Below is an email from Prof Braucher about the next conference of the Law and Society Association, to be held in Boston and where the subject of household debt will be explored in detail.

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You are receiving this e-mail because you have been affiliated with the International Research Collaborative (IRC) on Household Debt for the Law & Society Association. Many of you will have received the notice below from the Law and Society Association.

The plan is for the IRC to again coordinate household debt panels at the 2013 conference. We will send out a call for papers very soon, and we hope that you will submit your paper through the IRC and be part of our group of panels. The IRC will proceed much as it did for the 2012 conference. I am pleased to report that Nadja Jungmann and Antonio Porto also will be helping to coordinate panels for the 2013 conference.  Bob Lawless is unable to attend the meeting this year, so I have agreed to be the US organizer for the IRC.  The meeting in 2013 is in Boston.  As a Boston native, I am proud to report that it is not only the Cradle of Liberty but also the Hub of the Universe (credit to the poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of jurist O.W. Holmes Jr.) and thus not a destination to be missed.

Please be thinking about a paper proposal, and we will follow up with instructions for submission within a week.

Jean Braucher, University of Arizona

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Law and Society Association

We are pleased to invite you to participate in our 2013 Annual Meeting.

Boston Sheraton

Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.
 

Power, Privilege and the Pursuit of Justice: Legal Challenges in Precarious Times

The meeting's theme aims to incite debate on the challenges that will define law and society over the next decade. The financial crisis that struck in 2008 still rends the economy, politics, law, and society. How will a polarized politics, rapid technological change, and global shifts in economic power affect law and society over the next years, domestically and transnationally?

To envision the future, we invite participants to extend and rethink law and society's past insights to engage a new and changing context. The Program Committee has listed a series of sub-themes in featured sessions and other panels with the aim of spurring cross-cutting discussions.

This year's Program Committee is Co-Chaired by Christine Harrington, NYU, Politics, and Greg Shaffer, University of Minnesota, Law. We invite the submission of Individual Papers and/or Session proposals. Papers and panels need not be centered on the conference theme. Proposals on any law and society topic are welcome.

You will find the Call at www.lawandsociety.org/boston2013.html

The deadline for proposal submission is December 4, 2012.

Registration will begin in early 2013.

If you have questions, please contact us at lsa@lawandsociety.org>.