Welcome to ICA – Laws Legal Institute
Connecting tomorrow’s leaders with the top echelon of legal scholarship and industry-wide networks
Introducing the ICA – Laws Legal Institute. The ICA – Laws Legal Institute is where the future of legal education meets the present. We are a collective elite network of uniquely experienced early to mid-career legal scholars serving as administrators in the nation’s best law schools. We are connected to the upper echelon of non-discardable networks that define current legal research. A new generation models the way, bringing a continued commitment of aspiration and dedication to cross-disciplinary legal scholarship.
Our purpose is simple: Building a national network of cream-of-the-crop early and mid-career scholars who can seamlessly tap and build the best available networks to make transformative research possible.
This weekend at the AALS Annual Meeting, come join the ICA – Laws Legal Institute Leadership and Founders from 8:00AM to 11:00AM on Saturday, January 6th or Sunday, January 7th.
Our Programs
The ICA Laws Legal Institute is a new global legal research organization creating legal scholarship leading to great benefit to society. The Institute aims to offer legal researchers four distinct programs. Each with direct mentorship opportunities from some of the world’s most distinguished legal scholars, opportunities to participate in retreats that will transform personal/professional lives, and opportunities to build back community support for social justice, and other causes that matter.
- Leverage national network legal research
- Legal Research Speaker Networking — Attend a designated program for networking and relationship building with some of our top legal research speakers during ICA conferences.
- Cross-disciplinary legal research programs
- Attend an ICA book presentation – Experience a presentation from a pre-eminent legal scholar highlighting a hopefully ubiquitous legal publications program to create increased interests in legal practice bodies of work through engagement with practitioners and officials.
- Become a signature ICA Book reviewer (The Institute hopes to offer many book review programs)
- Join an ICA Reviewer Network — Receive, select and deliver published works (20-30 per month) to scholarly reviewers across all disciplines.
- Hurgronje International Conference – Take part in the ICA signature Hurgronje conferences on seven continents as we support an African legal information network for association and collaboration.
- Annual and biannual conference programs
- Annual program for early-career scholars — Assist the ICA in developing the two-training programs for early career scholars. Become part of selecting and case-managing faculty mentors and outstanding scholarly course materials and product.
- Annual summer and winter publishing retreat programs.
- Attend separately the ICA WorkSpan, Seminar, and Writer’s Suites retreats in several U.S. cities, as preeminent authors from around the world converge on each of them.
- Claim research consulting, teaching, and clerkship positions through established networks — Think AALRS.
Mentorship Opportunities
Get Mentored By ICA of Laws with Some of the Best in The Country
The International Congress of Arab Lawyers – Laws League (ICA – Laws League) is introducing ICA – Laws League Grantees and Mentors, distinguished American or Arab Scholars who are renown and respected instructors from some of the most prestigious legal institutions in the United States and across the United States. They represent a perfect blend of academic excellence and international expertise, and they embody the principles of excellence.
All ICA – Laws League mentors are experienced scholars and practitioners who have mentored explore nationalities, research areas, and legal disciplines. Individual experiences vary among mentors, but in general, ICA – Laws League’s mentors offer:
- Mentorship by highly accomplished U.S. legal scholars and practitioners
- In-depth, constructive feedback on preparation and clarity, including resistance to simply transcribing for students
- Revision of substandard bibliographies
- Networking opportunities through specialized law or interdisciplinary firms or institutions
- Co-teaching opportunities
- Office visits; attendance at student scholarship presentations
- Office hours made available for additional feedback
- Mentor visibility at annual ICA – Laws League academic conference: giving outreach to students and encouraging non-mentored student researchers to consider applying
- Mentoring students for an academic or professional career
- Mentoring the creation of connections between mentees and teacher
- Providing graduate-level assignments from each mentor’s school
- Teaching and training regarding various skills from contract to tort to criminal law
Mentored by ICA-Laws League mentors facilitates sharing of experience, fostering an important connection between early and mid-career legal scholars and other academic lawyers.
Upcoming Events
Stay informed about our annual and biannual events, conferences, and workshops across major U.S. cities. Our annual events, biannual research conferences, and workshops are indispensable destinations for the development of early- and mid-career legal scholars, the advancement of established scholars’ work, and the mentoring of junior faculty.
- The 6th Annual Conference and Workshop on Empirical Legal Studies in Los Angeles – Join Us!
- Just a quick reminder for upcoming events – our 6th Annual Conference and Biannual Call for Proposals!
- You may have heard that our the Sixth Annual Conference On Empirical Legal Studies will be held at UCLA this coming November. This is an important event world wide for early and mid-career scholars in the study of the empirical social sciences within the law and other allied disciplines.
- 1. ICA 3: Part 1, Los Angeles, CA (March 15-16, 2024) and ICA 3: Part 2, New York, NY (April 20-21, 2024)
- 2. Annual Legal Scholars Conference, Chicago, IL (July 10-12, 2024)
- 3. Interdisciplinary Legal Research Workshop, Washington, D.C. (September 5-6, 2024)
Join Our Community
Become part of a national network of legal research leaders by engaging with ICA – Laws Legal Institute programs and events. Join the ICA – Laws Legal Institute Community of Innovators.
- ✓ Access to a national network of legal research innovators
- ✓ Transformative mentorship from eminent legal scholars
- ✓ Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with early and mid-career legal scholars
- ✓ Participation in nationally recognized legal academic events
- ✓ Subscription to collaborative legal scholarship resources and the law library
Contact Us
We encourage you to get in touch with ICA – the Laws Legal Institute! We are here for you whether you want to get involved as a participant, mentor or partner. Want to share ideas? Our team is always available to talk or discuss any questions you may have regarding participation, upcoming events, and any online programs. Here at ICA we celebrate and encourage collaboration within the network of the ICA community and other networks; learning from and inspiring your colleagues is what we do best!
- ✓ If you have questions or would like to find out more about any aspect of what we do, simply click the button below – the ICA team will be there to provide any clarity or information you require.
- ✓ Please note our contact details below:
Address: 6789 Sepulveda Blvd Ste 61, Los Angeles CA 90045
Phone: (738) 735-7211
Email: [email protected] - ✓ We also encourage all readers to sign up to the mailing list through the ICA website. Connect with our national network of innovative legal research leaders today!