NEW:  ABLJ Invited Scholars Colloquium

The Editorial Board of the American Business Law Journal is pleased to announce the ABLJ Invited Scholars Colloquium which will take place at our annual conference in Richmond this year.  The goal of the Colloquium is to develop for publication scholarly articles by our members. Invited participants commit to present a scholarly paper for extended discussion and analysis.  Members of the ABLJ Board, editors of regional journals, and other distinguished authors from our membership will serve as discussants.  The paper should be in a polished draft form and should be intended for publication in the ABLJ or a law review or journal.  Papers that have been presented at regional conferences, at other ALSB meetings, or that the participant plans to present in sessions at the Richmond conference are welcome.  If you plan to present the paper at the Richmond conference, please follow the conference submission procedures.  Colloquium participants may submit the paper for Holmes-Cardozo consideration, conference proceedings, and other ALSB awards, and should follow the appropriate submission process. Current ABLJ Board members may not submit abstracts for consideration.

Abstracts and a current resume should be submitted to Stephanie Greene, (stephanie.greene@bc.edu) Advisory Editor-in-Chief of the ABLJ, by April 1, 2010.  Based on a review of the abstracts, the ABLJ Board will select four papers for presentation.  Authors will be notified by May 1.  Papers must be submitted by July 1, 2010.  Participants agree to acknowledge the ABLJ Invited Scholars Colloquium in a footnote when the article is published. 

The Colloquium will take place at our conference site, the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, on Tuesday afternoon, August 3^rd.  The ALSB will pay one night’s hotel fare and dinner for Colloquium participants.

We hope that you will consider this new conference event as an exciting start to our 2010 annual meeting.