Editors: Kathleen A. Bergin and Tracy L. McGaugh

Hurricane Katrina was unlike any other weather disaster to hit the United States in the way it exposed deficiencies in federal, state, and local disaster planning and management. It was also unique in the way it exposed entrenched views of race, class, and poverty, and forced the migration of thousands of Gulf Coast residents on whose shoulders fell our collective failure to plan.

Nearly five years have passed since Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf, and since that time, we’ve seen families reunited, schools rebuilt, and neighborhoods repaired. Yet for thousands of residents, legal issues remain unresolved and individual needs remain unmet. For these reasons, the five year anniversary of Katrina provides aspiring lawyers an opportunity to examine the legal and social implications of disaster by considering how the law could have been used to mitigate the impact and aftermath of the storm.

This notice calls for papers to be included in an edited collection on legal issues related to disaster preparation, management, and recovery. The editors will be seeking publication with an appropriate academic publisher.

Both completed articles (previously published or unpublished) and abstracts of works in progress will be considered. Papers with a multi-disciplinary or extra-legal focus are welcome.

Topics might include, but are by no means limited, to the following:

• The application of international law in times of disaster in the United States and/or comparative perspectives on disaster management in other countries
• Legal issues raised by families in distress post-disaster
• The special impact of disasters on those without full legal rights, such as children and pets
• Social and legal forces that impact individual or community decisions to evacuate
• Legal issues related to the diaspora following a mass disaster
• Disaster law from a critical perspective, addressing issues of race, sex, sexual orientation, physical ability, etc.

Completed articles or essays must be submitted no later than August 1, 2009. If you wish to have a piece considered prior to completion, please submit an abstract of no more than two pages no later than May 1, 2009. You will receive a provisional acceptance by June 1 and be asked to submit a completed piece by August 1. A final decision on acceptance of a completed work will be made on or about September 1, 2009.  Please also include a CV and full contact information.

Proposals and papers should be sent electronically to both editors. Please feel free to contact one or both to talk over your ideas or for more information: Kathleen A. Bergin (kbergin@stcl.edu) or Tracy L. McGaugh (tmcgaugh@tourolaw.edu).

The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review is published by the students of San Joaquin College of Law, located in California's Central Valley, one of the richest agricultural regions of the world.   The law review presents student comments and professional articles on legal topics of current interest to those in agriculture, government, business and law.  The nineteenth edition of the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review will be published in May 2010.    

A law review article publishable in the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review is an examination of law, whether extant, proposed or advocated, which bears upon issues relating to agriculture.  A writer is not restricted to any particular viewpoint, and the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review welcomes novel and diverse points of view from all parts of the country.

The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review has received judicial and critical recognition, and has been cited by the California Supreme Court, the California Appellate Court, the United States District Court, the New Mexico Court of Appeals, the Middle District of Tennessee and the Minnesota Supreme Court.  Articles have also been cited in the annotations of several California statutes.  Moreover, the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review has been mentioned frequently in National Law Journal's "Worth Reading" column and is featured in Westlaw®, LexisNexis® and Hein On-Line®.

Recently, an article published in Volume 16 of the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review entitled "Farm Family Succession Planning: Balancing Professional Responsibility with Client Needs for Help with Family Relationship Problems," written by John Becker, Matthew Kaplan, and Jon Nussbaum, was named a recipient of the American Agricultural Law Association's 2007 Professional Scholarship Award.

Additional information regarding professional article requirements can be found on the school website at www.sjcl.edu/sjalr.  If you are interested in submitting an article for inclusion in the 2010 edition, please contact Executive Editor Ann Stokes at ann.stokes@student.sjcl.edu.

This coming fall, the Rutgers Law Record will publish an online symposium entitled 'Emerging Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence.'

As an introduction to this online symposium, the Law Record has published a new essay by distinguished Professor George C. Thomas III of Rutgers School of Law - Newark. Professor Thomas, widely acknowledged as one of the top scholars in his field, is the author or co-author of four books and more than 60 articles on criminal law and criminal procedure.  This article, which can be found below, discusses the evolution of the doctrine of consent searches both under the United States Constitution and through New Jersey's courts. Professor Thomas's article on consent searches constitutes the first installment of our Emerging Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence symposium.

This fall the Law Record will publish its second installment of 'Emerging Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence.' This second installment of the Law Record's online symposium will include a student article entitled "Batson Revisited: Discriminatory Venue Transfer and the Scope of Supreme Court Precedent."  This article examines a recent decision by the 10th Circuit rejecting the argument that Batson v. Kentucky stands for the general proposition that the Equal Protection Clause applies to all stages of a criminal proceeding, including venue transfer.

