The Program & Planning Committee of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference invites abstract submissions for the 17th annual conference (PLSC 2024) to be held in person on Thursday and Friday, May 30 and 31 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC.
What is PLSC?
PLSC is a paper workshop conference. It offers no opportunity or obligation to publish. The goal is to provide support for in-progress scholarship related to information privacy law. To do so, PLSC assembles a wide array of privacy law scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who engage in scholarship. Scholars from non-law disciplines—including but not limited to surveillance studies, technology studies, feminist and queer studies, information studies, critical race studies, social sciences, humanities, and computer science—are critical participants in this interdisciplinary field. We follow a format in which a discussant, rather than the author, introduces and leads a discussion on a paper. There are no panels or talking heads; attendees read papers in advance and offer constructive feedback as full participants in the workshop. Having your paper accepted is NOT a requirement for attending and contributing to the conference, and indeed many attendees do not present a paper.
How to submit an abstract?
The abstract submission portal is available here. You will be asked to provide your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information, as well as the same information for all co-authors, if applicable. The core of your submission is an anonymous abstract of 500-700 words that explains the main contributions of your paper and how it relates to the existing relevant scholarly literature. See below for more information about your abstract. You must then include a bibliography in a separate box; this does not count toward the 500-700 word limit. Note that this is not a list of professional references; it is a bibliography, a list of sources that you are using in your submission. Finally, you must select up to four (4) keywords that apply from a list provided. This is essential to categorize your work and assign appropriate commentators.
PLEASE NOTE: Abstracts that violate this rule and reveal the identity of the author(s) will be rejected. Abstracts that are not accompanied by a bibliography will be rejected. Abstracts that are below 500 words and above 700 will be rejected, as well.
Award consideration.
If your submission is accepted and you would like to be considered for PLSC’s paper awards, your draft paper must be submitted on time. No exceptions.
Key dates:
Abstracts due: January 29, 2024 by 11:59 PM Pacific time, no exceptions
Notification of acceptance: Approximately February 23, 2024
Full workshop paper drafts due: May 10, 2024.
Registration:
You can register for PLSC 2023 here. PLSC is free for students (JD, Masters, and PhD students) invited by the conference hosts and/or volunteer to help staff the conference, and students and post-docs whose submissions are accepted and will be workshopped.
What if my research is sponsored or funded?
In many disciplines, research is funded by grants. Any funding and sponsorship must be disclosed, and there is a space in the abstract submission portal to do so. We will not accept papers that are subject to pre-publication review/veto by a sponsor, or those where the sponsor controls the content of the paper. We require a conflict of interest statement on scholarship.
Please email [email protected] if there are any questions or concerns.
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