Posted by Call for Papers: UCL Post Graduate and Early Careers Conference 2017 @ Faculty of Laws, University College London
For your kind reference, short details of the program are as follows:
The Art of Balancing: The Role of Law in Reconciling Competing Interests
WHAT:
Call for Paper
WHEN:
30-31 March 2017
WHERE:
Faculty of Laws, University College London, London, UK.
ABOUT
University College London Faculty of Laws is pleased to invite submissions for its 2017 Postgraduate and Early Careers Conference to be held on 30-31 March 2017, at University College London, London, UK.
The conference is designed to provide current doctoral students and recent PhD graduates with a forum to present and discuss their work among academic peers from different backgrounds and legal disciplines. The conference aims to promote fruitful research collaboration between its participants, and to encourage their integration in a community of legal scholars.
Conference Theme
The Conference theme is “The Role of Law in Reconciling Competing Interests”.
Relevant papers may concern any field of law.
Examples of issues addressed by relevant papers may include (but are not limited to):
- Human rights and public interest;
- Necessity and proportionality and other multi-sourced equivalent norms;
- Constitutional rights and terrorism;
- Protection of public health and environment in trade and investment agreements;
- Sustainable development and climate change and commercial activity;
- Copyrights, trademarks and patent protection;
- lex specialis and competing domestic or international law norms;
- Legal theory’s approach to conflicting rights and freedoms;
- Constitutional rights and the protection of rights absent a written constitution;
- Balancing of competing interest by adjudicative bodies.
Welcome Applications:
We welcome applications from current doctoral students, both in law and law-related disciplines, and from recent graduates of doctoral programs up to five years since the completion of their PhD. We encourage submissions engaging all disciplines of law.
Selection Procedure:
Selection will be based on the quality of the proposal, as well as its capacity to engage with other proposals in a collaborative dialogue.
Abstract Deadline:
Interested scholars should email an abstract of up to 750 words along with a short bio in no more than two paragraphs by 25 December 2016 to the following address: PGC2017@ucl.ac.uk
Abstracts should reflect papers that have not been published nor submitted elsewhere for consideration for publication.
Successful applicants will be selected by an Organizing Committee and notified no later than 15 January 2017.
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