We are currently soliciting articles for this issue. Please note our requirements on our page entitled "Submissions." Our deadline for this issue is September 15.

Emory University, Atlanta Georgia
November 12-14, 2009

click here to download this Call for Papers as a pdf.

"Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms... In all societies, to a greater or lesser degree, women and girls are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse that cuts across lines of income, class and culture."

—Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, paragraph 112

This Conference is designed to break open the traditional approaches to gender violence and to consider how violence in various forms is experienced across society and its institutions.  We begin with the premise that we need a better and more complex understanding of the relationship between individual and collective acts of violence and the organization of societies.  We are concerned with how the state acts in conjunction with religious, cultural, social, and economic institutions to both alleviate and perpetuate the vulnerability of individuals to violence.  What is the relationship between institutional arrangements and instances of violence?  We are particularly interested in comparing the different approaches of these institutions and exploring the diverse perspectives on violence reflected in disciplines such as law, medicine, public health, anthropology, political science, ethics, and religion.   

In addition, we are interested in considering what are the best ways to approach the wide-spread societal problem of violence in its various forms.  Are there benefits to asking how and why violence happens from a societal, rather than an individual, criminal justice, perspective?  How would a society designed to eliminate domestic violence look?  How can we distinguish the “domestic” from the public manifestations of violence and what are the consequences of doing so?  What are the various forms of “public” violence and how do they interact with violence in it “private” forms?  What are the responsibilities of society and its institutions, including religious, cultural, and educational institutions, to prevent violence?  Are there ways in which these same institutions are implicated in fostering violence? 

Violence against women is understood as a global phenomenon.  According to the United Nations Population Fund:

“Gender-based violence both reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims. It encompasses a wide range of a wide range of human rights violations, including sexual abuse of children, rape, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, trafficking of women and girls and several harmful traditional practices.”[1]

As this quote suggests, the use of “gender” to modify violence tends to channel discussion into an individualistic, legalistic mode, emphasizing victimization and the abuse of women by men.  Thus, most of the work on gender violence has focused on the law, improving the security sector, and finding forms of punishment that will deter violence.  While this pattern of male on female violence is prevalent, it does not exhaust the full range of our collective and universal vulnerability to violence.  In particular, this focus excludes the significant violence that can be perpetrated by the state and its institutions on both men and women.  It also fails to realize that criminal and human rights laws built around the principle of punishment can provide only a partial, often ineffective, response to violence in its many and varied manifestations.

The phenomena of gender-based violence transcends dichotomous categories often used to characterize states (such as “developed” or “developing,” or “strong” and “unstable”) and it also transcends recognized cultural divisions (such as religious or cultural and ethnic traditions).  While violence against women may be “universal” in this regard, we can learn a great deal from exploring how violence is perpetrated, justified and addressed across different societies and within distinct legal and political cultures.   How does gendered violence manifest itself differently in different cultural contexts?  What can we learn from looking at gender-based violence (broadly conceived) in cultures that are very different in terms of religious traditions, economic status and legal frameworks for gender equality?  How do different states and civil society respond to gender violence and what are the effective methods that can transfer well to other societies? 

This conference will bring together scholars, activists and practitioners to consider these and other questions.  It will begin with a luncheon on Thursday November 12^th and conclude the afternoon of November 14th

Send presentation proposals to Martha Albertson Fineman (mlfinem@emory.edu) and Sita Ranchod-Nilsson (srancho(at)emory.edu) by July 31, 2009.

Working drafts (however rough) will be due October 15, 2009 – in time for them to be copied and distributed prior to the Conference.  The ability to read the working drafts prior to discussion greatly increases the value of the discussions.

This conference is co-sponsored by the Emory University’s Vulnerability Project (Race and Difference Initiative) and Institute for Developing Nations.  It has been made possible through the generous support and encouragement of the International Relief & Development organization.

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[1] http://www.unfpa.org/gender/violence.htm, 5/4/2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Law and Literature Association of Australia and Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand joint conference
2 to 5 December 2009
Trans(l)egalité
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Abstracts of approximately 300 words detailing which Association’s theme your paper reports to, should be emailed to translegality@griffith.edu.au by Friday 25 September 2009.For more information go to the Trans(l)egalité website: www.griffith.edu.au/conference/translegality.

