APA Newsletters
Fall 1999
Volume 99, Number 1

In addition, I want to acknowledge help from Philosophy and Law Committee members Frances Kamm (Philosophy, NYU) and Larry May (Philosophy, Washington University) for drafting some of the law review abstracts for this issue of the Newsletter. Finally, readers should note that the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law has two new members, effective summer of 1999: Bill Edmundson, our guest editor for this issue, and Claire Finkelstein (Law, University of California at Berkeley).

Topics and topic editors for the next three issues of the Newsletter are as follows:

Editor: Richard Nunan
Department of Philosophy
& Religious Studies
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
(843) 953-6522
nunanr@cofc.edu

Since a number of recent issues have been devoted to specific topics, it seems appropriate to schedule an open issue for a change, for the purpose of encouraging broader participation from the readers of this newsletter. Any topic relating to the interface between philosophy and law is welcome.

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2000

Editor: Richard Nunan

(see Spring 2000 announcement for address)

There are many philosophically interesting topics that fall under this heading, raising not just First Amendment questions (e.g., the ongoing debate about public high school biology curricula, or the one about state support for parochial schools), but also sometimes involving questions about the right to privacy (e.g., the question of state intolerance of "private" consensual religiously motivated activity that happens to be criminalized in other contexts [peyote ingestion as a sacramental rite, for instance], or the issue of medical treatment refusal cases [especially for minor children]), equal protection (e.g., state prohibition of religiously motivated polygamy), and legal procedure questions (e.g., preemptory strikes of jurors of a certain religious persuasion, or whether in judicial proceedings lawyers are constitutionally entitled to compel testimony about the nature of private religious beliefs). Prospective contributors should feel free to conceive this topic fairly broadly.

Submission Deadline: Currently closed
due to number of solicited advance commitments

Guest Editor:

Brian Leiter
Director, Law and Philosophy Program
University of Texas at Austin
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 471-5151
bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu

If you are interested in submitting an article to be considered for inclusion in one of the forthcoming issues with space still available, it would be prudent to send an inquiry in advance, briefly describing your proposed topic. Space is very tight in the Newsletter, and there is room for only a few articles in each issue. Since the Newsletter aims for broad coverage of the range of issues relevant to a particular topic, it is unlikely that two articles treating of the same subtopic will be published. Advance inquiries will also enable guest editors to furnish prospective contributors with more detailed information about the formatting requirements for submissions. In any event, authors should restrict their contributions to 3,000-4,000 words (about 10-15 pages, double-spaced).