The McGill University Faculty of Law and the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law (McGill) will host an international conference on the future of the discipline of law Sept. 28-29, 2012. The theme is: Stateless Law? The Future of the Discipline. The working languages of the conference will be English and French. Proposals are due April 16, 2012.
Some of the themes which we expect to be covered include: How do globalization and legal pluralism affect our understanding of law, legal education or both? In its interaction with other disciplines, how does law preserve its disciplinary identity? Can a renewed understanding of particular fields of law shed light on our evolving understanding of the discipline? How is the teaching and research of basic private lawcontracts, civil wrongs, property, the law of personsaffected by the increasingly transnational and transdisciplinary focus of legal scholarship?
Note (April 10, 2012): The call for papers has been amended since we first posted this announcement. Follow the link to the website for details.
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