SLSA 2010 Conference
Conference Streams and Themes
We welcome abstract submissions for all the streams and themes listed below.
You are also invited to contact the stream/theme organisers if you want to discuss your idea for a paper prior to submitting an abstract.
Submission of abstracts must be made by Word document to the following e-mail address: SLSA2010@uwe.ac.uk
Once we have received your abstract it will be sent to the relevant stream or theme organiser for their consideration.
Please limit your abstracts to a maximum of 300 words, which should include your title, name and institutional affiliation.
In the subject section of your e-mail you should state clearly to which stream or theme you are submitting the abstract. Please note that that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1st March 2010.
Conference Themes
International Economic law: Justice and Development
The impact of international economic law and institutions upon justice and development is an issue that justifiably commands attention from all quarters—local politicians and international celebrities,
savvy pharmaceutical companies and bewildered farmers, moral philosophers and foreign investors.
The aim of this theme is to engage in a critical examination of the law, institutions and practice constituting global and local economies.
Convenor: Dr. Amanda Perry-Kessaris
a.perry-kessaris@bbk.ac.uk
Caring relationships, legal relationships
This theme aims to explore caring relationships throughout the life cycle from childhood to old age. Papers exploring any aspect of this are welcome.
In particular papers addressing the following questions are sought:
- how does the law facilitate and regulate relationships between carers and the cared for
- how does it encourage us to care for ourselves
- when can and should the state step into take care of individuals.
Convenor: Professor Caroline Hunter
cmh516@york.ac.uk
Convenor: Morag McDermont
Morag.McDermont@bristol.ac.uk
Financialization and After
This theme aims to explore what might result from the collapse of financialization (if in fact that is what has happened).
Papers exploring what the shape of financial and corporate governance might be as the global economy settles into post crisis mode at a gobal,
EU or national level are very welcome.Papers that address the consequences for individuals in terms of pensions, risk calculation and financial literacy are also sought.
Contributions from pg scholars and from scholars researching outside the paradigm of law are particularly welcome.
Convenor: Professor Sally Wheeler
s.wheeler@qub.ac.uk
Questioning Localism
A (re)turn to localism, with its emphasis on the devolution of power to the local level, on decision making by those most closely affected by decisions,
and on local accountability, is increasingly presented as an effective response to the negative implications of centralization and globalization.
This theme seeks to explore a range of dimensions to this localism agenda, including ideas and practices of democracy, of citizenship, and of regulation.
All manner of substantive policy areas can be implicated by a turn to localism, and papers are invited from any field.
Convenor: Joanne Hunt
huntj@cf.ac.uk
Challenging ownership: meanings, space and identity
The title of this theme embraces conflicts over ownership as well as challenges to the meaning of the concept of ‘ownership’.
Papers are welcomed which address any context in which the law seeks to define, regulate, limit or conceptualise the ownership of tangible or intangible property.
In particular this might encompass:
- the emergence of new forms of land ownership or regulation such as community land trusts,
- the extent of rights to intangible, indigenous and cultural property,
- the boundaries between public and private ownership in the context of environmental or heritage protection,
- rights over unowned or abandoned property,
- the relationship of property to individual and collective identity (social, local or national).
Contributions which cross traditional subject boundaries are particularly welcome.
Convenor: Penny English
Penny.English@anglia.ac.uk
