<p> CALL FOR PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT AALS SECTION ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY</p><p>Does the First Amendment Protect Attorney Advice, Assistance, and Representation?</p><p>Friday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. 2012 AALS Annual Meeting Washington, DC</p><p>The AALS Section on Professional Responsibility will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC titled “Does the First Amendment Protect Attorney Advice, Assistance, and Representation?” and invites the submission of papers on this topic for presentation and/or publication consideration. Papers that address issues relevant to the topic will be considered. For example, papers may address issues such as: Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez and legal advice and advocacy as protected speech; how Citizens United intersects with NAACP v. Button; implications of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project on limiting lawyer's advice in other areas; Milavetz v. United States and issues of forced speech and disclosure requirements in connection with the delivery of legal services; and other First Amendment implications for the practice of law including lawyers' use of social media, advertising, and criticism of the judiciary. </p><p>Eligibility: Faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers. Law students, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit. </p><p>Registration Fee and Expenses: Call for Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses. </p><p>How will papers be reviewed? Papers will be selected after anonymous review by the members of the 2012 Annual Meeting Program Committee listed below. In order to facilitate anonymous review, please identify yourself and your institutional affiliation only in the cover letter to your manuscript and not in the manuscript itself. </p><p>Members of the 2012 PR Section Program Committee: Peter Joy (chair), Washington University in St. Louis School of Law Teri Dobbins Baxter, St. Louis University School of Law Barbara Glesner Fines, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law Jack Sahl, The University of Akron School of Law </p><p>Will program be published in journal? Papers will be eligible for publication by the Journal of the Professional Lawyer by mutual agreement of the author and journal editors. Deadline date for submission: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Authors of accepted papers will be notified by Friday, September 30, 2011. Please submit as early as possible.</p><p>Contact for submission and inquiries: Peter A. Joy Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120 St. Louis, MO 63130 [email protected]</p>