CFP: Jurisprudence Section

This year’s Conference will be held from Tuesday 9th to Friday 12th of September 2014 at the University of Nottingham (England), with the Jurisprudence Section meeting on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th September.

The theme for the conference is ‘Judging in the 21st Century’. We are not restricted thematically; we would welcome papers on any aspect of legal philosophy (or law and theories broadly understood). Alternatively, if you would like to propose a topic of current interest for a panel or roundtable discussion, please do get in touch to see if this can be arranged. The invitation extends to members of the Section and all, from established academics and junior researchers alike.

As the SLS is keen to ensure that as many members with good quality papers as possible are able to present, speakers are strongly discouraged from presenting more than one paper at the conference. With this in mind, I would be grateful if you could let me know if you are also responding to calls for papers from other sections.

Please note that whilst you need only send a proposed title and abstract at this stage, speakers are encouraged to submit a full paper to the SLS paperbank before the conference. The SLS offers a Best Paper Prize which can be awarded to academics at any stage of their career. The Prize carries a £250 monetary award and winning papers are published in Legal Studies.

Further details about the Prize are available at http://sections.legalscholars.ac.uk/best-paper-prize.cfm, though please note that to be eligible all authors must be fully paid-up members of the SLS and the paper must not:
• have been published previously or have been accepted or be under consideration for publication; or
• exceed 10,000 words.

I have also been asked to remind you that all speakers will need to book and pay to attend the conference. Booking information will be circulated in due course.

Jurisprudence stream has always had a strong range of both established and emerging speakers. The Section meetings have provided a friendly, supportive and insightful forum for speakers to present their papers and have encouraged many interesting debates on aspects of the subject. We are committed to this tradition, and I look forward to receiving the usual healthy harvest of proposals for this engaging section.

With best wishes,

Olufemi O. Ilesanmi, PhD
Convenor, Jurisprudence Section (Society of Legal Scholars, UK)
Lecturer in Law
Law School
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen (Scotland)
AB10 7QE
Email: [email protected]
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