The Supreme Court of Virginia Historical Commission and the Library of
Virginia invite proposals for a needs-and-opportunities symposium on the
legal history and culture of Virginia and the United States to be held
at the Library of Virginia on Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 March 2010.
The symposium will be the first event in The Law of the Land: Virginia
and America, which will feature a major exhibition and other public
programs beginning in 2012.
The Program Committee welcomes submissions for individual papers or for
session proposals emphasizing needs-and-opportunities and new
scholarship that treat large and important topics such as (but not
limited to) the origins of American legal culture, the influence of
Virginia on American legal culture, the common law, state constitutional
law, federalism and state's rights, courts and jurisprudence, criminal
law, commercial law, labor law, environmental law, legal education, law
and gender, and the law and slavery, segregation, and race.
Attendance is limited to 250.
Please send proposals and a brief CV by e-mail to the Program Committee
before 1 May 2009, addressed to brent.tarter@lva.virginia.gov
Contact: Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
brent.tarter@lva.virginia.gov
Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at
http://www.lva.virginia.gov