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Call for Papers: Taking “Business” Out of Unincorporated Business Organizations

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

William Mitchell Law Review has just posted the following Call for Papers.

Call for Articles and Essays
Taking “Business” Out of Unincorporated Business Organizations

The William Mitchell Law Review announces a full issue devoted to the topic of business organizations lacking a business purpose. The issue will focus on the breadth of uses of unincorporated entities, particularly in light of the removal of the “business purpose” requirement from many governing statutes. We are interested in articles and essays that discuss any legal or practical ramifications—including, but not limited to, issues regarding not-for-profit organizations and non-“business” uses.

 In case you are not familiar with the William Mitchell Law Review, here is some background information. The Law Review recently ranked twenty-second nationally in citations by judges and fifty-seventh in citations by other law journals and over the years has published works from five United States Supreme Court Justices (Warren E. Burger (William Mitchell ’31), Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O’Connor, Lewis Franklin Powell Jr., and Byron White). While the Law Review of course publishes many articles from academics, we also welcome the work of expert practitioners.

 We are committed to timely publication of this issue, and therefore submissions are due by August 1, 2011. For authors with a record of timely submissions to journals, we may be willing to make a publication decision based on an abstract of approximately 500-800 words, submitted by May 1, 2011.

 If you might be interested in writing an article or essay for this issue, please contact the Executive Editor Peter Banick at peter.banick@wmitchell.edu. He will provide more detailed information with respect to submissions, acceptance, and the editorial timeline and process, as well as answer any questions that you may have.

(Emphasis added).  Note that WMLR accepts papers from both academics and practitioners.

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Call for Papers: AALS Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Unincorporated Associations

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

A call for papers of interest to law profs who are interested in UBEs (emphasis in text added):

CALL FOR PAPERS

AALS Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and
Unincorporated Associations

2012 AALS Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.

The AALS Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Unincorporated Associations will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on the subject of Using Unincorporated Business Entities for Non-Business or Non-Profit Purposes. 

Business entities may be created for purposes that do not include, or at least are not limited to, the pursuit of business or profit activities. In such instances, unincorporated business entities may offer advantages over incorporated entities. At the same time, unincorporated entities may create complex issues for the entities’ stakeholders and managers.

 We are soliciting papers on a broad range of issues dealing with the use of unincorporated business entities for non-business or non-profit purposes. Among the topics that might be addressed are:

  •  The extent to which states compete to be the jurisdiction of organization for such non-business entities and whether this competition is socially efficient.
  • The respective roles of federal and state law in these developments.
  • The comparative advantages (or disadvantages) of unincorporated entities over incorporated entities when used for non-business purposes.
  • The emergence of the L3C or similar ‘social benefit’ entities and their utility (or lack thereof).
  • The implications for management, structural and legal concepts (e.g., limited liability, agency principles, fiduciary duties, and the duty of good faith) when an unincorporated business entity is operated for non-business purposes.

 A draft paper or proposal may be submitted via email to: Professor Rutheford B Campbell, Jr. at the following e-mail address: rcampbel@uky.edu (Please note that in the e-mail address there is only one “l” in “rcampbel”).

 Deadline Date for Submission: June 1, 2011. 

There is no requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.

 Program participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and expenses.

 Papers will be selected after review by the section’s Executive Committee.

The section does not plan to publish the papers in a journal.

 Contact for submission and inquiries:

Professor Rutheford B Campbell, Jr.
University of Kentucky College of Law
rcampbel@uky.edu
Phone: (859)257-4050
FAX: (859)323-1061

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