Neil Buchanan has issued his annual call for tax papers and panels for next year’s annual meeting of the Law & Society Association in Chicago, Illinois (June 22–26, 2027):

The Law & Society Association (LSA) will host its next Global Meeting from June 22 to 26, 2027, in Hong Kong.  For the 23rd year in a row, I am organizing sessions for the “Law, Society, and Taxation” group — also known as Collaborative Research Network (CRN) 31.  And for what is now the eleventh year in a row, I am delighted to be working with Professors Jennifer Bird-Pollan and Mirit Eyal-Cohen as co-organizers.

You can find the Call for Submissions email that LSA sent last week here.  This year’s official conference theme is “Law in Motion,”  but as always, you are not bound by the official theme of the conference,  Jennifer, Mirit, and I will give full consideration to proposals in any area of tax law, tax policy, distributive justice, and so on.  And as always, we especially encourage and welcome interdisciplinary scholarship.

The deadline for submissions is October 27, 2026 at 12noon Eastern Daylight Time (UTC +4). . . .

The good news that I mentioned above is that the conference will be in-person in Hong Kong from June 22-25, 2027.  This means that those of you (actually “us,” because this has affected me as well) who have quite reasonably worried about entering the US under the current policy situation will be able to attend the conference without having to worry about any of that.

In addition, the final day of the conference (June 26) will be entirely virtual, which means (as the Call for Submissions puts it) that “Participants and registrants on that day will be able to join from anywhere in the world.”  The registration fees for the various conference options are available on the “Timeline & Registration” page.

Law & Society’s online submission interface changes annually, but it has become good enough (albeit still quite quirky) for users to work through the process, screen by screen, by starting at the Submissions link here or clicking the Submission Portal (LSA Login Required) button in the email below.

Here are a few important notes:

— Most of you will choose “Individual Paper” submissions (the first option under “Abstract Type”).  If, however, you would like to organize your own full session to be included among our CRN’s sessions — which we always encourage — you should not choose “Individual Paper” but instead choose from among the other options (either of the Author-Meets-Reader (AMR) Session options, Paper Session, or Roundtable Session).

— When you get to the “CRNs” page during the submission process, go to the drop-down list and choose us: CRN31 (Law, Society, and Taxation).  If you want to choose one or two other CRN’s, feel free.  If you do not specify CRN31 as your first choice, however, yours will not be included on the list of proposals that we receive from the LSA office, and we will thus not know about your submission.  To repeat: It is essential that you specify “CRN31: Law, Society, and Taxation” as your first option.

— Note that, after you’ve clicked “Finalize,” you will no longer be able to use the online system to edit your submission. That does NOT mean, however, that you won’t be able to update your title or abstract later. because you’ll be able to do so by contacting us directly.  It only means that the online system will treat your submission as complete and uneditable within that system after you click “Finalize.”

We will organize the submissions into full sessions, and I’ll send an email to all participants later in the academic year with a slate of our proposed sessions.

Your paper need not yet be written, and the only requirement (other than submitting the proposal through the online system) is that you have at least something (an outline, a first draft, etc.) that you can send to your session chair about 30 days before the meeting (which means late May 2027).

Note also the following limitations for each participant (with VERY limited exemptions, explained here):

• One participation as a Paper Presenter or Author of an Author Meets Reader session.
• A Paper Presenter or Author of an AMR can also act as a participant in a roundtable.
• Unlimited appearances as a Chair and/or Discussant on a panel, or an AMR reader.

According to the timeline on the conference website, “acceptance letters” will be sent in December in response to submissions.

**** IMPORTANT REQUEST: Please send me an email if you are interested in serving as a chair/discussant.

We look forward to seeing many of you at our sessions in Hong Kong (or virtually on the last day).  If you know of any colleagues who might be interested in participating, especially those in fields other than tax law who would like to join our interdisciplinary community, feel free to forward this email to them.

Best,
Neil (writing also on behalf of Jennifer and Mirit)

Law, Society, and Taxation (CRN31) co-chairs:

• Jennifer Bird-Pollan
• Neil H. Buchanan
• Mirit Eyal-Cohen