CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL EQUALITY LAW SCHOLARS’ FORUM October 29-30, 2026 Boston University School of Law
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL EQUALITY LAW SCHOLARS’ FORUM October 29-30, 2026 Boston University School of Law
Building on the success of the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held over past years, and in the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring forward in the area of Equality Law, we (Tristin Green, Loyola Law Los Angeles; Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University Law; and Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law) are thrilled to announce the Eighth Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum to be held in Fall 2026.
This Scholars’ Forum seeks to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique and to provide scholars at all career stages the opportunity to engage with new scholarly currents and ideas. We hope to bring together scholars with varied perspectives (e.g., critical race theory, class critical theory, queer theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, law and society) across fields (e.g., criminal system, education, employment, family, health, immigration, property, tax) and with work relevant to many diverse identities (e.g., age, class, disability, national origin, race, sex, sexuality) to build bridges and to generate new ideas in the area of Equality Law.
We will select five or six relatively junior scholars (untenured, newly tenured, or prospective professors) in the U.S. to present papers from proposals submitted in response to this Call for Proposals. In so doing, we will select papers that cover a broad range of topics within the area of Equality Law. Leading senior scholars will provide commentary on each of the featured papers in an intimate and collegial setting. The Forum will take place Thursday afternoon and all day Friday, with dinner together on Thursday evening. Participants are expected to attend the full Forum. The Equality Law Scholars’ Forum will pay transportation and accommodation expenses for participants and will host the dinner on Thursday evening.
This year’s Forum will be held on October 29-30, 2026, at Boston University School of Law.
Junior scholars are invited to submit abstracts of proposed papers, 3-5 pages in length, by June 1, 2026.
Full drafts of papers must be available for circulation to participants by October 11, 2026.
Note: We urge submission of proposals for drafts that will still be substantially in progress in October 2026 over drafts that will be in late-stage law review edits at that time.
Proposals should be submitted to: Tristin Green, LMU Loyola Law School, [email protected]. Electronic submissions via email are preferred.