Hofstra Law Review has issued a call for papers for an upcoming special symposium issues on Collaborative Law and the Uniform Collaborative Law Act: Opportunities, Challenges, and Questions for the Future

In addition to featuring the Uniform Collaborative Law Act, sponsored by NCUSL for which Hofstra Professor Andrew Schepard serves as reporter, this issue will highlight various topics discussed at Hofstra Law School’s Conference on Collaborative Law to be held on November 20, 2009.  The Law Review is seeking contributions from scholars, practitioners, judges, public policy makers, and experts in all professional disciplines on which Collaborative Law has an impact. We expect to publish a broad range of topics, including: professional responsibility obligations and collaborative law; interdisciplinary approaches to collaborative law; collaborative law in particular disputes and practice settings (for example, divorce, child protection, commercial disputes, environmental law, poverty law, governmental practice, labor law); legal education and collaborative law; collaborative law as it compares to other forms of dispute resolution such as arbitration and mediation; the implications of collaborative law for the role of lawyers in society; and collaborative law in other countries and cultures.

To be eligible for publication, papers must be submitted by January 1, 2010. Articles submitted should be around 30 double-spaced pages, including citations, notes, references, tables, and figures. Authors may also submit Ideas pieces, which are typically 10-15 pages and more lightly footnoted. Authors are requested to follow the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.). Publication decisions will be made shortly following the submission date and the publication of this special issue is expected to be completed in June, 2010.

Please direct all inquiries to Editor-in-Chief Michael de Matos by e-mail at lawrev@hofstra.edu, or by phone at (516) 463-5910. Article submissions by e-mail and in Microsoft Word format are preferable. Please e-mail articles to: lawrev@hofstra.edu. Articles may also be sent by regular mail to:
Hofstra Law Review
Managing Editor of Articles
Hofstra University School of Law
121 Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549-1210

April 17th, 2009 by Mike Madison

Call for Papers

Gikii, A Workshop on Law, Technology and Popular Culture
Institute for Information Law (IViR)
University of Amsterdam
17-18 September 2009

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/2009.asp

GikII 4th Edition, a two day workshop on the intersections between law, technology and popular culture, will be held on September 17-18th, 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The chairs of the event are Joris van Hoboken, Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Information Law, Ian Brown, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Andres Guadamuz, Co-Director, SCRIPT Law and Technology Centre at the University of Edinburgh and Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law, Sheffield University. IViR is hosting GikII in partnership with Creative Commons Netherlands.

There will be no workshop fee. Lunch, coffee and a conference dinner will be arranged free of charge. We will limit registration to 40 participants, so register early!! Preference will be given to attendees who are providing a paper.

GikII - Not for the Lulz!?

GikII is a forum for the intersection of law, technology and popular culture. After previous editions in London, Edinburgh and Oxford, GikII has gained enough steam to hit the continent. Topics covered at the last editions included killer robots, virtual property, copyright online, the many lives and deaths of privacy, fandom, avatar culture, Roman slaves and knitted Daleks. Last year’s presentations can be viewed on the Gikii website, http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/index.asp.

We invite all of you that have a paper on any aspect of law AND technology, science, geek culture, blogging, creative commons, wikis, science fiction or fantasy, computer games, digital culture, gender on-line, virtual worlds, series of tubes, or deep packet inspectors, to come to GikII 4 and join us for two inspiring days of cutting edge collisions of the worlds of law, tech and popular culture. LOLcats, robot scientists and cheezburgers are especially welcome.

The call for papers

If you would like to participate, email your abstract of no more than 500 words. This should be sent to vanhoboken@ivir.nl by July 1, 2009. We will confirm acceptances by August 1.

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | June 19, 2009 - 13:57

The Law & Humanities Blog has posted an announcement from Suffolk University Law School, requesting submissions for a collection of essays on law and justice on television. Interested writers should submit 250 word abstracts by the end of July 2009. Full drafts of the text will be due May 2010. Publication is planned for early 2011, following a blind referee process. Topics for consideration include:

• The emergence of law and popular culture
• Court TV – a national/international phenomenon
• Fictional law and lawyers
• International legal systems
• Reality TV shows.

Placing a Professional Announcement

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CFP: Ninth Annual Israeli Asian Studies Conference

Location:
Israel

Call for Papers Deadline:
2009-12-01

Date Submitted:
2009-06-19

Announcement ID:
169253

Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the Ninth Annual Israeli Asian Studies Conference of 2010 will be hosted by the University of Haifa during April 26-27.
Proposals for papers should be submitted by December 1st or earlier. Preference will be given to organized panels but we also welcome individual papers. Graduate students may submit proposals accompanied by reference letter from their advisors.

Proposals should include the following information:

For organized Panels
Panel title
Panel abstract (limited to 150 words)
Abstracts of papers in the panel (limited to 150 words each)
Name of panel chair including institutional affiliation and contact information
Names of all participants including institutional affiliation and contact information

For Individual Papers
Paper Title
Paper abstract (limited to 150 words)
Institutional affiliation and contact information

Please send all proposal information to asia.haifa@gmail.com. Kindly use as header “IAS Conference 2010”.

