Consortium of Undergraduate Law &
Justice Programs Annual Meeting
May 28, 2008
Pavilion Athanase-David
(D Building), Room D-R200
Final Program (corrected)
8:30 -9:00 AM. Registration, coffee & light breakfast,
welcome
9:00-10:30 AM. Panel: Undergraduate Law & Justice Capstone Courses
The first panel will take a broad look at capstone courses
in undergraduate programs. Panelists
will briefly describe their courses and discuss how these courses contribute to
their programs as a whole, touching on such topics as integrating content and
skills from other courses, evaluating students, program evaluation, preparation
for graduate or professional school, content of capstones (thesis, internship,
portfolios), etc., before opening up a more general discussion about capstones,
program development, and program evaluation.
Chair, John
Hertel,
Ellen Cohn,
Michael
McCann,
10:30-10:45 AM. Coffee break
10:45-11:45 AM. Informal Roundtable Discussion: Law in Translation--Socio-Legal Scholars as
Critical Intellectuals
The morning roundtable
will initiate our discussion of “law in translation.” After discussing how “law in translation”
relates to their own work, the discussion facilitators will open up a
discussion of the role of the socio-legal scholar in regard to “law in
translation.” Questions include whether
socio-legal scholars’ primary role is to observe or report on translations of
legal discourse by “ordinary” people, or whether our role is, or should be, one
of critical intellectual? How does “ translation” relate to, inform, or shape
our teaching of undergraduate law and justice students?
Co-faciliators: Les Jacobs,
John Gilliom,
11:45 AM-12:30
PM. Lunch
12:30-1:45 PM. Law in Translation: The Case of International Human Rights
Professor Merry’s presentation
will continue our consideration of “law in translation” by discussing her work
on the translation or transformation of the discourse of international human
rights by non-legal actors.
Sally Engle
Merry,
1:45-2:00 PM. Coffee break
2:00-3:00 PM. Informal
Roundtable Discussion: Law in Translation--The
New Legal Realsim
The afternoon
roundtable will consider the “New Legal Realism” (NLR) movement originating in
Madison and what it means to “translate” socio-legal scholarship for the legal
academy, and what NLR’s relevance or potential might be
to socio-legal scholars in other settings.
The facilitators will make some brief remarks describing NLR and their
perceptions to initiate the discussion.
Co-facilitators: Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation & Northwestern
University
Karl Shoemaker,
3:00-4:00 PM. CULJP Business Meeting
4:00-5:30 PM. Reception
2008 Program Committee
Les Jacobs,
John Gilliom,
John Gould,
Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation &
Northwestern University
CULJP Officers
Ann Lucas,
Mark Welton,
Bill Rose,
CULJP Board of Directors
Annie Bunting,
John Hertel,
Tom Hilbink,
Ben Pryor, University of Toledo