I have been asked to post the following information about an upcoming symposium at Temple, sponsored by our Political and Civil Rights Law Review. Although the call for papers lists a June 15 deadline for abstracts, I am told that there is still room to include additional papers.
�Vision and Revision: Exploring the History, Evolution and Future of the Fourteenth Amendment�
CALL FOR PAPERS The Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review invites you to submit a paper for its symposium that will be taking place on November 14th and 15th, 2003, at the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, 1719 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122. This symposium will feature Professor Theodore M. Shaw, Esquire, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. and The Phyllis W. Beck Chair in Law at the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. It is generously supported by the Independence Foundation. We welcome papers related to the history and evolution of Fourteenth Amendment Jurisprudence. Since its adoption, advocates, judges and scholars have struggled over the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Whether Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence should be governed by text, original understandings, tradition, societal norms, precedent or interpreted in light of changing social conditions remains deeply disputed. We invite authors to explore the history of interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment and to ask fundamental questions about how judicial interpretation in seminal cases has affected or should affect our understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. We encourage authors to consider the historical context in which Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence has developed and examine the evolving jurisprudence of the Rehnquist Court. We are soliciting articles on the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Privileges and Immunities Clauses and Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment, including those that explore the evolving understanding of the relationship among these aspects of the Amendment. We also welcome articles that consider the future of Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence in light of its history and evolution. SYMPOSIUM FORMAT This symposium will begin Friday November 14th at noon with a plenary talk delivered by Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and will continue through Saturday afternoon with panels consisting of legal scholars, historians, judges and practitioners. The papers chosen for presentation at this symposium will be published in the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review�s annual symposium issue in the spring of 2004. Interested authors are encouraged to submit a short abstract of the essay or longer length article they propose to present no later than June 15, 2003. IMPORTANT DATES � June 15, 2003 � Proposal Abstracts or Longer Length Articles Due � July 1, 2003 � Authors Notified as to Whether They Are Selected to Present � September 15, 2003 � Paper Drafts Due SUBMISSION DETAILS Abstracts and drafts should be submitted in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect format, to Jonathan Goldman by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or on diskette at:
Mark C. Rahdert Professor of Law Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law 1719 N. Broad St. Philadelphia PA 19122-6098
215-204-8966 Fax: 215-204-1185
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