The AALS Professional Responsibility Section invites papers for its program “Professional Responsibility New Voices Workshop” that will take place during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting. The goal of this highly interactive workshop is to provide a forum for new voices and new ideas related to professional responsibility (PR), broadly defined. Many scholars might address PR without realizing it. We are interested in your potential contributions—whether you are an evidence scholar writing about the attorney-client privilege, a feminist interested in gender dynamics that affect lawyering, a critical race scholar commenting on how power plays out in legal systems, an ethicist exploring the moral foundations of the rules governing lawyering, or something entirely different. We encourage you to submit a proposal even if you are pursuing scholarship on PR for the first time, question whether your ideas really do relate to PR, or are reticent to submit for another reason.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The Workshop will be an opportunity to nurture the growth of a broad scholarly community in the field of Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics. As such, it is a place to take risks and develop high quality work—test ideas, identify opportunities for further exploration, and dialogue with academics doing stimulating and cutting-edge scholarship.
We welcome consideration of works in different formats and stages of production. Workshop groups will include senior scholars in the field who will aid in the discussion of the pieces and provide feedback, along with extensive audience participation and involvement. Selected papers and topics, depending on their stage of development, should engage with the scholarly literature and make a meaningful original contribution to the fields of professional responsibility and legal ethics, broadly defined.
ELIGIBILITY: Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Preference will be given to junior scholars, and submissions from non-tenure-track faculty are welcome. Please note that all faculty members presenting at the program are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Abstracts are welcome. Email your submissions or questions about the workshop to the Chair-Elect of the AALS PR Section, Jon Lee (jon.lee@ou.edu), on or before September 13, 2024. Please include “AALS PR New Voices” in the subject of the email.