The University of Michigan Law School hosts its 2015 Young Scholars’ Conference, Within/out the Narrow Confines of the Law, March 27-28, 2015. The deadline for abstract submissions is Dec. 2, 2014.
The conference is designated to provide aspiring doctoral students and recent graduates with a forum to present and discuss their work among academic peers from different nationalities 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.
By their mere functionality, law and legal institutions rely on legal definitions to provide them with clarity, reliability, and predictability. Yet, it seems that the confines of the law are ever changing and forever expanding as new approaches to law are emerging.
In a multi-polar era, where new powers arise, globalization and innovation are constantly expanding, and the law keeps pervading into every aspect of society and the individual—can legal theories adapt rapidly enough? Can the concept of “law” and legal definitions cultivate new approaches to law?
The Michigan Law School 2015 Young Scholars’ Conference—under the theme, “Within/out the Narrow Confines of the Law”—will explore existing confines of “law” and conventional legal theories, and their relationship with new approaches to, and within, the law.
We welcome applications from current doctoral students, both in law and law-related disciplines, and from recent graduates of doctoral programs. The deadline for abstract submissions is December 2, 2014.
We encourage submissions engaging all disciplines of law in various legal systems. Selection will be based on the quality of the proposal, as well as its capacity to engage with other proposals towards a collaborative dialogue.
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