The organisers invite submissions for an international workshop on "Perspectival Legal Discourse". The workshop will take place in Cambridge on July 5th and 6th, 2012.

Is legal discourse perspectival? Does the sincere utterance of statements of law hinge on the adoption of any particular point of view? Do we appeal...

We invite abstract submissions of PhD students for all the themes below for a conference on ‘Empowerment through Human Rights’ to be held in Vienna, Austria, on 10–12 September 2012. The Doctoral College (Initiativkolleg)  "Empowerment through Human Rights" is an inter-disciplinary group of 13 doctoral students, coordinated by the...

The theme for this year’s Critical Legal Conference is “Gardens of Justice”. Although the theme may be interpreted in different ways, it suggests thinking about law and justice as a physical as well as a social environment, created for specific purposes, at a certain distance from society and yet as...

Recht führe, so eine weitverbreitete Ansicht, zu Frieden. Zur Verwirklichung des Rechts gehören jedoch auch Zwangsmittel. Das rechtsphilosophische Verhältnis von Recht und Frieden führt deshalb gerade unter den Bedingungen der pluralen Gesellschaften der Gegenwart zu der Frage, wer im Namen des Rechts aus welchen Gründen den Zwang ausüben darf und...

The International Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), in partnership with the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on International Legal Theory, will hold a joint works-in-progress workshop at the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law on September 27–28, 2012....

Vom 24. bis 28. September 2012 wird der 25. wissenschaftliche Kongress der  Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen zum Thema „Die Versprechen der Demokratie“ stattfinden. In diesem Rahmen veranstaltet die  DVPW-Themengruppe "Verfassung und Politik" ein Panel zum Thema „Konstitutionelle Formen demokratischer...

From 5 to 9 October 2012, the 11th World Congress of Semiotics is to be held in Nanjing, China. The generall congress theme is "Global Semiotics: A Bridge Linking Different Civilizations".

We are organising several roundtables on "Law and Semiotics" for this Congress. Scholars interested in participating can submit their...

Following the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, Yale Law School is proud to host the 2012 2nd Conference of Doctoral Scholarship. The conference seeks to provide an opportunity for doctoral students (and recent graduates) to share and discuss their work, with a view to fostering a transnational community of...