On behalf of the organizing committee,
Prof. Yitzhak Shichor
Dr. Guy Podoler
Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul

Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul
Department of Asian Studies, the University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, ISRAEL 31905
Dr. Guy Podoler
Department of Asian Studies, the University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, ISRAEL 31905
Email: asia.haifa@gmail.com

Special Issue of Kalfou - "Banking Without Borders? Culture & Credit in the New Financial World"

Location:
United States

Call for Papers Deadline:
2009-12-11

Date Submitted:
2009-06-21

Announcement ID:
169278

*Banking without Borders? Culture and Credit in the New Financial World*

* *

In 1980, Jimmy Carter’s U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller greeted the passage of the Depository Institution Deregulatory and Monetary Control Act (DIDMCA) with the promise that it would create a “new world” for American finance. DIDMCA was one of the key pieces of legislation that overturned the regulatory framework for American banking created by the New Deal. Miller and other neo-liberal advocates of deregulation argued that a “new world” of fewer constraints on financial institutions would create new opportunities not just for banks, but also for individuals, communities and the nation as a whole.

Much of the pro-deregulation rhetoric was focused on removing or breaking down what can be seen as two kinds of “borders.” The first kind were structural borders within the system that regulated what different financial institutions could and could not do. The second kind were borders between individuals and the financial system that – in the eyes of deregulation’s supporters – prevented ordinary citizens from gaining access to mortgages, credit and financial services in general. By eliminating these borders, deregulation would create not just a new set of rules for American banks, but a whole new culture of credit in American society.

From the perspective of 2009, it is clear that deregulation did produce lasting economic and cultural changes in the United States. It is equally clear, however, that these changes were not as universally beneficial as supporters of deregulation had claimed or hoped. Not only that, but clear borders still existed in the “new world.” These borders determined who would be included and exclude from the wealth created by the expansion of the financial sector, and some have arguably grown more impermeable since 1980. Overall, the re-shaped borders of the new financial world resulted in noticeably different outcomes and experiences for Americans of different racial, social and economic backgrounds.

This special edition of *Kalfou* seeks to unpack the way the new financial world was created and how and why its borders were shaped as well as the cultural and economic legacies of these decisions for different communities. Articles are therefore invited that address these issues by considering some of the following questions: How was this new world created and who was it intended to benefit? Which groups and individuals have and have not been able to exercise influence over the new world and why? What roles in particular have NGOs – the AARP, immigrant groups, trade associations, consumer advocates, religious organizations, feminist and gay rights groups – played in either creating or challenging the borders of the new financial world? What has been the cultural and economic impact of the new financial world across different races, classes and genders? Possible topics of interest include: race and access to credit; consumer movements/consumer culture since the 1970s; neo-liberalism as an economic and cultural phenomenon; civil rights groups and financial reform; and the origins, culture and impact of subprime lending.

Guest editors are accepting manuscripts now through Friday, December 11, 2009. Manuscripts should be sent as attached documents in Word format. Authors’ names should appear on a separate title page so that manuscripts can be evaluated anonymously. Submissions should be in the range of 5,000 to 10,000 words, including notes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please include a short biography with organizational affiliation and contact information.

Accepted papers will be published in an upcoming special issue of *Kalfou*.
Authors should submit the manuscripts via e-mail to banking.kalfou@gmail.com.

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*Guest Editors*

Tim Boyd, PhD
American Studies Department
Vanderbilt University
2201 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37240

and

Devin Fergus, PhD
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027

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*Kalfou* is a new, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing articles examining the distribution of opportunities and life chances of aggrieved communities of color in the past, present, and future and about the roles played by the state, capital, and social structures in promoting and suppressing social justice.

Senior Editor: George Lipsitz. Founding Editors: Melvin Oliver and Claudine Michel. For more on *Kalfou*, please visit research.ucsb.edu/cbs/publications/kalfou/

Tim Boyd
Vanderbilt University
230 Buttrick Hall
Nashville, TN 37235
&
Devin Fergus
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004
Email: banking.kalfou@gmail.com

Citizenship, civil society and rule of law - workshop in August (funding available)

Location:
United Kingdom

Call for Papers Deadline:
2009-07-08 (in 9 days)

Date Submitted:
2009-06-22

Announcement ID:
169290

CINEFOGO Network of Excellence workshop to be held on 25-26 August 2009 at University of Aberdeen, UK

Citizenship, civil society and rule of law have each received abundant attention in recent years, both in theoretical debates and in empirical studies of how they are understood and play out in particular contexts. However, there has been rather less analysis of the relationship between them. How do citizenship, civil society and rule of law differ from each other, both in theory and in practice? And in what particular ways do they relate to each other? Citizenship, civil society and rule of law often get packaged together under the label of “good governance”, but arguably they have rather different histories and the relationship between them – both in theory and in practice – is a complex and sometimes contradictory one.

