The AALS Civil Procedure Section is seeking nominations for its inaugural Best Article Award for junior faculty. The deadline for nominations is September 1, 2023. Full announcement below… Best Article Award – AALS Civil Procedure SectionThe Civil Procedure Section of the…

The AALS Federal Courts Section is seeking nominations for the Daniel J. Meltzer Award and the Best Untenured Article Award. The deadline for Meltzer Award nominations is September 29, 2023. The deadline for Best Untenured Article Award nominations is September…

Now on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Roger Michalski’s essay, The Swift Completion of Their Appointed Rounds. Roger reviews Tim Reagan, Carly Giffin & Roy Germano’s recent article, Federal Courts’ Electronic Filing by Pro Se Litigants (Federal…

This week on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Sergio Campos’s essay, Cutting Into the Texas Two-Step. Sergio reviews Michael Francus’s recent essay, Texas Two-Stepping Out of Bankruptcy, 120 Mich. L. Rev. Online 38 (2022).   

Here is the announcement and call for papers for the 2023 Civil Procedure Workshop, courtesy of Zach Clopton:We are excited to announce that the next Civil Procedure Workshop will be hosted by Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in downtown Chicago…

This week on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Robin Effron’s essay, Fighting the Grift: The Stubborn Creep of Bankruptcy as a Forum for Aggregate Litigation. Robin reviews Lindsey Simon’s recent article, Bankruptcy Grifters, 131 Yale L.J.

This week on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Christine Bartholomew’s essay, Refashioning Old Tools for Modern Society. Christine reviews a recent article by Peter Ormerod, Privacy Qui Tams, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).