3rd Annual Conference Women in Legal Philosophy

It is with great pleasure that we are sharing the news that the The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy is holding its 3rd Annual Conference this summer, on Thursday 29th May to Sunday 1st June 2025. The conference is sponsored by the University of Illinois Law and Philosophy Program and the keynote lecture will be delivered by Prof. Agnes Callard, Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Chicago.

We are also delighted to announce that we are working in partnership with the prestigious journal Law & Philosophy, which will publish the selected papers, subject to peer review.  If the paper is selected, you agree not to submit the paper elsewhere until a decision by Law and &Philosophy is communicated. 

Call for Papers

We have now opened a Call for Papers for the conference, which will be a pre-read conference with a focus on four papers. Participants will be selected through a competitive, peer-reviewed process to include a mix of junior, mid-career, and more senior scholars. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30th January, 2025. Papers should be submitted through https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/fb48fd4fe1d14ec78747c7acdb7b808e (click on the link or 'cut and paste').

Papers should engage law and philosophy, broadly defined, with a preference for analytic philosophical methods. Papers may address any substantive or procedural area of law. Decisions will be communicated by 1st April, 2025.

Please do share this CFA widely. We are very much looking forward to this event and to getting as many of us as possible together once again!

With best wishes,

The Collective of Women in Legal Philosophy

Connecting Women, Contributing to Knowledge.