Call For Papers — Trusts & Estates Section 2020 AALS Annual Meeting — New Perspectives in Trusts and Estates
Selected papers will be presented at the Trusts & Estates Works-in-Progress Workshop at the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. from January 2-5, 2020. The Trusts & Estates Works-in-Progress Workshop is tentatively scheduled for Friday, January 3 at 3:30-5:15 p.m.
Description: This workshop will be an opportunity for scholars to receive substantive critique and feedback on a work in progress. Each scholar will be paired with a more senior scholar in the field who will lead a discussion of the piece and provide feedback. Successful papers should engage with scholarly literature and make a meaningful, original contribution to the field of trusts and estates.
Eligibility: Full-time faculty of AALS member schools or non-member fee-paid schools as of the submission deadline are eligible to submit papers. For co-authored papers, both authors must satisfy the eligibility criteria. Preference will be given to scholars with ten or fewer years of full- time teaching experience and other scholars who are new to scholarship in the trusts and estates field.
Submissions, due dates and method: Submissions should be of abstracts between 250 and 1,000 words, inclusive of any footnotes. Scholarship may be at any stage of the publication process from work-in-progress to completed article, but if already completed, the article may not have been published at the time of the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting (January 2020). We welcome legal scholarship across a wide variety of methodological approaches, including empirical, doctrinal, socio-legal, critical, comparative, economic, and other approaches. Each potential speaker may submit only one abstract for consideration.
There are two submission due dates. The Section seeks detailed abstracts in late summer, with final papers due in late fall.
- The due date for detailed abstracts is August 30, 2019.
- The due date for final papers is November 15, 2019.
Abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format to: Terri Lynn Helge at thelge@law.tamu.edu. The subject line should read “AALS Trusts & Estates Section WIP Submission.” By submitting an abstract for consideration, you agree to attend the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting Trusts & Estates Works-in-Progress Workshop should your paper be selected for presentation.
Submission review, selection, conference attendance: Abstracts and papers will be reviewed by members of the Section’s Executive Committee. Selected presenters will be announced by September 30, 2019. The Works-in-Progress presenters will be responsible for paying their own AALS registration fee, hotel, and travel expenses.
Inquiries or questions: Any inquiries about the Call for Papers should be directed to Professor Terri Lynn Helge at thelge@law.tamu.edu or (817) 212-3942 (w).