Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network
Deadline: Tuesday, October 7, 2024
The Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network (FLT CRN) warmly invites you to participate in its sponsored panels sat the upcoming Annual Meeting on Law & Society to be held on May 22-25, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Information about the conference (including registration and planning your visit) is already available on LSA’s website.
We are especially interested in papers/presentations/book discussions that bring a critical feminist lens to the conversations about how the law is used to create inequalities and insularities. Proposals should embrace the character of the conference and address from an intersectional perspective how the law separates and treats subjects differently by gendering them in multiple ways.
The following non-exhaustive list is intended to provide examples of topic areas, and not to limit scholarly and creative engagement of feminist legal theory within the conference themes:
- Present-day Inequalities Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
- Consequences of Neoliberal Economic and Social Policies
- Health & Environmental Crises such as HIV/AIDS, Covid 19, Monkeypox, Climate Change, Natural Disasters
- Military, Police, and Other Pervasive Violence against Marginalized People
- Access to Justice & Legal Empowerment Issues & Approaches
- Inequalities related to Reproduction and Reproductive Technologies
- Immigration & Displacement
- LGTBQ+ Discrimination
- Unequal and Separate Treatment of Children
- Legal Education & Inequality
- Discrimination based on Marriage & Family Formation
- State Criminalizing Practices predicated on Gender
- Feminization of Poverty
- Perspectives on Exploitation & Resistance Movements
- Transnational/International/Comparative Feminist Critiques
- Feminism and Legal History
We especially welcome proposals that would permit us to collaborate with other CRNs and that are multidisciplinary in approach. We strongly encourage colleagues from the Global South, indigenous colleagues, and colleagues from various minority groups to submit proposals.
The Feminist Legal Theory CRN reviews all papers for suitability. We will accept papers that conform to the theme of our Call for Papers and our mission to foster an environment of inclusivity and respect within feminist legal theory. Our deadline is well before the LSA deadline for submission, so if your paper is not accepted by this CRN you will have ample time to submit to the general LSA call for submissions.
SUBMISSION TYPES
Per the LSA guidelines, there are several types of submissions:
- Individual papers
Individual abstracts can be submitted on an individual paper or work-in-progress.
- Paper Sessions (Pre-Formed Panels)
Panels that are formed around a single theme. These consist of 4-5 paper presenters, 1 Chair, and 1 Discussant (who can be the same person). Paper sessions last 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- Roundtables
These may be formed around a topic and consist of 4-8 participants, and 1 Chair. Roundtables last 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- Author Meets Reader (AMR)
Session in which discussion is focused on 1-3 recently published scholarly books. The session must include the author(s) of the book, three designated “readers” per book (as applicable) who provide comments, and a session chair (who may be one of the readers). AMR panels are limited to books published in the year prior to the LSA Annual Meeting. Books must have a publication date in 2024. Textbooks, case studies, or edited volumes are ineligible for AMRs. AMR sessions last 1 hour and 45 minutes.
LSA also encourages the submission of other “creative” formats for this conference. If you have an idea that you think would work well in one of these formats, please let us know.
CRN’s Submission Policies
A committee of the CRN will assign individual papers to panels based on the subject. Our panels will use the conference format, which requires four papers, but we will continue our custom of assigning a chair for the panel and a commentator for each paper. As a condition of participating as a panelist, you must also agree to serve as a chair or commentator for another panel or participant. The duties of a chair are to organize the panel logistically and conduct it during the conference. The duties of a commentator are to read a minimum of two papers and provide verbal and brief written comments to the panelists. Our goal is to stimulate focused discussion of papers on which scholars are currently working. Thus, we are particularly eager to solicit proposals for works-in-progress that are at an earlier stage and will benefit from the discussion that the panels will provide.
Pre-Formed Panels, Roundtables, AMR sessions, and other group submissions will be sponsored by our CRN if they meet the following guidelines:
- The presenters have not presented together at LSA before.
- Junior colleagues are included.
- A variety of institutions are represented.
- Interdisciplinary and international perspectives are included.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
To submit your proposal please use this electronic form. If you are submitting an individual proposal, after Section 4 in the form go to the bottom of the section and hit next and on Section 9 hit submit to finalize your submission. If you are submitting a multi-authored paper or if you are submitting one of the other format types, after Section 4 in the form only complete the appropriate section for you and on Section 9 hit submit to finalize your submission.
Make sure to review the LSA guidelines for submission formats. Please note that LSA rules limit participation only once as a Paper Presenter, Roundtable Participant, or Author but allow for unlimited appearances as a Chair and/or Discussant on a panel, or an AMR reader.
Please submit all proposals by Monday, October 7, 2024. This will permit us to notify you on time for you to submit your proposal to LSA with our CRN number or submit an independent proposal to the conference if your proposal is not selected to participate in the FLT CRN’s panels.
Please send any questions, comments, or ideas for events to the CRN email address: flt.crn.lsa@gmail.com. Please do not send questions or submissions to individual Committee members in response to this Call for Papers.
We look forward to the conference and hope you’ll join us in Chicago, Illinois to discuss our scholarship and connect with others doing work on Feminist Legal Theory.
FLT CRN Planning Committee – 2025
Jennifer Brinkley (co-chair)
Ederlina Co (co-chair)
Sofia Cornejo
Tugce Elliati-Kose
Linda McClain
Jessica Waters
Cynthia Godsoe (ex officio)
Yvette Lindgren (ex officio)
