AALS Section on Aging and the Law and AALS Section on Trusts and Estates Call for Papers
The AALS Section on Aging and the Law, and the AALS Section on Trusts and Estates announced that they are sponsoring a Call for Papers for its joint program during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Trusts and Estates, and an Aging Population: What We Need to Know and Teach scheduled for Saturday, January 5, 2013, from 10:30am to 12:15pm.
Here is a description of the program:
While many aspects of an estate and trust practice harmonize with an elder law practice, the fit is not always perfect: there are some distinct legal, practical, and ethical issues about which attorneys from the two disciplines often have conflicting views. In many law schools, where both classes in both areas are offered as electives, the professors who teach one of the topics never talks to the professors who teach the other, and students are often left wondering how to reconcile the different planning, litigation, and counseling strategies taught in each class. This joint session is designed to help teachers in one area better understand the other so that all of us can improve our syllabi, forms of instruction, selection of guest instructors, and methods of assessment to better reflect the skillset needed by future attorneys. The first panel will look at mental capacity issues and conflicts between typical provisions of estate & trust documents and elder law documents. The second panel will explore conflicts of interest faced by family members who are beneficiaries named in trust & estate documents and are also agents, guardians or conservators under documents such as durable powers of attorney and as court appointed fiduciaries. The third panel will highlight some emerging conflicts with trust protector clauses in trust & estate documents with the needs of the grantor while still alive and possibly in need of expensive long term care management.
They are looking for separate papers for each of the three panels.
Publication
The editorial board of the Penn State Law Review has committed to publishing the proceedings of this joint program in a spring 2013 symposium edition. The editorial board of the Penn State Law Review reserved the right to accept or deny articles based on their internal publication requirements and parameters, regardless of whether the Paper Review Committee accepts an article for presentation at the 2013 AALS Annual Meeting (according to their website, their manuscripts specifications are: Word format, Double-spaced, Footnotes not endnotes; and, Text and citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed. 2010) – plus a resume and a separate cover sheet which includes a brief abstract.
There is a possibility that The Dickinson School of Law at The Pennsylvania State University and the Penn State Law Review will host a special symposium conference in addition to the 2013 AALS Annual Meeting. Accepted authors will be further informed.
Form and length of submission
The intention is that any article accepted by the Paper Review Committee will be considered for publication in the Penn State Law Review, special spring symposium edition. As such, articles submitted should be substantial enough in quality, quantity, and relevance to impress both the Paper Review Committee and the editorial board of the Penn State Law Review.
The Paper Review Committee will review all submissions anonymously, so a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information should accompany the paper. The paper itself, including the title page and footnotes, must not contain any references identifying the author or the author’s school. The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes. Papers must not be published or be accepted for publication prior to the Annual Meeting.
Deadline and submission method
To be considered, papers must be submitted electronically to Professor Barry Kozak at bkozak@jmls.edu. The deadline for submission is Tuesday, September 4, 2012, at 11:59pm EST. The author of the selected paper will be notified by Tuesday, September 25, 2012. The Call for Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
Eligibility
Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers.
Foreign, visiting (without a full-time position at an AALS member law school) and adjunct faculty members; graduate students; fellows and non-law school faculty are not eligible to submit. Faculty at fee-paid non-member schools are also ineligible.
How will submissions be reviewed
Papers will be selected after review by members of the “Paper Review Committee” – comprised of individual members of the Executive Committee of the Section on Aging and the Law and the Section on Trusts and Estates.
Inquiries about the Call for Papers
Any inquiries about the Call for Papers should be submitted to: Barry Kozak, The John Marshall Law School, bkozak@jmls.edu and/or William P. LaPiana, New York Law School, william.lapiana@nyls.edu.