Call for Papers

The National Business Law Scholars Conference (NBLSC) will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 25-26, 2025, at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California.  This is the sixteenth meeting of the NBLSC, an annual conference that draws legal scholars from across the United States and around the world. We welcome all scholarly submissions relating to business law.  Junior scholars and those considering entering the academy are especially encouraged to participate.

The deadline for submission is Friday, March 28, 2025.  Please include the following information in your submission:

• Name
• E-mail address
• Institutional Affiliation & Title
• Paper title
• Paper description/abstract
• Keywords (3-5 words)
• Willingness to be a panel moderator
• Known scheduling conflicts
• Dietary restrictions
• Mobility restrictions

Please email your submission to Professor Eric C. Chaffee at eric.chaffee@case.edu. 

We realize that this conference may overlap with part of at least one other conference.  Unfortunately, these conflicts are unavoidable because of the number of conferences and other events in June and the event schedule at the UCLA School of Law, our host school.  We always are happy to work with any conflicts to permit those desiring to participate in the National Business Law Scholars Conference to do so and still attend other events.  We anticipate the conference schedule will be circulated in late April or early May.

Conference Organizers:

Afra Afsharipour (University of California, Davis, School of Law)
Tony Casey (The University of Chicago Law School)
Eric C. Chaffee (Case Western Reserve University School of Law)
Steven Davidoff Solomon (University of California, Berkeley School of Law)’
Michael Dorff (UCLA School of Law)
Benjamin Edwards (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law)
Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law)
Nicole Iannarone (Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law)
Kristin N. Johnson (Emory University School of Law)
Elizabeth Pollman (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)
Jeff Schwartz (University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law)
Megan Wischmeier Shaner (University of Oklahoma College of Law