Call For Papers: Critical Legal Conference 2009

Critical Legal Conference 2009
"Genealogies: Excavating Legal Modernity"
September 11-13, 2009
Leicester, UK
www.le.ac.uk/law/clc2009

Keynote Speaker: Marcela Iacub (EHESS/CNRS).
Plenary Panellists: Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck), Colin Gordon (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust) and Véronique Voruz (Leicester).

Call for Papers

The Critical Legal Conference 2009 will be held in Leicester, UK. The main theme of the conference, "Genealogies: Excavating Legal Modernity", seeks to assess and review the significance of the work of Michel Foucault for the study of law, especially in light of the ongoing publication of his lectures at the Collège de France.

Proposals for papers addressing the main theme of the conference should be sent by email directly to the conference organisers (clc2009@le.ac.uk) no later than Friday, 26 June 2009. Potential presenters are invited to interpret the main theme in the broadest possible sense.

* Genealogies: Excavating Legal Modernity

Individual paper proposals for streams should be sent directly to stream coordinators no later than Friday, 26 June 2009.

* Revolutions in Natural Law
* Critical Property Theory: The Powers of Property
* Labour, Work and Equality
* Tragic Jurisprudence
* Laws of Empire
* Virtual Worlds, Virtual Law?
* Mapping the Terrain of WTO Law
* Genealogy of Human Rights from a Third-World Perspective

The organisers are also happy to consider further papers that may not address the main theme or the theme of an individual stream but are otherwise significant for the development of critical legal scholarship.

Further information on how to submit proposals, registration fees, research student bursaries, travel and accommodation is available on the conference website www.le.ac.uk/law/clc2009.