AALS Looks at Human Rights and Families
by Jonathan Todres, Incoming Chair of the AALS Section on International Human Rights
Human rights law and practice often focuses on the individual. Yet individuals are situated within families and communities. Reflecting the importance of considering the impact of human rights challenges on families, the AALS Section on International Human Rights announces the following:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Section on International Human Rights
New Voices Program
2016 AALS Annual Meeting
January 6-10, 2016
New York, NY
The AALS Section on International Human Rights is pleased to announce a call for papers for its program, “Human Rights and Families,” at the 2016 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The program will take place during the Annual Meeting, which is scheduled for January 6-10, 2016 (schedule TBA). We anticipate selecting three or four speakers from this call for papers to present their work during our Section’s program.
For our 2016 program, we are interested in papers that explore the human rights experiences of families. Families confront a breadth of issues with human rights implications. This topic could include, but is not limited to, refugee and internally-displaced populations, children’s rights, women’s rights, labor rights, migration issues, relationships among treaty bodies that are relevant to different family members, health and education rights, food insecurity, and many others. We welcome papers that explore these and other relevant issues in all parts of the world (including the United States).
Deadline and Submission: The deadline to submit a paper is September 1, 2015. Please email submissions in Word or PDF format to the Program Committee c/o Jonathan Todres (jtodres@gsu.edu). In selecting proposals, priority will be given to new voices in international human rights (i.e., individuals who have not previously presented a paper at AALS on the topic of international human rights).
Format: There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Preference will be given to proposals that are substantially complete and to well-supported scholarly papers that offer novel scholarly insights on topics covered by the panel. A paper may have already been accepted for publication as long as it will not be published prior to the Annual Meeting. The Section does not have plans to publish the papers, so individual presenters are free to seek their own publishing opportunities.
Eligibility: Per AALS rules, only full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit a paper to a Section’s call for papers. Faculty at fee-paid law schools, foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, fellows and non-law school faculty are not eligible to submit. Call for Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
The Program is co-sponsored by the AALS Section on Children and the Law and the Section on Family and Juvenile Law.