{"id":1182,"date":"2015-12-09T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:10:32","slug":"call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers for Kent Critical Law Society&#8217;s annual conference in February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A call for papers on the theme of \u2018limiting liberties\u2019 has been issued by Kent Critical Law Society for its annual conference to be held on 27 February 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Critical Law Society (KCLS) is a student-led critical lawyers\u2019 group that holds a critical legal conference each year attracting academics, practitioners and students from across the UK. This year\u2019s conference seeks to critically examine the notion of freedom, rights and liberties and to consider their influence in shaping ideas and scenarios of socio-political disruption.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the conference is broad and a variety of panels, both theoretical and practical in nature, will consider topics ranging from the recent migration crisis to the freedom of expression. Papers are welcome (with student participation and interdisciplinary papers particularly encouraged) on any and all topics relating to the conference theme, which may include, but not be limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immigration law<\/li>\n<li>Family law<\/li>\n<li>Human rights law<\/li>\n<li>Art law<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual property law<\/li>\n<li>Religion<\/li>\n<li>Politics<\/li>\n<li>Economics<\/li>\n<li>Gender and sexuality<\/li>\n<li>Feminism<\/li>\n<li>Legal theory<\/li>\n<li>Legal history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possible panel proposals could be themed on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limiting freedom of expression<\/li>\n<li>Gender disparity in institutions<\/li>\n<li>Rights of asylum seekers<\/li>\n<li>Equal rights for LGBT<\/li>\n<li>Female genital mutilation and its consequences<\/li>\n<li>Limiting liberties and national security<\/li>\n<li>Political realities created by media<\/li>\n<li>Ethics of the individual decision making<\/li>\n<li>Terrorism<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Democratic dictatorship\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Law and technology<\/li>\n<li>Grief as an instrument of power<\/li>\n<li>The politics of human rights<\/li>\n<li>Genocide<\/li>\n<li>Utopian societies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conference proposals should be sent to <a href=\"mailto:conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk\">conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk<\/a> by Sunday 31 January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be held in the Keynes Building at the University of Kent\u2019s Canterbury campus. Further information is available in the call for papers document:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2015\/12\/Kent-Critical-Law-Society-Call-for-Papers-2016.pdf\">Kent Critical Law Society Call for Papers 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information about KCLS is available via their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KentCriticalLawSociety\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@kentcriticallaw\">Twitter<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/&amp;t=Call for papers for Kent Critical Law Society's annual conference in February 2016' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Call for papers for Kent Critical Law Society's annual conference in February 2016%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/&amp;title=Call for papers for Kent Critical Law Society's annual conference in February 2016' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/&amp;title=Call for papers for Kent Critical Law Society's annual conference in February 2016' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call for papers on the theme of \u2018limiting liberties\u2019 has been issued by Kent Critical Law Society for its annual conference to be held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-kent-critical-law-societys-annual-conference-in-february-2016\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[793,131,156077,156078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}