Call for Papers and Submissions

7th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory

Monday 1st December – Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Call for Papers  Melbourne Law School will host the seventh annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory on 1–2 December 2014. The Forum brings together research students from all academic disciplines to engage with social, political, theoretical, and methodological issues raised by law and legal theory.  The workshop is…

Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC): Through the Looking Glass – The Framing of Law and Justice through Popular Imagination

Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC), University of Wollongong Date: Friday 4 July 2014 Time: 9am-5pm Location: 67.202 – Moot Court Register: Online by 27 June.  Registration is free.  Places are limited. Following Alice, who contemplates, and then explores, the world on the other side of the looking glass, this symposium calls upon participants to reflect…

Visualising Law and Gender – Centre for Law and Culture Conference 2014

St Mary’s University Twickenham, London Law both regulates cultural representations and creates them. These dual themes will be explored in a conference focused upon the twin strands of law and visual culture, and law and gender. How does law regulate gender; how does it regulate images? What is/are the relationship/s between visual culture and the…

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Thematic Issue: Visualizing Law in Comics and Cartoons

Deadline to submit papers:  31 AUGUST 2014   Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (references included) Instructions for authors are available at: http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196   Only papers submitted online will be evaluated: Submit online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/sela/ Papers submitted to the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law should evaluate how legal meanings are produced, distributed and construed. Legal culture is being…

Griffith Law Review: Open Space

The Griffith Law Review is proud to announce the debut of Open Space, a new forum for alternative pieces of scholarship, such as interviews, reports on conferences attended, creative works, and photo essays.  Open Space aims to foster cutting edge non-traditional legal inquiry in keeping with the journal’s focus on interdisciplinary, socio-legal, theoretical and critical…