We hope for contributions from a wide range of disciplines – anthropology, sociology, political science, socio-legal studies, legal and constitutional theory, and history - and on a wide range of contexts within and beyond Europe.

Speakers may choose to address one or more of the following questions, whether through theoretical or empirical studies:

* Do citizenship, civil society and rule of law always entail the state, and if so, are they necessarily linked through the state?

* How do ideas of civility play out in relation to citizenship, civil society and rule of law?

* How do the formal equality of citizens and equality before the law relate to each other, as well as to other kinds of equality and inequality, such as the substantive distribution of rights, access to the justice system, and socioeconomic disparities?

* Do citizenship, civil society and rule of law make for justice, and if so, what kind of justice?

* Are citizenship, civil society and rule of law necessarily democratic? Do civil and human rights have different relationships to citizenship and rule of law? How does legal pluralism relate to notions of pluralism in citizenship, such as multiculturalism, and in civil society?

Funding will be available for speakers. Please find the full call for papers at the URL listed on this page. Prospective speakers are invited to email abstracts of around 200-400 words to the workshop coordinator, Trevor Stack (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk) by Wednesday 8th July.

The workshop will be followed by a 2-day summer school for a select group of PhD students from across Europe and beyond. The announcement for the summer school will be sent separately. Please indicate whether you might consider participating in the summer school.

Trevor Stack
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UB.
Email: t.stack@abdn.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.cinefogo.org/workpackages/wp45/wp45-workshop-august-2009

          Call for Papers: OGEL special issue on "antitrust issues in the energy sector"

Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (www.ogel.org) invites submissions for a Special issue covering antitrust issues in energy. The guest editor for this special issue is Prof. Nicolas Petit (Lecturer in Competition Law and Economics at the University of Liege in Belgium and Associate at Howrey LLP).

The energy sector is one of the areas where antitrust enforcement in the EU has been the most intensive in recent years. In addition to the very significant sector inquiry 2005-2007 and the cases that are now resulting from that inquiry, the remedies (e.g. divestiture of significant network assets, energy release programmes, etc.) that have been ordered by the European Commission in the energy sector have sparked a lot of controversy. Whilst the EU seems to lean towards increased antitrust intervention in energy markets, including access issues, downstream markets, long-term agreements, LNG imports, etc. other jurisdictions, such as the United States, apparently promote less intrusive approaches (as a result, amongst others, of some US Supreme Court decisions such as Trinko). Finally, a number of antitrust agencies inside and outside the EU have a significant record in the enforcement of antitrust rules in the energy sector.

We encourage submission of relevant papers, studies, and brief comments on various aspects of this subject. The topics may cover all aspects of antitrust enforcement (vertical/horizontal cooperation agreements, abuse of dominance, merger control, etc.) relevant for oil, gas, electricity and other energy sub-sectors including LNG and nuclear.

Papers should be submitted by the end of November 2009 to:
Prof. Nicolas Petit
University of Liège
email: Nicolas.Petit [at] ulg.ac.be.

http://www.ogel.org/news.asp?key=189

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17th Conference on the Theories & Practices of Securities & Financial Markets - 17th SFM Conference

December 11-12, 2009

Hsi-Tze Bay, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

The 17th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets will be held on December 11-12, 2009 in Hsi-Tze Bay, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Research paper in all areas related to securities and financial markets are welcome, papers submitted will be subject to double blind review process. The conference will provide six competitive research awards this year, the maximum prize is US$2000. We would keep you informed of the program progress as time goes. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any question.

Topics:
* Behavioral Finance
* Corporate Finance
* Corporate Governance
* Debt Instruments
* Emerging Market
* Investments
* Market Microstructure
* Market Regulations
* Private Equity and M&As
* Other related topics
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 15, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2009
The Revised Complete Paper Due: October 20, 2009
SIX RESEARCH AWARDS: Maximum US$ 2,000
Paper Submission:
Please submit the following electronic files separately in PDF format to our conference website: (1)abstract within a page (including title, name(s) of author(s), affiliation, abstract and keywords), (2)complete paper, including title page, abstract and keywords, (3)complete paper without name(s) of author(s). All papers should be in English and maximum length of complete paper is 40 pages at most.
For more information please contact:
Professor Tai Ma (Program Chair)
Department of Finance, National Sun Yat-sen University
Email: matai@finance.nsysu.edu.tw
or
Miss Pei-Ying Tsai(Conference Secretariat)
Email: sfm@finance.nsysu.edu.tw
Tel: 886-7-5252000 ext 4830
Fax: 886-7-5251523
Website: http://www.finance.nsysu.edu.tw/SFM/sfm.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS
Prague, Czech Republic
24-27 March 2010

Discover Prague!

