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CFP: (Short) Reviews of Books Concerning Women and the Law

By Bridget Crawford

Call for Book Reviews: Women and the Law 

Proposals Due September 25, 2008 

The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals for contributions to a special book review issue to be published in Winter 2008.  We seeks proposals for reviews of any book published in 2008, 2007 or 2006 that contributes to the understanding of women?s experiences with the law. 

Pace Law School has a longstanding commitment to both the study of women and the law and the development of women as lawyers and leaders.  The Pace Women?s Justice Center was founded in 1991 as the first academic legal center in the country devoted to training attorneys and others in the community about domestic violence issues.  Pace is a vibrant and intellectual community that contains several nationally-recognized scholars of women?s, children?s and LGBT rights. 

A law review volume devoted to books concerning women and the law promotes an ongoing discourse on women and the law, justice and feminist jurisprudence.

Please submit book review proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr@law.pace.edu by September 25, 2008.  Proposals should include (a) the intended reviewer?s name, title, institutional affiliation and contact information; (b) the title and publication date of the book proposed for review; (c) a description of the importance of the book to the general topic; and (d) any other information relevant to the book or proposed review (e.g., the proposed reviewer?s expertise or any relationship with the author).  Authors are welcome, but not required, to submit a CV as well.  We expect to make publication offers by October 1, 2008.

Complete manuscripts from authors of accepted proposals will be due November 1, 2008.  Completed book reviews should not exceed 8,500 words. 

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on August 23, 2008 (boomark / email).