McGill University, Montreal
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS
STATELESS LAW? THE FUTURE OF THE
DISCIPLINE
Faculty of Law, McGill University
28‐29 September
2012
To celebrate the 10th
anniversary
of the first graduating class of the McGill Program, the
Faculty of Law and the Quebec Research Centre of
Private and Comparative Law will host an international
conference on the
future of the
discipline of law. This event
will aim to foster a debate
that critically assesses the
latest developments
in legal thought and innovative approaches
to law, in the light of the challenge of globalization and the
move away from a national paradigm for understanding law. It will also ask the question
of how to integrate the
insights so gained into the teaching
of law. The concern is with law in all its dimensions:
public and private, local and
transnational, formal and informal. By being
forced to abandon, at least in part, the
posited law of the nation state
as their lode
star, legal education
and legal scholarship have been presented
with an opportunity to break the mould of centuries of legal
nationalism: an opportunity that encourages new,
transdisciplinary and transnational ways of thinking about law. In short, the goal is to re-assess and to re-imagine the
discipline of law, its place in the university, and its role
in society. The
working languages of the conference will
be English and French.
Some
of the themes which we
expect
to be covered include:
How do globalization and legal
pluralism affect our understanding of law, legal
education or both? In its interaction with other
disciplines, how does law preserve its disciplinary
identity? Can a renewed understanding
of particular fields of law shed light on our evolving
understanding of the discipline?
How is the teaching
and research
of basic private law—contracts,
civil wrongs, property, the law of persons—affected by
the increasingly
transnational and transdisciplinary focus of legal
scholarship?
Confirmed
speakers
include:
- Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty (Collège de France)
- Professor John Gardner (University of Oxford)
- Professor Ernest Weinrib (University of Toronto)
- Professor Annelise Riles (Cornell University)
Proposals for papers
are now invited.
If you would like to offer a paper,
please
submit a working title and an abstract
(of no more than 350 words) by email to crdpcq.law@mcgill.ca before April, 16th, 2012. The abstract should be
written in English or French, the
language of the
abstract indicating the language of the
proposed full paper.
Proposals for sessions
may also be submitted. Such proposals should include three or four paper
proposals on a given theme. A session might be
organized around an interdisciplinary nexus,
postgraduate and/or undergraduate
legal education,
or a particular field of law or
approach to law. Session proposals
must include a statement
that all of the proposed speakers have
agreed
to participate, and contact information
for all proposed speakers.
Proposals will be
selected on the
basis of their quality and
originality, as well as their engagement
with the conference theme and
their fit with other papers
being presented at
the conference. The selection will be
made by a scientific
committee.
Presenters whose
proposals are accepted
will be expected to
meet
their own travel
and accommodation costs, although the
conference registration
fee
will be waived.
Depending
on the outcome
of applications for financial assistance,
some funds may be available
to assist presenters with travel
and accommodations; those who have need of such funds should indicate this in their
applications.
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