17 February 2021

Global Sustainability & Comparative Legal Cultures: Call for Papers

 Call for Papers


SIRD (Società Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato) 

opens an international Call for Papers for Younger Comparatists on

Global Sustainability & Comparative Legal Cultures

BACKGROUND

Environmental-friendly production, practices and actions to support long-term economic

growth, sustainable consumption, new food patterns, and new policies to save natural resource

and limit pollution, are receiving renewed attention both globally and on a local scale. How do

legal systems consider the Nature’s resilience? How various cultural elements affect sustainability?

How new forms of governance re-shape cultural policies in the Western tradition and elsewhere?

Acknowledging the crucial role of a cross-cultural, comparative approach to global sustainability,

is it possible to promote legal change for a better future, and if so, in which ways?

The 2021 SIRD Call for Papers for Younger Comparatists explores the interaction of

humankind with Earth’s environmental dynamics, to comparatively examine the many pathways

through which legal cultures support and promote Nature’s resilience.

DATE AND VENUE

April 22, 2022, at the Department of International, Legal, Historical and Political Studies

of the University of Milano “La Statale”.

The event is to take place in person, but if the Covid-19 crisis shall still impose

restrictions remote participation will be allowed.

TO WHOM THE CALL FOR PAPERS IS ADDRESSED

This call is addressed to PhD candidates and holders, lecturers, adjunct professors, based

at Italian or foreign Universities.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

Proposal are received by email (sird2022youngercomparatists@gmail.com ) before April

15, 2021. Please send in an abstract of apx 300 words in Word format (Times New Roman 12),

Jean Monnet Chair - ENFASIS

with essential information about the applicant (Author’s contacts, University affiliation, proposal title).

Selected proposals will receive a notification of acceptance within July 31, 2021.

The deadline for the presentation of a draft paper of no more than 10.000 words with footnotes is February, 1, 2022.

Papers are presented at the event in Italian or English, and must be written in one of these languages.

FEE AND GENERAL ASPECTS

Scientific Council, composed of 5 professors, will select 20 proposals for presentation at the event according to the double-blind peer review.

There is no participation fee for this call.

AWARDS

The three best papers will receive the award of SIRD Younger Comparatists 2022 (400 euro). The award will be announced to the public at the opening of the event.

PROCEEDINGS

After the event, selected papers may be considered for publication by SIRD.

EVENT SUPPORT

The 2021 SIRD Call for Papers for Younger Comparatists is supported by the Jean Monnet Chair ENFASIS (European Novel Foods Agreement and Intercultural Sustainable Systems) held by Prof. Sabrina Lanni, DILHPS of Milan University.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact segreteria@sirdcomp.it or sabrina.lanni@unimi.it