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Warsaw 24 –26 February 2011 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

New Challenges for Law Faculties:

 

Governance, Autonomy, Finance

 

 

 

Language: English

 

Location: Warsaw, Poland

 

Date: 24 –26 February

 

 

 

The General Topic of the Conference will be New Challenges for Law Faculties : Governance, Autonomy, Finance. In relation with the main speeches, papers should be given presenting various points of view concerning the most important problems connected with this subject.

 

This call for papers is open to both academic researchers and professionals who work in this field. Those interested in participating in this conference as a speaker should submit a short abstract (in Word). Successful applicants will have a 15-minute slot to give an oral presentation of their paper.

 

Those interested in seeking publication are encouraged to submit, in due course, a full paper for consideration as an article or note in the European Journal of Legal Education.

 

ELFA also invites academics to present papers at the Panel Sessions. Panel Sessions will be devoted to scientific presentations in four thematic sections:

civil law, commercial law, public law, criminal law. The topics for the Panel Sessions are:

 

 

 

I           Civil Law: Towards a European Contract Law?

 

II            Commercial Law: E-Commercial Law

 

III          Public Law: E.U. Fundamental Rights after Lisboa Treaty

 

IV            Criminal Law: International Arrest Warrant

 

 

 

Submission of Abstracts:

 

Authors should submit a short abstract (in Word) before submitting a full paper. All abstracts must be accompanied with a cover page with the following information:

 

• The author’s name and affiliation

 

• A brief (max 200 word) biography

 

• Contact details for corresponding author, i.e., address, phone and email.

 

 

Deadline for submission 10 January 2011

 

 

 

Further information:

 

Please contact:Helena Ferro de Gouveia , elfa@elfa-afde.eu

 

 

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

 

 

 

INTEGRATION THROUGH LEGAL EDUCATION?

 

THE ROLE OF EU LEGAL STUDIES IN SHAPING THE EU

 

 

 

EU integration has been certainly fostered by EU law, thanks to a process of legal unification/harmonisation of national jurisdictions: in this perspective, not only EU law has been decisive for the establishment of the single market, but it has also contributed to the creation of a common political dimension in Europe.

 

Anyway, although EU legal order is deep-rooted in the mind of European lawyers and legal scholars, very little study has been dedicated to the role of legal education in the process of creating the EU polity.

 

In other words, how much the development of academic writing on EU law and EU legal education in general have been relevant in the process of political integration, besides to the role played by national governments, European institutions and the European Court of Justice? In other words, next to the substantial legal integration determined by the signing of the Treaties and the ECJ’s case-law (“first level unification”), major attention should be also put on EU legal education as an indirect factor of legal convergence (“second level unification”).

 

 

 

This call for papers is specifically aimed at collecting valuable academic writings on the development of EU legal studies in the EU Member States and its role in shaping the EU as a polity.

 

Combining an interdisciplinary approach to law and education, the call is addressed to researchers in EU law with a particular interest in legal education, focusing on one of the following EU Member States:

 

-           Italy

 

-           France

 

-           Germany

 

-           UK

 

-           Scandinavian countries

 

and covering, for the chosen country, the following aspects:

 

-           how have EU legal studies developed in the particular country?

 

-           most studied issues

 

-           main academic schools and institutions

 

-           most influential journals and books published in the particular country

 

-           impact / influence of EU legal studies in the strengthening of the EU polity.

 

 

 

The abstract (500 words) is due by 30th October 2010, while the final version of the contribution will be presented in Rome in January 2011, within an international conference on the matter organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

 

The final version of the paper (6000-8000 words) will be submitted by 20th December 2010.

 

The papers will be collected in a volume to be published by the end of 2011. All the transport and accommodation costs will be covered by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

 

 

 

For further information please write to ufficio.europeo@uniroma2.it

 

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Dear colleagues,

 

 

 

The Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) intends to submit an application in order to create and coordinate an Erasmus Academic Network about Childhood law and children rights.

 

We are writing to you because we would like to count on your commitment to be members of this Network. At the moment we try to apply with our proposal for the next appeal of candidatures expected around February 2011. For the future the first steep will be to send to the European Commission the list of universities and other institutions that wish to take part in this project, in which at least 31 countries must be represented. In case you are interested in that project we would be very thankful if you would be so kind to send us a brief summary explaining the big lines of your activities (10 lines would be more than enough) as well as all other informations or proposals you want. After that we will present a complete candidature with all of activities proposes and the particular participation on those activities of each of you. For that reason we also would like to know in a better way you, your skills and expertise areas and former experiences related to the subject of the Network and we would be very thankful if you would be so kind to send us a sort report of you, your activities and main interest areas.

 

We would appreciate if you can circulate this information to persons who are interested in participating in the Network.

 

We are very enthusiastic with the project as long as two of the priority areas of study are Law and Children and both are not sufficiently covered by other Networks in the Lifelong Learning Programme.

 

We would be very pleased to work with all of you in the future and to enhance cooperation on children rights in the European context. A brief summary taken from the application conditions and other EC documents on Erasmus Academic Networks of the last call is given below.

 

Kind regards,

 

Isabel Lázaro González

 

Director of the Chair Santander on Children and Law

 

Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain)

 

isabella@der.upcomillas.es

 

grupomenores@der.upcomillas.es                                                                                                                                                                      

 

 

 

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 CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Applied Legal Storytelling Conference

 

Chapter 3:  Trail Blazing on the Great Divide

 

University of Denver, Sturm College of Law: July 8-10, 2011

 

 

 

Call for Proposals for the third biennial International Applied Storytelling Conference. It fosters innovative collaboration and exciting dialogue about the persuasive use of story across the spectrum of lawyering skills. The Call for Proposals document and further information about the Conference is available via www.lwionline.org. The deadline for submissions is December 7, 2010.  Questions should be directed to Robert McPeake at r.j.mcpeake@city.ac.uk.