The University of Wrocław (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) will host the 2015 Critical Legal Conference, Law, Space and the Political, Sept. 3-5, 2015. Stream proposals (up to 300 words, English, French, or Polish) are due March 31, 2015. The final list of streams will be posted April 15, 2015. Thereupon scholars may submit abstracts of individual papers until May 31, 2015.
For this year’s Critical Legal Conference – the first one ever to be held in Central and Eastern Europe – we invite stream organisers to reflect upon the complex relationship between law, space and the political, encouraging a broad understanding of those three notions. In particular, by law we understand not only legal texts produced by legislators, judges and scholars, but also a broadly conceived legal culture, social attitudes towards law, as well as other normative orders which compete with state-made rules (often affecting the actual extent of rights of human subjects). With regard to space, we have in mind both space in the literal sense, that is three-dimensionally determined areas of the globe, a continent or a city, as well as space in its metaphorical sense, as social space. Finally, regarding the political, we see it as the fundamental conflict dividing society, either in an antagonistic or agonistic manner.
