SEALS Annual Conference

Section Summary – Call for Papers Luncheon

Call for Papers Presentation Monday July 22, 2024 SEALS hosts an annual call for papers competition that solicits entries from scholars with varying degrees of experience in the academy and a wide range of subject matter interests. The winner is recognized in the SEALS program and invited to present their work to a group of like-minded scholars at a Call for Papers luncheon. This year’s winner, Professor Jane Bambauer, is the Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Her outstanding paper, How to Get the Property Out of Privacy Law, draws on law and economics principles to argue that data privacy law fits better within a risk management model than a traditional property model. Professor

SEALS 2021 Golf Tournament Registration

The SEALS 2021 Golf Tournament – sponsored by West Academic – will take place at 8:00 a.m. on July 28, 2021 at the Oak Marsh Golf Course (Pete Dye designed), Amelia Island, Florida. Registration is open to anyone attending the SEALS 2021 Conference (or any friend, family member, or other person affiliated with the SEALS Conference). Greens Fees for the Tournament are $112.50. Club rental is available for $50. Box lunches are available for $60. Please register no later than July 21, 2021. Please contact Rob McFarland at rmcfarland@faulkner.edu with any questions. Sign Up Here

Update on SEALS 2021: Registration Opens April 1

Below are some updates regarding the upcoming SEALS meeting, which is scheduled to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Resort from July 26 to August 1, 2021. We are hopeful that we will be able to return to an in-person format, and we are delighted with our return to the Omni. Of course, the pandemic or law school budgets may derail this plan. So, ultimately, we are in a wait and see mode. If necessary, we will shift to an online format. In the meantime, although we are still accepting submissions for the upcoming meeting, we have released a draft program. If you have suggestions for change, please let me know. We expect to open registration and the room block

SEALS 2020 Wrap-up

Dear SEALS deans, program committee members, and supporters, I am pleased to report that our 74th annual meeting has come to a successful conclusion. But what an unusual year! Coming into 2020, with terrific help from our members and attendees, we had prepared a terrific program for this year’s meeting. Then, the pandemic hit and an in-person meeting became impossible. Our major risk (every year) is potential liability exposure of up to $350,000 for unused rooms and contracted-for catering, and the pandemic decimated the desire of our membership to attend an in-person meeting. We were then forced to deal with enormous challenge of how to move everything online. Moreover, because the pandemic led to an economic downturn, law school budgets were

SEALS 2020 and Covid-19

Updated 5/4/20 Dear Deans, Program Committee Members and SEALS Friends, I hope that everyone is staying safe during this pandemic, and that you are surviving as best you can. The Covid-19 situation presents a special problem for the upcoming SEALS meeting. Even if we receive the “all clear” for a late July meeting, which is far from certain, there are lots of reasons why our normal attendees might find it difficult to actually attend our meeting. Some have compromised immune systems which would make it difficult or dangerous for them to attend. Some law schools are prohibiting all travel, and some member schools are facing extremely difficult budgetary problems. SEALS is in the process of determining how best to move