNCH

12:30pm   Constitutional Aftershocks
            Moderator: C.J. Peters (Akron)
Cynthia Soohoo (CUNY), After Dobbs, Rights for Zygotes, Embryos and Fetuses?
                  Elizabeth Kukura (Drexel), The Constitutional Implications of Reproductive Uncertainty After Dobbs
Jeff Parness (N. Illinois), Childcare Parentage After Dobbs

1:30pm Global Perspectives
            Moderator: Vera Korzun (Akron)
Sital Kalantry (Seattle), Dobbs from a Comparative Law Perspective
            Sharon Basson (Drexel), The Art of Balancing: The Role Narrative Played in Recent Legal Rulings About Access to Reproductive Practices in Israel
            Phil Lord (Lakehead, CN), Drawing on Canadian Constitutional Law to Analyze Dobbs

2:30pm Health Care Considerations
            Moderator: Michael Gentithes (Akron)
Rachel Rebouché (Temple), Telehealth for Abortion
            Tracy Thomas (Akron), Protecting Abortion with State Health Care Freedom of Choice
            Yvette Lindgren (UMKC), The Privatized Abortion Right and Self-Help Constitutionalism

Many of the papers will be published in a forthcoming symposium edition of the Center for Constitutional Law’s journal, ConLawNOW.