For the fourth year, the Rogers Program on Law in Society* invites applications for Faculty Research Awards, worth $3,000 each, to support research and writing about the connections and interactions between law and society.

All tenured, tenure-track, continuing status, or continuing status eligible faculty at the University of Arizona are eligible to apply.  The $3,000 award can be used in any way the recipient chooses.  The award application need not include a budget.

Applications should be no more than 5 pages total.  They should include these components, in the order listed:

• Cover page indicating project name, applicant’s name, university position and department, and complete contact information (1 page).
• Description of the applicant’s project (3 pages), including:
• A clear statement of the research problem, with emphasis on how this problem enhances understanding of law and society – how legal process and institutions interact with social currents, forces, and forms.
• Whether the proposed research is part of an on-going research agenda or is a new project.
• Proposed method of research.
• Abbreviated curriculum vitae (1 page).

Award recipients will be expected to participate in the Rogers Program on Law in Society colloquium series during the 2008-09 academic year. Each recipient will present his or her work at a colloquium meeting in the spring of 2008. In addition, recipients are expected to acknowledge support of the Rogers Program in publications resulting from the supported work.

Please direct questions to, and submit applications in email form no later than noon on Friday, March 28, 2008 to:

            Professor Katherine Barnes
            Director, Rogers Program on Law in Society
            University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
            kathie.barnes@law.arizona.edu

* The Rogers Program on Law in Society, promotes cross-disciplinary research, teaching and discussion at the University of Arizona. Established in 2001, it partners the Rogers College of Law with four university departments – Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. The Program develops and supports courses taught at the law college, presents a lively colloquia series, awards faculty research grants, and sponsors the Global Society & Justice Workshop.