President John Campbell, Harvard University, and Vice President Leszek Balcerowicz, Warsaw School of Economics, of the International Atlantic Economic Society, cordially invite you to participate in the 69th International Atlantic Economic Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, 24-27 March 2010.

Mark your calendars now!  Abstract submissions open 1 October and close  15 November.  Submit online at http://www.iaes.org.

NOTE: Papers previously published or those scheduled for publication prior to the conference are ineligible.

The submission fee for abstracts is $85 for members and $135 for non-members.  All conference attendees are also responsible for paying the conference registration fee.

Program Committee Members Sought

Become a member of the Program Committee by organizing a session with 4 to 6 papers.  Not more than 50 percent of the session's authors or co-authors can be from the same department or center and a person cannot author or co-author more than one paper in the same session.  Send an outline of your proposed session to John M. Virgo, Ph.D., Program Chair, iaes@iaes.org.  Paper submission fees are waived for sessions organized by Program Committee members.

Missed our 2009 Rome Conference?? Click here to see highlights of the meeting! 
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/past/Rome_67/highlights/index.htm

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at iaes@iaes.org
Sincerely,
Briana Gilliam
Conference Coordinator
International Atlantic Economic Society
Suite 650, International Tower
229 Peachtree St. N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: (404) 965-1555
Fax: (404) 965-1556
E-mail: iaes@iaes.org
Website: www.iaes.org

The International Atlantic Economic Society is pleased to announce the forth annual

EconSources.com
Best Undergraduate Paper Competition

With the winner to be selected at the
68^th International Atlantic Economic Conference
Boston, Massachusetts - October 8-11, 2009
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2009

COMPETITION INFORMATION

To encourage undergraduate interest in economic issues, John Y. Campbell, President, and Leszek Balcerowicz, Vice-President of the International Atlantic Economic Society cordially invite students to compete in the IAES annual undergraduate paper competition in Boston next October. The winner of the student competition will receive:

A $500 check;

A handsome commemorative plaque; and

Complimentary publication of the paper in the Atlantic Economic Journal.

All entries must follow the guidelines below:

1. The paper must conform to AEJ manuscript style instructions, be 10 - 25 pages in length including tables, and be submitted in MS Word format. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected. AEJ instructions can be found at: http://www.iaes.org/publications/spec_aej.htm.

2. Submit the paper to ugpcompetition@nku.edu and send a copy to iaes@iaes.org by July 1 with the subject line: "Best Undergraduate Paper Competition - Last Name of Student". Please send the paper in a Microsoft Word document. PDF files are NOT acceptable. Title page must include: (a) full name of student; (b) affiliation; (c) e-mail address; and (d) phone number.

3. Include an e-mail from the Department Chair certifying: (a) that the paper was written while the author was an undergraduate; (b) that the department will sponsor the student's hotel and travel if the student is selected as a finalist; and (c) that the paper has not been submitted for publication elsewhere.

4. Up to four finalists will be notified of their selection by August 15. Finalists will be required to make a formal presentation on October 10, at the Boston conference. Conference fees for all finalists will be waived.

5. Finalists will be judged on both presentation and content. A panel of judges will announce the winning paper after the presentations.

by David Archer, March 20, 2009

“With fears mounting over a global shift toward protectionism, Cato senior fellow Tom Palmer and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation are circulating a petition against restrictive trade measures (See Cato-at-liberty.org).

           

Join the Campaign for Free Trade

Dear Friends,

In cooperation with the International Policy Network and a worldwide group of think tanks, we are circulating this petition to combat recent moves toward harmful economic nationalism.  I urge you to sign it.

Besides English, this petition  is now  available in over 30 languages.  (Please see below).  We are working toward an authentically worldwide effort on behalf of freedom of trade.  Your help toward that end will be greatly appreciated.

If you would like more information, please contact my colleague David Archer.

