The Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum has issued a call for papers for junior tenure-track and tenured scholars. The Forum will be held at Harvard Law School on June 2-3, 2025.

The goal of the Forum is to promote in-depth discussion about particular papers and more general reflections on broader methodological issues, as well as to foster a stronger sense of community among American legal scholars, particularly by strengthening ties between new and veteran professors.

This year’s topics are Administrative Law;

Antidiscrimination Law and Theory;

Constitutional Law—theoretical foundations;

Constitutional Law—historical foundations;

Criminal Law;

Critical Legal Studies;

Environmental Law;

Family Law;

Jurisprudence and Philosophy;

Law and Humanities;

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation;

Public International Law;

and Workplace Law and Social Welfare Policy.

QUALIFICATIONS: Authors who teach law in the U.S. in a tenured or tenure-track position as of the submission deadline (February 28, 2025) and have not been teaching at either of those ranks for a total of more than seven years are eligible to submit their work. American citizens or permanent residents teaching abroad are also eligible provided that they have held a faculty position or the equivalent, including positions comparable to junior faculty positions in research institutions, for less than seven years and that they earned their last degree after 2015. We accept jointly authored submissions, but each of the coauthors must be individually eligible to participate in the Forum. Papers that will be published prior to the Forum are not eligible. There is no limit on the number of submissions by any individual author. Faculty from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are not eligible.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Electronic submissions should be sent to Rebecca Tushnet at rtushnet@law.harvard.edu with the subject line “Junior Faculty Forum.” The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025. Remove all references to the author(s) in the paper. Please include in the text of the email your name, the title of your paper, your contact email and address through June 2025, and under which topic your paper falls. Each paper may only be considered under one topic. Any questions about the submission procedure should be directed to Rebecca Tushnet.

FURTHER INFORMATION: Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Christine Jolls (christine.jolls@yale.edu) or Yair Listokin (yair.listokin@yale.edu) at Yale Law School, Rebecca Tushnet (rtushnet@law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, or Norman Spaulding (nspaulding@stanford.law.edu) at Stanford Law School.

The full call for proposals is available here.