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Dear Colleagues: please see below for a call for papers - deadline for Abstracts is March 15. ---- The Law and Society Review is inviting articles for a mini symposium on disability legal studies, an emerging area of research on the role of law in the social construction of disability. Within sociolegal studies disability is emerging as an important site of analysis of legal categories, social movements, and rights. The symposium seeks to draw attention to creative intersections between these modes of inquiry. We are looking for articles that push this intersection in new directions and that expand or challenge the possibilities and limits of sociolegal theory. This symposium invites critical interrogations of disability and the law that reflect sociolegal methods and approaches. We hope to generate articles that place disability at the center of analysis of contemporary legal issue, such as immigration, education rights, police violence, incarceration, or reproductive rights. Other potential topics include access and accommodations, institutionalization, guardianship, voting rights, ableism in employment, criminal justice, , disability and the welfare state, and access to justice. We invite articles that generate more complex understanding of legal concepts, such as normalcy, competence, rationality, autonomy, productivity, and citizenship, as well as comparative studies of disability rights movements and human rights discourse, and for studies that employ intersectional analysis. Submission Deadlines: Please submit a 1000-word abstract by March 15, 2018. If selected, the full article will be due August 1, 2018 Please send your abstract to the special issue editors: Katharina Heyer [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sagit Mor [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Cofounders and co-coordinators of the Law & Society Association’s CRN on disability legal studies Katharina Heyer Associate Professor & Graduate Chair Department of Political Science University of Hawai’i at Mānoa 2424 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 [log in to unmask] ---- Author of Rights Enabled: the Disability Revolution https://www.press.umich.edu/5946811/rights_enabled ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.