Sociología Jurídica en América Latina

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and its Center for Law, Society & Culture seek applicants who are pursuing outstanding, innovative research to serve as the inaugural Law & Society Scholar-in-Residence for fall 2019 or spring 2020. Tenured or pre-tenured professors who will be on sabbatical or research leave during the 2019-20 academic year are invited to apply, with preference given to scholars in the humanities or social sciences with full-time appointments at liberal arts colleges or universities. The Scholar-in-Residence will be expected to present a public lecture to the Law School community.

The Scholar-in-Residence will receive:

• An office at the Law School at Indiana University’s flagship campus in Bloomington
• A semester-long affiliation with the Center for Law, Society & Culture
• An $8,000 honorarium, which may be used toward travel and housing expenses
• Assistance  in locating short-term housing for the three-month period of the visit
• Access to the school’s top-ranked Jerome Hall Law Library
• An open invitation to weekly law faculty workshops and colloquia as well as endowed speaker events

The mission of the Center for Law, Society & Culture is to promote and disseminate a multidisciplinary understanding of law through scholarship, teaching, and discussion. The CLSC supports research related to the law in a broad sense, including cultural aspects of law expressed through political science, history, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, or philosophy, and scientific aspects of law expressed through technological advance in biotechnology, environmental science, or information technology.

The IU Maurer School of Law has 60 full-time faculty members whose groundbreaking research informs and shapes contemporary legal discourse. The Law School community is highly collegial and intellectually stimulating, and the IU Bloomington campus offers an abundance of other research opportunities within walking distance. Bloomington is a top-ranked, culturally diverse college town 45 miles south of Indianapolis, with easy access to other major US cities: 2 ½ hours to Cincinnati and Louisville, four hours from St. Louis, 4 ½ hours from Chicago and Nashville.

Applicants should submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a brief description (no more than two pages) of the research you plan to pursue during your sabbatical or research leave, and a list of three references to Prof. Victor D. Quintanilla, CLSC Co-Director, at lawsirp@indiana.edu.  Applications are due by December 15, 2018, whether the three-month visit would take place in the fall 2019 or spring 2020 semester.

The Julien Mezey Dissertation Award of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH), is open for submissions.

This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.

The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, law and visual studies, legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2019 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between November 1, 2017 and October 31, 2018. 

Nominations for the 2019 award must be received on or before
7 December 2018

Each nominee must submit the following:
1) a letter by the nominee detailing the genesis, goal, and contribution of the dissertation;
2) a letter of support from a faculty member familiar with the work;
3) an abstract, outline, and selected chapter of the dissertation;
4) contact information for the nominee.

All materials and any questions should be sent to: Professor Simon Stern at simon.stern@utoronto.ca

Award finalists will be notified as soon as possible. Finalists must then submit an electronic version of the entire dissertation. The winner will be determined by early January and invited to the ASLCH annual meeting. ASLCH will pay travel and lodging costs.

The Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop will be held at Penn Law School in Philadelphia, PA, on June 2 and 3, 2019.

The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities. In addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, we welcome critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, between five and ten papers will be chosen for presentation at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity itself.

The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication commitment.

The Workshop will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation. For authors requiring airline travel from outside the United States, the Workshop will cover such travel expenses up to a maximum of $1000.

Papers must be works-in-progress that do not exceed 15,000 words in length (including footnotes/ endnotes); most papers selected for inclusion in recent years have been at least 10,000 words long. An abstract of no more than 200 words must also be included with the paper submission. A dissertation chapter may be submitted, but we strongly suggest that it be edited so as to stand alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible for selection so long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop; it is important that authors still be in a position at the time of the Workshop to consider comments they receive there and to incorporate them as they think appropriate in their revisions. We ask that those submitting papers be careful to omit or redact any information in the body of the paper that might serve to identify them, as we adhere to an anonymous or “blind” selection process.

Submissions (in Microsoft Word—no pdf files, please) will be accepted until December 1, 2018, and should be sent by e-mail to: juniorscholarsworkshop@sas.upenn.edu. Please be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation (if any), and phone and e-mail contact information in your covering email, not in the paper itself.

For more information, please send an email inquiry to juniorscholarsworkshop@sas.upenn.edu.

La Universidad Iberoamericana tiene abierta una convocatoria para Plaza de Académico de Tiempo Completo en Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, en las líneas temáticas de sociología, ciencias políticas o áreas afines.

Funciones:

• Participar en docencia, asesoría de alumnos y dirección de tesis.
• Colaborar en las áreas de planeación y evaluación curricular, así como en las funciones de gestión de lo académico.
• Realizar tareas de investigación vinculadas con las líneas de investigación existentes en el Departamento y publicar en revistas académicas de prestigio, que refuercen la formación de los alumnos de los programas de departamento, a través de su incorporación en proyectos de investigación.

Fecha límite de entrega de documentos: 12 de octubre.

Se puede encontrar más información aquí.

The Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an Assistant Professor. For an appointment at an advanced Assistant Professor rank, evidence of success in securing extramural funding to support research and graduate students is desired.

Applications are due by September 15th, 2018.

Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. in a field related to Criminology or Law and Society. The position will begin July 1, 2019 (teaching duties will begin Fall 2019). Candidates should submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, representative publications, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation uploaded electronically. A separate statement that addresses past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion (e.g. mentoring activities, committee service, research or teaching activities) is also required.

Further information can be found here.