Events

2026 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS
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> Call for Participation
> Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the
> University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center
> for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 24th meeting of the
> Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be held at the University
> of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 8-9, 2026.
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> ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
> The workshop is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students,
> post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in law and the
> humanities. In addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, including
> Black and Indigenous studies, history, literature, political theory, critical
> race theory, feminist theory, and philosophy, we welcome critical, qualitative
> work in the social sciences, including anthropology and sociology. While the
> scope of the Workshop is broad, we cannot consider proposals that are focused
> solely on quantitative social science research or that are limited to
> doctrinal legal research. We are especially interested in submissions touching
> on themes of inequality, anti-racism and anti-subordination. We welcome
> submissions from those working at regional and teaching-intensive
> institutions.
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> Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee,
> between six and eight papers will be chosen for presentation at the Workshop,
> where two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other
> Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and
> weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and
> methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger
> conversation among all the participants that may include themes connecting all
> of the projects, as well as discussion of the evolving standards by which we
> judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship.
> The selected papers may appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship
> Network at SSRN; there is no other publication commitment. (We will
> accommodate the wishes of chosen authors who prefer not to have their paper
> posted publicly with us because of publication commitments to other journals.)
> However, we will only accept Workshop participants whose papers are true works
> in progress; articles or chapters that are already in page proofs or are
> otherwise unable to be revised by the time of the Workshop are ineligible.
> The Workshop will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses of authors whose
> papers are selected for presentation. For authors requiring airline travel
> from outside the United States, the Workshop will cover such travel expenses
> up to a maximum of $1250.
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> SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
> Applications should be submitted through the submissions portal on the Law and
> Humanities Workshop website at LawandHumanitiesWorkshop.org.
> Your application should consist of a single Microsoft Word document (not PDF)
> containing:
> a 1500-2000 word summary of your paper (word count includes footnotes or
> endnotes);
> a 1-2 page bibliography;
> and, if your paper is a chapter in a book or dissertation, an optional 1-page
> chapter outline of the larger project.
> Applications are due on Monday, December 1, 2025.
> If your application advances to the final stage of consideration, you will be
> asked to submit the full paper by January 15, 2026. Please do not apply if you
> will not have a full paper on January 15. Your application should be a summary
> of existing, ongoing work rather than a proposal for new or planned work.
> The full paper must be a work-in-progress that does not exceed 10,000 words in
> length (including footnotes/ endnotes). A dissertation chapter may be
> submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so as to stand alone as a
> piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for
> publication is eligible for selection so long as it will not be in galley
> proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop; it is important that authors
> still be in a position at the time of the Workshop to consider comments they
> receive there and to incorporate them as they think appropriate in their
> revisions.
> We ask that those submitting applications be careful to omit or redact any
> information in the paper summary, bibliography, or chapter outline that might
> serve to identify them, as we adhere to an anonymous or “blind” selection
> process.
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> For more information, please send an email inquiry to
> Lawandhumanitiesworkshop@gmail.com or visit LawandHumanitiesWorkshop.org.
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> Program Committee, 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars
> Riaz Tejani, Chapman University, Law, Chair
> LaToya Baldwin Clark, University of California Los Angeles, Law
> Danielle Boaz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Africana Studies
> David Eng, University of Pennsylvania, English & Asian American Studies
> Melynda Price, University of Michigan, Women and Gender Studies
> Clyde Spillenger, University of California Los Angeles, Law
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> The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars is committed to anti-
> racism both inside and outside the academy.