Abstracts are invited for the Edinburgh
Postgraduate Law Conference, to be held December 2-3, 2013 at the University
of Edinburgh, UK. The conference aims to provide a forum for postgraduate
students to present and receive feedback on their work and to network with
other researchers working in their area.
Conference theme
The theme of the conference is “Law, Individual,
Community”. We invite papers from all areas of law and related fields, including
but not limited to commercial law, constitutional law, criminal law, critical
approaches to law, human rights, intellectual property law, international law,
legal theory, and medical law. Possible topics of investigation include:
§ Liberalism versus communitarianism,
§ Problematizing the subject of law (the
collective subject, sub-state subjects in international law etc.),
§ Rights and responsibilities, including
group rights and indigenous peoples’ rights,
§ Law and the excluded,
§ Community and the welfare state,
§ The role and position of shareholders
against the corporation,
§ Corporate social responsibility and
corporate governance,
§ The principle of self-determination and
sub-state territorial autonomy,
§ The rise of global governance,
§ Community interests and the protection of
the environment,
§ Biobanking and participation in medical
research,
§ Intellectual property rights and access
to medicines.
Keynote speakers
The keynote speakers for this year’s conference
will be Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at LSE, and John
Harris, Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of
Manchester.
Training component
The conference will include three training
sessions, seeking to offer participants advice on managing their PhDs, on
publishing as early career researchers and on finding their niche in the
academic job market.
Prizes
Prizes will be awarded for the best paper submitted
and best presentation at the conference.
Abstract submissions
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and 3-5
keywords are to be submitted to EdLawPhDConference@gmail.com,
together with a short biographical note (approx. 100 words) on the author. The deadline
for submitting abstracts is August 15, 2013.
Selected participants will be notified by early September.
More information
More information on the conference can be found on
our website: http://lawphdconference.ed.ac.uk.
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