{"id":2959,"date":"2018-01-30T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:34:32","slug":"call-for-papers-for-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers for Critical Law Conference exploring metamorphosis and law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Critical Law Society has issued a call for papers exploring the relationship between metamorphosis and law in advance of its Critical Law Conference in March.<\/p>\n<p>Conference organisers are interested in research that critically examines the different ways law has evolved and changed the world. Some examples include: the adaptations of the law to suit social, political, economic, or developmental change; legal historical analyses of the evolution of law; emergences of new legal fields; regressions; and the need for and possibility of reform.<\/p>\n<p>A non-exhaustive list of possible topics includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Law and social change<\/li>\n<li>Transitional justice<\/li>\n<li>Adaptation to crises<\/li>\n<li>Histories of law<\/li>\n<li>Change in the international legal order<\/li>\n<li>The progression of human rights<\/li>\n<li>The effects of technological advancement<\/li>\n<li>Global development<\/li>\n<li>The emergence of alternative dispute resolution<\/li>\n<li>Political shifts and the change of law<\/li>\n<li>Reform and the housing crisis<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable development<\/li>\n<li>Newly emerging fields of law<\/li>\n<li>Law and metamorphosis in literature<\/li>\n<li>The changing face of crime and justice<\/li>\n<li>Legal pychologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Papers are welcomed from academic staff, undergraduate students, postgraduate students and practitioners across all disciplines. Proposals from literary, scientific, socio-political, economic, historical and philosophical fields are particularly encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, together with a biography of no more than 50 words, to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk\">conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0by Friday\u00a023 February\u00a02018. Any informal enquiries can be directed to: <a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/kcls.org.uk\/?subject=KCLS%20Critical%20Law%20Conference:%20Law%20and%20Metamorphosis\">presidentkclsoc@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kcls.org.uk\/\">Kent Critical Law Society<\/a> (KCLS) is a student-led critical lawyers&#8217; group at Kent Law School that aims to interrogate the social, economic and political dimensions shaping legal doctrine and contemporary society. Each year it hosts a critical law conference that attracts contributors and attendees from across the UK and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s conference on \u2018Law and Metamorphosis\u2019 will be held on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/grimond-building\">Grimond Building<\/a> on Kent&#8217;s Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a small fee to cover costs, refreshments and lunch. A limited amount of funding will be available for speakers coming from outside the University of Kent &#8211; KCLS cannot guarantee to cover all costs but they will strive to accommodate a reasonable percentage of costs (accommodation\/travel within the UK) on a first come first serve basis.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about KCLS, follow the society on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KentCriticalLawSociety\/\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@kentcriticallaw\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kcls2016\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2018\/01\/KCLSCfPflyer2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2964 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2018\/01\/KCLSCfPflyer2018-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2018\/01\/KCLSCfPflyer2018-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2018\/01\/KCLSCfPflyer2018-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2018\/01\/KCLSCfPflyer2018-714x1024.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/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-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/&amp;t=Call for papers for Critical Law Conference exploring metamorphosis and law' 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 Critical Law Conference exploring metamorphosis and law%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/' 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-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/' 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-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/&amp;title=Call for papers for Critical Law Conference exploring metamorphosis and law' 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-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/&amp;title=Call for papers for Critical Law Conference exploring metamorphosis and law' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Critical Law Society has issued a call for papers exploring the relationship between metamorphosis and law in advance of its Critical Law Conference in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/call-for-papers-for-critical-law-conference-exploring-metamorphosis-and-law\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":2961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,28766],"tags":[793,167610,156077,187634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959"}],"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=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}