CALL
FOR PAPERS
British
Association of Comparative Law
(BACL)
Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative
Law
Kent Centre for European
and Comparative Law
Kent Law School
Canterbury, UK
19–20 June
2012
The Kent Centre forEuropean and Comparative Law (KCECL) will host the
British Association of ComparativeLaw (BACL) “Postgraduate Workshop on
Comparative Law” on 19-20 June 2012. The
workshop will precede an
international conference on “Comparative
Law: Engaging Translation” on 21-22 June
2012. Both events
are scheduled to take
place at Kent Law
School, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
The BACL Postgraduate
Workshop on Comparative Law is designed
for doctoral students working on
dissertations in the field
of comparative legal studies
and related
subjects. In a round-table setting,
the 2-day workshop will address both the
benefits
and methodological problems of postgraduate
research
in comparative law.
The workshop will start on Tuesday
early afternoon
with a welcome
from the Chair of BACL, Professor Paula Giliker,
and a series
of plenary lectures, followed
by a dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Wednesday
morning will be given over
to student presentations and group discussion, followed by a final plenary
session.
Confirmed Speakers:
•
Dr Raluca Bercea,
University
of Timisoara, Romania
•
Professor Paula Giliker, University of Bristol, UK
•
Dr Simone Glanert,
University
of Kent, UK
•
Professor Geoffrey Samuel,
University
of Kent, UK
BACL
and KCECL are subsidising most of the costs of this event. However, a
contribution,
which covers refreshments,
the conference dinner on Tuesday,
19 June 2012 and a sandwich lunch on
Wednesday,
20 June 2012, will be required (£30 for postgraduate
students whose
institutions are members of
BACL,
£40 for students whose institutions are
not members
of BACL, £45 for full-time academics). The
fee
is payable in cash at the beginning
of the workshop.
Participants
will be expected to
organise and pay for their own transport to and from Canterbury.
Canterbury
is easily reached by fast train out of London St Pancras (1 hour) or
out of Paris (2
hours on the Eurostar to Ashford International and 20 minutes
on a local connecting train).
Participants will also be expected to pay for their
overnight accommodation, which can readily be
found in the University’s halls of residence if
so desired.
Bookings must be arranged independently
through the Internet: http://kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk/kxBnB/.
A single standard room will cost £30
per night and an en-suite
single room £45 per night (plus VAT). If preferred, a
number of B&Bs and small hotels are
to be found in the city centre within a few
minutes’ reach
of the university
campus: http://www.guesthousesincanterbury.co.uk/.
Students interested in
participating in the workshop should
submit an abstract of no more than
400 words and a short biographical note
by 1 March 2012. All inquiries
and materials should be addressed to Dr Simone
Glanert (S.Glanert@kent.ac.uk), Kent Centre for European
and Comparative Law, University
of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent,
UK.
Formal invitations to selected
candidates will be issued
before
15 March 2012.
Students invited
to join the workshop may want to
consider attending
the international
conference on “Comparative
Law: Engaging Translation” to take
place on 21-22 June 2012. This conference will
bring together
leading scholars from various
disciplines, including translation
studies, linguistics, postcolonial
studies, sociology and law with a view critically to reflect upon the
many issues arising from legal translation in the
context of comparative legal
studies. For a detailed
conference programme
and information regarding the
registration process, please see: http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/cecl/News.html.
*
The following institutions are
members
of BACL: Aberdeen,
Birmingham, Bristol,
Buckingham, Cambridge (TBC), Derby, Edinburgh, Essex,
Exeter, Glasgow,
Hull, KCL (TBC), Kent, Leicester,
Liverpool JMU, Manchester,
Nottingham, Nottingham, Trent,
Northumbria, Oxford, Sheffield, Strathclyde,
UCL, UEA, Warwick.
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