ICLS-2024

Call for Paper

• Courts and litigation, including the recent flourishing of new kinds of judicial mechanisms
• The training of a highly qualified, independent, and incorruptible judiciary
• Gender issues in law and society
• Legal education and the legal profession, the careers of lawyers, and recent trends aimed at reform or transformation of training and credentialing
• Indigenous peoples, including their connection to such issues as human rights, natural resources, migration, self-government, children, adoption, and identity
• Religion and law; new theories of secularism; religious and secular law
• Regulation, including new forms of non-governmental and trans-national regulatory approaches and their relationship to traditional national regulatory mechanisms
• Health, including HIV-AIDS, healthcare policy, aging
• Financial markets, trade, foreign investment, and the global impact of the financial crisis in a broad range of areas that are of interest to sociolegal scholars
• Immigration and the unprecedented flows of workers across national boundaries throughout the world
• Human security, violence, war, dispossession, refugees
• Security, technologies of security, governmentality, counter-terrorism
• East-West dialogue concerning different legal orders and models of law; impact of globalization on different legal traditions
• New concepts of legal pluralism and legal culture in relation to new forms of legal ordering
• Colonialism, globalization, and recolonization
• The United Nations and other transnational bodies, especially in relation to global governance, international conflict, and peacekeeping