A Call for Papers and Panels has been issued for the UK’s annual Critical Legal Conference, a gathering of international legal scholars to be held at Kent in September 2016.
The Critical Legal Conference (CLC) attracts critical and radical legal scholars from all over the world. This year’s conference, Turning Points, is hosted by a team of scholars from Kent Law School and will take place from 1-3 September.
Law Lecturer Nick Piska, a member of the organising CLC committee, said: ‘The Critical Legal Conference 2016 will open a forum for critical reflection on precarious political situations, particularly that of Europe in a global context – an apposite theme for a critical conference at the University of Kent, ‘the UK’s European University’ and a point of origin for the CLC.’
Organisers hope participants will bring a rich plurality of critical and radical thematics and interdisciplinary approaches to the conference streams which include:
- After Christian Law? Contesting Law’s Christianity, Contemplating Alternatives
- Biopolitics and Deconstruction
- Blockchain Law
- The Crisis of Democracy in an Antipolitical Age
- A Crisis of the Liberal Vision of the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights? Turning Points in the East and West
- From Crisis to Resilience: Spatial Justice in an Age of Austerity
- Critical Perspectives on Culture and Preservation: Precarity in our Past, Present and Future Cultural Heritages
- Critical Psycholawgy: Dialogue at Modern Times Between Legal and Psychological Sciences
- Feminist Turning Points
- Islamic Law: Contemporary Reconfigurations
- Occupation & The Day After: Prefiguration, Representation, Organisation
- On the Legal Production of the (New) Commons: Law as a Living Practice
- Pauline Interventions in Law
- Parrhêsia and the Law
- Re-sistance, Re-Expropriation, Re-Enclosure
- Responses to the Loss of the Political: Intellectuals, Humanitarians and the Revolutionaries
- Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Law
- The Time and Temporality of Vulnerability
- Urbanity, Control and the Commons: Realising Possible Urban Futures
Visit the CLC website for detailed Stream synopses and for details of how to submit Paper and Panel Proposals. Paper Proposals should include an abstract of no longer than 300 words and a brief author biography. Panel Proposals should include the panel title and rationale (of no more than 300 words) and abstracts and biographies for all participants in the panel. The call closes on 1 July 2016.
Participants are also invited to curate screenings, performances, happenings and other creative formats at the conference. Plans can be emailed direct to the conference organisers at: klsclc2016@kent.ac.uk
Online registration for the conference is now open and confirmed Plenary Speakers include:
- Donatella Alessandrini, Kent Law School
- Kathleen Davis, University of Rhode Island
- Isabell Lorey, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies
- Davide Tarizzo, University of Salerno
The CLC conference was first launched at Kent in 1986 and this year’s organisers have unearthed a number of early CLC documents in the Kent Law School archive including documents relating to the formation of the CLC and a copy of the Call for Papers in 1986.
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