:: Calls :: University College London, Faculty of Laws, will host its 2017 Postgraduate and Early Careers Conference on March 20-21, 2017, at University College London. The Conference theme is “The Role of Law in Reconciling Competing Interests” and scholars are invited to submit papers, which may concern any field of law. Anyone interested should email an abstract (up to 750 words) along with a short bio (no more than two paragraphs) by December 25, 2016 to the following: PGC2017@ucl.ac.uk. (more…)

:: Calls :: The Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven will held a two-day workshop in April 5-6, 2017, regarding the moral and political thought of Hugo Grotius  in its wider intellectual context. The call for abstracts is now open: please submit it (max. 500 words) by December 1, 2016.  (more…)

:: Calls :: The Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conferenze, named “Law & its boundaries” will be held on January 19-20, 2017. Both postgraduate students and early career researchers are invited to join in presenting an abstract, regarding their areas of research in the field of law. Submissions must be made before October 14, 2016, 4pm to EdLawPGConference@ed.ac.uk in order to be reviewed by our selection committee. Selected submissions may also be considered for publication in a subsequent edition of the Edinburgh Student Law Review, subject to editorial review. (more…)

:: Calls :: Crítica, an international journal of philosophy, welcomes submissions of papers on the status and methodology of general jurisprudence for publication in a special issue guest-edited by Pau Luque. Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2016. (more…)

:: Calls :: The University of Sao Paulo’s Discussion Group on Legal Theory and Public Law PósDebate invites submissions for presentations this semester. The Convenors are looking for working papers, camera-ready or recently published contributions from established academics and graduate students. (more…)

:: Calls ::  The 20th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference will be held on November 12-13, 2016 at the University of Oxford. Graduate students in philosophy, if interested in joining the conference and presenting a paper, please send an abstract to  gradconf@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for the submission is July 31, 2016.  (more…)

The conference regarding ‘Machine Ethics and Machine Law’ named “Interdisciplinary perspectives on moral and legal issues in artificial agents” will be held at Jagiellonian University in Cracow on November 18-19, 2016. If interested in presenting a paper addressing philosophy and ethics, law, robotics, and cognitive science,please send and abstract (max 1000 words). Deadline September 9, 2016.  (more…)

:: Calls :: The Juris North Discussion Group is looking for presenter interested in  topic that can be broadly characterised as jurisprudence— i.e. legal and political philosophy. If interested to give a paper as part of the 2016-17 [Term One: September-December 2016] Working Paper Series, please send an abstract (max 500 words) written in English to Dr Jorge Emilio Nunez j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk.  (more…)

:: Calls :: La revista En Letra lanza su 1er concurso de ensayos de derecho constitucional. El jurado está compuesto por los Dres. Marcela Basterra, Walter Carnota, Raúl Gustavo Ferreyra, Roberto Gargarella y Carol Machado Cyrillo da Silva. La fecha limite para participar es el 30 de septiembre de 2016. (more…)

:: Calls :: The 9th Melbourne Doctoral Forum will be held at the Melbourne Law School on November 23-24, 2016. The forum is particularly concerned with questions of method: ‘How do we reckon with law?’ Papers from all areas of law, and from scholars in all disciplines whose work engages questions of method, law or theory are welcomed. If interested please send an abstract (max 500 words) and a biography (max 100 words) to law-mdflt@unimelb.edu.au. Deadline August, 5, 2016.  (more…)