Birmingham Law School (University of Birmingham) presents its Annual Postgraduate Research Conference, Transcending Boundaries in Law, June 13, 2014. Abstracts are due April 28, 2014. The conference is aimed at postgraduate students and early career scholars, in any area of law.
We seek contributions from postgraduate students in all areas of law which engage the following questions (inter alia):
- How do we understand and delimit boundaries in legal knowledge and legal disciplines? How are legal boundaries made? What are their epistemic, moral, or political foundations and justifications?
- Who makes them? What is their function? Do we need boundaries? Are there different kinds of boundaries that affect how we understand law, and its potentialities, whether emancipatory or regulatory?
- How can inter-disciplinary approaches to the study of the law make for a better understanding of these boundaries?
- Do boundaries in legal subjects (such as those listed below) need to be transcended?
- If so, how can this be done, and what are the limits and boundaries of doing so?
- Do legal boundaries play a role in legal writing and in the framing of legal problems, legal methodologies, legal actors, and legal solutions?
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