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<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Second Annual American Society of International Law Research Forum</span></b></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">October 20-21, 2012, Athens, GA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The American Society of International Law calls for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Research
Forum</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">to be held at the University of Georgia
School of Law on October 20-21, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Research Forum</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">,
a Society initiative introduced in 2011, aims to provide a setting for the presentation and focused discussion of works-in-progress by Society members. All ASIL members are invited to attend the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Forum</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">,
whether presenting a paper or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Interested participants should submit an abstract (no more than 500 words in length) summarizing the scholarly paper to be presented at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Forum</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">.
Papers can be on any topic related to international and transnational law and should be unpublished (for purposes of the call, publication to an electronic database such as SSRN is not considered publication). Interdisciplinary projects, empirical studies,
and jointly authored papers are welcome.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Member proposals should be submitted online</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109413538388&s=29687&e=001SKmrsAc3h8QUs_AuHQbZTiB679bEkE0cxsxAmust9cKMg9KaJgVZnjEjcRumP8JJDiy1rf5rpGyQsP8hF6fawBvcLKWVONpMr2PoGTtjp3QgGF5YekYLtOFGG-bAmyr5mHFxFmN_4auUvMKbBb_gpQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color:#AE1506">here</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">by
April 15</span></strong>. Proposals will include 1) the name, institutional affiliation, professional position, and contact information for the author(s), and 2) an abstract. Review of the abstracts will be blind, and therefore abstracts should not include
any identifying information about the author. Abstracts containing identifying information will not be reviewed. Proposals will be vetted by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Research
Forum</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Committee with selections to be announced
by July 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">At present, it is the intent of the Research Forum Committee to organize the selected paper proposals around common issues, themes, and approaches. Discussants, who will comment on
the papers, will be assigned to each cluster of papers. All authors will be required to submit a draft paper four weeks before the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Research
Forum</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">. The expectation is that drafts will be posted on the</span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Research Forum</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The 2012<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">ASIL Research Forum</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Laura Dickinson (George Washington), Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Timothy Meyer (Georgia), Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Jose Alvarez (NYU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Laurence Helfer (Duke)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Hari Osofsky (Minnesota)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Kal Raustiala (UCLA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">David Zaring (Wharton)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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