The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites submissions of proposals for panels and papers for the conference to be held 1-4 October 2009 at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.

Because the conference will be in Washington, DC, they encourage the submission of paper and panel proposals propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities. Suggested topics include economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law, death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law, gender and LGBT equality, reproductive rights, disability rights, immigration, political and electoral issues, communications policy, intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment.

The four themes of the conference include:

• Papers or panels that focus on the multidimensionality of Latina/o identity and its relationship to current legal, political and cultural regimes or practices. The ideal is to explicate aspects of the Latino experience in legal discourse, both domestically and internationally.
• Papers or panels especially salient to this region (the East Coast). Regional emphasis ensures that the Conference's geographic rotation will illuminate local issues, helping us understand how local particularities produce international patterns of privilege and subordination.
• Papers or panels that elucidate cross-group histories or experiences with law and power, such as those based on the intersections of class, gender, race, sexuality and religion.
• Papers or panels that connect or contrast LatCrit theory to other genres of scholarship, both within and beyond law and legal theory, including but not limited to the various strands of critical outsider jurisprudence (critical race theory, feminist legal theory, queer legal theory) that critique class, gender, race, sexuality and other categories of social-legal identities and relations.

Use the online form to indicate your willingness to serve as a panel commentator, moderator, or roundtable facilitator.

The deadline is Monday, 27 April 2009.

Please see the detailed submission information: Information for Authors

• LatCrit XIV Conference, Online Paper Submission
• LatCrit XIV Conference, 1-4 October 2009