amlecon 2012 - The American Law and Economics Association annual meeting

The American Law and Economics Association annual meeting on May 18-19, 2012 will be held at Stanford. The deadline for paper submissions is January 17, 2012. Complete details for the Call for Papers are after the jump.
To submit a paper for consideration, please visit the ALEA web site (http://www.amlecon.org); choose the "Annual Meeting" link on the left-hand side of the screen, and then click on the link at the top of the screen that references the 2012 Meeting. You can also submit directly through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) conference management system, using the link: http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=ALEA-2012.To submit a paper for consideration, please use this link. (Do not use the regular SSRN paper submission system.)
All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Submission instructions: 1) Any paper may be submitted to only one topic. See list of topics below. 2) When you submit, you will need to indicate the topic that includes whether your paper is best considered as “empirical”, or as “theoretical or other” 3) Only complete papers, submitted by ALEA members, will be considered. 4) A paper which is missing the main empirical or theoretical results is not yet ready to be submitted. We will, however, consider papers with results that are otherwise “rough”; indeed, we encourage early stage papers, which are more likely to benefit from comments at the conference. 5) You can submit a paper without having paid the ALEA dues for 2012, but your paper will not be considered unless your dues are paid by Jan 31, 2012.
To become an ALEA member or renew your membership for 2012 ($70; $30 for students), go to www.amlecon.org. To see if you have paid your dues, please (i) select the "Membership Services" link; (ii) “click here” where indicated to enter the membership registration section, (iii) enter your email address (name is optional), and (iv) click on your user name. You will see your membership status at the bottom of the page (including the "paid through" date). Please do not email ALEA asking if you have paid your dues, unless you really need to.
The topics for submission are: 1. Administrative Law and Legislation 2. Antitrust and Regulated Industries (other than financial institutions) 3. Bankruptcy, Secured Credit and Creditors’ Rights 4. Civil and Criminal Procedure, Litigation, Arbitration, and Mediation 5. Commercial Law 6. Contracts 7. Corporate Governance, Law and Finance, and Theory of the Firm 8. Corporate Law, Securities Law, Nonprofit Organizations 9. Courts, Judges, and Judicial Decionmaking 10. Criminal Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement 11. Employment Law, Labor Law, and Discrimination 12. Environmental Law 13. Evidence and Juries 14. Family Law 15. Financial Institutions 16. Health Law 17. Inequality, Race, and Gender 18. Intellectual Property 19. International Law (public and private), International Trade, Immigration, and Law and Development 20. Lawyers, Law Firms, and Legal Profession 21. Medical Malpractice 22. Political Economy and Public Choice 23. Property 24. Public Law, Constitutional Law, and Statutory Interpretation 25. Taxation and Public Finance 26. Torts, Products Liability and Insurance 27. Transfer Programs and Economic Inequality 28. Other [not a good fit for any of the topics above]