Journal RGE

Symposium Date: March 27, 2025 via Zoom
Abstracts Due: November 4, 2024

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Touro Law Center Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (JRGE) is pleased to issue this call for papers as part of its 2025 symposium, The Governance, Law, and Regulation of the Body. The symposium will be held entirely over Zoom on March 27, 2025. The Journal is seeking papers on a variety of topics that broadly focus on concerns regarding autonomy and the scope of individual agency as these issues pertain to our bodies, including but not limited to the following: reproductive rights post-Dobbs; state laws concerning gender-affirming care; racial disparities in the criminal justice system; carceral expansion in the context of immigration; the regulation of death; legal controls over human experimentation; medical racism; and more. Ultimately, we are interested in topics that focus on regulatory efforts by the state that impact the treatment of or control over our physical selves, as well as the circumstances under which those interventions should be promoted or constrained. The symposium aims to bring together practitioners, policy researchers, and scholars (legal and non-legal) to explore these issues.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to present at the symposium and will be invited to publish their work in Volume 14 of the JRGE, which is an online publication. To apply for the symposium, please submit an abstract of 250-500 words no later than November 4, 2024 at the link below. Completed papers should be in the range of 5,000-7,500 words and would be due no later than June 16, 2025. Please send any questions to tlcjrge@student.touro.edu.

Please direct all questions to Symposium Editor at tlcjrge@student.touro.edu or Professor Tiffany Graham at tgraham3@tourolaw.edu.