Category Archives: Jurisprudence

The British Society for Ethical Theory

2008 Conference for The British Society for Ethical Theory at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, UK on July 14-16, 2008.  The call for papers deadline is December 7, 2007. Thanks:…

How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law

James Boyd White will deliver the keynote address for “How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law” at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. on November 2, 2007. The…

Law, Knowledge, and Imagination – Tuscaloosa

Austin Sarat is organizing a three-part conference at the University of Alabama School of Law: Law, Knowledge, and Imagination. Oct. 19, 2007 – Law’s History: How Law Understands the Past …

Gender, Family – Brighton, UK

Sussex Law School hosts Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 (“An international, interdisciplinary conference), July 10-12, 2008, at Sussex Downs (near Brighton). Paper proposals will be reviewed in…

Obligations — Goals of Private Law — Singapore

“The Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at the National University of Singapore from 23-25 July 2008. The conference will be co-hosted by the National…

Legal Realism, Feminism, Legal Theory – Madison

The University of Wisconsin School of Law hosts New Legal Realism Meets Feminism & Legal Theory II: Empirical Perspectives on the Place of Law in Women’s Work and Family Lives…

Rhetoric – Eugene

The University of Oregon hosts “The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric After 50 Years,” May 17-20, 2008, in Eugene. Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca published La Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité…

Critical Legal Conference – London

Birkbeck University of London hosts the 2007 Critical Legal Conference: Walls, Sept. 14-16. “We seek to put into question the very structures which separate schools, traditions, states, world-views.”