Call for Papers: Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2026, May 28 and 29, 2026
The Program & Planning Committee of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference invites submissions for the 19th annual conference (PLSC 2026) to be held in person on Thursday and Friday, May 28 and 29, 2026, with a new mentorship-focused pre-conference on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 27, at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana
Key dates:
Submissions due: January 20, 2026 by 11:59 PM Pacific time, no exceptions.
Notification of acceptance: Approximately three to four weeks later.
Full workshop paper drafts and Discussion Session summaries due: May 7, 2026 by 11:59 Pacific time.
Registration:
You can register for PLSC 2026 here.
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 law and technology and 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. For paper sessions, 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
For more details, refer here
