Transnational Law and Global Governance (Interdisciplinary) – Toronto, ON

Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) Graduate Law Students Assocation presents its 2011 Conference, No Boundaries: Transnational Law and a New Order of Global Governance, May 9-10, 2011. Abstract proposals are due March 4, 2011.

We welcome papers that engage in questions of “boundaries”, particularly those with a focus on globalization, models of governance and transnational law. We are interested in a broad range of work dealing with the financial markets (commercial, banking and financial law), environmental protection, administrative law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, tax, e-commerce, intellectual property, women’s studies, trade, human rights, crisis and emergency planning, labour and employment, health, disability, historical conceptions of regulation and governance, reflections upon the nature and operative conditions of governance, the relationship between state sovereignty and regulatory authority. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus and from graduate students in other disciplines are strongly encouraged.

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