AALS Torts Section: Call for Papers and Call for Nominations

Two AALS-related things:

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOREIGN TORT LAW: BEYOND EUROPE

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS
SECTION ON TORTS AND COMPENSATION SYSTEMS
San Diego, California
January 9, 2009

    Injury, particularly human physical injury, is a universal problem.  And yet, in the United States little is written about other countries’ mechanisms for awarding civil liability for injury.  In recent years, with the European Group on Tort Law’s publication of its Principles of European Tort Law, more is known about liability rules in the European Union.  This panel attempts to further expand U.S. scholars’ understanding of foreign tort law.  The program will address issues of accountability, deterrence and compensation for injury in other nations, particularly developing nations.  The panel will address foreign approaches to civil liability in its broadest sense.  Some approaches to injury response may be easily recognizable as tort law, and other approaches may differ more markedly from what might be considered tort law in the United States.   

The executive committee of the Torts and Compensation Section is now accepting proposals for papers concerning foreign tort law.  Special consideration will be give to the tort law of developing countries. Proposals for papers may be written by either foreign or U.S. scholars.  A limited amount of funding is available for foreign scholars to travel to the United States to speak at the program. Drafts of accepted papers will be presented on January 9, 2009 at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego.  Final versions of the papers will be published later in the year in a symposium edition of THE ARIZONA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Interested authors and speakers should submit an abstract of fewer than 300 words to:
Email: bublick@law.arizona.edu by June 16, 2008.
Questions and requests for further information can also be directed to:
Contact: 
Ellen Bublick
Professor of Law
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Address:
1201 E. Speedway Blvd.
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0176
Tel:   
(520) 621-5600

and:

Prosser Award Nominations

At the 2009 AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego next year, the Torts and Compensation Systems section will once again present the William L. Prosser Award to a law professor who has made outstanding contributions to Torts scholarship, teaching and service. Any law professor is eligible to nominate another law professor for the award.  Selection of the recipient will be made by members of the Executive Committee of the Torts and Compensation Systems section based on the recommendations of an appointed special selection committee. 

Nominations, accompanied by a brief supporting statement, should be submitted to Catherine Sharkey, Secretary of the Executive Committee, either by regular mail or e-mail, at the following address:  Catherine Sharkey, New York University School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, 403, New York, NY 10012. E-mail: catherine.sharkey@nyu.edu.  Nominations must be received no later than 5 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.) on July 2, 2008.
Professors who nominated a candidate who was not chosen for last year’s award cycle are welcome to renew their nominations by sending a copy of their prior nominating letter to Professor Sharkey.

Questions and requests for further information can also be directed to Ellen Bublick, Chair of the Executive Committee, via email at bublick@law.arizona.edu.

–BC