{"id":522,"date":"2017-03-10T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/?p=522"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:45:24","slug":"the-role-of-law-in-meeting-contemporary-global-challenges-llm-student-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/2017\/03\/10\/the-role-of-law-in-meeting-contemporary-global-challenges-llm-student-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: The Role of Law in Meeting Contemporary Global Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/files\/2017\/03\/KentLawSep08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-527 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/files\/2017\/03\/KentLawSep08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kent Law School Graduate Conference Committee is pleased to announce that its fifth LLM\u00a0Conference will take place on <strong>5<sup>th <\/sup>and 6<sup>th<\/sup> of June 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an era of increasing globalisation, there is a need to scrutinise the role of law in addressing the challenges associated with this development. There is an intensifying need to tackle the growing world population; migration and refugee crises arising from war and natural disasters; climate change and environmental degradation; manipulation of communication technologies against states and citizens, and national and transnational crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will focus on exploring law\u2019s role in meeting global challenges in areas including but not limited to: Economic and Environmental issues, Global Policymaking, Technology, Targeted Killings, International and Transnational Crime, the Internet and Communication Technologies, Mass Migration and Shared Security\/Global policing. The conference seeks to critically engage the legal and theoretical framework underpinning these issues and suggest possible alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Committee welcomes papers that discuss the theme of the conference from legal and other various academic perspectives. Abstract submissions should be <strong>no longer than 300 words<\/strong> and should be sent to <a href=\"mailto:lawgradconference@kent.ac.uk\">lawgradconference@kent.ac.uk<\/a>. Please note that full paper submissions are requested for consideration for the three prizes which are available for the best internal paper, the best external paper, and the best poster.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CONFERENCE SPEAKERS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Philippe Cullet of SOAS, University of London will deliver the keynote.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Clive Schmitthoff Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Fiona Macmillan from Birkbeck, University of London at 4.00 pm on Monday, 5<sup>th<\/sup> June 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>IMPORTANT DATES<\/u><\/strong><u>:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Deadline for submission of abstracts: <strong>15<sup>th<\/sup> April 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notification of acceptance: <strong>30<sup>th<\/sup> April 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Final paper submissions to be considered for a prize:<strong> 25<sup>th<\/sup> May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For any enquiries, please contact <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:lawgradconference@kent.ac.uk\"><strong>lawgradconference@kent.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you on 5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup> June 2017 at <em>The Role of Law in Meeting Contemporary Global Challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Kent Law School Graduate Conference Committee is pleased to announce that its fifth LLM\u00a0Conference will take place on 5th and 6th of June &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/2017\/03\/10\/the-role-of-law-in-meeting-contemporary-global-challenges-llm-student-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161003,160997],"tags":[161003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsllm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}