Cordially,
Dr. Tom G. Palmer
Vice President for International Programs
General Director, Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity

Free Trade Is the Best Policy

The specter of protectionism is rising.  It is always a dangerous and foolish policy, but it is especially dangerous at a time of economic crisis, when it threatens to damage the world economy.  Protectionism’s peculiar premise is that national prosperity is increased when government grants monopoly power to domestic producers.  As centuries of economic reasoning, historical experience, and empirical studies have repeatedly shown, that premise is dead wrong.  Protectionism creates poverty, not prosperity. Protectionism doesn’t even “protect” domestic jobs or industries; it destroys them, by harming export industries and industries that rely on imports to make their goods.  Raising the local prices of steel by “protecting” local steel companies just raises the cost of producing cars and the many other goods made with steel.  Protectionism is a fool’s game. . . . Accordingly, we the undersigned join together in a plea to the governments of all nations to resist the calls of the short-sighted and the greedy to raise higher the barriers to trade.  In addition, we call on them to tear down current protectionist barriers to free trade. To each government, we say: let your citizens enjoy not only the fruits of your own fields, factories, and genius, but also those of the entire globe.  The rewards will be greater prosperity, richer lives, and enjoyment of the blessings of peace.

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WTO Public Forum 2009

Title: “Global Problems, Global Solutions: Towards Better Global Governance”
Date: 28 - 30 September 2009
Location: Geneva, WTO headquarters

>>Call for Proposals Form

Over the past few years, the WTO Public Forum has firmly established itself as the major opportunity for governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, businesses and students to come together to discuss issues regarding the multilateral trading system. The title of this year's Forum is “Global Problems, Global Solutions: Towards Better Global Governance”.

At a time of global financial crisis, a downturn in the global economy, and with protectionism on the rise, the Forum has a more important role than ever to play in finding global solutions. This year's Forum will look in particular at the role of the multilateral trading system and the Doha Round of negotiations within the context of the current global economic crisis.

The Forum will offer participants the possibility to discuss the impact of the global economic crisis on developing countries, in particular least-developed countries (LDCs), and to reflect upon the role of trade financing. Participants will also be able to provide their views on the main challenges facing the multilateral trading system and the post-crisis agenda for the WTO.

Discussions at the Public Forum will be organized under the following themes:

1. Finding global solutions to global problems: The way forward towards better global governance;
2. The role of the WTO and the Doha Round negotiations in the midst of the current financial crisis;
3. The impact of the global economic crisis on developing countries, in particular LDCs, and the role of trade financing; and
4. The main challenges facing the multilateral trading systems and reflections on the post-crisis agenda for the WTO.

Ninth International Scientific School Conference
on
"MODELING and ANALYSIS of SAFETY and RISK in COMPLEX SYSTEMS"
Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA
July 7-11, 2009
Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

N. Machutov              Corresponding Member RAS  (Russia, IME RAS)                       Chairman
Aman  Agarwal   Professor, (India, Indian Institute of Finance & IIFBS, GGSIPU) Co-Chairman
I.I. Eliseeva            Corresponding Member of RAS (Russia, St.PSUEF)           Co-Chairman
K. Giannopoulos Professor, (UAE, UAE University)                                   Co-Chairman
S.V. Gribovsky  Professor (Russia, Saint-Petersburg Government)                   Co-Chairman
I.A.  Ryabinin           Professor  (Russia, Naval Academy)                                 Co-Chairman
E.D.Solojentsev Professor (Russia, IPME RAS)                                        Co-Chairman

Section "Risk in Engineering and Ecology"

I.A. Ryabinin, Professor (Russia, Naval Academy) – Chairman
Ershov G.A. (Russia, “AtomEnergoProject”); Mozhaev A.S. (Russia, Sevzapmontazhautomatika); Esipov Yu.V. (Russia, Rostov-on-Don University); Popentiu F. (UK, City University, UNESCO Chair); Finkelstein M.S. (S. Africa, University of Free State); Righini R. (Italy, ENEA); Indeitsev D.A. (Russia, IPME RAS);  Rotshtein A. (Israel); Kumamoto H. (Japan, Kyoto University); Tsiramua S.G. (Georgia, Tbilisi University); Matrosov V.M. (Russia, IME RAS);  Volik B.G. (Russia, IPC RAS); Morosov N.F. (Russia, SPSU); Yusupov R.M. (Russia, SPII RAS)

Section "Risk in Finance"
E.D. Solojentsev, Professor (Russia, IPME RAS) – Chairman
Acerbi C. (Italy, Abax Bank); Nikulin M.S. (France, University Bordeaux); Barone-Adesi G. (Switzerland); Novoselov A.A. (Russia, ICM SB RAS); Chernyavsky F.I. (Republic of Belarus, ABB); Odinets V.P. (Russia); Clark E. (UK, Journal “Frontiers in Finance and Economics”); Peaucelle I. (France, CNRS/CEPREMAP); Esipov V.E. (Russia); Roy N. (USA, PRMIA, Education Committee); Gallo G. (Italy, University of Florence); Sanyuk N.V. (Republic of Belarus, Brest University); Golembiovsky D.Yu. (Russia, Bank “ZENIT”); Sorwar G. (UK, University of Nottingham); Hovanov N.V. (Russia, SPSU); Tzavalis E. (Greece, Athens Business School); Kibzun A.I. (Russia, MIA); Uryasev S. (USA, University of Florida); Lenz H.-J. (Germany, Freie Universitat); Vitlinsky V.V. (Ukraine, KNEU); Martins A.P. (Portugal, Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Section "Risk in Medicine"
L.A. Bezrukov, Professor (Ukraine, BSMA) - Chairman
Djuk V.A. (Russia, SPII RAS) ; Rahim Y. (Italy, University of Torino); Chekan V. (Republic of Belarus)

NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

E D Solojentsev Professor, (Russia, IPME RAS)                              Chairman
V V Karassev             Professor, (Russia, IPME RAS)                              Secretary
B V Sokolov              Professor, (Russia, SPII RAS)

Location of the SCHOOL
The year 2009 International Scientific School "Modeling and Analysis of Safety and Risk in Complex Systems (MASR – 2009)" will be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 7 – 11. The School will be organized by Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Saint-Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of RAS and Bureau of Credit Risk Estimation and Analysis "INO_TEL" Ltd. with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Leading and well-known scientists will give lectures in the field of financial, social, informational and technical risks. The scientific program includes reports and software demonstrations. All participants will have the possibility to see the wonderful city Saint-Petersburg. The official languages of the School are English and Russian.

Areas of Interest
The main research areas to be discussed at the School in the year 2009 are:
1. The consideration of methods of quantitative estimation, analysis and management of risk in economics, engineering and medicine;
2. The consideration of methods, models and software for risk management and efficiency analysis of risk in complex economic and technical systems;
3. Consideration of two kinds of events: appearance of system’s state and failure of system’s state under statistical data and monitoring;
4. Classes of risk models and models of efficiency;
5. Formulation of axioms and theorems for risk management and efficiency;
6. Development of logical and probabilistic (LP) risk models and models of efficiency in banking, security portfolio, bribes and corruption, social and economical systems;
7. The development of relations between different areas of risk theory application.

Topics
The following more specific topics will be discussed:
a) Risk Models in Economics and Finance
·  Market risk;
·  Operational and Liquidity risk;
·  Credit Risk;
·  Effective Strategic Risk Management and Efficiency;
·  Methods of Economic Crisis Forecasting;
·  Risk of Bribes and Corruption;
·  Accuracy, Robustness and Transparency of Risk Estimation Methods in Economics;
·  Knowledge Bases in Problems of Risk, Efficiency and Management;
·  Combined Logical and Probabilistic Risk Models;
·  LP Analysis of Risk and Efficiency in Social and Economic Systems.
b) Risk Models in Engineering
·  Risk Models in Nuclear Power Engineering;
·  Scenarios and Models of Safety and Risk of Failure;
·  Logical and Probabilistic Risk Models for Systems with Multi-State Elements;
·  Identification and Optimization in Risk Problems;
·  Analysis and Management of Risk and Efficiency by Statistical Data;
·  Software for Modeling and Analysis of Risk and Efficiency;
·  Software Reliability.
c) Risk Models in Medicine
·  Safety and Risk Models in Medicine;
·  Hospital Risk Management;
·  Patient Safety;
·  Clinical Risk Assessment Methods;
·  Information Systems for Risk Management in Hospitals;
·  Risk of Medical Staff Mistakes;
·  Medical Equipment Reliability.

Participation
Authors who wish to participate in the School should send a paper or brief thesis of lecture to adm@inotel.org or inorisk@gmail.com, before April 15, 2009 as Microsoft Word file (not more 6 pages, type 11pt). Prior publication all papers will be peer refereed. We will send the invitation to authors of accepted papers before May 1, 2009 by E_mail. The rules of writing of papers for publication in Proceedings are on School's website: http://www.inotel.org/masrconference/
Publications
The accepted papers will be published as Proceeding of the School by support of Russian Foundation for Basic Research and sponsors. Detailed information about participants, sponsors and the program of the School will be posted on http://www.inotel.org/masrconference/ .
Registration Fee
The registration fee is US$ 300. However, for Post-Graduate Students the registration fee is US$ 100.
Address for Correspondence

Professor Solojentsev Evgueni Dmitrievich, Chairman, MA SR 2009

Professor Vasily Karasev

IPMASH RAS ,

Russian Academy of Sciences (IPME)

Bolshoi pr.,61. V.O.

199178, St.Petersburg,

RUSSIA

Tel.:       7(812)3214766

Fax.:       7(812)3214771

E-mail:    adm@inotel.org, inorisk@gmail.com, sol@sapr.ipme.ru

Website: http://www.ipme.ru/ipme/labs/iisad/sapr1.htm